The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ON luhL.
Mr.. Barley Campbell is said to have visi-
ted Mr.. Carlyle in Scotland, and to have
found him killing rat.
The princess, Della Rocca, will shortly.
publish the souvenirs dc la Vie lntlme'
of her uncle, Heinrich Heine.
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard .col
| lege, who has been dangerously Ill Tor four
weeks, is slowly improving.
G.F. Grace the celebrated cricketer, aud
brother of the famous w. G. and Il. M.
Grace, has died of inflammation Of the lungs.
Secretary Evarts and Attorney General
Devens wero entertained at breakfast on Sat
urday by tho Hon. Robert q. Winthrop, at
his residence in BrookliRe.
Marshall Bazaine is said to be greatly
affected by tho comments of the French Jour
mails at the time of and since tho false report Of
his death, and is greatly broken in health.
Tho Prince Of Wales has cancelled his
half-mado promise TO visit the royal subjects
of his mother in Australia and take part in
the formal opening Of the Melbourne Exhi-
bllon.
Secretary Evarts returned to Wash
ington Thursday night. The engagement Of
| MS uhubuVtIi 4hIss miuhlO HNhNot w hIl'
Tweed, ono Of her fathers law partners, Is an
nOunCed
La Liberte has just unearthed an old arti-
clio Of lola, in which no speaks in the high
est terms Of the talent, vigor and upright
ness of NJ. Kan0, whom ne slaughtered on
Monday in the Figaro.
New York was never before gayer or more
attractive. The city has regular holiday
appearance, and the crowd OF strangers is
unprecedented. The shopkoepers and hotels
are now reaping veritable golden harvest
Queen Christine and tho little infanta
are doing well. The queens English head
nurse and the Archduchess Isabel Of Aus.
tria, have insisted on having tho princess
swOthed and dressed in Anglo-Saxon fashion.
DR.. Pierce has resigned his seat as Repubii
can congressman from Buffalo, and al the
election There Il short as well as Il long term
must be filed, Pierce resigns to attend to
his business as publisher of medical works.
Rev. Francis Thornton died at his home in
Louisville, KY, on Wednesday, aged Gig 4ty-
four years. He had been in the ministry
sixty four years, was born in Fredericks-
burg, v, and had resided in Louisville since
1889.
A new style of fashionable dancing is
called the Canadian lope." 1t is ms awk
ward and idiotc MS these new fantastic things
usually are, and eminently suited TO the
young people who 60 to make up one branch
% society
Mr.. Henry Poase is the sole survivor of
three English Qaalers who formed tho dep
utation TO the Emperor Nicholas before the
Crmean War. Edward Pease died not
long ago, leaving an estate of more than
$2000,0,0,
Dr. Lewis Swift, the astronomer, is now
the owner Of three handsome gold medals
bestowed upon him in recognition of his plan
etary discoveries. The third he has just re-
ceiyed from the Imperial academy at Vienna
The Princess of Wales when at Sandring.
ham has little tea parties for which she her
self makes the butter in q silver churn, and
spreads it on slices of bread which she cuts
with her own hands. While she is ut her
work she wears q chit dress and II little
white apron.
The daughter Of the Russian poet Push
kin, is married to Prince Nicolaus, of Mas
sau, who belongs to what was before Ger
man unity reigning family. She has been
in Russia attending the festival in honor Of
her father, and there received from the en-
peror the promise of pension.
Mr.. II. Dugdale; of New York, is said to
have offered the sum of S3000,000 for the
Chateau d Eau fountain, which was lately
removed to make way for the statue of the
Republic. As the fountain is much too large
for most private grounds it is suggested Mr..
Dugdale intends to present it to the city of
New York for erection in Central park.
I Mr.. George Skene Duff, celebrated deer
stalker of Scotland, brought down on sin
gle day, in the forest of Mahr, the property
of his nephew, the Earl of Fife, and with Il
rifle which he began to employ half u cen
fury since, no less than eight antlered mon.
archs, three of them with royal heads, a
fourth with eleven tines, and four ofscarce.
! " inferior rank.
"Chinese" Gordon is small, modest, fair
and bushy .headed has quite grey eyes and
| stammering uncertainty of speech. He is
devout man, and deeply religious. 1t is
said of him that not two men in ado2en
ofgenerations so strangely gifted as he is to
compel into obedience or inspire into action
hosts Of savOges or half reclaimed people.
Mr.. Carlyle has now so far removed from
| DIS recent lnulsposlOn MS 10 DO aDie 10 super
intend the preparation of tho materials re-
rquisite for an adequate life, which may be
described MS biography interspersed with
characteristic chapters of autobiography
This interesting book will. when complete,
be in effect the joint work of Mr. Froude and
Mr.. Carlylv's married niece, Mrs, Alexander
Carlyle.
DR.. Jeremiah Spohord, an old Massachu-
setts editor, died at Groveland, in that state,
last week. lie WAS for many years editor
and one Of the proprietors Of the Havorhill
! Mass Gazette, having associated with him
John j. Whittier. He surrendered the
editorial chair to Erastus Brooks, but re-
sumed it again in 1910, when he became one
of the leading editorial champions of the
Wing cause in Essex county.
The ex.king and queen Of Naples have
4, arrived at Kreuth, in Germany, and Prince
Charles Theodore, brother Of tho empress
of Austria, ssexpected At Tegernsee, Prince
Charles Theodore is the famous DR. Herzog,
who has devoted his life TO the serious study
Of ophthalmis undor the greatest oculsts
of the day, and has established an ophthal.
mic hospital near Tegernsee, where be holds
out every help to rich or poor afflicted with
} any disease Of tho eye
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