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Show PERSONAL. There comes a rumor from Long Branch that Governor Tilden is en-gsigtd en-gsigtd to a widow. S tmuel P. Taylor, the oldest organist organ-ist in this country, died in Brooklyn recently, aged 90. Robert Dale Owen's daughter sayB that overwork, not spiritualism, is the cause of his insanity. The Earl of Cavan has taken a prominent part in Moody and San-key's San-key's prayer meetings in Londou. One of Frank Blair's sons has accepted ac-cepted a position with a mercantile tirm in Boston. The general died poor. Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston prodigy, I has issued an autobiography. Now, tho next question is, "Will he lecture?" The Woman's Journal intimates that Mrs. Til ton expects very soon to begin divorce proceedings against her husband. Sim Randall claims to have 100 votes pledged for the speakership, wiiicli is more than enough to carry tho caucus;. A tour of tho battlefields of Virginia Vir-ginia is now being made by Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Longstreet, Hooker, and Calonel John Nicholson. Peter Mayers, for forty years a porter in the bonded warehouses at 2(36 Front and 2U1 Water streets, New York, died last week. The Providence Journal says that Susan B. Anthony, is a lady of marked ability, of strong and hoiidat convic tions, and of irreproachable life. Mrs. Nellie Sartoris has decided that her boy shall be a great general like his grandpa. Have you reflected Nellie, that bad whisky is going out of date? The bulk of the estate of the lat Robert H. Ives, of Providence, valued at $10,000,000, is left to his daughter the wife of Professor Hammel, late of Brown university. The Sultan of Zanzibar encourages the missionaries who call upon him in London to visit his dominions, and is quite sure that his heathens will be able to convert them. In San Francisco last week John Ki, confidential servant to Senator Sharon, wns united in wedlock to Madamoistlle Qui Ho. They were united by a Muthndist clergyman. Mr. Charles J. Freake. of London, who commenced life as a pot-boy and progressed into a m ister builder, is now a prince! millionaire, who gives entprtainnifints in hi mansion in a thousand guests at a time, including lords and earls. Thurlow Weed, in a recently published pub-lished letter, credits Queen Victoria ,and Prince Albert with so tempering a harsh demand ol Lord Palmerston upon the American government that a war between the two countries was probably avoided. Mrs. Colliers, a Springfield spiritualist spiritu-alist medium, has retired from public business. ' In a published card she says: "I have long thought, and I now know, that it is impossible (or a medium to be absolutely strictly honest, hon-est, and get adequate remuneration for the thne and trouble expended. A few days since a farmer was tell-iuc; tell-iuc; in our hearing that he had planted an acre and a half of potatoes, and he feared they would be destroyed by the potato bugs. "Are the plants up yet ?" asked a bystander. ' Xo," replied re-plied trie farmer, "but the darned bugs are sitting on every hill waiting for them." |