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FEB. 18 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
tTrcc.si, £ccjtl$, plants., &c. 
3Tcuj gubltfntion$. 
Clara Morris is ill Sun Francisco. 
Edwin Booth is engaged in Philadelphia. 
Gilmore returns to Boston to give a series of 
concerts. 
Miss Evans, author of “ Beulah,” has given 
up writing. 
Lester Wallace is to appear at the Boston 
Theater soon. 
Maooie Mitchell is drawing crowded 
houses in Boston. 
Jay Gould cleared over $1,000,000 by the raid 
on the Pacific Mail. 
Kino Kalakaua has sailed from San Fran¬ 
cisco for Honolulu. 
Storey of the Chicago Times, has three libel 
suits hanging over him. 
John W. Kelly, a prominent lawyer of 
Rochester, died Thursday week. 
Mrs. Fister died of trichina spiraJIsin Ham¬ 
burgh, Erie County, a few days since. 
Margaret Horerts, aged 126, of Brooklyn, 
lias been in a strange sleep since Christmas. 
Alexis, the young Russian, is going to Aus¬ 
tralia. Of course lie is to be transported there. 
Mr. Bayard Taylor Is to give a course of 
lectures at Cornell University, next summer. 
Messrs. J. P. Fulton & Co. of Conshohocken, 
Penn., manufacturers of iron pipe, havo failed. 
TnE great French artist, Tlssot, is painting 
portraits of the ex-Empress Eugenio and her 
son. 
Miss Kate Field persists In trying to act, 
though pronounced a failure wherever she 
goes. 
James Mortimer, editor of the London 
(Eng.) Figaro, turns out to have been a Roch¬ 
ester boy. 
Rev. L. W. Mudoe of Yonkers has been ap¬ 
pointed chaplain of the Sixteenth Battalion, 
N. G. N. Y. S. 
Isabella Wallace, claiming descent from 
Sir William Wallace, tiled in England recently 
at the age of 103 years. 
Thcrlow Weed, who has been quite ill for 
several days, has so lar improved that he is 
able to leave his room. 
It is rumored that Lord Dufferin will resign 
as Governor-General of Canada, and be ap¬ 
pointed Viceroy of India. 
Sir Edward Thornton gave a dinner party 
on Saturday week in the new English Legation 
building at Washington. 
Hon. Henry S. Sandford, ex-Unitod States 
Minister at Brussels, is spending the winter at 
his plantation in Florida. 
General Garibai.pi was present in the 
Italian Parliament, Jan. 526, and was loudly 
cheered on taking the oath. 
Henry Brown of the I lion Agricultural 
Woiks, sails for Europe Feb. 20, to enter a 
similar establishment at Stettin, Germany. 
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