Daily globe., 1879-07-26
GLORELETs.

Weston, the pedestrian, is lectu1ing on tenn
perance.
Attorney General Devens has gone to his
Massachusetts home.
Gen. Fitzpatrick is an officer of polo club
recently formed at Deckertown, NJ.
Secretary Sherman called on Ida Lewis few
days ago at the Lime Rock lighthouse.
Victor Hugo made his first ascent in cap :
tive balloon on the 5th Of July in Paris.
A stock company will soon be formed in
Iowa City to build water works on the Holly
system.
DR.. Cumming, who has just been compelled
to give up all mental work, and is very poor, is
70 years old.
J. Milton Turner. who was once minister to
Liberia, is delivering lectures on that country
in Missouri.
Sparta, Ga, has an organization wsich pa
rades the streets at night. It is called the
''Fantastics.''
n. Vieuxtemps is in failing health, and ha
consequently resigned his professorship in the
Berlin conservatory of music.
The Rev. DR.. Buddington is in Boston, seek
cure for the malignant cancer which has defied
the efforts of the Brooklyn physicians.
The delivery clerk in the Des Moines postof
nee being negro, the Boston Commercial Buz-
tetan thinks he must be black mailer.
The Hon. Alexander q. Stevens is to deliver
the address before the alumni at the COM
mencemeEt of the University of Georgia.
a. d. Smith, prominent business man of
sagville, L. l., was bitten week ago by a mad
dog. and died on Sunday in terrible agony.
Mrs. Boucicault, affectionately remembered
as Agnes Robertson, is Al years old, though in
looks much Of spring fingers round her sum
mer,
Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle, has
left San Francisco and writes to friend in
Pittsburgh that he will be in that city in Au-
gust.
well dressed young man, believed to be a
German, threw himself recently from the Arc
pieces.
Mr.. John B. Coughs friends are arrang nging
for a testimonial t., him in the suitable form
of coffee palace erected at his birthplace,
Songdae.
Des Moines Register: Saturday night the
anxious mothers of the land may be found
looking over the wardrobe to find whose socks
is gored.
Miss Florence Copleston, pianist, the daugh-
ter OF well-known New York journalist, has
recently made her debut in Leipslc with most
fattering success
The Austrian Archduchess Mary is going to
stay at Blarritz with her mother, and her
prospective husband. the king of Spain.
will visit them there.
General Joe johnson is five feet ten inches
high. He is slim, with big round head
short broad nose, thick lip, a broad fore
head, deep gray eyes. and calm, modest man
ner.
The archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop
of London have recommended to their clergy
to use the prayer for fair weather. in their
churches. 1t has lately been very rainy in Eng
land.
Mr.. Hayes has accepted the invitation of
Rev. DR.. Stokes, president of the Ocean Grove
Camp meeting association, to be present at the
tenth anniversary of their first religious service
on July 80.
Miss Minnie Cummings, the recent manager
of the Madison Square Theatre, is at the head
Of movement to establish series of excur-
sions from New York to Long Branch, for poor
women and children.
N. Hippolyte Ferry, cousin to NJ Jules Fer
ry, has just become Carthusian, at the age of
seventy-three, after a vain attempt to change
his name, in older to disclaim connection with
his anti-Cathoic relative.
M. Perivier, long the associate and row one
of the successors of NJ. de Vlllemessant in the
the management of Figaro. the most success.
full of French journals is making a short va
cation tour in this country.
B. F. Wolcott and wife, of Claremont. N. a..
celebrated their golden wedding last week. In
their family not single death has occurred in
three generations, and every member was pres
ent at the joyful anniversary.
A careful observer says that the most pleas
ing thing in Mile Bernhardt's condrct at she
recent fete in London was ''h r gracious de-
meanor to the girls prettier than herself who
presented themselves at her stall.'
Sir William Armstrong d Co., Elspick. New
castle-on-Tyne, has, it is stated, handed over
their heaviest breech-loading guns, mannfac-
tured expressly for the defeuse of Canada
Thomas Moran, the distinguished artist,
whose family spending the summer in
Easton, has Just left them for San Francisco
whence he will plunge some hundreds of miles
northward into Idaho, to make study of new
scenery.
Washington's body servants are not all dead
yet Mrs. Case, an old Creole, Who was u
years old when the IF. of his c. died. has
turned up. She claims to have had her ears
boxed by him for putting too much powder
on his hair.
Mrs. Partington" (Mr. shillaber) has lust
attained to IS years. He ia not streng in
health. still suffering much from gout. He
lives quietly IN Chelsea, near Boston, and is
sometimes for months not able to cross the
ferry to that city.
An interesting reunion was that Of five
sisters at Stratham, N. H., few days ago.
whose ages ranged from Sc to ". aearegating
39l years. They are all in good health and
promise to furnish some centenarians from
among their number.
The Indianapolis Journal reports that Gen.
Ben. Harrison has not yet dicided whether to
accept his appointment on the Mississippi
commission. He will go East in ten days or
SO and will call on the President before his
return home, and then decioe what course to
take.
Coaching is beginning to take place among
the amusements of French high life Count
d'Osmond recently left Nice in drag drawn bv
four Hungarian horses; arriving in Paris twen-
ty-three days after starting. His stoppages at
Toulon, Marseilles, Lyons and Bourges occn-
pied week.