The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-04-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Bob TooMBs will deliver the address at
the Texas State Fair.
SENATOR ZACH CHANDLER frequently
visits at the White House.
PRINCE BISMARCK received countless
congratulations on his birthday.
JOHN G. WHITTIER is in failing health.
and unable to do any literary work.
SENATOR MAxEY, of Texas, is 5 feet 2
inches in height and weighs 1853 pounds.
The health of Aleck Stephens is bet
ter than it has been in long time be-
fore.
SENATOR HARDWOOD, of Iowa, is feet
2 inches in height and weighs 191
pounds.
SENATOR LAMAR, of Mississippi, is 5
feet II inches in height and weighs 1873
pounds.
EX-SENATOR MATTHEWS, of Ohio, is 5
feet IL inches in height and weighs ITO
pounds.
EX-SENATOR Nc REERY, of Kentucky,
is feet q inches in height and weighs
1876 pounds.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, is
5 feet IL inches in height and weighs
205 pounds. e
SENATOR MCMILLAN, of Minnesota, is
S feet 81 inches in height and weighs
154 pounds.
DIR. CORNELIUS LOGAN, just appointed
Minister to Central America, is brother
of Olive Logan.
AT conference of New York Demo
Gratis it was decided to nominate Horatio
Seymour for Governor.
IT is said that when Aleck Stephens
wishes crow-bar to pry up anything
he calls for knitting-needle.
KING CETYwAYo has 1000 wives.
He had mora, but several of them asked
for spring bonnets the other day.
SoJoURNER TRUTH, the colored sibyl,
who is living in her own small domicile
in Battle Greek, Mich, is 1O4 years old.
SPEAKER RANDALL loves to make col
lections of coins,and has one containing
every gold coin ever made in the Amer
lean mint.
Mr.. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, United
States Minister to Spain, has obtained
leave of absence, and will visit his home
next summer.
GEN. JAMES Il. BLUNT, of the Union
army during the war, has become a help
less maniac, and is now an inmate of
the Government asylum at Washington.
QUEEN VICTORIA, it is said, has ex-
pressed a strong wish to see Canada, and
the Prince of Wales is encouraging her
to visit both that country and the United
States.
GEN. BEAUREGARD denies very en-
phatically that he ever paid or offered
George D. Prentice 100000, or any
other sum, to espouse the cause of Sc
cession.
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDRA
WITCH, of Russia, is four months old,
but he has household of fifteen per-
sons, and 1925 rubles are allowed for
his table.
GEN. GARFIELD is not Methodist,
as has been reported. He was never
ordained as clergyman, but was lay
preacher in the Disciples (Campbellite)
Church.
NINE. BoNAPARTE was laid in her
grave as Patterson, and not as Bona
parte, the cofin-plate bearing this in
scription: elizabeth Patterson, born
Feb. 6, 1856. Died April 4, 1879, aged
81 years"
GEN. LESLIE COMBS, who is now
nearly century old, appeared at the
Lexington Ky.) Centennial the other
day, and tickled his audience amazingly
by declaiming that venerable piece of
poetry beginning:
You'd scarce expect one Of my age
To speak in public on the stage.
COLUMBUS UPsON, who will succeed
the late Congressman Schleicher from
Texas, was born in Onondaga, N. Y, in
1929, graduated from Williamson Col
lege, Boston, went to Texas in 1854 and
practiced law. He was in the Southern
army as aid-de-camp to Gen. Whiting,
and won laurals at Seven Pines, Gaines
Farm, and Malvern Hill. In 1868 he
took $20,000,000 in Confederate bonds
from Richmond to Texas, and shortly
afterward 100000 of bonds to Louisi-
ana.
FRANK @. BANGS, the tragedian, tells
the Philadelphia Press that Americas
great actors thirty years ago were
Hamblin, John r. Scott, Gus Adams,
and the elder Booth; that Edwin For
rest took entire possession of the tragic
stage little later, and held it until Ed
win Booth took it away from him; that
neither Edwin Booth nor Davenport
ever showed spark of genius, although
very artistic actors, while Edwin Adams
was child of genius;' that Barrett is
cold and conservative, and that McCul-
Tough may become Forests successor.
cause It's Sunday.
A lady was entertaining the Bishop of