The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-09-19
PERSONS AND THINGS.

The mombers Of the Narragansett Gun
club now shoot at glass balls instead Of pigeons.
Mr.. Spurgeon is said to have hobby for
collecting the autographs OF distinguished commen-
tatofs.
Ex-Representative Eugene Hale has com
pietsiS ttokeh down under his Iabors In the Maine
campaigne.
The British Parliament will be asked to
vote "a, 500 for new furniture for Mr Giads,one's
oifcial residence In London.
John A. Cuthbert, of Mobile, Ala, ia one
hundred and two yeats old, sti practices law, and is
the oldest living ox- member OF Congress.
Gen. N. l.. Jeffiies, formerly of this city,
sailed yesterday on the fir,annic for Furopo
II IN the Generals Intention To bo ab1cn. about two
months.
Mr.. Boyle O'Riclly, editor of the Boston
rnot, has purchascd HOUSE at Hull Mass, t,at was was
bI ma long ago M 1874. Tile house belonged To the
Hint cstate, and has history
TX. .d5verb6r ". II. Cooke returned to his
residence In GeutshtSwii dfi Friday last. The Gov
crnur has been quite III al Fire isfatd, N ", but for
Il O last few days has somewhat Improved
Mrs. Langtry has arrived Mt her hutive
home Jersey AMI IA 80 charmed to And herself tiictc
% that, according to to PANTY Fair, sho has written To
her friends In England that she never Intends to re-
turn TO London again.
Robert u. Culbrish, editor of the San
Francisco Il.ehfR Argus, was pun'mclcd on The
"
ing an article In Ills paper te'attc 20 the rupture OF
the alleged engagement between Miss Jessie Flood
and U. =. Grant, Jr.
The author of the " The First Violin -
h,s finished another novel, 'The Welinelds, ~ wbic,
lcy Holt Go. win publish at once In their Lesu,C
Iout Series by special arrangement. They win a'sc
publish 4" German lhoucht,'' from the ''scvc'
ycafs' wsr to poctlio's Dca,h,' by Karl lille
| brand.
Mrs. stephen, vie Of tho President of the
Rank of Montreal has received letter from Queer
Victoria, thanking her for tho care taken 81 fihc'
oil portrait Of her Majesty Prince Icopoi aud til,
Princess Louise were guests for days OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Stephen at their summer cottage
Mr.. Henry Labouchere, editor of the Lon.
dou Truth, IL said by Mr.. George Augustus sala Il
e scholar Of extensive and well digcstcd reading
years training. shtewd nnancier. n brilliant con
vetsat'onast, ready, ncls'rc public speaker, mar
| OF wit, 4 iran of sense, and man or business.
A Hungarian taiiltet, Michael Hichy, has
finished q curious picture fiio cantas Represents
| graveyard, where the dead are r'sffg trcn thc
tOn,hs and looking for each other. Tho lout Is SUP
posed to lie midnight. and tho moon shines brightly,
bringing tho figures into ghastly prominence. Son'
of the scenes depleted very touching. lIusbaiu
aud wives are reunited. and mothers fnd once mor'
their children. hut tho rccognitions are not Away
pleasant ail the wrath OF enemies who meet again v
| powerfully skcttlitd.
There is no truth, says fanhy fbir, in III,
report circulated to the abandonment Of tho bato
ness Burett Couttss marriage. The delay Is catsc,
by difficulties connected with the settlement whicl
cannot now bo signed until October. by then MIR
| Bartlett viii lc put into possession of fortune o
| some eight or ten thousand year. Tho amount tn,
Baroness viii loso II tho clause concerning the mar
ragc with an allen bc rough. into force IL not eight
| thousand, but about fifty thousand year.
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