The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-04-26
GENERAL NOTES.

FLORENCE wants Consulship at Copenhagen,
p. d. q.
Mr.. Cross il is rumored, has sbandoned the
idea of writing biography of his late wife, Me-
rian Evans, or George Eliot.
Mr.. LOWELL has been asked to give the address
at the proposed memorial service in honor OF
LOngfellow at Berlin.
GEORGE r. GRAHAM, the veteran Philadelphia
publisher and founder of Graham's Magazine, is
lying very iii in hospital in Newark, Nj
MARRIED, at simsbury. Conn, Joseph r. Toy.
aged seyenty-two, widower since last Septem
Der, to Mary Toy his daughter in-law aged thirty
widow since March.
Mr.. CHARLES READE, whose labors have for
three years been interrupted by bereavement and
sickness. viii return to fiction in the columns OF
Life on May 4. He promises series of stories,
which viii be illustrated by several well-known
artists
HoRTENsE KITTRELL was appointed a clerk in
the Nevada Legislature. Henry II. WEIGH. the
chief clerk at first objected to the presence of a
woman in the office. But his objection has been
overcome during the present session. Miss Kit
trell is now Mrs. WEIGH.
LEO Mi. has sent the palm which he carried
bishop of Dublin. This gift is always considered
very special mark of the PontG-s favor. The
palm is one of unusual beauty, and has as its
central ornament portrait of Leo the Great.
CHARLES HENRY HTrcHcoCK HALL, Professor OF
Geology and Mneralogy in Dartmouth College, is
not yet forty-six years OF age, but his published
writings include ll9 books and papers, not en-
bracing contributions to encyclopedias. He has
| logical maps
Mr.. WILLIAM THOMAS. of Plymouth, Mass.
aged ninetyfour years, is now the Oldest Harvard
| College graduate. He remembers Ebenezer
Cobb, who died at Plymouth at the age of l07,
and Mr. Cobb remembered Peregrine White who
was born on the Maysower. The next Oldest
graduate is DR.. Perry, of Exeter, n. II.
GOVERNOR CRITTESDEN, of Missouri, and Gov
ernor Murray, of Utah, are halfbrothers. Their
mother was Annie Mary Allen, the daughter OF
| Colonel John Allen, a famous Kentucky lawyer
anc rival of Henry Clay. Her first husband was a
brother OF John J. Crittenden. After his death
she married Colonel d. r. Murray, OF Kentucky.
Colonel Hardin, who killed at Buena'Vista,
was a cousin Of the two Governors.
THE Scots have lateiy unveiled a statue of
Burns at Dumfries. but in the city they per
nit his granddaughter, the only child of the
poets eldest son. to struggle in poverty. recent
visitor to a Dcmfries' Church found Mrs. Burns
| and her daughter busting the pews. The great
granddaughter, Jean Armour Burns, is an inter
esting girl of about sixteen or seventeen years,
and bears a striking resemblance to the poet
MICHAEL R. FURLONG. alswyer Of Springfield
| Ill. and Mrs. Peynado, a very wealthy widow O.
Louisville, met for the FIRST time at Hot Springs
Ark, and were In the same hotel week. Or
parting they each promised to consider the ques
ton of marrying. and, If of the same mind at the
end Of another week. to go to the Southern Hotel
ST. Louis, to meet the other. Both were on hand
at the appointed time and place. eud the wedding
was celebrated
| TIE widow of Conductor westfall, who. va.
murdered by Jesse James, is living in poverty al
Plattsburg Mo- 1t is said that she never received
a cent from the Railroad Company in defense o.
whose property her husband died. but sub
seription for her benefit has been started
Doubtless, however. many persons win prefer Il
contribate to the fund for Mrs. Jesse james
which is now collecting In Sedalis. and already
amounts to about $500.
PRINCES VICTORIA, the sixteen-year-oldd augh
ter of the Crown Princess of Germany, was con
frned fortnight ago, with her cousin Leopold
the cousin of Prince Frederick Charles. The serv
ice was celebrated in a magnificent Stat
apartment arranged as chapel. ans
the Crown Princess herself brongh
in her young daughter, dressed in a plain gowI
of white'silk, with her fair hair drawn back from
her round babyish face. One curious Part Of tn