The Portland daily press., 1883-07-26
Notes About Notable People

Ex-Secretary of the Interior Columbus
Delano is now large wool-grower.
Wade Panpton is said to be one of the
most expert trout fishers in the country.
Samuel l.. Clemens is slowly recovering
from an attack of malarial fever, causea by
his last trip down the Mississippi river.
Richard Yeadon of the Charleston Couri-
or once offered $4,000 for Buffers head.
Butler did not want to SELL
Professor Simon Newcomb has been grant,
ed permission to remain abroad until Sep
tember lst.
General Hancock is called the master spirit
of the defense at Gettysburg by the Count
of Paris.
Cardinal Manning is seventy-tnree years
old, and became Roman Catholic when he
was forty-three years old.
John Banvard, the veteran artist and trav
eler, whose panoramas were famous quar-.
ter of century or more ago, is settled in
Watertown, Oak, where he has son. a
banker.
Marquis Tseng, the Chinese diplomat, has
an income of 100000 a year, which he
spends on his relations He is bold-looking
and has mousta che of a dozen or so long
dropping hairs.
Roscoe Conkling has started on trip to
the Yellowstone Park with George S. Bout
we'll as one of his companions. Probably
they will get away before the President ar
rives there.
Lennig or Lenning, the German Ameri-
can student who killed another student in
duel near Wurzburg, and fed to Switzer-
land, where he was arrested, is a resident of
Philadelphia.
Senator Edmunds is home from the Pacf-
ic coast and is very enthusiastic about the
Puget sound scenery. He says the glaciers
at Mount Railer are grander than ANYTHING
he ever saw in Switzerland He is in excel
lent health and spirits.
A sensation has been caused in Vienna
by the announcement that the great finan-
eier, Baron Wodianer, is engaged to marry
his housekeeper. From the point of wealth
and influence the baron is second only TO
the Rothschilds.
AT the sale of the effects of the late Rev.
John Russell, "the hunting parson," which
was held recently at Black Torrington Rec
tory, England, hunting horn, which had
for many years been in his possession. was
purchased on behalf of the Prince of Wales.
One hundred gentlemen, of both political
parties, were present at dinner given to
the Marquis of Lansdowne in London, in
honor of his appointment to the post of
of lo
was on the same day as the dinner in Port
land to theme Minister of the United States
to Sweden and Norway.
"Sam" Newell, an old miller on Rocky
Fork, Ohio, says Foraker wouldn't have
been nominated for Governor if it hadn't
been for him. He wasn't in the Convention
and took no part in the preliminary canvas
sing; but when "Ben'' was four years old
and fell in the mill-race, he pulled him out
and saved his life.
Florence Marryatt has large scrap book
filed with authors autographs and speci-
mems OF their MSS. Her fathers ''copy''
was all written on paper about the size of
commercial note,o and averaged twenty
four words to the line and eighty-three lines
to the page. a magnifying glass is almost
needed to read it. i.
Sir Charles Michael Wolseley, baronet,
was married recently in the Pro-Cathedral
at Kensington, London, to Miss Anita The
resa Murphy, daughter of Mr.. D. T. Muir
ply of San Francisco, Cal. The ceremony
was performed by Cardinal Manning
Among those present was Mr. Lowell, the
United States minister. The pope sent his
blessing to the welded pair.
Colonel John q. George, the New Hamp-
shire lawyer, tells good story on himself,
according to Judge johnson. Meeting an
old farmer recently whom he had known in
his youth, the old fellow congratulated the
gallant Colonel on his youthful appearance
and the surprising way in which he beld his
own. '.How is it you've managed to keep
so fresh and good-looking all these years?"
quoth he. 'Wel," said George, 'I'l tell
you. I've always drank new rum and voted
the Democratic ticket" "Oh, yes,' said
the old man, 81 see how it is; one pizen neu-
tralizes the other. ."-Marlboro' Times
Joel Benton supplies for the Magazine of
American History new chapter in the
early life Of Noah Webster, when the future
photographer was teaching music at Sharon,
Connecticut. The old fashioned singing
school Nc. Benton calls to mind was the
leading social occasion Of the New England
villages, and there is we'll authenticated ira
dtion at Sharon that young Webster fell in
love with one of his pupils, the belle of the
place. But the young woman had also
military suitor, and neither she nor her
family seemed able to decide between the
two. The matter was finally put out to ar
bitratjOD. the eders of the local church he
ing the judges of this affair de ceur. After
giving full hearing they decided that while
both were worthy of her, the major had the
priority of affection and was entitled to the
most loving consideration; and so Webster
lost his suit