The Indianapolis journal., 1883-11-05
ABOUT PEOPLE.


THE Martin Luther statue to be erected at
Washington will cost $4,000.
MR.. E. C. STEDMAN will remain in the banking
profession.
JUDGE ToURGEE believes that every man who
does not come out and vote ought to be put in
the penitentiary.
HEREAFTER the retail sale of intoxicating
liquors on credit in Prussia will be punished by
withdrawal of the license
NJ. DE BLowITz. the renowned correspondent
OF the London Times, has been received by the
Sultan and made grand officer of the Order of
the Medjidie.
THE gold medal awarded to Lieutenant Fred
erck A. schwatka by the Geographical Society
of France has been received by the Secretary of
State at Washington.
1T is said that no mau has yet dared to ask for
Miss Carrie Asuors hand and heart and millions.
She will go a great deal into what is called So
ciety in New York this winter.
MISS HATTIE CRoCKER, daughter of Mr.. Chas.
Crocker, and who is accompanying Lord and
Lady Waterlow on their journey round the
world, is heiress of forty millions.
JOHN G. WHITTIER recently compelled to
decline TO write a poem for special occasion
because he cannot write even a letter without
pain, and breads to take up a pen.
HOWARD KRETsCHMER, sculptor, of st. Louis,
has taken a clay model of General Sheridan that
he may make a bust of that worthy warrior for
the Union Veteran Club, of Chicago.
GROWN PRINCE CARLOS, of Portugal, it is re-
ported, Is about to be Detrothed to the Arch
duchess Maria Valera, the youngest daughter of
the Emperor of Austria. The Archduchess is
sixteen years old.
A MICHIGAN paper says that ex-senator Thos.
W. Ferry, of that State, will probably spend the
winter in England. Travel and English air are
credited with so far cOnquering his insomnia
that he can now sleep six hours nightly.
THE Right Rev. DIR. Penick, who has just re-
signed the Episcopal missionary bshOpric of
Cape Palmas, Africa, has been called to the rec
torship of st. Andrews Church, Louisville, Ky,
and will enter upon his duties as he re-
turns from Africa.
GLADsToNE's fame as a tree-chopper is well
known in the Orkneys, ana, urlng his recent
visit to Kirk wall, some one posted the following
pacard on the only tree standing In the street
through which the English Premier passed:
"Wuodman, spare that tree!'
Mr. BROWNING has left his mountain home in
the Val d'Aosta, and has made his way to Venice,
where he will stay for some weeks. He has
been walking five or six hours day with his
sister, and is described by friend who has seen
him as ruddy y-cheeked ana in vigorous health.
He has also been busy with his pen.
JUDGE THOMAS DRUMMoND has been on the
federal bench continuously for thirty-three
years-frst as United States district judge for
Illinois, then as United States circuit judge for
Northern Illinois, and, since 1869, as United
States judge for the Seventh circuit, embracing
illinois, Wisconsin aud Indiana. Members of
the bar speak and think of him as still in his
prime.
THE Rev. DR.. John G. Wood, who is now lec-
turing natural history at the Lowell Insti-
tute, Boston, will soon be heard in New York at
the Cooper Union He illustrates his lectures
with crayon pictures, draw a blackboard
with great skill and rapitHty. He is now fifty