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PERSONAL AND GENERAL NOTES.

Miss Bella Burton of New Orleans is spending a short time with friends in McComb City.

Lieutenant Governor Knoblock spent yesterday in the city and returns to Lafourche in the morning.

Tracy Waller, eldest son of Consul General Waller, has been practicing law at New London, Ct. He will soon move to Arkansas.

Dr. Jones, the able superintendent of the state insane asylum at Jackson, La., was in town yesterday on business connected with that instiution.

Mr. Henry J. Carter, the popular deputy clerk of the United States circuit court, taking his annual vacation left the city yesterday for Grand Isle.

Mr. Andrew Jackson of Baton Rouge arrived yesterday with his lovely young daughters Misses Ella and Camille Jackson, and left in the evening for Pass Christian to spend a few days.

G. W. Dillingham, published, successor to G. W. Carleton & Co., has in press a novel entitled "At the Mercy of Tiberius," by Augusta J. Evan Wilson, of Mobile, Ala., author of "St. Elmo," "Infelice" and "Beulah."

It is said that Ex-Assitant Secretary Charles E. Coon, while in London recently, succeeded in placing a loan of $750,000 for a southern railway company and that before his return to this country he was offered a managing position in a London bank.

The following named persons were registered at Lurary Inn, Luray, Va., last week: N. Bowling, Miss A. L. Bowling, R. F. Sams, Atlanta, Ga.; J.B. Preston, Augusta, Ga.; H. Mosle, Galveston Tex.; R. S. McCulloch, Ls.; Ed. G. Carroll, New Orleans.

Judge F. P. Poche will leave in a few days for the Montgomery Whte Sulphur Springs accompanied by several members of his family. The Misses Poche expect to visit St. Louis in October and will be present at the time of the festivities in honor of the Veiled Prophet.

Mark Twain says that he cannot write in the cold months. Pointing from his billiard room one March day down to the summer-house in sight, he said to the writer: "There, when I can get in that with the leaves and birds about me I can write. In the winter I can do nothing that suits me.

Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the brilliant and popular editor of St. Nicholas, was a young widow before she ever entertained the idea of writing for publicaiotn. The first contribution she ever sent to a magazine was promptly acceped, and there was an instant demand for her sketches.

The largest summer cottage in Satatoga is owned by Mrs. Daniel S. Lathrop of Alband. Mrs. Lathrop is a near relative of Senator Leland Standford of California, and is a very wealthy widow. Her Saratoga home is a magnificent house, Gothic in style and surrounded by handsome lawns.

Mr. Charles Kirsch, of the furniture house of B. J. Montgomery & Co., left last evening for the east and the west on his annual purchasing campaign. This firm is among the leading furniture dealers of the country and they are determined that our citizens shall not have an excuse to go from home to furnish their houses.

Last Sunday night's performance of the "Colleen Bawn" by the Knights of Labor surprised those who expected an indifferend representation. It turned out to be so good that there has been a general request for its repetition. With the Colleen at the St. Charles against next Sunday night there would be a crowded house, and "Handy Andy" can be given a chance later.

Gilbert and Sullivan are said on the authority of a London newspaper man, who is very close to the D'Oyly Carte management, to be preparing an opera on American subject with special reference to the Wild West craze, which Buffal Bill has made fashionable in England. Cowboys, scouts and good and bad Indians will figure in it extensibely, and it will be produced simultaneously in London and New York, probably at the Casino in the latter oity.

The example set by the University of Pennsylvania is establishing the Wharton School of Finance and Political Economy is beginning to be followed in the south. It is proposed to establish a chair of political economy and social science in Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., with Ex-Congressman John Randolph Tucker as its occupant. Mr. Tucker was at the head of the law school in this institution when first elected to congress in 1874, and continued to be a member of the faculty throughout his twelve years of continuos service in congress.