The Indiana State sentinel., 1879-09-10
PERSONALITIES.

SENATOR BAYARD and his wife are staying at
Carlsbad Springs, In Germany.
SENATOR WILLIAMS, of Kentucky, with his
wife and daughter, Will soon leave for trip
through California.
THE parents of the late Bayard Taylor have
been on a visit to Burlington, N. ]. His father
is So years old, and his mother so years.
"WHATEvER e,se," says Professor Huxley,
"can be said about men of science, it can not
be said that they endeavor to conceal one an
others mistakes"
SOME gentlemen in Tarrytown, on the Hud-
son, have offered to give 81 900 for a monument
to Washington Irving, and also to give the
land ON which to erect 1t.
MIR. CHAREs FRANCIS ADAMS pays a tax this
year OF a, ,35l In Quincy, Mass, the largest in
dividual tax paid in the place. Senator It. r.
Hoar pays a tax of sssI in Worcester. Mass.
In q cornfield at Browns Cross Roads, q.
c., stands an old dilapidated building,
which used to be a Court House. In it Andrew
Jackson delivered the first speech of his life.
AMONG the ex.Confederate generals at the
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, are Generals
Gilmer, Porter Alexander, Dabney Maury,
Beverly Robertson, w. e. Wickham, Joseph
r. Anderson and Toombs.
MRS. HOOD, wife Of General ]. B. Hood, who
died at New Orleans, of yellow fever, on Sun
day, had given birth to twins three weeks
before, these being the fourth pair with which
she had presented her husband.
THE venerable Judge clifford, of the United
States Supreme Court, has been enjoying
trout. fishing in Maine. He was seen in a
brook there lately up TO his weist In the water,
and ere long came back with II fine fish.
Mr.. SAVAGE, an old man in the Hartford
Conn, County poor house, has a well authenti-
Gated claim for about 100000 of the French
spoiiation fund, and the money Is In the
United States treasury, but Congress refuses
to pay 1t out.
Miss M. q. CRANE, the rife-shooter of Sara
toga, has had a bracelet made Of dime and
half dime silver pices, which she has hit on
Edwin Booth, is a pupil OF Miss Crane, and
has become very skilful shooter.
Mr.. ALEX H. STEPHENS, having been asked
about his book, "The War Between the
states," replied: "I wrote IL with a view Of
having the facts as they were truthfully stated
and without say pecuniary view. have re
ceived, however, s35,0O0 as my royalty on the
sale, or rs cents a volume"
THE wife OF Rev. DIR. Maciay, of yokohama
| Japan, died In the Native church there on thu
! 2S.h OF July. She had presided at the orgar
| and sung the last hymn, "There is rest for thu
| weary" Then as she bowed her head In prayer
| she was seized with an apoplectic ut, and re
manned unconscious until the morning Of the
following day.
| AMONG the persons who "assisted'' at thu
funeral OF the late Louis Napoleon was Ger
tain General schramm, who served unde
Napoleon l., and was wounded at the battle o
Leipsic. The founder OF the Bonaparte family
saw the young officer, then lieutenant. weep
ing and apparently dying on the field. "Wh'
do you weeps" he as ed. because am goin
to die without bel captain" was the an
swer. Napoleon made him q captain at once
In order, says the chronicler, ITO soothe hi
last moments" The soothing turned out :
be wonderfully efficacious.
THE death of Captain ]. Grant Thompson
editor OF the Albany Law Journal, was YER
sudden. Upon his return to Saratoga fror
the Brighton excursion, while perspiring pre-
fusely he fell asleep In q chair exposed TO
! strong draft of wind. The following mornin
he complained Of sore throat, which resuiee
In diphtheria. He rapidly improved, nov
/ | ever, and ON Friday the attending physicia
ounced him out Of danger. Ata ocioo