Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-08-26
Personal.

Maggie Mitchell ia going TO build o
handsome theatre in New York. at One
hundred-and-tweniy-fourth street and
Seventh avenue.
Mrs. Anne Seguin. the well.known
opera singer OF years ago, d1ed IN
New York on Friday. She first APP
peared on the stage in 1928.
Mr. William Warren. the veteran ac-
tor, after pleasant visit to Mr.. Joseph
jefferson at Buzzard's Bay. has gone to
his sisters house at Onset Bay.
General Grants family have the man
uscripts of all the Jokes and funny sto-
ries expurgated from the famous me-
moirs. and may possibly make book OF
them.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Randall, author
OF maryland, My Maryland" and who
is now engaged on the Baltimore Amert-
can, is going to return to Georgia jour
nalism.
Mr.. z. G. Knight, of Philadelphia, has
purchased park of 100 acres at Ceilings
wood. n. j., and has donated it to the
people Of that State for the free use OF the
public.
A dispatch from the City OF Mexico
via Galveston says that rumor is cur
rent there that Mr.. Thomas B. Connery,
secretary of the United States Legation,
is about TO resign his Office.
The mother OF the present German
Empress is confined in madhouse. She
wanted TO become the wife OF Louis Ma
poleoli when he was President, and
would have done so but for the opposi-
ton of Queen Victoria.
J. X. Emmett, the actor, has just pur-
chased for $1,000 the St Bernard dog
Plinlimmon, said to be the finest OF the
breed in the world. Plinlimmon is five
wears old and has never been beaten but
once on the show bench.
Mrs. Langtry says she Is not gong to
be married. She calls attention to the
fact that she has not been divorced, and
saws that while she remains the wife OF
Mr.. Langtry it would scarcely be
delicate, to say the least, to discuss the
probability of marrying another man.
The Republican Contention at Lin
coin, Neb., on Friday after An al-night
stormy session, adopted prohibition
plank demanding that the question shall
be submitted to the popular vote, Shall
the State of Nebraska prohibit the manu-
facture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
as beveraget" by q vote of 3l0 to 29l.
William Muldobn, the wrestler, has re-
Gently been training himself in a novel
way on a farm he owns at Belfast, n. Y.
He arose daily at dawn, MIXED eight
COWS. worked six hours in the bayfield,,
again MIXED the cows in the evening,
and Mt 9 o'clock went to bed. be il
thirty seven. and says it is the bes'
course Of training he ever went through.
At Delmonico's, in New York, last
Monday two forged checks were cashed.
William Lentz was arrested for the forge
nv, and on examination identified by the
cashier. He was placed in the Tombs
Charles i. Keller was detected with an
other forged check on Friday, and or
arrest confessed that he had forged al
three checks and got them cashed through
messenger-boys. He hastaken the limo
cent LentzS place in jail.
General Lew Wallace, 1t is said
agreed to write the life of Benjamin
Harrison. the son of his grandfather, fol
the uncomfortable sum OF $500 anC
George Alfred to make Levi Z. Morton
immortal for half that sum. AS the
story goes, although the patriotic authors
agreed to do the work for what less ia
nous writers would consider ridiculously
low figures, there is a kick about the
price and the end is rot yet.