The Evening critic., 1882-10-10
PERSONAL.

GENERAL HANCOCK is in st. Louis,
where ho Will spend several days.
CAPTAIN FRANK d. LEE, WELL
known Southern journalist, died In Atlanta,
Ca, Tuesday.
--Ex-VIcE-PREsIDENT WHEELER issaid
10 be about to marry the widow of Surgeon
General woodworth.
M. RoUsTAN, French Minister, has
gone on trip to New York. Tho embassy
here is in charge of his assistant.
-SIGNoR FAGINI, better known in this
city as Jim Fagin, is singing In opera at tho
Aslcazar, variety theatre on broadway, New
York.
-BIsHoP ANDREWS, of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church OF Wisconsin, urges his
ministers not to favor any political party
actively.
MIR. G. d. HANSON, chief clerk Pay
after months trip among the mountains of
Maryland, looking hale and hearty.
GENERAL BENJAMIN ALvoRD, late
Paymaster General, U. $. A., who has been
turned to Washington much improved in
health.
THE wifo of tho notorious Tichborne
claimant and her two children arc inmates OF
workhouse at southampton, England. She
still persists In calling herself "Lady Tich-
borne," and her namo stands as such on tho
workhouso register.
CONSTRUCTOR SAMUEL j. PooK, in
charge OF tho Construction Bureau OF tho
Nayy-Yard, is expected to return to Washing
ton Tomorrow. Mr.. Pook, with his estima-
bic wife, has been travelling throughout tho
North and West for the past month.
COLONEL ELLIOT F. SHEPARD, the
well-known New York lawyer, made very ac-
ccptable address to the boys OF Glrard College,
Philadelphia, Sunday morning, and particl-
pated in tho very Interesting exercises Of Beth
any Sunday y-school In the afternoon.
THE Rev. Charles Ii. Spurgeon has of
He is about to leave London for Mentone,
where he will spend n month, and where ho
hopes to gain relief for his ailment.
-MRs. SALLIE NEAL and Mrs. Mary
Clement OF Parkersburg, W. Va, arrived In
residence Of Mr.. b. +. Cuttings, 415 Fourth
streotnorthwest, where they expect to spend
the winter.
Mr.. CHARLES ]. TAYLOR, who left fer
his home in Fort Wayne, Ind last Friday, did
so laboring under tho impression that Wash
ington climate did not agree with him, he
having lost forty-nine pounds Of flesh In tho
nve months he was here.
THE surviving children of General
John b. Hood, nine I'm number, one having
died In infancy, are we'll and happily situated,
having been adopted by people of means. This
is very gratifying information to all the friends
and admirers Of this bold and brilliant Con.
federate soldier.
Mr.. HENRY M. Billings, of the
Third Auditors oflcc, left for his home,
Ligonicr, Ind, yesterday to take an active
part In the political campaign which Is now
nearly at It's zonith. Before leaving he re-
ceived such words OF encouragement rs to
lead him to believe implicitly In the ulti-
mate success OF the Republican party.
PIERRE LAFITTE, the French postiv-
ist, is organizing monster celebration to be
held at the end OF this year In honor of Louis
XI., the founder OF French unity, as a domon.
stration against tho programmes OF national
dismemberment now being brought forward,
as NJ. La1tte thinks, under cover OF prin.
ciples Of decentralization and communal
liberty.
-MRs. AMANDA SMITH, who was once a
slave in Delaware, and who is well.known In
many churches in New York and Brooklyn, has
reached Monrovia, Liberia, aftor three years
OF successful evangelical work. In Great Brit
ain and tho East Indies. She fs working alt
gently among the Liberian colonists, but
finds herself hampered by lack OF temper
ance and religious publications.