The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-04-04
PERSONALS.

Mr.. JAMES G. BLAINE is confined to his room In
Washington with a severe attack of govt.
IT is said that William II. Vanderbilt is going to
alter his new Fifth avenue residence at a cost Of
SIS, OOO
WAsHINGToN IRVING was born ct Tarrytown,
April 8. lS7}-one hundred years ago Tuesday
an interesting anniversary.
THE old homestead of Franklin Peirce, in the
suburbs of Concord, N. H., is soon to be trans
formed into a Protestant Episcopal School for
girls.
Miss MINNIE CUMMINGS. the actress, has just
purchased for IS ESQ six lots at Long Branch, n
j.. close to the group of the cottage colony of &C
tors. upon which a summer cottage viii soon be
erected.
CAPTAIN BoYCoTT. who two years ago had to be
escorted out of Ireland by the military returned
to his home and determined to make peace with
his neighbors. He has been so successful that he
is free to 60 where he pleases without either Con
stables or soldiers to guard him.
GUsTEvE DoRE left one-third of his fortune TO
his brother Earnest. an army officer; one third to
his sister. who is married. and one-third to the
Society of Artists. To his second brother he left
nothing. because years ago. when Gustave had
established him in business, he took to gambling
in stocks and lost $4,000, which Gustave was
obliged to make good.
JUSTICE GRAY, who expects to accompany Gen
eral Sherman in a horseback ride several hundred
miles next summer. is a very heavy man. He
Prides himself however, on his equestrian skill
and was quite indignant. day or two since when
an old army officer suggested that he should pro-
cure pair of stout Kentucky mules, riding one
one day and the other the next.
A MOVEMENT has been started for the purchase
OF Liberty Hall. the home of the late Alexander
H. stephens, by the people OF Charlottesville and
Taliaferro County, Georgia. that 1t may be pre-
served as a memorial of the dead statesman; and
II is also proposed that Mr.. w. w. Story be COM
missioned to execute a marble statute of Mr.
Stephens in his roller chair for one of Georgia:
inches in the National Capitol.
THE Philadelphia Record states that Cedar.
croft" the residence of the late Bayard Taylor Is
again offered for SALE At the sale after the own.
ers death that par, of the property upon which
the residence. green houses and other buildings
were erected YVES bought. with lis acres of land,
by silss Warner. of Montgomery County, who
made 1t his home. The remaining eighty acres.
with a tenant-house. were purchased by another
his household is now broken up the property Il
again in the market.
KING HUMBERT, OF Italy-vho, by the way, ha'
just been celebrating the completion OF the :hir
tyninth year of his life and the fifth of his reign
leads in private plain. simple life, and is fond
of occupation and of home. He rises early. spends
little time In study, and then takes exercise in
the garden. From eight to nine he receives the
Minister of the Royal Household. and from nine
to eleven the other Ministers. At eleven he aud
the Queen take breakfast together with the Prince
of Naples seated between them. From one tc
three they receive visitors and then dive out
Their dinner hour is seven O'Clock, and they
USUALLY retire soon after ten. Sometimes the
Queen attends operas or the Theater, but the Kine
is almost never seen 1t such places.
CAPTAIN J. A. JEssELL, of Louisville, is q cous
I'm of the late Sir George Jessell. of England and
recently gave Courier-Journal reporter some
personal "reminiscences of the eminent Equity
Judge and Master 81 the Rolls and hts family
George Jessells father" he said, twas a wealthy
diamond merchant. the only dealer in London
who cut diamonds. He had large vault the
size OF an ordinary room. This was pigeon-holed