The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-02-09
Northern States and Territories during 1880
and previous wears:
PERSONAL.

DAVID COppernetU
MK HAYES is going to dine with the Baltimore
Press Club on February u.
THE Pope's wedding gift to stephanie, Of Bel
GUM. is be&utiful table set with precious
stones
THE Springfield Republican says Jay Gould
paid Thomas \. Scott S271 600 for the New York
World
SENATOR ESoNUNDs is reported to have exercised
the care of a wise man in saving $4,000 from the
proceeds Of his law practice.
NJ. DoUrnLE, agent for a French line of steam
ers has been inspecting Virginia lands in the in
terest of proposed French immigration.
SENATOR BLAINE is mentioned as owning SEQ. 900
in bonds of the State of Maine-whch is perhaps
chiefly the business of the Senator himself.
The late J. c. Ramsey, the brother Of the Sec
rotary of War, who committed suicide last week.
has lefe $4,000 to Marian, daughter of the Sec
rotary.
Mr. PARSELL is pictuTesquely described by a
Nlennese correspondent as "a charming cavalier
with pale, finely cut lace fine brow. and
thoughtful but cheerful eyes"
A RECORD on a tombstone in a cemetery at
Portsmouth, n. H., reads: Here lie the re-
maiss of - -, kind father, an afIee-
tiOnate husband. a true Democrat"
MRS MCDONALD, the bride of the Senator. is
mentioned by some of the Washington correspond
ents as a beautiful woman, with brilliant dark
eyes, and quantity of snOw-white hair.
REPORTS of the condition of Senator Matt Car
penter are, usual, contradictory, but il is said
very positively that he is growing weaker daily,
and that no hope of his recovery is entertained.
! Miss KIRKLAND, of Milwaukee, and Charles
Weigand, of Maxwell, y. Y, formerly members of
the Lilliputian Opera Troupe. have been married.
Each is four feet five inches in height, and aged
twenty-one years.
SECRETARY scHURz has received a grateful letter
from the head Chief OF the Greek Indians, thank
ing him for his effort to promote the education of
the Indian youths by the establishment of schools
at Hampton, Va, and Carlisle, Pa.
COMMISSIONER LIE Due should plant his reports
earlier in the That for 1879 is just issued
and il rather takes the excitement out of an ag
ricutural report to have it come along a year or
two behind time.-Philadelphia Times.
| COLONEL FAIR the Nevada Senator, has the
pleasant habit of addressing every man and boy
he meets my son" matter what the age of
the person. To women he invariably says my
dear child" He is very fatherly sort of citizen.
| DIR. J. J. MORAN, who was in charge of the Bal
/ timore Hospital wherein Edgar 4. Poe died, aud
who personally attended the poet, declares that
Poe suffering from drunkenness, but
was stupeied from the effects OF some powerful
narcotic.
JUsTUs c. RAMSEY, brother of the Secretary of
Wsr, took the defeat of the Secretary for Senator
so to heart that in bis condition failing health
it preyed upon his mind, and produced temporary
insanity during which he committed suicide. He
regarded the Secretary's defeat as a family dis
grace.
Mrs. GoFF, the wife of the new Secretary of the
Navy, is described as remarkably beautiful and
gentle lady. She was, before her marriage Miss
Despard, of Clarksburg, w. Va The pair have
two children-Guy, handsome and intelligent
boy of fourteen, and Percy, bright, good natured
nineyear-old.
GENERAL ROBERT TONES is reported by the
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph to have said. in converse
ton in that city, the other day: JEFF Davis wrote
me for my picture to put in his book along with
some others. 1 wrote him that would not be
found in such company. will bet $500 that his
book does not appear by the LIST of April, nor
while live"
A CORRESPONDENT states that the paragraph in
relation to the number of gavels used up by
Speaker Blaine was erroneous. Mr.. Blaine during
his entire three terms OF Speakership had but one
gavel; and though it got Clipped and cracked from
its vigorous use it still survives as a memento of
the Office and can be seen among articles of curl
osity in his library.
SENATOR BLAINE is described by the Nation as
essentially a rockety, journalistic kind of man
fond of rows and sensations" The Nation
further says that he would be a most unsafe per-
son to put i'm among the costly and fragile china
of the State Department" Commenting on this
opinion, the Boston Herald intimates that the Ma
ton doesn't know what it is talking about
OF Senator Hamlins appearance at the time
when he was in the Maine Legislature an old
politician gives picturesqe description in the
Boston Traveller. MIR. Hamlin alighted from the
stage coach at the Augusta Hotel one day, en-
cased in a huge buffalo skin "top coat" very
shaggy; what looked like eatskin cap cOwhide
boots with red leggings. In this remarkable cos.
tune he walked or rather waddled into the
Augusta House, where he was warmly welcomed
by his many friends, without distinction of party
at that time.
PROFESSOR BANCROFT, OF Brown University, in a
recent address, commended the thorough study
of the English language to schools. He said that
pupils should be taught composition upon care
full plan; the foundation should be laid by giving
to the pupil the works of the best authors, and
also clear conception of what he is expected 10
do, making him understand and follow out the
plan I'm the simplest matters of composition.
Many teachers, he said, think that the way to
write is to write and he added that indefinite
aims never accomplish anything but indefinite
results.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL FREDERICK DOUGLASS
lives in a handsome house standing on top eff
hill, and commanding fine view of Washington
and the adjacent country. through which winds
a branch of the Potomac River. Trees adorn the
slopes of the hill all sides of the house. 1t
built for HIS own home by the former owner OF
large tract of land, who sold house lots only on
condition that no plot should be sold to a
negro or an Irshman. Having become poor he
now lives in humber quarters, and Mr.. Douglass
has become the owner of the house with fifteen
acres of land around 1t.
SOPHIE the good and generous Queen of Sweden.
is now staying at an English watering-place under
her travelling name of Countess of Haga She has
for the past six years suffered from paralysis,
which deprived her of the power of VOLUME
tary movement. She tried all the spas and
famous doctors on the Continent, but found no
relief until she happened to hear of Dutch ply
stefan who had remarkable power in the treat
ment of paralytics ana had restored more than
5000 patients. So to Amsterdam Queen Sophie
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