Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-07

many shares of its stock. Hugh ]. Hast
| ings, of the Commercial Adrcrtiser, has the
name of being wealthy. But he is not a
working journalist: he is not even al edu.
Gated man. His connection with the Com-
merciat is proprietary. VIM. Cullen Bryant
was poet, and had snug property, which
came, however, from his partnership in the
Ersniag Post. James Brooks, of the Eren-
my Express, died, and left large estate,
though he got 1T from his joint owner
ship with his brother Erastus, also
man of means, in that journal.
| George William Curtis is journalist and
an author of distinction, but he has little
beside his salary from the Harpers for his
editorial services. Edward Clarence
Stedman is 3 poet, and lives like a gentle
man, being enabled to do so through his
stockbrokerage, not through his wooing of
the muses.. Richard Henry Stoddard is
bard likewise, and very clever itterateur,
and finds it hard to make both ends meet.
Richard Grant White is Shakespeare's
scholar, preacher of philology, a man on
superb terms with himself; nevertheless
his bank account has always been slender.
Bret Harte is unquestionably genius, and
very popular humorist. though he has
not, and ls not likely to have, humor
enough to make his income smile even
family. Dr. ]. G. Holland is very well-to-
do, and his books have sold more largely
than those OF any contemporaneous author
still his property has not been derived from
his works, but from his former proprietor
ship of the Springfield Mass Republican,
and the exercise of business talent.
might mention many other names, though
thaca xIyf11 cr,tt ,oa 10 ebo,
serted to be entirely true.
VARIETIES.
The story goes that Judge Henry Hilton,
Alexander I. Stewards heir, is to build a
fine and commodious hotel at Long Branch,
where he is at present staying. If he
should he would own Six public houses, as
he has FIVE already-one at Garden City,
two here, the Park and the Metropolitan,
and two at Saratoga, the Union and Grand
Union.
Another line of transatlantic steamers,
wholly American, is earnestly talked of
here. If established, it will make, think,
the fifteenth line. Several prominent cap
italists are named in connection with the
enterprise.
Nv las DSCli niltACH III
the last ten or twelve months about Cleo
patra's needle-now happily arrived at our
shores-that some people are curious to !
know if it be the needle with which the !
Queen of Egypt "sewed mp Julius Cesar
and Marc Antony"
The ice men have once more advanced !
the price of their necessity, and talk of
making several more advances before the |
hot weather has ended. The ice-men and
gas men, along with plumbers and lawyers,
are believed to be totally depraved
The gossips aver that Mrs, Alexander L. |
Stewart has taken off mourning, and is |
now SO gayly attired as to excite the sus-
picion that she contemplates another mar
rage. She is still young that is, she is
not so; and where there is life there is |
hope of matrimony
The report from ali the watering places, |
big and little, is that they are very full, |
and that they have not known such sea.
son for many years, if ever before. This !
is year when everybody is away from /
home.
Ayoungwoman has been playing through !
sweltering nights at one of the theaters |
here, and has been playing SO very badly |
that some of the newspapers have said as
much. Now she claims that there is 81 !
gantic conspiracy to crush her Who |
would make any effort to crush anybody |
in summer like this? CHAUBERT.