Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1891-02-20 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

MEN AND MANNERS.  - --4.-  QUICiN Victoria corrects the proofs of the Court Circular with her own right royal band.  THR Emprese Fredei Mk and her daughter, the Princes' Margaret, arrived at Cologne on Wednesday morning on their way to London. After visiting the Cathedral anl other points of interest, her Majesty and the Princess continued their journey.  Miss Winifred Sweet, of San Franci•ice, is one of the moat extensive newspaper owners in the West. TR! Marchioness of Selishury has been suffering from an attack of bronchitis, and hes left London for the seaside,  Mies Camilla Ifriso Harris, the eldest daughter of Joel Chandler Harris, the American humorist, is about to go to Italy to pursue the study of art.  MADAME Barrios, widow of the celebrated President of Venezuela, is now staying in Washington. She speaks five languages with fluency. Her fortune is said to aggregate 6,000,000 dol.  MH. Louis Jennings, whose popularity in the House of Con moos is sufficient to counterbalance the contrary feeling with which his colleague in the representation of Stockport is regarded, does not make that advance towards convalescence which his family and friends desire to see. He has gone to Folkebtone to stay some time, and hopes for much from the bracing sir, which he has on former occasions found beneficial.  PERHAPS the best-known pearl necklace in London is that ot the Countess Tolstoi, wife of that sturdy Radical, Mr. Philip Stanhope, M.P. The pearls are not only large and pertect in shape, but nearly black in colour, a peculiarity which, though some will think does not add to beauty, is by reason of its rarity exceptionally valuable. The Baroness Henry de Worms, wife of the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, also has a notable necklace, this one of diamonds. 'there will presently be in the field a new competitor, the contest being the more intelesting since the new comer is a counection by marriage of the Baroness de Worms. The necklace is not new, though it has not been seen in London drawing-rooms for some years. It was the property of the late Countess of Orkney, and was a present to her from her first husband, Baron de Samuel, a peer of Portugal. The necklace is in three rows, and contains in all 190 pearls, many of large size. The Countess left the necklace to her son, Mr. Arthur de Vahl, and Mrs. de ‘'ahl will in the coming season be the envied wearer of the priceless ornaments.  THE acceptance by Professor VlEarl, of Florence, of the portfolio of Minister of Public Instruction, in the new Italian Ministry, will give pleasure and interest to a large number of English friends. The Prefessor, who is a member of the Senate, has long been a resi. dent in Florence, and with his English wife, herself a well-known author, the daughter of the late Mr. James White, who will be remembered as ;Mr. Fawcetts colleague as member for Brighton, are well known to a large circle of Angle-Americans, their home being the centre of the literary life of Florence. UNIVERSAL sympathy is felt with Lord and Lady Poltimore on the death of their daughter, the Hon. Marcia Bamfylde, who has been in delicate health for many years. Miss Bamfylde had strong literary tastes, and her novel, "May Hamilton," published a short time ago, was very favourably received.  UNCLE the will of the late Mr. Bradlaugh, his only daughter, Mrs. Bradlaugh Bonner, is made sole executor, and inherits whate,er property may have been left. Perhaps the most valuable part of Mr. Bradlaugh's estate is his library, which extends to 7,000 volumes. The late member for Northampton was an indefatigable collector of books, and, it is said, often paid high prices for them, while his collection of law books would do credit to a Queen's counsel of ten years' standing. Mr. Bradlaugh's will is extremely brief, and that he drew up himself.  Mr. Peel, a son of the speaker, has been appointed one of the clerks of the House of Commons. The post is not one obtained upon personal nomination, but has been won in competitive examination.  ACCORDING to a Berlin correspondent the affairs of Prince Georg Radziwill, who recently paid away in gambling debts some 5,000,000 marks, and still owes several millions, as a result of which he had to leave the German army, are in a very bad way.  - - Tim New Zealand papers notify the death of Edward Hunt, a brother of the well-known painter, Holman Hunt. He was for many years a gold-digger, but bad latterly been an accountant in Dunedin.  MR. John Jacob Astor, an American millionaire, was married in New York on Tuesday last to Miss Eva Willing.. The wedding is described as the most gaudy that has ever been held in that city, if not in America. The presents are estimated as worth £2,000,000,  Apropos of the sad end of the Duke of Bedford, it is remarked that there are no fewer than twelve case. on record during the present century of suicide amongst members of the peerage. Them are Lord French, Lord Londonderry, Lord Groove,, Lord James 13eresford, Lord Munster, Lord Congleton, Lord Forth, Lord Cloncurry, Lord Walmingham, Lord Delaware, Lord Lyttleton, and Lord Shaftesbury. Besides these, Dr. Samuel Butcher, Bishop of Meath, took his own life in 1876, and the Dowager Lady Howe met a eimilar tragic end in the following year.