The Dickinson press., 1884-03-08
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
Mr.. Leonard H. Courtney, financial
Secretary to the British Treasury, has.
refused the proffered editorship of the
London Times, and Mr.. Buckle, assis.
tant editor ofthat paper, has been tenn
porarily appointed to the post.
A physician in Vienna operated for
amaurosis several months ago on q man
in his lO2d year, and restored his sight,
the operation being the first of the kind
on record. More recently the same
physician repeated this operation on a
man ninety-si1 years of age, and with the
same success.
Extra Billy" Smith, the veteran ex-
Governor of Virginia, has written to a
relative in Troy, N. Y, giving q synop-
sis of the events of his life. In the let
ter hefnds occasion to say: Although
1 shave with my right and write with
my left hand. I am yet SO nervous in
both that I write with great difficulty"
He was born two years before the death
Of General Washington
A stylishly dressed couple called on
the Mayor of Jersey City the other day
to be married. After the business was
done the bridegroom said they were
from Italy, andthathe was Count Fran
cisco st. Angelo, and the bride a peas
ant girl whom he found working in his
vineyard as a common laborer. He fell
desperately in love with her, but his
relations were SO a%ristocratic that they
would never hear of his marrying her,
SO he just bundled her up and brought
her to the land of the free and made
her his lawful wife.
Extract from ellis Passionate Woo
ing" "You have e kissed me yet,'
the girl says, bending over him tender
ly. "No," be replies, kissing is
wrong" They walk on silently for @
moment. Then the man speaks. "And
SO you think" he says, I'VE had better
be married at once ""Yes," she replies,
eff we are to keep house it will be
cheaper" "Why? he asks. Be
cause she answers" you will probably
hang around pretty steadily for the
first six months and we shall not need q
refrigerator"
i, The young and handsome Mexican,
Iterbide' who is now creating quite a
furore in Washington, was the little
prisoner of state in Maximilian's court,
Ind who is hereditary heir to the throne
of Mexico, being grandson of Empero,
Il A1rT1cfip He ,,Dkho~ violated 1,o+1
to the revolutionary families of Wash
ington and Greene, is now living at the
old Greene mansion on the Georgetown
Heights. She was in her prime a great
beauty, but her ambition led her to
marry the dwarfed, noseless but we'll
s educated Prince Imperial OF Mexico
At Montreal the other night the offiici.
ais of the B%onaventure Railway station
We're startled by the advent of two well
{ dressed men into the baggage room
{ who, on CHANGING to open their over
s coats, it was seen, were armed in the
$ most approved style of the Western
States, with we'll filled cartridge belts
]: around their bodies, holding a brace o.
large revolvers. The police were called
nnd they were relieved Of their arma.
, ment, and the next day the arms were
y confiscated by the Recorder. They
gave their names as Charles and Jolr
] Vincent, and the former introduced
himself as tho Postmaster Of Kansa:
City, his brother being an official under
him.
l.. The house in which General Bur
1 goyne, a prisoner of war, partook o
the hospitality of General Phil,
C Schuyler, is still standing in Albany. N
6 Y. It was built by Mrs. Schuyler il
l761, while the General was in Europe
y from whence many articles for the fur
nishing of the house were sent, and wa
their town residence. The mansion a
Schuylerville, which, with the General
mills, was burned by Burgoyne in 1777
t was their country seat, and far sur
c passed the Albany house in point O
a grandeur and costly fittings.
On March %, 1871, Lloyd Brittol
was hanged at Williamsport, Pa, TO
the murder of Jacob Bay. Thirtee'
L years have elapsed since the event, ani
it is now discovered that he had nethin.
whatever to do with the crime, the rea
e murderer being a mullato namedThomp
son. who died recently in Canada
Thompson confessed the deed on hi
q death-bed.
Lucy Stone relates the following all
:. ecdote of the late Wendell Phillips: 9.
remember when the worlds a%nti-slaver,
convention was held in London in 1910
= Mr.. Phillips was sent as a delegate, &c
c%ompanied by two ladies. On a%rrivin'
at London the ladies were not admitte'
to the convention, and consequent
Mr.. Phillips refused to go in. Thos
in attendance ct the convention di,
. everything in their power to induce hi1
to change his mind, but he remained
a firm, and did not go in"
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