The Worthington advance., 1882-08-03
Personalities.

1cESOilsallC1tSs
About year ago, Mrs. Powell, a Bos-
ton widow of great beauty and accom-
! piishment, went TO Europe, and was
! shortly followed by Gov. Rice. who
married her in Germany Almost i'm
mediatcly after the marriage, the lady
| showed signs Of mental alteration, and
her friends who have watched her with
! painful anxiety now relinquish all hopes,
and regard her as an incurablc maniac.
Letters of Lady Byron, the wife of the
poet, to the Lady Augusta Leigh, his
sister, have been made public in Lon
| don. They contain expressions of the
highest regard and esteem, and effe :tu-
ally refnte the horrible SANDER that was
| given form by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
| Stowe, and which has been more Sc
! rious blot upon her own popularity than
upon the fame Of Byron.
OF Mehemet Ali, the ancestor of the
| present Khedive, the following story is
told: "A milk-woman came to the Pasha
one day complaining that one of his SOL
dicrs had robbed her Of the milk she
| was bringing to camp. The soldier was
milk. What did he do Will, it?' asked
v.
At sign the mans head was off his
body. and his stomach being opened was
found full of milk. Co. said the Pasha
| to the Mortified milkwoman, paving her
| the value of the milk; 'but f he had not
taken it your head would have paid
for it. -
The dreaded robber chief Gorcsko,
whose crimes are as manifold as they
are atrocious, was recently brought into
court for sentence at the Russian town
! Of 1smail. The courtroom was crowded,
principally by women, for whom the
robbers exploits and, still more, his
physical beauty seemed to possess great
attractions. As soon as the sentence,
which was imprisonment for life, had
| been announced, the women present or
ganiZed a committee to take upa colle.-
ton for the prisoner. \ considerable
sum was at once obtained, and one wo.
man in her enthusiasm, handed Gorcsko
a costly jewelled breastpin, and assured
him that the good car would speedily
commute the sentence.
The Queens aversion for Palmerston
might be called caprice compared with
her loathing for Gladstone. Him she
considers little better than Cromwell.
He has never shown her, as Princess,
| the courtier-like devotion sovereigns
exact. lie treats her rs the head Of the
| State, but shows no personal Difference.
| He never even argues questions Of State
with her. He lays his policy before her,
points out its purposes, and when the
time comes carries it into execution as
remorselessly as the voters who send ur
uncongenial majorities to Parliament.
Adele Hugo, the daughter of Victor
Hugo, who has for many years been con.
fined in private lnnatic asylum in Paris,
is now about fifty years of age, but at a
| short distance does not look to be half SC
| old. She resembles to a marvellous de-
gree the portrait Of Madame Victor Hugo
| painted by Tony Johannot. To her
companions in misfortune she fire.
Quently relates her sad story; how she
was married long ago, without he,
! fathers concent to naval officer and
how soon afterward he deserted her,
| penniless, and without power to prove
the legality Of her marriage. This blow
unsettled her reason, and ever after
ward she has been kept under restraint.
| Year by year She grows more p oud ut
| her fathers fame, and has committed
most of his poetiral works to memory.
!. II. Blake, the Irish landlord recent
! ly murdered, belonged one Of the first
families in the west of Ireland He
| vas the second son of Col. Blake Of Fur
| baugh, in tile county of Galway, uncle
to the count of Westmeath, and rela-
tive of the marquis of fClanricarde, over
whose estate. yielding $l20,00O year
| rental, he was agent. lie was cruel and
! unrelenting to the tenantry. The mar
| quises OF Clanricarde We're generally
Kind and popular. The present mar
! quis is the opposite absentee bache-
| lor, notorious in London through asso
cation with the character known AS
"Skittlcs." In addition to the Irish es
tates, he inherited Il large fortune from
his uncle, Lord Canning.