The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-08
Notes Abo,,t Notable People

| Sims Reeves, the English tenor, is sixty
| two years old, but still has a sweet voice
The widow of the late President Tyler will
| spend the winter in Washington.
Secretary Folger and ex-senator Conkling
never speak as they pass by.
Ex-senator William Sharon acknowledges
that his income is 100000 month.
Senior Bonito Car5allo, the governor OF
New Mexico, is at Meriden, Conn.
Michael Davitt is writing an imitation OF
the Pilgrims Progress entitled "My Jail
| Journey
In consequence of recent bereavements,
| Secretary Chandler's family will not enter
tain or go into Washington society this vim
| ter.
The empress of Russia has just ordered
cloak of sable trimmed with gold and en-
| riched with precious stones, the whole cost
| being placed at $43 600
General w. Y. c. Humes, who died at
Knoxville, Tenn, recently, was the defend
er of Island Number 10, of which no trace
| now remains.
The Rev. DIR. Parker Morgan, of New
York, assistant rector of the Church of the
| Heavenly Rest, has just refused an offer to
| go to Chicago and take charge of Trinity
church at a salary Of $4,000 year.
| The will of the late Junius Brutus Booth
has been filed in the Probate Court at Sa-
| lem, Mass. 1t ia understood that the entire
| estate is left to the widow, Mrs. Agnes
| Booth.
! General Crook is now living at Fort Whip
| pie, near Prescott, Arizona His home is a
| pleasant, roomy house of two stories, sur
| rounded by piazzas, and commanding fine
| view of hill and valley. The Indians of the
| section call him 1.-THE Gray Fox.'
| A Finnish student, Mr.. Kaarlo Krohn, has
| been travelling in Esthonia, collecting the
| folk-songs, the number of which surpassed
| all expectation. Mr.. Krohn has, during this
Summer, obtained over 1000, and the Fin
nish Literary Society in Hesingfors has now
over $4,000 such songs in its possession, all
of which bear more or less resemblance TO
the Kalevala.
1t is said that of the estate of the late Matt
Carpenter, which is valued at $102,0 900, $780,
600 was life insurance. The Washington
| property consisted almost entirely of the law
| library, which was disposed of by the admin
| istrator, and his first account, APP .roved a
year ago, footed up $15, 1879. Since then
the late Senator's Supreme Court briefs have
i been purchased by Congress-407 volumes,
for $4,000, which has been paid to Mrs. Car
| penter.
The announcement that the Comtesse de
| Chambord has decided to take the veil will
| surprise no one familiar with the semi-ec-
| clesiastica life she led before the death of
her husband. She has always been noted
for abstemiousness aud austerity Of manner.
In appearance she is tall and thin, and
| dresses habitually in the plainest of black
silk costumes, with no decorative treatment
of the material. She will, it is said. spend
| the remainder of her days in the cloisters of
| the convent at Gratz, and her large estates
" ill go to the church.
Mr.. James Wormley, of Wormles's Hotel,
| Washington, has presented to Hon. A. a.
| Rice, Hon. Henry l.. Pierce and Hon. Ed
| ward L. Pierce, of Boston, in trust for the
| public, UlKe's portrait of Charles Sumner,
| the duplicate of the one ordered of that art
ist by the Haytien Government in recogni-
ton of Mr. Summers opposition to the an
nexation of st. Domingo. 1t represents Mr.
Sumner speaking in the Senate, and is full
length portrait. 1t will probably be placed
in the State House.
The Buffalo Volksfreund says that Henry
James Coeridge, brother Of the lord chief
justice, is one of the most distinguished
members of the order of Jesuits, and the au-
thor of a common airy on the gospels, enti-
tied "The Public Life of Our Lord" and
several other works.