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VOL X.
J. H. & W. 3 SEALSIpKomn
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ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 22, 1884.
Terms
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
Incidents Which Hare Transpired at
the National Capital.
NO. 4\
Secession a Vanhr^ Itlra.
The Hartford convention was the lirst attemiit
to bring about the secession of the Northern
States. Three years before, in iwit, when many
Federal leaders, exasperated by Jefferson's re
movals from office, his purchase of Louisiana,
his amendment to the Constitution on the mode
of electing Vice-President, and his defense of
Tom Paine, formed a scheme here for dissolving
the Union, and for the establishment of a North
ern Confederacy, with New York for its capital
and Aaron Burr as its Chief Magistrate. Roger
Griswold communicated the leading features of •
the scheme to Oliver Wolcott, and he laid the
letter before Hamilton, who at once checkmated
the initial move, which was to have Burr elected
Governor of New York by the Federalists of
that State. In doing this, Hamilton was so per
sonal in his attacks upon Burras to provoke the
challenge which led to the duel in which be fell.
Three years afterwards came the Hartford con
vention, which was intended to form a combina
tion of the New England States against the gen
eral Government. “Secession” and an independ
ent “Confederacy” were Yankee ideas.
Mr. t lay's Ivlnqiicnrc.
Henry Clay, in the last year of the last cen
tury, appeared before the people of Lexington,
Ky., and, in lofty and manly tones of eloquence,
plead thecausc of emancipation. His wonderful
gifts of oratory, bis extraordinary powers as a
logician, and iiis rare sagacity struck all who
heard him with astonishment. 1 have often
heard those who bad listened to his speeches of
that day declare that the ears of man bad scarce
ly ever listened to such eloquence as this young
•J" ' ’'■ojiirj.-viitti
man then
and gee'
died.
maine^ 1 ” llieirA*
been heiftv. imt tho
Henry Clay say that,'.
House again in the Fortieth and Forty-first Con
grosses, after which be served one term as gov
ernor of Minnesota. William l>. Washburn has
represented the Minneapolis district of Minne
sota in the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Con
gresses, and is a member elect of the Forty-
eighth Congress. .When William B. Washburn,
of Massachusetts, was in public life he used to
be confounded with "the Washburn brothers.”
and some of the enterprising special correspond
ents used to get then. mixed like the babies in
"Pinafore,” or the Loudon paper which de
scribed the hanging of Dr. Daniel Webster, the
distinguished lexicographer and statesman, for
he murder of Professor Pari,man.
Fiddler Webster.
Fletcher Webster was a great favorite with
bis father, from whom be had inherited many
noble traits and some failings. He was a bril
liant conversationalist, ami wrote very clever
album poetry and society verses. One of these
couplets, which found its way into print a few
years ago, and which I copy below, was a denial
of the charge brought against him by the lady to
whom it was written that he bad sent a bouquet
to Altss Sullivan:
"Mv dear Auntie Bess,
1 bear that you guess
That I scuta bouquet to Miss Sullivan,
But the credit belongs to'another man.
To the green-house 1 went,
By another man sent.
Admired the rose and japonica;
But when I buy a green,
I am sure 'twill be seen
On the table, well cooked hyoid Monica."
“Old Monica" was Daniel Webster's favorite
lok.and her terrapin, fried oysters and roasted
canvas-back ducks have never sin. e been sur
passed at Washington, while she coutd make a
regal Cape Cod chowder, or roast a Rhode Island
turkey, or prepare the old-fashioned New Hamp
shire "boiled dinner" which the "expounder of
the Constitution” loved so.well. She used to
make him a cup of tea itt an old brittania metal
teapot, which was his mother’s, whenever lie
had to work at night, and be used to call it bis
"Ktheopian nectar.” The teapot was purchased
of Monica after Mr. Webster's death by Henry
A. Willard. Esq., of Washington, who piesented
it to me, and it now graces a buffet in the Conti
nental Museum at Indian Hitt farm.
