The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-14
PERSONAL,

Prof. James Russell Lowell has just re
turned from Europe.
The son of Gen. Sherman enters Il e scien
ti6c school at Yale this year.
! Mr.. Samuel Hooper, of Boston, is added
| to the list of Congressman who decline re-
election.
| Sardou asks $1,000 down for the right to
reproduce his new play. "a Soldier of For
tune, :" in England or America.
General Sherman has rented pew in st.
Johns (Catholic) church, corner Sixteenth
and Chestnut streets, st. Louis.
| The Rev. DIR. Day, editor of the Morning
Star of Dover, N H., declines the call to the
Presidency Of the Hillsdsle Mich College.
The most frequently mentioned among
the aspirants for the Russian mission are
ex Senator Nye, of Nevada, and ex-senator
Cattell, of New Jersey.
Sir Peter Lely's painting of "La Belle
jennings the pure and beautiful maid of
honor at the court of Charles l., has fallen
by inheritance to Mrs. John Edmunds of
Corning, la.
The editors of the Advance, Chicago, are
going to the Rocky Mountains, accompanied
by Ex-Governor Bross, the Rev. Robert
Collyer, Prof. Nathan Shepard and other
prominent citizens.
Miss Sarah e. Raymond, for many years
a valued teacher in the city schools of Bloom
ington, ILL.,, has been promoted to the super
intendency of public schools of that city vice
S. III. Gaylord.
Archbishop Manning states that the order
excluding female voices from the choirs in
the archdiocese of Westminster, England.
has not been rescinded, as has been reported
but is still in full force and observance.
Miss Sallle A. Bowles, daughter of Samuel
Bowles, of the Springfield Republican. has
married Mr.. Thomas Hooker, of New Ha-
ven, and will soon sail for Europe on a pro-
tracted bridal tour of two or three years.
duration.
j. A. Macgahan, the correspo ndent of the
New York Herald at Khiva, has received
from the Russian government the cross of
the Russian military order of st. Stanislaus,
with the swords crossed and inscribed with
the words "FOr Bravery"
Mrs. Van Colt, the revivalist. was, at last
accounts, in San Francisco, soon to come
east. She says that in one year she has
spent 1.766 hours in religious meetings, trav-
eled 7,20S miles, written $50 letters conduct
ed 1913 prayer meetings, preached 339 times
and converted ,735 people.
The German journals inform us that Prof.
OrolsI, an eminent herman writer. Is
about to leave for America for the purpose
of making researches in the state archives
tor history of the American Constitution.
We are also informed that the professor will
be the guest of President Grant during. his
Washington Chronicle.
The poet Tennyson, who has been suffer
ing from severe rheumatic attack this sum-
mer, has just sent a cheering letter to Walt
Whitman-the first letter written by him
for several weeks, as his right arm was af-
fected. The laureate mentions in it the case
of friend of his Frustrated with cerebral
anemia, Wbitman's malady, but who recov-
cred at last and is now in sound health.
Mrs. Maria Jourdan Westmoreland IRE |
Gently delivered her lecture on " Kisses |
before large and distinguished audience in
Atlanta, Georgia. The lecture deliv-
,red in response to request signed by many
If the most prominent citizens of the place.
Mrs. Westmoreland will make, during the
eason, the tour of the principal summer
esoris, stopping at the White Sulphur
springs, Cape May, Long Branch, Newport
nd Saratoga.