The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-07
ABOUT PEOPLE.

JUDGE OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., Is
mentioned" as possible Republican candidate
for Governor of Massachusetts.
The portraits of the heroine drawn for Blacks
novel, "Yolande," by Mr., Overend, said
strongly to resemble the beautiful Miss Cham
berlayne.
| MUNKACsY's picture, "Christ before Pr
| late" has met with a wonderful reception in
Manchester, England, no fewer than 10000
people havirs N it within the space of few
| weeks.
| THE King of l. 0umania is thinking OF adopting
one of the excuses o%Nred by Napoleon when
| separating from JosophIAc-viz.: their marriage
being without iseue-in gettlL.- a divorce from
the queen.
ANN ELIZA Young, who al one t.me
member of Brigham YOung's nousenu.' but
has since been married to Mr.. Demng is NO.
living IN Manistee, Mich, where she is highly re-
| spected and has made many friends.
| EX-GOVERNOR STANFORD, of California,
Gently bought 10000 acres adjoining his big
vineyard at Vna, in that State. This gives HIM
one great ranch of over $4,000 acres, about
quarter of which is planted with vines. The
| Governor intends TO plant it all with the best
wine producing and raisin grapes.
JOSEPH REEFE, a German farmer living near
! ST. Louis. has complained TO the authorities
| that an Invisible wagon ana team ratified up to
| his gate in the evening. He wishes to have the
| spirits arrested who are thus annoying him. All
| attempts to convince him that he is mistaken
| have thus far failed.
| NJ. REMAIN had a narrow escape from being
killed at Tschia. 1t was at Tschia that he wrote
| his lecture on Marcus Aurelius" and "Caliban."
This year he to go there, when Jules Ferry
| persuaded HIM to preside at a distribution of
| prizes at Paris The house in which he would
have been but for this invitation was demolished
by the earthquake. and its inmates were killed.
| THE telephone is being used extensively in
India. The government of that country main
| tans telephone in places too poor to maintain
a telegraph office and too important to have no
communication with other places. Tue tee-
| phone Is a constant source of wonder and inter-
! est to the natives. One dignified Brahmin, to
whom its mysteries fully explained
marked: Eyes, I think understand; but does it
speak Marathi9"
| BRET HARTE resides at st. Johns Wood, Lon
| don, with the Chancellor of the Belgian lega-
| tiOn, Mr.. Vanderveldt, a cultivated man. whose
wife seriously set herself to work to regulate
Mr.. Harte, of whose genius she had high idea.
Mrs. Harte lives in this country upon her hus-
| bands consular salary, not being able to pro-
vide the conditions to decoy his fancy forth
Mrs. Vanderveldt has ten children, is herself of
| literary iucliudtluu anu is uuo NJ TcpdTJ66
REFERRING 10 Sheridan at the battle of Win
CHESTER in his address at the soldiers in
Oneonta the Rev. DIR. Fulton quoted the Gen
| eral saying sin NEUROLOGICAL terms, I'VE
| shall whip them." This was too much for one
of the old vets OF the audience and rising in his
| chair and shaking his hand at the reverand
| speaker, he shouted, THAT isn't what Sheridan
| said what he did say was, Wen lick HI out of
emf" This brought down the house. After
the confusion had subsidized, Dr. Fulton smi
| ingly added, "And he did il, tool"
| GOVERNOR BEN BUFFERS stables are the finest
| in Lowell. He keeps nine thoroughbred horses
Among them is fine pair of chestnut mares
presented by Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, a pair of Black Knox horses, pair of
thoroughbred blOoded bays, and buggy, saddle
and phaeton horses. In his farm stable kept
the old buckskin horse which carried the Gen
eral throughout the war. No beast has a more
enjoyable existence in his old age. He has the
free run of the grounds, goes in and comes out
when he pleases. has all he wants to eat and alb
soutely nothing to do.
MR.. ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER, writing from
London to the Chicago Tribune says "The
Prince of Wales simply amazes everybo by
his Iestess-Or rather, uDresting-activity.
One might ask, with no little reason:
'When does the Prince sleepl' He plays
many parts and plays them all uncommonly
we'll He is here, there and everywhere. He is
perpetual motion itself. One reads of him at
York at the exhibition, iii London in the even
ing. He entertains like prince, and is the most
genial of guests in the home of his friends and
one might say these friends are of all classes"
Mr.. JAMES E. CALHOUN is eighty years
old and lives in Abbeville county, South Carolina.
He owns thousands of acres of land on both
Georgia, and his possessions include the Trotter
shoals that river, which is one of the largest
and most magnificent water powers in the
South. He is very wealthy, yet lives in the
plainest, simplest way When young man, he
was married and took his wife to his present
home, hut she soon died, and the room in which
she died remains to this day, more than half a
century, just as she left it. Many things in it
have fallen into decay, and everything is COM
pletely enveloped in thick layer of dust. He
never married again, and has no children.
MEMBERS of the French colony in Geneva
made pilgrimage recently to Vllleneuve, where
Victor Hugo staying On arriving at the
hotel where the poet lodged, depuuation was
ushered into his presence. He was with his
daughter and her husband and his grandchil-
dren. There some pleasant talk between
the poet and his VISITORS during which NJ. Hugo
life, for in such life lay duty and duty meant
struggle, Then "a band of musicians struck up
the "Marseillaise" and "Alsace" Those who
had seen the poet before were painfully struck
at the great alteration in him. Age, fatigue,
and sorrow had changed him from sturdy
patriot into feeble old man. Victor Hugo Oc-
cupies the same rooms in the Hotel Byron which
Garibaldi occupied in September 1867.
In memorial address on the late Judge
Black, the Rev. DR.. Power of Washington, to
whose church both Judge Black and President
Garfield belonged, spoke of the warm personal
friendship that existed between the two men.