Fletcher Webster came to Washington occa
sionally during the winter of 1861-62. when the
Twelfth Regiment, which he commanded, was
in Maryland, and afterwards when it marched
into Virginia. His accounts of his military ex
perience were very amusing, especially'one
about the dislike which an assistant inspector-
general had taken to a heavy facsimile of a Ro
man ensign, on which was a medallion portrait
of Daniel Webster, surmounted by a gilt eagle,
tied by the Latin school company. The ir.ar-
.1 1.- ,1 v , ’ to : r\fy -
,‘crons affair in tin ranks of the company, Col.
ard
British aboli
tionist interfered, awakening public sentiment
at the North, and provoking the slave-owners,
the Southern States would have agreed upon
some plan for emancipation. While 1 could never
exactly indorse this assertion, I have seen much
that went to prove that a large number of intel
ligent Southerners believed long before the war
that their respective States would not only fol
low the teachings of religion, but promote their
lasting welfare and prosperity by adopting a
system of emancipation. Slavery was a cruel in
stitution, and gild it as they would, drown the
breathings of conscience as they might, the
voice of nature, of reason, of religion and justice
would speak out. Whatever plausible reasons
one might urge in favor of "mild servitude,” of
"kindness in sickness.” and "care in old age,”
there were eternal truths that would burst
through all the prejudices and wrong-imaginings
of interest.
*‘Il«au” Hickman.
“Beau” Hickman began during the adminis
tration of (Jen. Taylor to rank himself among
the celebrities of Washington. He professed to
belong to one of the "first families" of Virginia,
and to have squandered a considerable estate
at the gaming table, but to have retained his
fondness for dress. His costume was generally
somewhat threadbare, but scrupulously clean,
his kid gloves fitted well, although generally dis
colored, an eyeglass dangled from a lilacs rib
bon around his neck, and in cold weather he
wore a Spanish circular cloak, with one end
thrown over his shoulder. He used to frequent
the lobbies of the hotels, and when lie saw a
stranger with any Washingtonian that he knew,
he would shamble up and say to the resident:
“Your friend undoubtedly desires an introduc
tion to me?” The stranger would how assent,
would be introduced, and the beau would then
coolly doom him to pay $1 for the privilege of
what he called his initiation. This was thought
to be very amusing, especially by the long
haired students from the University of Virginia,
when they came here for their Christmas frolic,
but it was the beau's entire slock of wit, and bis
only visible means of support. It was hinted
that he was always ready to pilot strangers to
gambling houses, and that the fraternity con
tributed towards his maintenance, but tils face
was a perlect mask, and lie never betrayed any
emotions, even when rudely repulsed, or when
made llie hero of some fabulous adventure by a
newspaper correspondent in want of a para
graph. Jie died poor, and his body was stolen
by a resurrectionist and sold to the .Medical Col
lege for dissection.
J«‘ir<‘rs>oii*N Brave.
Thomas Jefferson’s grave, near Monticello,
his tormer home, is to lie marked by a monu
ment, erected by the United States, w ith an epi
taph in accordance with his dying wish, “that it
should be written on bis tomb that he was the
founder of the Virginia University.” Its lit
erary methods, however, as borrowed from
abroad, were, of course, not the great objects of
his pride; it was its new and peculiar discipline,
which, sooth to say, was simply the doing w ith
out any discipline and introducing among those
in their pupilage the great principle of self-gov
ernment. Each boy was to lie a law and a gospel
to himself. Every youth was, on entering, to be
put upon his honor, and honor was to be the
only guide. The "one-man 1 lower” was neces
sarily excluded from this academy-republic, and
it had no president. Whether, however, from the
want of a sufficient “progress,” or from what
other unexplored cause, the plan did not suc
ceed. Probably it was from the remains among
boys of some of the same human imperfections
which, lingering among the men, defeated the
gun-boat system, and even foiled the embargo,
in a word, the voluntary plan of government
was tried; produced nothing hilt disorder, and
was abandoned for something like the old meth
ods. But extreme liberty has, among other in-
conveniencies, this—that to retrieve men bac c
from it into order, its habit, love, instinct, is ex
tremely difficult. It is (thought the quotation
be no little battered) the fncilis denrensits
Arerni-^very easy to go down, but exceedingly
slow and toilsome to mount.
The WsiNhbiiriiN.
Israel I). Washburn, who died recently at
Philadelphia, is one of four brothers, born at
Livermore, Androscoggin Co., Me., who took to
politics as naturally as a duckling does to the
water. Three of them were members of the
House of Representatives in the Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Congresses, and their younger
brother now represents the Minnenppolis dis
trict of Minnesota. EUhu B. Washburne repre
sented the Galena district of Illinois in the
Thirty-third to the Thirty-ninth Congresses, in
clusive. and he was then Minister to France—he
stiells his name with a final e. Israel (just de-
Webster blandly inquired where it should be
carried, and was told: "In the baggage wagon,
sir, twenty miles in the rear of the command.”
