OCT.4® 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
67S 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
The Sultan of Turkey Is thirty-six. 
Commodore Vanderbilt's widow Has to get 
along on $i,ixk) a week. 
Capt. Eads estimates the loss of business by 
fever In the South at $200,000,000. 
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lome Intend 
sailing for Halifax from England on the 14th of 
November. 
Ex-Gov. Horatio Seymour has prepared an ar¬ 
ticle on the cheese Industry for the next number 
or the North American Bevtew. 
Thomas Carlyle, In his old age, says he reads 
the Lord’s Prayer wltu Increasing pleasure, and 
adds : “ What else can we say ?” 
George Gorham, secretary of the Republican 
Congressional campaign committee. Is quite seri¬ 
ously sick with some kind of kidney complaint. 
Confederate Major-General Stockton, who has 
enlisted as a private soldier In the Federal army, 
has been detailed to a clerkship In the War De¬ 
partment at Washington. 
Mr. Bancroft, the historian. Is a rigid tetotaler, 
and firmly refused, In his great pain and exhaus¬ 
tion after the recent runaway accident, to taste 
the wine prescribed by his doctors. 
The Marquis or Lome, In his farewell address 
to the electors of Argyleshtre, said that not one 
of his constituents had ever written him on any 
subject that the communication was not answer¬ 
ed by the next post. 
Count William Bismarck, the son of the Prince, 
and the youngest member of the Reichstag, Is a 
Jovial, hearty-looking person, so clever that he 
would have a future before him even if he were 
not; the son of so powerful a man. 
The estate of the late James Goodwin of Hart¬ 
ford, who was considered the wealthiest man In 
Connecticut, after the settlement of the admin¬ 
istrator's aceouuts, has merely a balance in per¬ 
sonal property amounting to $l,lso,ooo, besides 
$500,000 in real estate. 
General Sherman returned to Washington on 
Monday last from his extended trip West and to 
the Pacific Coast.. Ho Is In excellent health and 
speaks In high terms of the various posts which 
he officially visited, referring to them as models 
of neatness and efficiency. 
*• He was, in his friendly and scientific and busi¬ 
ness relations, in every case what we Americas-* 
would call * a level-headed man,’ ” is what Dr. 
Hayes says of Dr. Petermann, when asked If he 
had ever perceived any appearance of Insanity In 
the great geographer’s letters. 
Mr. Richard Rogerson, of Liverpool, Is spoken 
of as a model English workingman. He Is seven¬ 
ty-seven years old, and has worked In a foundry 
for one firm for the last slxty-slx years. He has 
had fourteen children, forty-two grand-children, 
and twelve greab-grand-cblldren. 
There is some criticism of the Queen's treat¬ 
ment of the Princess Beatrice, who is si, pretty, 
lull of life and capable of enjoyment, and who Is 
still kept a t the old lady’s apron strings, accom¬ 
panying her in all sorts of dismal Journeylngs, 
and being dressed in a dowdy style. 
Senator Bayard Is accredited with saying that 
in his opinion there will be three Presidential 
candidates In the Held In 1S30—the Republican, 
Democratic and Greenback candidates. It is pos¬ 
sible, too, that the House of Representatives may 
be called upon to elect the next President. 
Mr. Beecher was badly beaten at croquet every 
time he played In Minnesota. And now some 
people go so far as to say that this Is a proof that 
Mr. Beecher will not lie and cheat. He may get 
a little mad sometimes, they say, but he lacks the 
qualifications of a successful croquet player. 
Each Speaker of the House of Commons re¬ 
ceives a pension of $ 20,000 a year, with remainder 
to his eldest son, at whose demise it terminates; 
but there la only one ex-Speaker—viscount Ev- 
ersley, Charles Kingsley’s friend and neighbor— 
who has such pension, and he has no son. His 
successor, Mr. Denison, created Viscount Osslng- 
ton, refused a pension. Ilo died childless. 
General Fremont says that his Indian policy, as 
Governor of Arizona, will he to Interfere with 
those agreeable gentry as little as possible so long 
as they do nothing to retard the development of 
the Territory. The General la Bald to show few 
signs of hts slxty-tlve years. His health Is good, 
he is erect, and has the same nervous, quick mo¬ 
tions as of old, and the same frank manner. His 
hair and beard are almost white. 
When Mehemet All Pacha, who was murdered 
lately, was In Berlin, he took the opportunity to 
visit his birthplace, Madgeburg. Here he was so 
touched by old remlnscences that be declared that 
he should lay down his military duties in Turkey 
as soon as possible, again become a true German 
and settle for the remainder of his life in some 
pleasant town In the Harts. As Gen. Noble, and 
more than one before him, have remarked, " Man 
proposes, but God disposes.” 
Gustaf Wallis, the most eminent of traveling 
botanists, died at Cuenca, Ecuador, last June. In 
i 860 he was commissioned by some very eminent 
Belgian horticulturists to gather new varieties of 
plants In South America, and for eight years 
traversed vast districts In that country, making 
subsequently an excursion, at the instance of a 
great London firm, to the Phllllpptne Islands. He 
died in a hospital, worn out. and poor, In the 
cause of science, having given to European hor¬ 
ticulture not less than 1,000 transatlantic novel¬ 
ties. 
Five noble and wealthy English Roman Cath¬ 
olic girls are about to take the veil and become 
nuns, all having considerable fortunes In their 
own rights. They are Lady Edith Noel, daughter 
or thfc Earl of Gainsborough; the Hon. Constance 
Howard, sister of the Marchioness of Bute; two 
daughters of the Hon. Maxwell Stuart of Traqu- 
har, Peebleshlre, and the youngest daughter of , 
Mr. Blount of Maplequrham, the representative 
of the staunchest Catholic family among the com¬ 
moners In Eagland. 
giants, &c. 
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Pearl Millet Wanted 
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