The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14
ABOUT PEOPLE.

CLAkENCE MING, Ine Drllllant ge0lOglst Is IN
England and he has dined with the Queen and
hour in London.
MR.. HJALMAR RJoRTH BoYEsEN has been
asked, in common with other well-known au-
thors, to write play for the Madison Square
Theater, and he has accepted.
JENNIE JUNE says eff the women would only
dress more simply the men might be tempted to
get themselves up more picturesquely in knee
brooches, slashed doublets, and SUCH"
CHIEF JUSTICE Doe, of New Hampshire, will
probably resign soon, on account of ill health. He
has been almost continuously in .he service
since 1853 Ex-Judge Jeremiah Smith, of Dover,
will probably be his successor.
THE late William Chambers, of Edinburg, left
personal estate of e9l,316 The sum of $780,
900 is devised for the restoration of st. Giles's
Cathedral, and the remainder is divided among
numerous friends and relatives.
THE dying Mrs. Swift, of Rochester, Mich, de-
sired to see her daughter married, but the bride
groom coulG not be brought to time Therefore,
as coming nearest to her wish possible, the we'd
ding was held in her dead presence.
GHE characters in Disrael's novel, "Lothair,"
are to be plentiful in America next year. NJ
Capel, the papist, is coming over to lecture, and
the heroine of the book, Lady Lansdowne, is
buo Wll0 VI Jub u6W neutrality-suspicious. Oh Odu-
ada.
GOVERNOR BUTLER has had his yacht America
thoroughly repaired and renovated, and she is
ready for cruise He has invited the
State Council to take a days outing in her with
him as soon as the sessions work is over, and
the invitation has been unanimously accepted
SIMON CAMERON says that Webster stands
alone. ''His intellect was gigantic. Greater
than his contemporaries, he has been unequaled
in the directions in which he was particularly
strong, and nature is not likely to repeat her
work again. He a stately column marred
by little defects"
SIGNoR SCovELLO is announced for concerts
in London. This is the handsome American,
Edward ScOvel, who married Miss Roosevelt.
He has studied for long time under Lamperti
and other masters, and is said to have had sue
cess in opera. The May Fielding, of Daly's The
atrical Company, is his sister. He now has two
children.
MRS. MYRA BRADwELL, of the Chicago Legal
News, is one of the intellectual and physical
steam engines of that city. She is editor and
proprietor of the Legal News able lawyer, a
good wife, a model mother, a splendid house.
keeper, possesses social qualities of very high
order. and does more work every day of her life
than twenty ordinary Chicago lawyers.
LIE TbCOruS VI Iue lrcd5uI9 ObpdEGueuJ bHoW
that Lille Langtry is the owner of $4,000 in
three and onehalf per cent. government bonds.
Her name is on the list of foreign bondholders.
She will receive the interest on her bonds for the
first time when the quarterly payment is made
on the LIST of August next. The Treasury officials
have been directed to forward the interest, as it
becomes due, to the account OF Lille Langtry,
Union Stock Bank, England.
THE Oldest newspaper woman" in the coun-
try is said to be Mrs. Harriet N. Prewett. who
from 1848 to 1862 was editor, proprietor, book
keeper and mailing clerk of the Yazoo City
(Miss.l Wing, afterwards the Banner. At the
same time she kept her own house and brought
up her three fatherless children. Finally her
health gave way, and for twenty years she has
been helpless Invalid. She, however, continues
to compose poems and sketches, and is fond OF
talking of the ante-bellum days of the South,
and the great leaders who then figured in Mis-
sissippi politics.
SENATOR JONES, OF Florida has been having n
great time in ireland. When he reached Bal
briggan, his native place. he found nearly the
entire population turned out to receive him. and
although he has few relatives at present living
there, and the principal object of his trip was to
visit the family graves in BalrOthery church
yard, he found the streets arched with ever
ribbons and flowers and the populace in holiday
attire He was received at the station BY a
large delegation and was presented with ali adj
dress by the town commissioners.
AN anecdote of Chopin's magical charm in mu-
sic appears in the recent life of George Sand 1t
is evening III George Sands salon. CAT the pi-
ano ia Chopin; and she, her son Eugene Della
croix and the Polish poet Mickie wicz sit listen
ing while the composer, in an inspired mood, is
extemporizing in the subimest manner to the
little circle All are in silent rapture; when the
servant breaks in with the alarm-the house is
on fire. They rush to the room where the flames
are, and succeed after time in extinguishing
them. Then they perceive that the poet Mickie-
wicz is missing. On returning to the salon they
find him as they had left him, rapt entranced,
unconscious of the stir around him."
LORD CHIEFJUsTICE CoLERIDGE, of England,
who is to visit this country about September l.,
as the guest of the New York State Bar Assoei-
a;ion has left all appointments and acceptanees
OF invitations in the associations hands The
committee of arrangements. OF winch Elliott T.
Sheppard is chairman, has requested that all in
vitati0ns be SENT unsealed, to the committee.
Governor Butler, of Massachusetts, has already
invited Lord Coleridge to attend the opening of
| the National Expositioni in Boston in September.
and the Bench and Bar of Toronto have ten
dered him public banquet, Attorney general
Brewster has informed the committee of the sat
isfaction the government feels respecting Lord
Coleridge's intended visit, and states that he
shall do all in his power TO render the visit
interesting and agreeable.