Every oiie at Washington felt sad when it was
announced that Col. Webster bad received a
mortal wound at the second battle of Bull Run,
the guns of which were distinctly heard at the
metropolis where he had passed so many con
vivial hours, and in the defence of the Union
which his illustrious father had upheld.
One off Mr. Webster’s sons died during the
Mexican War, while serving as Major of the
First Massachusetts Volunteers, and Fletcher
as Colonel of the Twelfth Massachusetts Volun
teers. was one of those w ho died that the Re
public might live. If common report be true,
now different was the lot of the two sons of an
other eminent Massachusetts statesman. AVhen
the draft commenced, it was carefully announced
in the Boston morning papers that the Hon. Mr.
would, at noon on that day, take his two
sons to the office of the provost maVshall to
swell the Union ranks. Of course the office was
crowded, and precisely at high twelve the dis
tinguished gentleman entered, flanked by an
able-bodied son on either hand. Stopping at the
middle of the room, the statesman struck an at
titude, cleared his throat, and exclaimed. “Mr.
Provost Marshal.” "Mr. ,” was the re
sponse.
“Mr. Provost Marshal,” continued the states
man, "the country is in danger and needs the
support of her sons. 1 have come here, sir, with
my boys, to add to the number of those who are
to march beneath the flag and keep step to the I
music of the Union." Here the old gentleman
drew a ponderous wallet, took out two slips of
paper, and proceeded: "Colored substitutes are
to be procured, 1 am informed, at §400 each, and
here, sir, are two checks on the Merchants’ I
Bank, each for §400. Take them. Obtain col
ored substitutes with the proceeds, and send
those substitutes to the front to die in the de
fense of the Union. • IPtlcret. drroruni e.tt pro
patria morl' Mr. Commissioner. 1 have the
honor to wish you good ning.” And 1 lie
great mail, smiling lienignantly, left the office,
while the reporters of the evening papers hast
ened to get accounts of this patriotic act in the
two o'clock editions of their respective papers.
Duel Itelneen Jones :m<l JoIiiinoii.
A fatal duel was fought at Bladenburg on 1 ho
first of February. 1S4U. between Mr. Jones and
l)r. Johnson, two North C'arolineans. who had
left their homes and come to Washington to
settle an affair of honor. The difficulty arose
from two notes, affectionately worded, addressed
by Johnson to the w ife of Jones, and which, like
a prudent woman, site promptly placed in the
bands of her husband. Of the first, im notice
was taken by Mr. Jones, but on a repetition of
the offense Johnson was informed by Jones that
lie must either fight him or he would shoot him.
Hence the visit to Bladenburg. They fought at
ten paces, being placed back to back, at that
distance, wheeling and firing, as is the custom
in duels. At the words, “Are you ready,” and
before the words “Fire—one, two, three—halt.”
Mr. Jones partly wheeled,, but on being re
minded by his second that lie was wheeling too
soon, resumed his former position, and immedi
ately wheeled again, having barely time to fire
before the word "halt.” Mr. Johnson received
the ball of his adversary in the side of the head,
just above the ear, and died almost immediately.
It was supposed, at first, that Mr. Johnson hud
not fired at all; but on examining his pistol it
was found to have been discharged. He stated
to his second, just before the parties fired, that
the lady was entirely innocent.
Poulmaster (JciM-rHl lietanlli il.
Postmaster-General Wickliffe was assaulted
in August, 1843, while coming up Chesapeake
Bay from Fortress Monroe to Baltimore, by J.
McLean Gardner, a young man who resided in
Georgetown. Becoming deranged, he conceived
the idea that Gov. Wickliffe and some of the
other passengers wished to throw him over-
Im,ard. and he stabbed him twice with a pen
knife. Gardner was taken into custody, and, on
his arrival at Baltimore, was examined and
committed to the State Lunatic Asylum.
Advance} single coix fl
NO. 478
College Students Selling Books in Vacation.
The interesting question whether Prince Bis
marck drinks more beer than wine has been set
tled by two Prussians residing in Warsaw, who
staked 100 roubles each, and, in order to settle
their difference addressed the Iron Chancellor
on the subject. They received the following re
ply from the Prince's secretary: “His Highness
1 directs me to inform you that you are both in the
right, inasmuch as he is equally fond of good
wine and good beer, and with the exception of
sick days, partakes of the one as well as the
other.”
