The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-21
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Hon. R. b. f. Peirce is soon TO be married.
q j. PAYNE COLLIER, now ninety-f1ve years of
age, is the oldest member of the English news
paper press living.
LONDON correspondent says Lady Florence
Dixie and her husband are known as "Ludy
Sometimes and Sir Always Tipsy."
PRESIDENT sEELYE, of Amherst College, and
Mr.. A. A. Ranney are named by Republicans in
connection with the Massachusetts Governor
ship.
G. Fl. GRAY, correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader, has been appointed a special agent of
the Treasury Department and will be located at
New York. "9... ,.'-
PAUL MATTHEWS, son of Justice Matthews,
who was dangerously Ill for some time, has so
far recovered as TO be able to take short daily
walks out of doors.
JUDGE LoCHRANE, of Georgia, has given up
his residence in that State and now lives in Chi
cagO, where he is general counsel for the Pull
man Car Company
COL WASHINGTON A. RoEBLING, the Brooklyn
bridge engineer is ill at his home in Brooklyn
and does not expect to be able take part in the
opening ceremonies.
Hon. WILL CUMBACK declines to deliver
Memorial Day address at Terre Haute, inasmuch
as he has engaged to deliver an address on that
day at Nashville Tenn.
The naval battle flag made famous by the
heroism Of Commodore Oliver H. Perry in
1918, is now in the possession of Professor a. B.
Watkins. of Adams, Jefferson county, N. Y.
THE Empress of Austria while at Baden Baden
rises at O'Clock and takes a boxing lesson be-
fore breakfast In the afternoon she rides horse
back five hours and dimes on eorned-beef and
cabbage.
A MONTREAL clergyman was too Ill to preach
on Sunday, but he wrote a sermon, and by the
use OF a telephone heard it delivered in his
church by another preacher as he lay on his sick
bed in his chamber.
JOSH BILLINGS informed Joaquin Miller that
he had once received $4OO for twelve words A
wealthy New York mercantile house paid him
that sum; it wanted one of his quaint sayings
for an advertisement,
SOME things, says the London Truth, appear to
be better managed abroad than in the mother
country The following announcement appeared
last week: ''stary-April 10, at Colombo, Cey-
Ion, the wife of John Helps Starry, of son. By
telegram"
The late "Unole Tom" Henson had shiny
black skin, keen, restless eyes, ana intelligent
face framed by full slver-gray beard, bald
head only a little way back from the forehead,
and covered for the most part with a wealth of
snowy WOOL
WHILE making arrang 5ments for a trip to Eu-
rope for his healths sake, the Hon. Alexander
Mackenz,e. formerlv prem,er nj Canada was
surprised by the advent or a party of friends
who presented him with purse of $4,000 as
"pocketmoney that might come handy"
JOHN PEARSON, q trembling old man, who has
been a resident of Fort Smith, Ark, for forty.
tbrea wars o,aims to ha tho ootrai invartor ~
the revolver patented by Colonel Colt. He says
that in 1884, while he was working in Balti-
more. Colt hired him to mako experiments.
which resulted in the prefeoted revolver.
CoUNr Wow Mo1rKE received the nsws Of b,s
SISTERS death while ON his wav TO attend his
nephew,s weddtng. Cnriouslv anouph. six vears
ago he got word of bis brotbar,s death inst as he
was starting IN attend the wed5ing Of anothar
nephew. II the great Count doesn't want tn
lose all his relatiyes be mad better atom going to
weddines a''H
THE widow NJ tina late Consressman Jaues n
Smith. of Alabama. has married her nenhew.
As the laws of Alabama are aeainst such a mar
riaee. thew went TO Kentuekv and as the sama
laws wera found to prevaiI thara tbav want i'm.
mediateIv IN GaIatin Tam vvhera tbav ,vara
married Arter overcoming tbese obstacles tbe
couple returned tn their Manhattan paar saImo
PEOPLE who heard Iife on the Ocean Wave,
sung to threadbareness a quarter of century or
mora ago. may not generally know that the man.
Henry Russell, who composed ana first sung 1t
in public is still living hale and hearty. But he
is, and walks London streets and Ramsgate
pier and sands like a ghost of the past. albeit a
happy, genial and substantial ghost. He has a
comfortable fortune, and lives contented in the
growing fame Of his son, Mr. W. Clark Russell.
the novelist.
Or Miss Chamberlain, the Young lady from
America whose beauty has been SO much ad-
INV ha
Telegraph correspondent writes: II found her
very lovely girl, SIMPLE natural and una ffected.
and apparently not in the least spoiled by the
attention and adulation she has received. Tall
and slender, with brilliant dark eyes, delicate
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