The Worthington advance., 1882-07-13
Personal GOSSIP.

one OF the principal objects of interest
at the approaching coronation of the
car will be the carriage of the czarina
It is sort of double throne upon
wheels, and is hung, not upon springs.
but upon huge bands CT velvet. Within,
it is upholstered with red velvet, and
has large mirror in front, facing the
occupant, framed with white satin The
| coachman's seat accommodates four per-
sons. 1t is drawn by eight horses of
purest white, wearing harness of Grim
son velvet encrusted with gold and pre-
cious stones.
Judge James Garland, who retires
next New Years day as judge of the su-
preme court of Virginia, celebrated his
ninety-tirst birthday last Friday at
Lynchburg. He is now blind, and his
daughters eyes are used instead of his
own, but he has as full possession of his
mental faculties as when he was dis
tinguished member of congress, during
Gen Jackson's administration.
Henry Z. Brunner, a Norristown, Pa,
lawyer, has sailed for Ireland on i. pecu-
liar mission to gather testimony by
! which he could show that three clients
One living in Philadelphia and two in
Montgomery cOunty-wcre entitled to
an estate OF $4,000, 600, which for wear
or more has gone begging for want of a
claimant John Burnside, a wealthy
shipping merchant of New Orleans, La,
died in 1881, leaving an estate valued at
$, GOO, 600. About one-third of his prop
erty was disposed of by his will, but as
to the remaining ,00O, 900 he died intes-
tate. He was unmarried, and has neith-
er sisters, brothers, nephews or neices.
Last week Oscar Wilde dined at pri-
| vate residence in New York. When the
cloth had been removed, the oldest
child Of the host, Il girl aged about eight,
| was introduced to the notorious aesthetic
| who Was marvelously arrayed for the oc-
casio After timidly shaking hands
with the stranger and scanning him
| with open-eyed wonder, the little one
crept close to her mothers side and
| whispered, "Mamma I don't think Ma
rie had better bring baby in it might be
| scared"
Rev. J. \. Brown, D. D., LID, re
Gently at Lancaster, Penn, was, before
the war, professor of theology at New
berry Seminary, South Carolina. The
day before the steamer Star Of the West
| was fired upon at Charleston he heard
| that Il committee of rebels intending call
| ing upon him in the evening to learn his
attitude toward the impending conflict.
That afternoon when the three hundred
students gathered in the chapel for
prayers, he entered the pulpit and said
h had heard Of the intention of his
neighbors, and would anticipate their
action; he had been born in the Union,
he expected to live in the Union, and
God willing, he would die in the Union!
That evening he left for the North with
his family, leaving behind him all his
property, none of which he ever re-
gained.
Years ago, when the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher was pastor of a little
church in indianapolis, he was disturbed
one Sunday evening in the midst of Il
long prayer by sudden commotion
in the congregation, followed by
an almost ,preternatural still
ness OF course his eyes were closed,
but the silence soon seemed so sepul-
chral in its intensity that he could en-
Not a living being beside himself was in
ed down the street, an engine had come
trundling by, and every man, woman
! and child had rushed out to ''run with
the machine"
A couple were married on the side
walk at midnight at Chattanooga, Tenn,
on Il recent Sunday, in order to avoid
the interference of the irate father and
brother of the bride. The lady was
leaving the house for the purpose of a
clandestine marriage, when her father
| and brother, who had been on the watch,
seized her. She broke away from them,
stumbled and fell down the steps, when
her lover caught her just as she reached
| the bottom, and seizing her in his arms,
bore her & to few irten friends; & who, lin in CON-, CON-
procured for the occasion, surrounded
the parties The minister was instructed
to perform the ceremony instanter, and
i'll three minutes the parties were mar
| ried.