John Hill, of New Brunswick, N. J., has de-
...» a oua.e, .s.ae. — tenninedIto pay i>n some of the.debts left by his
ceased) represented the Bangor district of ( brother, paries H. HilL the late c.ishier of the
Maine in the Thirty-second to the Thirty-fifth ' Nationsd Bank. He lias sold his horses and car-
Cougresses inclusive, and was subsequently gov- l riages, dismissed many of his servants, and is
ernor of Maine, and then collector of Portland. | economizing in eve^ way to enable him to re-
Cadwalladei C. represented the La Crosse dis- i pair the breach of trust that fell so
trictof Wisconsin in the Thirty-fourth t» the the poor creditors of his brother. It is stated
Thirty-sixth Congresses, inclusive, after which that one of his daughters will teach music so as
he served in the army, and then was in the to assist her father.
DAVIS,TOOMBS AND HUNTER
Political Reminiscences Which Seem
Designed to Have No Moral
St. Louis Republican.
In the year I860 Jefferson Davis, of Mississip
pi ; Robert Toombs, of Georgia, and R. M. T.
Hunter, of Virginia, were members oft he Uni
ted States Senate, and not only its three influen
tial members, but eminent Southern leaders.
Each represented a State which claimed and ex
ercised a weighty influence in tile national coun
cil, and as they belonged to the then dominant
party and were champions of the theory that
rested on slavery they possessed an authority
which in the present changed condition of tilings,
it is difficult to comprehend. The political sky
wore a troubled look in tile spring of 1860. The
John Brown raid at Harper's ferry had recently
taken place, showing what daring.iml des| elate
measures abolitionism was capable of; Kansas,
after a fierce struggle, had been lost to the
South, tlie growing Republican party was pre
paring for the Chicago Convention that nomina
ted Abraham Lincoln; there were grave divis
ions in the Democratic party that had ruled Hie
country for nearly fifty years, and to complicate
tilings still more, there was a strong native
American element in the Southern States which
refused to ally itself with the Southern Democ
racy ill defense of the extreme position which
the latter claimed was necessary fur the niain-
tainance of Southern institutions and interests.
Congress was still in session.and it was observed
that Davis, Toombs and Hunter were frequent
ly sitting together in the Senate, as if in consul
tation. These consultations usually took place
at tlie desk of the Senator from Mississippi, and
the fact was remarked then, ;is proof of the
clearer perspicacity, stronger will and superior
ability of the man who was destined afterward to
become chief of tlie then only dreamed of South
ern Confederacy. These three men are still liv
ing. It is strange that it should be so. but
there are many strange tilings connected with
tlie tremendous drama 111 which they played so
conspicuous a part. Their expeiimeutalconfed
eracy was born, lived and perished so long ago
that the American youth of to-day know nothing
of it except what they read in books. The South
has passed through the bloodshed agony of a
conflict which left the flower of its population
beneath the sod and scarred its mountains, val
leys and forests with the tracks of plowing mis
siles. Abolitionism had its way, slavery was
overthrown, and ruin ran riot over the Southern
land till there was little left to destroy. Yet
the three Senators of 1860 from Mississippi,
Georgia and Virginia have survived all tlie
havoc and are still above tlie turf beneath
which all their prominent contemporaries lie
buried. Their old abolition enemies are gone.
Garrison, Seward, Greeley, Chase, Giddm-s,
passed away long ago. Even Wendell Phillips
is dead. Lincoln, tlie first Republican Presi
dent, has been in his bloody tomb these nine
teen years. Tlie great Douglass sleeps in Illi
nois soil, and trees twenty-two years old grow
over his grave. His presidential competitors in
the memorable campaign of 1860— Breckenridge
and John Bell—are asleep, too, each in the soil
of his native State. All the members of the
first Republican Cabinet are gone blit one—
Simon Cameron—and Simon Cameron was a
comparatively obscure man in the spring of
I860.
The Mississipi Senator of 1860 is now 76 years
old; the Georgia Senator is 74; tlie Virginia Sen
ator is 75. They are not very old men, yet there
are not three oilier living men in tlie world who
were actors in a great historical drama who
have served as pallbearers to such a procession
of eminent fellow-players.
The Nile Expedition.
