Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-23
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Kit Carson S family are Sdlu 10 DC III
want.
Mrs. Secretary Sherman is at Neuf-
chatel, Switzerland.
Joaquin Miller is once more among
the Sierras.
General Caleb Cushing's library is to
be sold at auction.
The Countess of Dufferin still orders
her shoes from Ottawa.
Henry w. Longfellow is said to be an
inveterate theater-goer.
The Saturday RepisW calls Macaulay the
father of picturesque reporters.
Mary Anderson says she will be
twenty on the 2Sth of July.
General Sherman will not go with
Beechers regiment to Montreal on the
22d.
The Pope wants Cardinal Newman to
reside with him in the Vatican and be
his right-hand man.
1t is Mr.. Frank Blair to whom the
second daughter of Senator Bayard is
engaged TO be married
Prince Potocki, son of the Governor
of Galicia. wears three diamond buttons
which are together worth 100000.
William Lloyd Garrison lies crit
iCally i'll at the house of his son in-law,
Mr.. Willard, in New York city.
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt declares that
the present value Of the Vanderbilt
estate is considerably over SlOO,OOO,OOO.
Henry Ward Beecher, after his lee
ture in Memphis the other night, gave
a check for $3.50 as a donation to the
General Orphan Asylum OF that city.
The Spirit of the Times says that Miss
Fanny Davenport has accepted an en-
gagement for Observation-Disclosures the
merrie bells will ring about September
next.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the DECLARE
ton of Independence when he was only
% years old, but great has been his re-
ward. Jefferson avenus, in Detroit was
named after him.-Free Press.
Professor Lewis Swift, of Rochester,
is at last to have his observatory, sub
scriptions to the amount of $1,000 hav-
inc been secured, which warrant the
Professor in proceeding with the work,
Cardinal Newman takes the title OF
st. George from the Basilica of San GiOr-
sio, in Nelabro, near the BOrca della
Verita, the only church in Rome dedi-
Gated to the tut larry saint of England.
Little Big-Man." Sioux Chief, when
told the OF day that his.little daughter
had been burned TO death, attempted
TO kill himself. He subsequently learn
ed that his child's injuries were trltling.
Mrs. Julia Rosene, lately with the
Rice Evangeline Company, died sudden
ly in New York on Wednesday. 1t Is
charged that she did not die from natu
raj causes, and a coroner's jury is max
ing an investigation.
The Pope has dissolved the marriage
between the Prince of Monaco and his
wife, the daughter of the Duchess OF
Hamilton. The latter, it is said, is now
to bestow her hand upon Count Tassilo
Fcstcucs of Austria,
Sarah Bernhardt seems to be eager for
all sorts of FAM. To her renown as ac-
tress, painter, sculptor and Gronaut, she
now seeks to add that OF an art critic.
A review of the Salon of 1879 from her
pen is shortly to appear in Paris
journal.
Mile. Adelaide Montgoliier, 4 daugh
ter of the inventor of balloons, is still
alive at the age of 50 years. She is a
very wealthy woman. She has given to
the museum of the Aeronautical Acade-
my a copy of the large medal executed
by Houdon, and representing her father
and uncle, who was associated with him
i'm the invention of balloons.