Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-02-10

PERSONAL.

Messrs Moody ADD Sapkey arc expected
to visit Great Britain and Ireland upon q
second campaign during the present year.
William Cullen Bryant left the bar
because of a mistake in one Of hi4 early
pleed'ng5, wherein he neglected technical
formula, ard so lost his case.
George Eiot's Services to the Hebrew
race have been recognized, it is reported,
by the jews of London by the Offering Of
prayers for the repose of her soul.
Mr.. Maybrick received in royalties IA
much as { 500 for Nancy Lse, and My
sweetheart When Boy Is worth a clear
El00 = year to the composer. MIR. Wisord
Morgan. .--.
Russell Sage, Che we'll known put-and-
Cali broker Of New York, was black b Alled
ny tbs Cnion Club OF that city last week
and now be is calling it all sorts of hard
names.
Colonel Robert Il Iogersoll, it is stated,
will MAKE Il lecture tour in Australia next
summer. He hes been much Frustrated
by the death OF his sister IN Erie, Pa,
recently. .-..=@
Robert A Fisher, President of the
Board of Trade, OF Baltimore, died sud
denly in that ulty yesterday. aged AZ
years. His health had been delicate for
some time. IT. w.
Omar u. Corger, the Senator cleo! from
Michigan, bta voiced pitched in shIitl
key, by Q meRna resonant or loud and
his face is Of that bl0odless kind that
grows pale under excitement.
Princess Louise is still under the care If
I.r- .F, L. JsAt
Gsrlous iDaf no lime clu ht set for b re.
torn TO OHraas - ttr from her matBer's
eudeayoriug r. farce the return, the
Qaeen is reported to have eYerted her
naternai aothorlty to keep the Princess III
England. ...5 ...
Ktnp L1nis of Bavaria Is so dy9iraus +
seeing NIgutr's opera of "Parstfa! on
he Stage, that il. has 0ut of his own purse
made up the sum pere-atry to tia prat!uC.
Ei1n il perfect fashion TIE suhscrlp.
Gon SGT 90 foot throughout Germany
t6td &c provide the fHqds BY So 0G6,
As,t II Is This Sm9npt winch tha ktug liza.
turhisbed ..... --.... 49,.
Hitr. Sara E-rnhsrdt, on Thursdi u
aysang, gave Der farewell performance IA
HlAcinuhti, where, for hyn performances
her receipts have been SID U6r F3r The
s. Amerle4n perf9r!ugGCts she has Sun.
far given, tnt rseasp,s nave aggregated
ssh los. bllle. Is, rGhard ard her traup,
left Cmcinnatt yesterday morning for New
OslFans, where ahe appears next Monday
Some body has Investigated the .uhi er
and rrrnrdad tust. IL he few day4 thnt ht
House vas 10 session in December, MIR
gonger by actual count, was GU his fee
MD "a, Al
r4s tnGn ibj times, and ia the larg.
majority Of these lnptances it was to SAY
something dl-agreegbla or TO obi+nt tt
some measure that he lad found soma ont
else w.s anS'ons about.
p7oi Methodist onos asked Jabt
Wesley, the fstHtr of MetGGdisn, wha
he thought Of his marrying a certain
woman, Wesley advised him not to thinl
of it yet admitted the lady was a member
of his church and he believed she was |
Christian woman. "Then why not MARI,
her !" said the gentleman. because,
replied Wesley because, my friend, tn,
Lord can live with great mauy peopl,
that you aud cannot"
Tall, spare and sinewy, Mr. White,
looks no older now than he did 10 year,
ago. His darl, uDquenchable old eyes
says the Boston correspondent Of tn,
Providence Press twinkle and glsten will
the brightness OF youth. Perhaps yo,
tell him funny little story, and find i
tunnier still as he draws down his lips int,
droil, inaudib,e whistle, and shakes BIZ
shoulders, and the wise head under tn
solemn tall hat, with its brim just littl
wider for sign Of his sect
William FL. Vanderbilt receives fou
times per annum check for $47G 600 in
terest on the [ uited States bonds he hold
enough to keep man from wapI an,
yet it is but 1.-THE of his enormou
wealth 1t is certain that he is the riches
man now living, and it is probable that b,
is worth more than any two men who eve
lived, the most of it made within the pas
% years. He Is believed to own NOR,
than 300 COO. 600 of railroad securities
besid s his government bonds paying hin
$l,90+ coo per snnum.