Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-22
PERSONALS.

Mr. Moody, the evangelist, never rides
in the street cars on Sunday.
Donald G. Mitchell eek Marvel'1 who
has been IN the poor house, is now recov-
ering rapidly.
Robert Burdette, the funny writer of the
Burlington (Ia) HGsekeye, has been forced
by i'll health to give up leeturing.
! Mr.. Clarke, the architect of the Capitol
at Washington, is already besleged by ar
lists who desire to finish BrumidPs work
in the rotunda.
| Mr.. Joseph, prominent dry goods mer-
chant of Columbus, Ga, and his WIFE, have
adopted and will bring up the youngest of
| the Hood family.
! Amelia Boomer, the inventor of the
| Bloomer costume, is the wife of d. c..
| Bloomer, ex-Shte Senator of Iowa and
ex-Mayor of Council Bluffs, in which city
they live.
! Senator Edmunds is ffty-one years old,
and from the fees of MS law Office he has
saved $500, 600 or $500, 000 He reads a
great many books, aud he has large art
collection.
It iz said thal :. Parnell the Irish
/ agitator, has bl living at West
Point, Ca, who is a famous fruit-crower.
and owns an orchard containing sc, GOO
peach trees.
1t is reported that the notorious foreer,
Spence Petite, now in the Massachusetts,
State Prison, is in the hospital, i'll from
softening of the brain, from which there iE
no hope of his recovery.
The first trawl fisherman of this country
is said TO be Coleman Manning Of Rock
port, Me-, who began fishing with trawl
about the year 1852 His trawl has been
presented to the United States National
Museum.
| The appraisers of the estate of the lat,
Walter Hastings, who bequeathed 4 largs
sum to Harvard College, estimate the
property at $685. 425 H. The real estate
is valued at S65, 0S2 7A, and the personal
estate at s567, 343.
DR.. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, received
recently gold medal from the Imperial
Academy of Sciences in Vienna for the dis
covery of comet in 1878. Another medal
will be sent him for comet which he
found last summer.
A subscription has been passed around
In Rockland, Conn, the home of the Rev.
II. Ii. Hayden, to raise money to buy
watch for Hotchkiss, the obstinate Juror
who prevented Hayden's acquittal. Six
persons have thus far given fIty.fve dol
lars. The New Haven Register denies the
report that Hayden is to be rearrested and
| tried again.
| Mrs. W. W. Astor wore diamonds at Z
dinner at the White House recently
night, and afterward at the Mexican Min
ister's reception, which were worth nearly
or quite one million of dollars. A Wash
| ington dispatch says: "She was attended
by two detectives, dressed as gentlemen,
and policeman is on guard before the
door of her room, at Wormley's, day and
night"
Governor Andrews, of Connecticut, is q
thoroughly domesticated man. One of the
reasons given for his not attending a
dinner at Boston recen9ly in honor
of Governor Davis, Of Maine, was
that he could not reach his home again be-
fore Sunday. However urgent his official
or business duties during the week, he
| makes it point to pass Sunday at home
with his family, having missed doing so
but once since he was married.
Before his death Signoa Brumidi made
! request that Signor Castagini. Roman
artist, be deputed to finish the work on
the rotunda of the Capitol He had pre-
pared cartoons of what he proposed to ex-
| ecute, and also instructed Signor Castaeini
concerning the work. John La Fargo, who
finished Trinity Church in Bos6on, is also
mentioned as the artists successor, but it
is doubtful if he would accept the
mechanical task Of executing another
artist designs.