The National tribune., 1882-10-12
PERSONAL.

saIvin, the actor, sailed from Havre satur-
day for New York.
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer, has
left Brussels and gone to London.
General Adams, late United States minister
to Bolivia has arrived in Panama.
One hundred and twenty-six cases Of divorce
are on the docl1ets of the Boston courts.
Senator Beck and wife, of Kentucky, have
apartments at the Ebbitt House, in this city.
Senator Mcpherson, of New Jersey, arrived
at New York by the steamship Elbe on Satur-
day.
Gen. ". W. Dudley, Commissioner of Pen
sions, is confined to his house with severe
bilious attack.
The Rev T. Dewitt Talmage offered Engi-
neer Melville 5000 to lecture at the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, but he declined.
". T. Silk, q well known fish culturist from
Northampton England, is collecting stock of
black bass for British waters.
Mr. William Crawford, for many years gen.
eral agent in Baltimore of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, died
Sunday
The Rev Charles Sturgeon, Jr., son of the
noted London preacher, is to speak before the
convention of members of the Young Mems
Christian Association in Chicago this week.
Attorney General Brewster is not expected
to return to Washington for several days yet.
He has engagements to speak in the Penn
sylvania campaign at Pittsburg and Harris
burg.
The Marquis of Lorne asserted in a speech at
Victoria, British Columbia, the other day, that
the whole line of the Canadian Pacific, from
Montreal to the ocean, will be opened by Jan
uary l, 1887.
lad of eighteen named William Martin,
applied ut police headquarters, New York, on
Saturday for a permit to carry pistol. He
said he wanted to shoot President Arthur Of
course he was crazy.
Colonel Henry Clay Fisk, clerk of the Pacific
Railroad Committee of the House of Represen-
tatiyes, has been mystcriously missing since
the 10th of June last. His wife and two
daughters, residing at Cory, Pa, are nearly
distracted, having almost given up hope of his
return.
James Thomas, Jr., Richmond's wealthiest
citizen, died recently, aged 70 years. The de-
ceased was a native of Caroline county, Vir-
ginia. lie was engaged in the tobacco business,
which he successfully conducted for half a
century and became millionaire. He was a
prominent member of the Baptist Church.
Mrs. Governor A. R. Shepherd and children
will return from Mexico early next month
Apartments for their accommodation for the
winter have been engaged at the Gilsey House,
New York. The children will attend school in
New York during the winter. Governor
Shepherd himself will not return North until
some time next spring, the workings of his
celebrated mines at Batopilas requiring his
personal supervision few months longer.
4 large marblo-cutting establishment of Mus
catine, Iowa, has just been awarded the contract
for erecting a monument over the grave of
Jesse james. The monument will be of red
beach granite, and will stand twelve or four
teen feet high, bearing the plain and simple
inscription: My husband Our father; Jesse
James, died April 2, 1882; age 81 years
months days" The contract was signed by
Mrs. Jesse James, and the stone was selected
by her.
David r. Power, one of the best known men
in the South, died Monday at the Charity Hos
pital, in New Orleans, after a long Illness He
was born in Charlestown, Mass, and served in
the Navy during the war as Acting Assistant
Paymaster. He was on the Mississippi, of
Farragut's fleet, when the forts were run and
the city of New Orleans was taken. After the
war he settled in New Orleans, and was EN-
ploycd in the revenue service. He served as
Brigadi er- General and Paymaster on the staff
of Governor Yarmouth. For the past few
years he has been light-keeper at Milneberg,
until ill-health drove him to the hospital. AT
the time of his death he was Chaplain of Mower
Post, G. A. Il.
Congressman William Stelle Holman, of
Indiana, commonly known as collector" HOl-
man, and called by admiring Democratic friends
the Watchdog of the Treasury" lives on the
farm where he was born, in Dearborn county.
1t is a beautiful spot, on high bluff overlook
ing the Ohio river and wide stretch of land
in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Mr.. Holman
is man of medium height, rather slender,
with a pleasant, intellectual face. He has a
frank cordial manner, but is described as being
so restless as to make one nervous to watch
him. He drops into a seat, talks rapidly
for % minute, then bounces up like a rubber
ball and PAGES the floor, still talking ener-
getically.