London, Nov. 13.—In the House of Commons
this morning the bill appropriating 9500,000 for
the expenses of the Nile expedition was passed
by a vote of 73 yeas to 17 nays.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Hartford plumbers have many calls every
day to houses where the water pipes are clogged
by eels.
Prayer hooks made with a little boquet holder
on tlie outside are to be extensively used this
winter.
A bank position in Paris which paid a salary
of §223 a year was recently applied for by 6.000
persons.
Ten millions of hares and rabbits are killed
every year in Great Britain. Their value is put
at §1,000,000.
Tlie Bennett-Mackey cable is carried across
tlie big Brooklyn bridge on hooks at an annual
rental of §250.
Pugilism is a profitable business. The net re
ceipts of the Sullivau-Lufliii slugging match in
New York were §5,320.
The cholera has cost a loss in the Italian rev
enues of §8,000.000, and m tlie Spanish revenues
of §4,625,000. It is an expensive visitation.
It used to be said that all good Americans go
to Paris x. lien they die. Now all good Americans
who do not want to die ought to keep away from
Paris.
Tlie number of patents for velocipedes of all
soi ls, including saddles, is about :«mi. Of these,
tricycles constitute the great majority, or nearly
two-thirds ol the whole.
Socialism is gaining strength in Germany.
Bismarck and the Kaiser are building up a beau
tiful future for the Crown Prince.
The weather prophet DeVoe claims that we
shall have a mild winter. We shall wait to see
if Wiggins indorses this sentiment.
Passengers on the Red Sea steamers to India
were exposed last summer to a maximum heat
of 105 degrees. Tlie winter temperature on these
steamers is never below 80 degrees.
It is said that by means of an ingenious sys
tem of township entries tlie Mormons are fraud
ulently acquiring much fertile land in Idaho
which should remain open to settlement.
Cincinnati is soon to have a crematory built
in tlie neighborhood of tlie city. Tlie capital
stock, §25,000, has been raised, and the pro
ject is in tlie hands of responsible and energetic
men.
Ice lias increased more than 100 per cent, in
"■ thou-
alone i
since tlie beginning of the year, and tlie project
of artificial! manufacture is receiving close at
tention.
Pittsburg pawnbrokers report: “Never before
in tlie history of our business have we had such
a rush for loans. One man out of every three
that comes in tlie store wants to exchange some
article of value for a few dollars to help Lint out
of trouble.”
The wire fence is slowly disappearing in Wy
oming and it is thought that cattle dealers will
soon do away witli it altogether. For some time
it has been quite generally known among cattle
men that many of tlie larger owners of live stock
and inclosed ranges have decided that an open
range was preferable, all tilings considered, to
an inclosed pasture.
A Good Suggestion About Kissing.
It is said that some ladies are beginliing to
coiiiplniu of tlie kissing nuisance as now prac
ticed hetweeu members of their sex. It is de
clared that the practice of one woman saluting
another witli akiss whenever she meets her al
ter an absence is becoming too common, and
that the oscillatory welcome should he limited
to ladies who are very dear friends—and to gen
tlemen, when properly authorized. Many ladies
who do not like to seem rude are compelled to
kiss other ladies of their acquaintance when
they meet them because it seems to he expec
ted, and to refuse to return the salutation would
he embarassing.
price in Germany in recent years. Fifty thou
sand tons have been imported into Stettin
AN INTERVIEW WITH BECK.
The Wife Murderer, and the Slayer of
Miss Addie Bailey.
(Milton. Ga.. Democrat.)
On last Tuesday being at Gainesville, we ob
tained leave of Sheriff Gaines and visited the
cell of Eugene W. Beck, the murderer, of Clay
ton.
We found him in good health. He expressed
himself pleased at our coming to see hint, and
asked after the people of this county. It will he
remembered that lie was a citizen of this coun
ty until one year ago. He asked what the peo
ple thought of his ease and conduct. We told
him that they were surprised, grieved and out
raged in tHeir feelings, and asked him to give
us an account of the terrible tragedy. He gave
us substantially the following statement:
-I am here in jail without sympathy, and have
committed the worst eri ne ever committed in
Georgia. 1 have killed my best friend—my
wife—and an inoffensive good girl who had nev
er done, me any injury, and l ought to and will
sutler death for it."
