The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1879-04-18
NollOWAy'3 0luIWeuT,
PROMINENT rEOPLE.

EMrknoR WILLIAM Ii improving.
0kN. HANCOCK In the richest man In
the army.
uRx. NARv,ELp likes 10 compose and
rcad Latin poems.
Don TOXINS will deliver tho address a
the Texas State Fair.
SENATOR Zach CHANDLER frequently
visits at the White House.
PmxcE DisMARck received countless
congratulations on his birthday.
Jonx q. WHITTIER il In failing health,
and unable 70 do any literary work.
SENATOR MAxEy, of Texas, u B feet z
inches In height and weighs i68 pounds.
TmE health of Alcck Stephens In bct-
ter than II has bccn In long time be-.
fore.
SksAroR kiakwoop, of Iowa, IL q feet
, inches In height and weighs l0l
pounds.
SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi. Ii 8
feet II inches In height and weighs lea
pounds.
EX-SENATOR MATTHEWS, of Ohio, In d
feet Il inches In height and weighs 10
pounds.
EX-SENATOR McCnxEny, OF Kentucky,
IL Q feet ~ inches In height and weighs
lVi pounds.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, In
. feat Il inches In height and weighs
ZOO pounds.
SENATOR MCMILLAN. of Minnesota, II
o feet NJ inches In height and weighs
l54 pounds.
Da. CORNELIUS LOGAN. just appointed
Minister 10 Central America, il 4 brother
oi Olive Logan.
Ar conference II New York Demo.
Gratis II waS decided 10 onoininatc Horatio
seymour for Governor.
Ir In said that when Aleck stephens
wishes crow.bar 10 pry mp anything
he calls for knitting needle.
KiNa CErYwAyo has 1900 wives.
Hc llnd more, but several of them asked
for spring bonnets tho other day.
SAornxER TMurH, tho colorcd sibyl,
who il living in her own small domicilc
In battle Greek, Mich, IL lOi years old.
HrEAkER RANDALL loves " make col
lrciions III coins, ,anl hAs Quo containing
every gold coin ever made In the Amer
lean mint.
Mn. JAMES RUSSELL IowKLL, United
States Minister 10 spain, has obtained
leave oil absence, and will visit his homo
next summer.
NEx. JAMES u. DLuxr. of tho Union
army during the war, has become help.
less maniac, and II now m inmate 81
the Government asylum at Washington.
Quxxx VICTORIA, IL Ii said, has cx.
pressed strong wish 10 Ace Canada, and
tho Prince of Walcs II encouraging her
70 visit both that country and the United
States.
uEs. DxAuRE0ARn denies very en-.
phatically that he ever paid or offered
George u. Prentice t6O0, 900. or any
other sum, 10 cspouse tho cause Of No.
ccssion.
GRAND DrkE MicFAEL ALEXANDRA
wIreH, of Russia, il fonr months old,
but he haa household Of fitccn pcr-
sons, and lS.i25 rubles arc allowed Tor
his table.
dEN. dARviELp b not : Methodist,
- ha. been reported. Hc waa nevcr
ordained ~ clergyman. but was lay
preacher In the Disciples (Campbellite)
Church.
MIMI. DoxApAarx was Laid In her
GTavc - Patterson, and not ~ Bona.
parte, the collin-plats bearing this In
ncrjMjon: Elizabeth Patterson, born
Feb. q. 1855. Died April !, 1879, aged
~ y~Asu."
0Ex. LESLIE Coadns, who II nov
nearly century old. appeared at the
Lexington (Ky.) Centennial tho other
day, and ticklcd his audience amazingly
BY dcclaiming that venerable piece 81
poetry beginning:
You'd srsrcs eIprct onr of my -
10 speAh In public on ths stake.
CoLuMpus UPsoM. who viii succeed
Tho 1ate Congressman Schlciches from
Texas, was born In OnondAgA, n. l., In
1870. graduated from Williamson Col.
laGc, Boston, went u Texas u 1864 and
practiced law. Hc wAa In tho Southern
army ~ aid.dc.camp 10 Ncn. Whiting,
and won laurals % hcvcn Pines, Gaines
Farm, and Malvern Hin. In l8B3 he
took @3O. .OOO, 900 In Confederate bonds
from ltichmond 10 Texas. and shortly
allcrward e2.O0O, QUO of bonds % Louisa
ana.
FsAnx q. BANGS. the tsagedian. tella
tho Philadelphia Prsss that Americas
great actors thirty years sgo wcrc
Hamblin, John r. Scott, Gus Adams.
md the elder Booth; that Edwin For
rest took entire possession ol tho trseic
stage little later, and held II until Ed
win Booth took Il away from him; that
neither Edwin Booth nor Davenport
ever allowed spssk Of genius. although,
very artistic actors. while Edwin Alama
was -child of genins;" that Barrett Ii
cold and conservative. and that McCnl.
losamh 49, lsxxxsx.asna E1~nn~A1n nsan<>~~.ss.