The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-16
ABOUT PEOPLE.


Admiral Porter, who has been seriously
i'll, is recovering.
Mr.. Tabor's few weeks stay in Washing.
ton cost him more than $4,000.
General Sheridan will publish shortly
MS story OF the surrender OF Lee.
General Sherman expects to take a cruise
along the Pacific coast this spring.
Reuben Il. Springer has given $4,000
more TO the Cincinnati college OF music.
Governor Waller, Of Connecticut, confined
his ias' day proclamation to six lines.
President Porter, of Yale, will be the ora.
TOR at the unwilling of the Henry statue.
Ada Cary Sturgis, the singer, is seri-
ously Ill at her home in Durham, Maine.
Professor f S. Dana, of Yale college, has
resumed his college duties after severe liz
ness,
Charles n. Marsh has been chosen clerk
oithe town of bingham, Massachusetts,, for
l"enty'eight consecutive years :,
Sir William Armstrong, the English gun.
maker, has given S75O0O0 to Newcastle,
England during the last tw anty years.
Camp.meeting John Allen celebrated
his eighty eighth birthday by a lecture at
Pennington, Maine, on Wednesday.
Ex-senator Thomas G. PIatt has paid
S3S,VOU for residence on Lexington av-
enue, near Fifty-second street, New York.
Pere Hyacinthe, accompanied by his
vile, Will spend the coming summer in this
country, and will lecture in various cities
Senator Hawley will remain in Washing
ton until summer, studying and investigat.
ing certain subjects in the congressional
library.
Judge Thurman makes the largest prop
erty re- urn in Columbus, Ohio, "for the
reas on SAYS the Marion Mirror "that he
Is an honest man"
Max Heinrich has made very great sue.
cess in the part OF Elijah in the New York
Oratorlo Society's performance of Mendels-
sOhn's UratOrio.
Theodore Thomas and paid orchestra
have definitely arranged to give series Of
concerts in Denver in June. A ohrous OF COO
voices is in training.
The late DR. Glenn, of California, EN-.
ployed not less than fifty men in the win
ter season TO shoot wid geese, which were
destroying his wheat fields
Morrison Heady, the blind and deaf Ken
tucSy poet, has been visiting New Orleans
md astonishing his acquantances there by
his extraordinary skill as chess player.
The death is announced of Admiral Jo.
seph NJ. Motley, one of the veterans of the
British navy. He e tered the navy in 1912
and remained IN active duty fifty.eight
years.
Captain Walter Clifford, of the 9TH in.
fantry. who died few DAYS ago at Fort
Bridger, Wyoming, in 1854 escaped from
Libby prison seven times and was recap
tured every time.
General John Cronell was member of
the national house OF representatives, as
long ago as 1876 "He WAS an aDolitionist
when TO be such was n crime" For forty
years he was prominent in Ohio politics
His death occurred in Cleveland few days
ago.
James Wiley, of East Haven, Connect.
cut, wrote his will with a type writer. AT
ter his death recently, the validity of the
will was questioned on the grou1 that the
document had been printed. In New
Haven, on Thursday, Judge York decided
that printed will is all right.
Mr.. Jefferson, the actor, went intoa bank
in New York recently to get check cashed
The cautious clerk refused to pay out the
money, saying that Mr.. Jefferson must be
identified, whereupon the actor leaned
back against post, with that peculiar for.
soken air of the returned sleeper, and said
sadly, in the words OF RIP: IF my toy
Schneider vas here he would know me-"
The check was paid.
William K Brooks. the dscoverer Of the
Brooks comet, is mentioned as born as
tronomer." He made himself good tele-
scope when lad of fourteen. For the sake
Of the science he worked in iron shops. aud
rs a mechanical draughtman and photog-
rapher for many years. HIS RED House
observatory" is on his premises at Phelps,
New York Mr.. Brooks at tnirty-nine, is
as full of enthusiasm for astronomy rs when
he was fourteen.
Miss Clinton GRAY was unable to rally
! from the shock inflicted upon her during
the sinking of the City of Yazoo, and so
| died AT Bonnet Care, Louisiana. last week.
Miss Gray's father once owned 1000
slaves, and his plantation was the largest
in the southwest. The only survivor of the
family, HARRISON Gray, is worth about
s5OI,000, Just before the disaster to the
City OF YazNo, the brother and sister each
sent checks for 81 900 TO the food sufferers
at Louisville