We asked him if lie remembered tlie killing,
and if lie had contemplated it. He said:
"I never liad contemplated killing them or
even harming a hair of their heads, and if I had
ten thousand' worlds I would give them all to re
store them to lite. I have a vague recollection
that is like a horrible dream of shooting at some
thing, but did not then think it was human be
ings that t was killing. It was two days after tlie
deed before 1 could fully realize the enormity of
its character. I liad delirium tremens. I had
been drinking hard for four wee s. hut had
stopped that morning, and in consequence took
tremens. There was no cause for my act.”
We asked him what his future hope was. He
said:
“I have no hopes save in the mercy of God. I
am praying to Him every hour, and I want all
the good people of Milton county to pray for me.
I shall not trouble the ecurts to try me. I shall
tell them, as I have told you, that 1 am guilty
and deserve death. I would not live if I could.
"Tell the young men that read- your paper,
that I requested you to say that I am here In
jail for the most horrible murder ever commit
ted, and that there was no cause for it but whis
ky. and for them to let. it alone before it ruins
them as it has me.” He said that lie was afraid
that Dr. Baily and his wife could not survive
the shock, blit that lie was praying lor them.
We left him, believing that we had seen the most
wretched man living.
Marriage of a President’s Daughter.
Richmond, Va., Nov. 12.—Miss Pearl Tyler,
daughter of the late ex-Presldent Tyler, was
married at 5 o’clock this afternoon to Hon. Wil
liam Munford Ellis, member of tlie house of
delegates from Montgomery county. The cere
mony took place in St. Peters’ cathedral, Right
Rev. John J. Keane officiating. A large number
of friends were present. Tlie couple nave gone
nortli on tlieir wedding tour.
Madame Patti Divorced.
Paris. Nov. 13.—Tlie Tribunal has proclaimed
tlie absolute dissolution of tlie marriage of Ma
dame Patti to tlie Marquis Caux.
Paris, Nov. 13—Tlie Tribunal lias condemn
ed Mine. Patti to pay tlie costs of tlie recent di
vorce suit. It is not considered probable that
site will appear in Paris this winter.
A Woman of Seventy Elopes.
New York. November 17.—Tlie residents of
Faruiingdale. Long Island, are excited to-day
over tlie alleged elopement of Mrs. Elizabeth
Baviis, aged 70, with John Barnum, a good-
looking young peddler, witli whose appearance
she had been smitten.
PERSONAL MENTION.
What the People Are Coing and
Saying.
Miss Marion Langdon, tlie great beauty, will
be one of Miss Carrie Astor s six bridesmaids.
One of tlie favorite amusements of Dorn Pedro,
of Brazil, is to quietly poke about in machine
shops.
It was discovered after his death that Signor
Brignoli liad barely enough money (o buy tho
necessities of tlie sica room.
The last surviving son of Meliemet Ali, of
Egypt, is Prince Halim, and the Egyptians are
willing to hail Dim as tlie coming Khedive.
Queen Victoria has had the sacred flag blessed
by (lie Mali.ii and presented to her, relegated to
badly tlC ’ bccause 11 is so dirty and smells so
Gen. Fremont administered an oath to his
ni«*n, when famine stricken on the great Aineri-
tvihs/n^ tHmi to commit caimf-
Mrs. Hendricks called on Mrs. Logan at In-
(lianapolis a tew days ago. it was Hie first time
that the wives of the A ice Presidential candi
dates liad ever met.
It is rumored that Belva Lockwood, twenty-
"M 8 *™ ;, lr 0 ' Hife’lit, 1 in front ol
the White House and swore that one day she
would he President.
Miss Emma Larson and her young sister, who
rode on horseback from their home in Wiscon
sin to San hranciseo, made the journey in safetv
without being once molested.
Ellen Terey tells a Boston marine that she a
thousand times prefers Japanese oddities, fans,
( nina, art objects and bric-a-brac generally to
all the diamonds and jewelry in creation.
ThePolitische Correspon<lrnz says that Mr.
\ym. w Astor, American minister at Koine, re-
signed liis position as soon as he received the
news of the election of Grover Cleveland.
Queen Victoria is now enjoying better health
titan foi some years. She sets more people
pays more visits and transact:; more business
Ilian she has been ah - ....-y,.months.
