The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-12
ABOUT PEOPLE,

SENATOR ANTHONY is between two fires. One
doctoris treating him for heart trouble and an
other for Bright's disease
NIECE OF the late Senator Ben. Hill Recently,
at a fashionable wedding, met for the first time
ayoung gentleman whom she married the same
day.
GovERNoR-ELECT ROBINSON, of Massachusetts,
will take his seat in the House pending the cleo
ton of his successor TO Congress. But as yet he
has said nothing about resigning.
WHEN Mr.. James T. Fields invented the name
of Manehester-by- the-Sea, and wrote note to
Dr. o. W. Holmes, dated from that place, DR..
Holmes replied in note dated "Beverly-by.th the
Depot"
Mr., p. T. BARNUM lectured before the students
of the Bridgeport Business College on Wednes-
day, and declared that it was the last lecture he
would ever deliver, as he was feeling the need
of quiet in the declining years of his life.
A FRENCH historian has looked the matter up,
and has discovered that Louis XIV of France was,
on his mothers side, descended directly from
plebeian stock. his ancestors in tho ninth gener'
alton back having been Laurent Bsbon, notary
of Bruges, and Francois Ra.
GEN. W. s. HARVEY, the veteran Indian fighter,
has taken quarters at a st. Louis hotel for the
winter. He is eighty-three years old was born
in Tennessee, fought the Florida Indians served
in the Mexican war, and was relieved from duty
in the federal army by Gen. Lyon.
DURING the late Senator Raudolph's term in
the Senate he gave all his salary to charitable
and benevolent purposes. The money was dis
bursed principally by his wife and daughters,
who had carte blanche from the Senator to use
it as they saw best for the benefit of others.
MRS. MARY A. LIvERMoRE is now past sixty
years of age, but does not look older than forty
five. She travels $4,000 miles year. her home
is at Melrose, near Boston. Just across the
street lives her only married daughter. whose
husband is the principal of an important Boston
school.
GUsTAvE FoULD once had a fortune of IL, 0oO,-
900 francs. He became famous in Paris as
''character"-drinker, high-liver, society man,
journalist and dramatist Conformity with M.
Dumas, he wrote the "Comtesse Romani" Hav-
ing dissipated his fortune, M. Foud finds himself
in asylum for mental wrecks.
JUSTICE COCHRAN, of Georgia, was trying
important case the other day, and just as two
attorneys were about to argue the case he took
up his hat and said: Gentlemen, you may talk
about thTs case as much as you please, but I've
got to go home and set out some potato slips.
When you get through you'll find my decision
written out on the table"
COUNT Won McLTKE seldom smokes afte din
ner, meal which he always makes a simple one
at home. The form in which he uses tobacco is
enuff, and when at work he always has his box
at his side. He is said not to be proud of his
past career in the sense of being inflated by its
success and spendor. What he has done he
looks upon simply as performance of duty.
THE great Napoleon married widow. Scar
ron's widow became a court favorite. Rousseau
went crazy after a widow, and Gibbon, the his
torian, made himself ridiculous over one. Dis
raeli married a widow, and three of the most
distinguished widows in Europe to-day are the
Empress Eugene, of the French; Queen Isabella
of the Spanish, and Queen Victoria of the En-
glish.
THE new General of the Jesuit order has
passed his sixty-fOurth year, but he continues to
enjoy vigorous health, ana his hair 1t still black.
He has some reputation a preacher, and is
master of the principal ancient ano modern Ian
guages. For several years ne was parish priest
at Green Bay, Wis. This was subsequent to the
expulsion of the Jesuits from Switzerland, in
1S49. He has also preached in Germany and
France.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES recently said to
q friend: 81 have written much that 1 would
willingly let die. The public have treated ME
beyond my deserts. 1t would be better if 1
should be found out in my lifetime. A Life of
Emerson engages my whole attention at present
and whatever light reminiscent effort of which
1 am capable in intervals of time must be put
forth for the Atlantic I receive, every day, re-
quests to write for this that publication, but
must decline them all"