OCT. 41 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PERSONAL ITEMS 
novelist, “ I thought it would be more respeetfu 
to your lordship to come and ask for It In person.’’ 
Virgil .Tames was dying at Little Rock,Ark. Itwas 
known that ho had $ 5,000 hidden somewhere, and 
he was asked to divulge the secret before itwas too 
late. “Mo,” said James; “I will tell my sister 
when she comes." When he was nearly gone an 
old uegro man. who formerly belonged to the 
family, went to the dying man, and. leaning over, 
said: ‘Mark Virgil, you can’t live but a lew 
moments longer. Tell me where your money Is, 
and I’ll Loll her when she comes.” “Mo,” replied 
James; “ I will feel better after a while. My sister 
will be hero pretty soon.” Thus, front t ime to time, 
he refused. Ills sister did not arrive. Faster and 
faster tils life ebbed away. Rending over again, 
they entreated him to disclose Ills secret, but he 
died With it bulled lu his bosom, almost his last 
motion being a slight negative shake of the head. 
Implements and ^larHin 
Samuel J. Tilden Vanarsdell is the load which a 
Kentucky baby has thrust upon It at the very 
start. 
Ex-Secretary of State Mci.lnn, of Florida, lone 
of the members of the famous Returning Board of 
that State Is dead. 
There Is a report In San Francisco that Ulysses 
s. Grant, Jr., is ail lanced to a daughter of Colonel 
James C. Flood, the bonanza millionaire. 
Mr. Archibald Forbes who has made so much 
reputation as a war correspondent, is going to 
Afghanistan to write up the expected war there. 
A Chinaman In Paris committed suicide because 
his tormentors had cut off his queue, lie fastened 
the cherished braid with pins to the place where It 
ought to grow, and Jumped Into the river. 
In Paris, for a long time, Plon-Plon endeavored 
to live the life of a Roman. Hence his Pompeian 
villa of Diomede; but It failed. The Prince at¬ 
tempted baths after I he Roman fashion, and they 
made the houso too (.lamp to live In. Gradually he 
got tired of being a Roman, and the villa Diomede 
was abandoned. 
A commercial traveler at Marseilles having relus- 
ed leave to his rnald servant to take his daughter to 
the skating rlufc, they did not appear next morn¬ 
ing, and on the bedroom begin burst open both 
were found suffocated. A note in the maid’s writ¬ 
ing said: “ You shall no longer have your daughter; 
1 take her to a better world.” The ages were 20 
and 14. 
M. Kldlger. a Sprttuallst, summoned before a 
St. Petersburg magistrate a few days ago M. 
Faustlnt, an Italian conjurer, on the charge of 
falsely representing himself as a medium. The 
magistrate, without entering into the merits of 
the case, dismissed It, on the grounds that the 
law recognizes no difference between spiritualism 
and conjuring. 
Willie White was the thr 20 .yoar.old pet of a 
farmer’s ramlly at Fulton, Wls.. and George Baum¬ 
gartner, aged to, was the drudge. George con¬ 
trasted his own hard usage with the tender treat¬ 
ment of his employer's child until violent envy and 
hatred were the result, one day Willie was found 
hanged by the neck, his throat out from ear to ear, 
and George was missing. 
George P. Sickles, the father of General Sickles. 
Is hale and hearty at ihu age of si years, lie Is a 
spiritualist, and on joys a matinee by the old mas¬ 
ters every afternoon. lie has only to rap on his 
table, when Beethoven, Mozart or Mendelssohn 
will appear and direct an invisible orchestra. 
The old gentleman frequently expresses surprise 
that his visitors do not hear the music as well 
as himself. 
An appeal has been heartily responded to in 
England In favor of lUickstone, who was repre¬ 
sented as in “absolute want.” The veteran actor 
Dikes $3W) a year from the theatrical fund, and 
-lolm s. ClarkegeuorOusly allows him *75 a month 
The Queen has sent him *2.1 o, the Prince of Wales 
$1-5, and a kuoL of artstocralle patrons good sums 
making the subscription sui ted by George Agus- 
tus Sula, very handsome. 
The Rev. Albert Whiting, an American mission¬ 
ary In China, died, of famine rover while minister¬ 
ing to the starving natives. The Governor of the 
province offered to defray the expense of sending 1 
the body home, and when it was explained to him 
that Americana did not.share in the Chinese horror 
of beingburlea in a foreign country, he gave a plot 
of ground In which, to make a grave, and deputed 
twelve Chinamen to worship the dead clergyman’s 
spirit. 
On the day Cardinal Manning assisted at the 
baptism In London of the Duke of Norfolk’s son 
and heir, he celebrated mass and breakfasted at 
early morn In Liverpool, reached Norfolk House, 
St. James’s Square, by 2 o’clock, paid a visit to the 
Archeplscopal residence at 4 r, m., caught the 
Liverpool express by 5 r. 11 , and addressed a large 
meeting of Roman Catholics on temperance In St. 
George’s hall Liverpool at 10 the some evening. 
This is ecclesiast ical activity for one over sev enty. 
At the carnival In San Frauolsco In honor of 
General and Mrs. Grant on Thursday evening, 
Mrs. Grant was presented with a bouquet com¬ 
posed or the Uowers indigenous to the various 
countries she hud passed through In her tour 
round the world. The Uowers were placed tu reg¬ 
ular order, starling uom Philadelphia and ending 
with San Francisco. The bouquet-holder, live 
lnchos loam wfis of pure California gold and Inlaid 
with quartz ^ud a collection of other metals found 
on the Faclilc coast. 
it was Prince Napoleon’s speech in the Senate 
In 1801 which suddenly undeceived the world of 
Its optnlon of his stupidity, ills splendid eloquence 
and powerful defence of democratic liberty took 
the world by surprise. If some actor who had 
played the part, of clowu for years had suddenly 
jeaped iutofumeln one night as the greatest tragic 
actor of Ills (hue the effect oould utt be more start¬ 
ling and bimiTi f than the revolution which con¬ 
verted the Cloten or the Palate Royal Into one of 
France’s greatest orators. The llercc attack on 
the Orleanlsta called forth from the Hue D’All- 
male a pamphlet and a challenge. The Prince 
read the pamphlet of Ktjaute petit jus and declined 
his challenge. 
The late novelist, Charles Lever, being once In 
London with Ills daughter, absent from his Consu- 
ate at Trieste without leave, was Invited to din¬ 
ner by Lord Lytton. "Ah, lever," sakl his bro¬ 
ther novelist, as he came In, “ glad you are come. 
You will meet your chief, Clarendon (then Foreign 
Minister).” “ I fear 1 must retire, my nose Is bleed¬ 
ing,” he replied, making for the door, which at that 
Instant opened, Lord Clarendon being announced. 
After shaking hands with the liostr his lordship 
espied Lever, “Ah, Mr, Lever, didn’t know you 
were In England; didn’t even know you had asked 
for leave.” “ N-o-o, my lord,” answered the witty 
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