Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-17
PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss Mary Anderson has pet COW at
Long Branch.
Miss Blanche Davenport is spending the
summer at Canton, Pa.
The late Earl of Kilmorey was the oldest
peer in the British realm.
Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania is fight.
ing rheumatism at Atlantic City.
Engineer Chiarini of the Italian expedi-
ton into Central Africa, is dead.
Louis Blanc is SO i'll that his physicians
60 not allow him to see anyone.
Mile, Marie Litta is spending the sum-
mer at her house in Bloomington, III.
Henry NJ. Stanley has been made Phi.
d. by the German Academy of Naturalists.
Francis Benhoch, the English littera-
teur, is visiting relatives at Bangor, Me.
James Stone is Louisville man 1903
years old, who says he has been married
eleven times.
The King of the Heilenes is to receive
ESQ, 900 in presents from the Greek resi-
dents in England.
give the prizes on the last day of the VIM
uitGuil ihcotltg.
The Greek Kings two Aids-de Camp
who accompany hIm are named Hadjipe-
tros and Colocotronis.
King George of Greece is determined to
see the end of the Wimbledon shooting be-
fore leaving England.
Count CALI. the Italian Consul at Phila-
delphia, and Countess Palione have arrived
at Newport for the season.
J. R. Walters, of the Richmond Whiq,
has been indicted for acting as second in
the recent Smith Elan duel.
General Garfield and General Hancock are
both invited to attend the New England
Fair in Worcester, Mass, in September.
"0uida," says ]. b. Lippincott, the
Philadelphia publisher, is neither young
nor beautiful, but brilliant and full OF
force.
Rufus Choates granddaughter, Miss
Nellie Pratt, is soon to be married to Chas.
A. Prince, son of Mayor Prince of Bos-
ton.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker has re-
ceiyed the prize for the best article on
Woman Suffrage" offered by the Win
sted Conn Herald.
Commander Cheyne, who proposes to
reach the North Pole by balloon, has
rival in an "Anglo- Canadian, who has in
vented balloon for the same purpose.
General Banks youngest daughter, Miss
Maud Banks, is going to study with NJ.
Delsarte in Paris, although it is not yet
fully determined that she will go on the
stage.
A. G. Porter, Republican nominee for
Governor of Indiana, saved enough as
ferryman on the Ohio river, before he was
10, to partly pay the cost of college
course.
Alexander McWhirter died in New
Haven recently. He was a graduate of
Yale, 1872, scholar, making a special
study of ethnology, and was well known
to Yale students for generation past.
Robert Browning says that he never
tried to puzzle people, and, ON the other
hand, he never pretended to offer such
literature as should be substitute for a
cigar or a game of dominoes to an idle
man.
Judge Hilton has bought so large tract
of land In the fashionable part of Long
Branch that it is thought he may intend
erecting number Of buildings on it. I'M
less he should repeat his Saratoga expert
ment.
Jules Ferry is the grandson of brother
of Charles Dominique Ferry, who was in
the College of Vesoul when the Society of
Jesus was suppressed by the Pope in 1868,
and who died by the guillotine at Lyons.
General Grant is attended on his west
ward trip by Mrs. Grant, Mrs Frederick
Grant, and his little grand daughter Julia,
besides a young japanese who became at
tached to him in Japan and has been with
him ever since
Edmonds, an American, who is Superior
of Abbey of the Premontres, near Avignon,
France, has run up the stars and stripes
and placed his Jesuit convent under the
guardianship Of the Americans until he can
remove to the Iberian Peninsula.
The late Dr. Kenealy left his letters and
autographs of eminen persons to the Brit
ish Musem, on condition that they shall
remain unopened for thirty years, in order
to avoid any inconvenience to the writers
from their communications being made
public during their lives.
John DAVIS, paralyzed inmate of the
county 1OOrDOuSe III milwaukee,, WIS,
owned five banks and was worth Sc, O00,-
600 before the war, founded the Pennsyl-
vania Savings Bank in Philadelphia, and
began his losses at the beginning of the
war with $1,000, 900 in coal mine in Eir-
ginir.
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, is in
Vienna, and is expected to become the
brother-in law. of Prince Milan, OF Servia.
The only son of Colonel Kessko. the Rus
sian nawab, having died last year from the
wounds he received in the Servian cam
paign, Princess Nathalie and her sister in
herited his millions, to which Fraulein Won
Kessko adds youth and beauty.
w. HI. English is a widower. He is pc
culiar in his home life, and is somewhst
austere in his social relations. He lives in
a plain but substantial house, where he is
to be found most of the time. 1t is said
that when President of the First National
Bank of Indianapolis, he had habit of
going to the bank at midnight, and de.
voting hours to his account books. He is
said to own two or three hundred houses
in Indianapolis, and is building an opera
house in that city, which his son win man.
age.
THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE
Prof. C. T. Patterson, United States
Coast Survey, has been explaining swhy