Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-11-14
Personal.

John B. Cough is only sixty-two years
old.
Captain Eads. of jetty fame, is gone
to Europe.
The poems of Tom Moore are favor.
ties with Gen. B. F. Butler.
John B. Cough has sailed for the
United States. He has delivered 100
speeches while abroad.
Charlotte Cushman's grave at Mount
Auburn, near Boston, is marked SIM
ply with plain marble tablet.
Wales will be gray-haired man be.
fore he becomes King of England. He
is iron.gray now and rapidly whitening.
Henry Ward Beecher thinks there
will be little more trouble at the South
when the present generation has passed
away.
The reason the Pope chose to be
called Leo is said to have been that he
was elected to his present Office on st..
Leo's day.
William q. Vanderbilt controls 1926
miles of railway, and employs q, 706
men, who receive some 81 ,178, 600 sal
ary, each month.
The sixteen-year-old daughter OF
Stouewall Jackson is at school in
Baltimore. She is tall, with fair COM
plexion and large gray eyes.
The statue of General Thomas will
be unveiled at Washington, November
20, at the time of the meeting of the
Society Of the Army of the Cumber-
land.
"Old ST." of the Atlanta Constitution,
saved fat old lady from being run
over by railroad train at Chalons,
France, and he has just received $685.
600 from the grateful woman.
Who is that army officer who cow
hides his wife with relish and dis
patch" according to San Francisco
paper p Free Press. His name is
Thrasher. Richmond (vs.) Baton.
Mrs. A. 7. Stewart and Judge Hilton
occupied box in Niblo's Garden re.
Gently. This was the first appearance
of Mrs. Stewart in a place of amuse-
ment since the death of her husband.
Gov. Fenner, absenting himself from
church on fast-day, was told by DR..
Waylaud that he did not obey his own
proclamation. Eyes, I do" he re-
piled. ~ tell the people to meet at
their usual places Of worship. Mine is
at home"
Governor Croswell, of Michigan,
who is widower OF fifty -four, is about
to be married to Miss Lizzie Musgrove,
Of Charlotte, in that State. The young
lady is pretty, wealthy, and still in her
twenties she graduated at Olivet
College not long ago.
DR.. Sterling, of New York city, who
has been in the White Mountains, has Q
passion for climbing mountains. He
has o cane upon which is carved the
names of forty-seven mountains scat
tered over Asia, Africa, Europe and
America, which he has climbed. He
considers that the cane has cost him
more than $4,000.
The will of the late Queen Mother of
Spain, who died last year in France, has
been proved in London. By it she be-
queaths large sum of money for
masses-five thousand to be recited for
her soul, q similar number for the souls
OF her deceased husbands, one thousand
for the souls of her deceased children,
and five hundred for those of her de-
ceased grandchildren.
Miss Rye, noble English woman,
has just made her thirty second voyage
across the Atlantic with q cargo Of
wastrels," or street waifs-girls col.
lected from the highways of London.
These girls are taken to Canada and
placed in respectable families. and in
almost every instance have obtained
comfortable homes and led virtuous
lives. The work has been carried on
for about ten years.