The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-21
Personal.

Sitting Bull has pneumonia.
Victor Hugo has sleek, soft fingers with
small conical tips.
Mr.. w. II. Hurlburt is in Scotland with
the English Chords"
The Countess dc Paris is as fond OF riding
rs the Empress OF Austria is.
Governor Hamilton, Of Illinois. never
tips the boy who holds his horse.
The Duke OF Hamilton cleared Sl50,oO0
by the victory OF Ossian in the st. Leger.
A movement has been started in London
to erect q statue OF Charles Dickens in that
city.
Canon Liddon, OF st. PauPs, London,
suggests that high moral excellence Is I'M
possible among men apart from the pres
encc within OF conditions OF moral evil.
Mr.. Henry +. Waters. who is now IN
London as the representative OF the New
England Historic Genealogical Society,
has made abstracts OF more than TWO thou-
sand wills relating to American families.
The memorial window which President
Arthur will put in st. Johns church,
Washington, will, It is understood, COM
memoraie his late wife and her father, Cap
tain Herndon. both Of whom used to at
tend that church.
An official high up in the railway world
wrote to Charles Wyndham for his auto
graph. The comedian sent back this cpl
graph Railways IN their way are auto
crats. They teach every man to know his
own station and TO stop there"
Thomas Hughes invited all the people Of
the Rugby, Tenn. colony to n banquet at
the Tabard Inn. The feast was given last
Friday night, and there were gay times.
Mr.. Hughes expects to remain with his
mother at Rugby for about month, when
he will return to England.
lola, the French writer, drinks brandy
and water while III work. John Bright, the
English statesman, has rot touched spirits
for ten years, and he finds his health i'm
proved. Canon Farrar is 4 total abstainer.
President Arthur drinks good rye whlskey
during the day, and never less than bot
tie OF champagne ut dinner.
Colonel William l.. Calhoun, who has
been passing the summer at Talulah Falls,
Ga, wears the watch, fob-chain, and ring
OF his grandfather, the South Carolina
statesman. The watch Is Of the old Eng
lish style, and on it is the following inscrip-
ton: "John Caldwell Calhoun. Born in
South Carolina March is, 1872, and died
in Washington, ID. c., March 81, 1880"
Colonel Normile, the student OF Spanish
literature who has just returned to this
country from Spain. brings with him GU
rious Moorish scimetar, which purchased
from an old market gardener just outside
of Grenada. 1t is studded with rare stones,
and tradition asserts that IT was once car
ried by one OF BOabdil's Almoriyide officers
in the last struggle against Ferdinand and
Isabella, though they do say that some very
fine antique weapons of this character are
now manufactured at Birmingham. Eng.
Count Sheremetieff, a Russian, is cele-
brating his honeymoon for all there is in il.
He married not long ago the Countess Hey
den. He hired the steamer Oleg, which is
now taking them up the Volga. The Dru-
lima Steamboat Company, to which the
steamer belongs, receives payment OF
$50 a day. In return for this sum the
Count may travel when and where he
pleaseS. MANY wedding guests accompany
the Connt and Countess Sheremetieff, and
there are also OH board the Oleg a band,
twenty singers, photographer, physi-
clan, men and women cooks, and nume-
rous staff Of servants.