The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-11-27
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worth while to attempt to make hero of
him.
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Notes About Notable People.
Miss Margaret Blaine, the ex-secretarg's
daughter, is to make her debut in society this
winter.
General Fremont lives quietly 10 his old age
on Staten Island, and friends say that he is in
poor, though not needy, circumstances.
Mr.. A. NJ. Sullivan M p, the leading coun
sci for O'Donnell, has recovered from the ILL |
ness by which he was attacked in court last
Thursday afternoon, but is still weak.
Ex-President Hayes is president of the Ma
tional Prison Association The price of mem
6ership to that body is IS, and the object is TO
discuss prison reforms.
Lieutenant E. E. Hayden. of the navy, has
consequence of injuries inflicted by a heavy
fall from the mountain side.
Ex-Secreiary Benjamin H. Bristow, former
ly of kentucky, now resides in New York His
only daughter was married there on November
2lst to Eben Sumner Draper, of Massachusetts,
Mr. John Davis, first assistant secretary of
state, who went to Cuba for brief season of
rest and recreation, has returned to Washing
ton and resumed his duties at the Department
OF State
Cardinal McCloskey's ordination occurred
| fifty years ago the 18th of January coming. At
recent meeting in New York It was decided
| to present him, on the day of the golden inbi-
| Lee, with sn address and 5000 for memorial
pulpit
Governor Jarvis of North Carolina In an ad-
dress at the opening of colored peoples fair
the other day at Raleigh, said he knew of no
state In which the colored people are doing SO
much for themselves, and none in which 80
much is being done for Them as in North Car
| DINA
The Longfellow Memorial Association of
Cambridge has recently received $3.50 as a sub
scription from Mr.. and Mrs. A, Graham Bell.
Mrs. Bell is a daughter of Gardiner Green
Hubbard, whose beautiful estate in Cambfidge
| is only lew rods distant from the LongfellOw
grounds.
The suit of Gen. Thomas W. Conway against
Rev. j. d. Fulton to recover S446 for services
rendered as assistant pastor of the Baptist
Temple at Brooklyn has been decided in favor
OF DR.. Fulton. Conway did not put in his ap-
Pearance at three separate terms of court and
Dr Fulton presented counter claim fer
money loaned.
William 81. Vanderbiltsowns S47, O5O. 600 In
United States registered four per cent bonds,
draft for the terest on which is mailed to
him quarterly from the treasury. The interest
on these bonds amounts as follows: Per an
mum, $l.SS2, 600; per quarter, $4,000; per
u.
hour, $214.S6; per minnie, $3.50.
correspondent Who visited Kossuth at Tn
rim on the Sd inst. says the Hungarian patriot
was writing and smoking cigarette He re-
pied to inquiries as to his health by saying,
Il am quite we'll, as you see, in spite Of the
weight OF eighty years." He has white hair
and beard, but ford aspect and robust form.
ne Is still handsome man, with kind courte-
GUS manners.
Ell. Oldroyd, special admirer of the late
President Lincoln, has leased the old Lincoln
years. and While pHeparins il i for his 1 psrsona
occupancy, he has been fitting it up with the
view OF preserving 1t as nearly as possible, Just
as Mr.. Lincoln lefl 1t when he went to Wash
| ington to assume the presidency. A room has
been set apart for the storage end display Of
Mr.. oidroyd's private collection of Lincoln me-
mentoes gathered during a period of nearly
twenty years.
The Economists Francois estimates the
wealth Of the leading rsembers of the English
sristocracy as follows: The Duke of Norfolk.
$46,0 900; the Marquis of Butte, $4,000 900:
me Duke OF Bqccleugh. $30,OO0,00o; the Duke
Devonshire, $4,000 600; the Duke of Bedford.
VA 600, 0O0j the Duke of Hamilton, $4,000,
000; the Duke of Portland, 1928, 100000 the
Ear Earl OF Fitzwilliam, $22, 100000; the Duke of
Sutherland $21,0O0,000.
The Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, whose
eicio w CouBtfy was a social event while
General Grant was president, is now first to
get married at the age of thirty-tbree His
chosen wife is the Princess Amelie of Orleans
eldest daughter of the Count of Paris. a Ro
man Catholic, and is TO remain SO. The wives
OF Russian princes have hitherto all been Ger
name, except in the case of Alexander III
the present car, whose wife is a Dane. Alex-
is is now admiral-in chief of the Russian navy
The Princess Louise is glad to get back to
English country life. She is described az hay-
ing the busy German wife strongly developed
IN her, and while at her country place of Dorm
den to have hustled about all day looked after
all the domestic arrangements, carved at meals
and made herself generally useful. After din
ner she went ronnd to the stables and kitchen
garden, and Joined in game of billiards. The
queen Is anxious for Lorne to succeed Lord
Ripon in India. The Princess does not care
Dufferin. % 80
The memory Of Mr.. J. b. Green, the histo-
rian, is to be perpetuated at Oxford In a verv
sensible way, by the establishment OF an COX
ford Historical Society," in accordance with y |
scheme which he once sketched out. The mr.
moters'of the society have already issued An
interesting prospectus, and the list of the coun-
Gil includes, besides the Duke of ALBANY. the
names OF Messrs. Matthew Arnold, e. A, Free-
man, y. a. Froude, 5. h. Gardiner and Gold
win Smith.
Ex-Gov.- James e. English is the richest
which he made himself He started on farm |
at Bethlehem, learned the carpenters trade. !
followed 1t couple OF years. and went into the |
lum Der business in which he is still interested |
John Q. Anderson comes next with So, 600 600. |
His father started poor in the tobacco business /
at New York, and the son inherited the bust |
ness and the fathers earnings TreadwelI |
Ketcham has between $1,000 600 and 81 ,OoO.-
600, which he made himself
Wilkie Collins. when working regularly.
writes about 1900 words day, covering with
them three large pages of letter paper He
writes slowly, and cuts and scratches, and re-
writes and interlines, and adds sentences in the |
margin, and sprinkles blots everywhere, until |
the manuscript looks like Chinese puzzle in |
a nightmare. Nearing the end of the book he |
gets excited and scribbles like mailman, |
writing for twelve or fourteen hours at |
stretch without stopping, save now and then to |
jump around on the floor aud act out the stu |
ations.
The late William Cullen Bryant, says Har- |
per's Weekly was often humorous in his after |
dinner speeches AT dinner given some |
years ago in New York to Mr.. William Black, |
the novelist, Mr.. Bryant responded to toast |
on poetry by saying that, although tb @ novel |
ist has laid society under great obligations, the |
poet should not be forgotten, since it is to him
that we are indebted for some of our most la |
Dor saving productions what" he contin- |
ued in his g-avest manner, "couId be more |
useful, more winning, more worthy of being |
remembered, than that immortal song"-here |
the audience held themselves in breathless |
silence-"beginning, Thirty days hath Sep |
tember'?"
The recumbent statue of the late Dean STAN |
ley, to be placed in Westminster Abbey, is |
of the finest white marble, the figure being life |
size, and in deans vestments, the hands |
clasped across the breast The monument over |
the grave of Lady Augusta Stanley records |
that she was 1.-THE beloved wife of Arthur |
Penrhn Stanley, dean of this collegiate church, |
-. for thirty years the devoted servant of |
Queen Victoria ana the queens mother and |
children, and for twelve years the unwearied |
inseparable partner of her husbands tolls and |
hopes, uniting many hearts from many lands, |
and drawing all to things above.''