The Dickinson press., 1883-11-10
Personal GOSSIP.

NAI. NdCilduAe1 DdTkeT, 6uLQOf OF Der
Bolt" a well-known vocalist, is lying Sc.
riously i'll at his residence on Western
avenue, Lynn. He is about 20 years OF
age. and sustained a few days ago a frac.
tHre of his hip, which adds to his crit.
cal condition..
Mr.. Blaine gets from the publishers O,
his new book $4,000 cash down and Q
royalty of fifteen cen 8 a volume. There
are advance orders for one hundred
tn eusand copies and it is expected that
fully three hundred thousand will be
sold. This would yield the author $l2O,.
600 in all which is somewhat more mon.
ey than the average writer of books gets.
Mrs. Hymns Eastman, of Leon, N. Y.
is now her own mother-in-law, having
just married her deceased husbands
father, who is " years of age
Hon. James Russell Lowell, American
minister at London, is reported to be a
candidate for the %rectorship of st. An.
drews, Edinburgh, university.
1t now appears that the wedding Of
Miss Rebecca Williams, of Baltimore, to
Henry A. Herbert, member of the Brit
ish parliament, which was to have oc.
cured last Wednesday, was unexpect-
eddy postponed, owing to the fact that
Mr.. Herbert wished to control the birds
fortune, $500, 900, to which her father
objected. 1t vas the money, and not
the maid, the fellow was after.
Immediately after the presidents call
for troops. James V. Guthrie. a resident
of Covington, KY, and W. E. Woodruff,
major commanding the Marion Rifles, OF
Louisville, offered their services to the
president, and asked authority to raise
two regiments, as d part of the quota OF
their state. The authority was given on
the 23d of April. Their camp was estab.
lishea on the north tank of the Ohio
river just above Cincinnati, and was
designated Scamp Clay"
The Rev. Newman Hall is universally
known i'll England as the author of the
tract "Come to Jesus" Some time ago,
it is related he wrote a reply to some of
his critics, and, having a good deal of
"the old men Adam" in his natural
makeup, used some pretty stinging Ian
guage therein. Before publishing it he
read it to his friend. the late DIR. Binney,
and then said: CHOW. Doctor, Pm go
ing to print it in tract form, and l want
you to suggest a name for it," "Well,"
said the other, "while you we're read
ing some of those hard hits at your en-
emies, it occurred to me that you ought
to call it "Go to the Devil; by the author
of "Come to Jesus" Mr.. Hall saw the
point, and didn't publish the tract al
all.
A singular suit was brought before
Judge Baxter, of the United States cir
;uit court, in session in Nashville, Tenn.
1t was nothing less than the effort of
Alice Marguerite King to defend her
beauty against the assault of the Daily
American. Miss King has figured as an
actress. and the American said that she
was a small woman with a pug nose, and
ugly. She claimed $50, 600 damages, but
her suit was dismissed.
The New York Hour remarks: "The
accident to Mr.. Vanderbilt excites prec.
ious little sympathy for him. Every
body says: Serve him right; he never
will observe the rule of the road.' For
q man who has so much to do with horses.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is surprisingly igno.
rant of horse matters and driving. 1t is
3 standing joke among roadmen that on
the day his team made the phenominal
record, they simply ran away with him."
Mrs. Oliphant says in the November
Century, where she writes of Queen
Victoria: "We hold it one of the most
absurd Of poetical fallacies that love in
the ordinary sense of the word is wo-
mans whole existence yet it is very
true that the history of a woman is chief.
ly the history of her affections and the
close relationships in which her dearest
interests are always concentrated. It is
true also OF q man that in these lie the
real records OF Lis happiness or misery;
lifa.n 1o