The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-22

grown-up children. Mrs. Young has two sons by
her firsS husband, who died three or four years
after marriage. She was married to Brigham
Young when she was twenty-five years OF age,
but only lived with him four or five months,
ONE of the three Misses Cation, of Maryland,
who became the Duchess of Leeds the Marchio-
ness of Wellesley, and Lady Stafford, was dining
at the palace, when O gentleman asked her If
she came from that part of America where they
Calculate" The King interrupted him at once
by saying: "She comes from that part of America
where they fasclnate," which was very neat for
a king
NOVEL device for stopping runaway horses
has been patented by Mr.. Carl E. Won Schwarz,
of Vienna, Austria. The invention consists in
so arranging curtain binder to the bride
that it may be dropped over the horses eyes
should he become unmanageable, thus cuttin g
off the light and reducing him to submission,
When the animal is once more under control, the
curtain may be raised again without subjecting
the driver to alight from his vehicle.
BEFORE leaving New York for Europe, Senator
Cameron leased his mansion in Washington to
Hon. W. D. WashburD, of Minnesota, who is re-
elected to the Forty eighth Congress for two
years, covering the period of the next Congress
and the rest of Senator Cameron's term. he Of
fered IL for sale to the Russian legation but
they finally decided not to buy it. Mr.. Came
rOn's family will remain on the continent for
two years, but the Senator will return to his du-
ties next winter. In all probability he will not
BIZ a candidate for reelection.
The Rev. Robert COllyer writes to friend in
Boston: 81 am getting pair Of wings grown to
fly across the sea this summer, and hide away
among the moors and lie among the heather, you
know" And further: "There is little tavern,
where the landlord knew my folks forty-tive
years ago; and shall put up with that landlord
for a spell, as 1t is pleasant place and haunted
by as pleasant ghosts ever anybody didn't
see; and snail toddle through come woods |
know of, between old abbey and an old tower,
where used to 40 accounting"
THE GENTLE kindly nature of the poet Whittier
seems to have been sadly disturbed by the Car
lyle letters. $50 strongly have they affected my
SELF, he is reported saying, chat have set
to work and destroyed the major part of my cor
respondence, covering a period OF over fifty
years. lest IL should be published after my death
and bring suffering to any. L wish that all OF
the letters that have written could be treated
by my friends in the manner" This is
characteristic, but for the benefit of future stu.
dents of our literary history it is much to be re-
gretted.
GATH 81 asked General Schofield at the ban
quet in Washington what town IN Illinois he
spent his youth III. 'Freeport,' he said. Then
you may have known the Guiteau familyY q
did. They were very respectable people. The
only one of feeble queer wits was this Charley,
who killed Garfield. 1 went to school with some
of the older persons of that family. Mrs SEQ
VILE was a very sweet, interesting woman. SEQ
willie came there and taught school, and after
ward married that girl. The brother of Charles
the assassin, was John. and he was a we'll bal
anced man. The family conspicuous i'll
churches and charitnhle hndles.n