The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-16
Personal.

MI. NiiuStOnt mas tIinstitu LOW per
hymn, I" llark, My soul" into the Italian.
II is announced that the yachting cruise
OF Mr.. Gladstone will he extended from
the coast OF Scotland to Norway.
Prince Soma Peralta. who died of tonic
fever at Mazatlan recently, was known as
"The Nightingale OF Mexico"
General Grant has more lives written
oneS than any other president except
Washington.
Lord Colerldge is quoted az saying that
"GOyernor Butler is one OF the most
charming men ever met"
Or. Mary Walker is happy at last. A
wealthy old crank In Springfield, Mass.
who died the other day, being moved by
the poor wOman's sorrows. left her $1,000.
Sir Edwin Watkin says that the London
Cab-DrIvers' Association has more p0liti-
cal influence than the whole OF the railway
interest In the kingdom.
Frank Jones, the wealthy brewer OF
Portsmouth, n. H., IL building a fine chapel
for the Middle-Street Baptist church, OF
that city.
The Rothschllds are said TO hold $780,
600. 900 Of United States bonds I; Baroness
Burdett-COutts Bartlett, 100000, 900; the
Duke Of Sutherland, S5,000,000; and sir
Thomas Brassy, Sj,00O,0OO.
Christine Nilsson has caused notice 10 be
served upon VI. MonlussOn. a Paris stock
broker, for the recovery OF G5.SOO, being
part OF the property Of her deceased hus-
hand NJ ROIZcaII1.
Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editor and no
veist. is 4 daughter OF President MapeS,
the celebrated writer on horticulture. She
formerly lived in Newark, but is now Il
resident OF New York.
Samuel Bergard Stafford. Of Maryland,
has lent 10 the managers of the New Eng
land Fair the cutglass OF his kinsman, the
famous Paul Jones, and the ilag OF the Bon
Ilomme Richard.
General Sherman is disappointed in his
Pacific-coast trip because OF the hazy con-
dition OF the atmosphere, that condition
having lasted throughout the excursion.
He expects to return to Washington about
the 18th Of October.
Bill Nye, the humOrist, has not been ben
cited by his rIlsticatiOn in the Northwest,
where h. spent several months in the hope
Of relief from chronic or continued cerebrO-
spinal meningitis. He is back again In
Laramie, and 1t Il now feared his recovery
is hopeless.
William ID. Howclls, the novelist, is a
ye,mg-looking man Of middle height; his
hair IL cropped short and parted in the
centre: he wears short gray mOustache,
and his aspect is that Of student. He
.hrinks from society and is OF quiet and
domestic tastes.
In 1879 the University Ut oxford con-
fcrred upon TurgeneG the honorary de-
gree OF doctor OF civil law. The whole
town WAS searched i'm vain for a university
cap large enough for him. He had finally
To content himself with his everyday black
silk "stovcpipc.' The sight Of such Il hat
over the doctors flaring red gown had
never before been seen IN Oxford.
The COmlc de In Baume, praciiced
French climber, has been killed while as
cending the Pie Bernlna, the highest peak
i'm the Engadine, switzerland, and rarely
attempted on account Of it, dangers. One
of his guides fell into a creyasse, drag
ring down the COmtc and the second
Guide. The COmte was Immediately kill
ed by falling OH his head, while one guide
was seriously injured. and the other es-
capped.