Mr. P.'jiir,; . •
Squar'y,"
finish . of ■*" cro-.it cby need r.
winter. v -mC U^nona «■■■ , -. intc’“ -.tv
United states Senator McPherson, of New
Jersey, lias just completed a magnificent resi
dence oil Vermont avenue, in Washington,
winch cost §78,000. He will occupy it tlie coming
winter.
The wife of the late Wilbur F. Storey, of the
Chicago 7 imes, would not let his relatives see
him before his death, and they were obliged to
appear before tlie court and ask for ail iniunc-
tion against tier.
Mrs. Hoyt, Governor Cleveland's sister, will
probably live with Dim at the White House. She
is spoken of as a lady of excellent qualities,
quiet in manner and plain in dress, and a regu
lar attendant at the Presbyterian church.
In one of the fashionable residences of Wash
ington there is a beautiful pencil sketcli of a
sleeping baby, taken from life, by Miss Gabrielis
Greeley, the youngest daughter of Horace Gree
ley. Miss Greely lias decided artistic talent.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, who is at present
traveling in England, has paid a visit to the Em
press Eugenie at Farnborougli. On this occa
sion the Prince presented to the Empress the
first copy of the new work which he is about to
publish.
It is announced that Mrs. Hulskamp, formerlv
Miss Morisiui, of New York, who eloped with a
coachman, lias signed a contract to appear in
concert, under the management of Mr. Amburg.
Her husband will act as ticket agent or adverti
sing agent.
President Arthur will probably remain at the
Soldiers’ Home until near Christinas time. He
is having a good deal of work done to the cliain-
i hers of the White House, and intends to com
plete the renovation of tlie interior before the
end of his term.
Mr. McCullough, the broken-down tragedian,
arrived at St. Louis last evening, and seemed
surprised when told that his company had been
disbanded. He will he taken care of hv friends,
hut talks of getting a troupe together'to open
next Monday tiiglit at Pittsburgh.
The President attended tlie opening of the
new opera House in Washington last evening
with MissTillie Frelinglniysen, iter sister. Mrs.
John Davis, and the latter’s husband. This has
set the gossips again to speculating whether
Miss Tillie is really to marry tlie President.
Thomas Carlyle once characterized a portrait
of himself as "the most insufferable picture that
Das yet been made of me. a delirious-looking
mountebank full of violence, awkwardness,
atrocity and stupidity, without recognizable
likeness to anything 1 have ever known in any
feature of me.”
M. Renan has a little trait that is provoking to
some of his acquaintances. When the great man
is called into argument be always begins by ad
mitting that Dis adversary is right. "Vous'avez
parfaitement raison.” lie says; "Cependant—'”
and then lie proceeds to demolish all the theo
ries of Dis contestant.
The memory of Guiteau lias been revived by
tlie marriage of Scoville, Dis brother-in-law, who
defended him in tlie memorable trial. Scoville
married Dis housekeeper, who has been in Dis
employment for the last two years. Scoville is
said to he making a good deal of noise as a Peo
ple's party politician.
Herr Makart’s memory will be kept green by
tlie Viennes. A street in the capital is to be
given tlie painter’s name, a Makart monument,
raised by small popular contributions, is being
planned, and a Makart exhibition is already
spoken of, containing every one of the artist’s
works which can possibly he obtained.
Tlie proverbial luck of tenors has just been
emphasized by the following curious incident:
Tlie German tenor Goetz has just refused a sal-
anr of 20.0'H) florins (with two months' vacation)
offered by tlie Imperial Opera. His refusal was
based on tlie ground that a millionaire in Co
logne had promised to make him his sole lieir if
lie would continue to sing in that city during
tlie millionaire’s lifetime.
Fanny Elssler is dead. She soon followed her
professional rival. Taglioni, and Chevalier Wl-
koff. tlie man to whom she owed so much of her
American success. To this generation Fanny
Elssler is hut a name, and it maybe questioned
if in our age she would have triumphed as she
did. Though she wore her skirts shorter than
Tagliona and was of bolder, dashing movement
it is not likely she possessed the abandon of the
modern ballereina.
Mrs. Virginia L. Farragut. who died in New
York oil Friday, was the widow of Admiral Far
ragut. Mrs. Farragut. the second wife of the
Admiral, was bom at Norfolk in 1813, being the
daughter of William Loyal, and site was married
to the distinguished naval officer on the day
after tlie Christinas of 1843. During the war she
lived at Hastings on the Hudson, and since the
death of the Admiral [ ler home lias been in the
house presented to him In New York (flty.
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