The Osceola times., 1884-05-03
PERSONAL.
Luigi Bistolfi, who executed the Carl
bsldi statue at Caprera, is at work on .
bust of General di Cesnola.

Luigi Bistolf, who executed the Carl
baldi statue at Caprera, is at work on q
bust of General di Cesnola.
The Rev. DIR. A. b. Earle, the Baptist
evangelist, has preached q 1000 times
during his service of more than fifty
years in the pulpit.
MIR. Tabor, the millionaire ex-senator
| is in luck again. He has struck another
rich vein in one of his mines. 1t is said
that he wants to be Governor of Colora-
do.
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh pleads not
guilty in the action which the Attorney
General James is bringing against him
for having voted IN the Heuse of Com
mons.
Edward King writes that "Mr. Wilso N
Barrett is becoming great man in Lon
don, assuming social prominence " hich
few actors in France or America attain.
Celia, the youngest daughter of Carl
baldi, was married in Rome recently to
Professor Grdzialdi. Among the we'd
ding presents was a diamond bracelet
from Ming tumDert.
Mrs. Eames, the widow of the Rev
DR.. Eames, of Concord, N. H. has sent
S5 900 to be added to fund for the re.
building of the Trinity p. +. Church, re.
Gently burned at Bermuda.
Judge Dunno, who was recently made
a Count by the Pope, owns l64 900 acres
of land in Hernando county, Fla, and
has formed large Catholic colony. Ee
speaks several languages well.
Colonel Smith, better known as "Bill
Arp" has published his humorous
sketches in large volume, from every
page of which the honest cricket chirps,
according to Henry Grady.
Charles NJ. Oseood, of Amherst, Mass,
has constructed catamaran in sections,
that can be taken apart and packed tor
overland travel. In this he will sail to
the head waters OF the Connecticut.
Mrs. A. r. Allen heads the list of mil
lionaires in st. Louis, paying tax on
81, ,l97 300. Henry Shaw is put down as
worth S4 176, 100, the heirs Of Jesse G.
Lindell 81, Jas AGO and Miss Bornice Nor
rison 1864 800.
NJ. Leutowski, st. Petersburg direc-
tor, has been sentenced to imprisonment
for one hundred days for having PLAYED
French pieces in the Russian capital
without first obtaining the authors per-
mission.
John Boyle OReilly, Robert Grant
Us. ofDale." John T. eelright and
Geo. Parsons Lathrop, as it is reported
in the Harvard Herald, are going to
write a novel together and they Lave al
ready sold what they shall produce for
5000.
General Sherman has not lost interest
in Atlanta, at the doors Of which town
he hammered twenty years ago. He has
Just written letter indorsing Atlanta's
scheme to draw water for city purposes
from the upper Chattahoochee river by
means Of a canal.
Peter Francisco Pescud, who died in
Raleigh, n. c., a few days ago, was q
grandson of Peter Francisco, the famous
giant of the Revolution, about whom
American lads like to read. The father
of the deceased was Colonel Edward
Pescud, noted years ago as Virginia
editor.
William Walter Phelps has bought
eight acres of the kalorama estate al
Washington, once the property of Joel
Barlow, Minister to Russia and the au
thor of the funny old epic, "The Colum.
bad" This estate is nobly wooded and
being on rising ground above the vale
Of Rock Creek, supplies pure air and syl.
van romance.
Postmaster Vansickle, of Vansickle
Hunt county, Texas, is veteran of three
wars and has lived under five different
governments, Spanish, Mexican, Repub-
lie o. Texas, United States, the Southern
Confederacy and the United States
again. He was born in Monterey, Mexi-
co, of Polish parents, and er1igrated east
ward to Texas at an early age.
Kenneth Ray ner was man of many
misfortunes. DIR. Gatling, of Hartford,
speaking Of him to reporter said: 81
knew the deceased when he lived in
North Carolina. Before the var he had
a fortune of 100000, brought to him
chiefly by his wife, who was a sister of
Bishop Polk. She owned 450 slaves.
Rayner was firm Union man, and alt
his property went during the war. Then
some of his sons turned out badly. He
deserves to be kindly remembered"