The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss JEFFREYsLEwIs, the well-known actress,
has Cancelled all her present engagements be-
cause OF the death of hel father, which occurred
on Monday.
HON. JOHN W. FOSTER, recently appointed
minister to Spain, will leave for Madrid on the
9th inst. His residence in Washington hasbeen
leased by POstmaster-general Gresham.
Miss CLARA BARTON, reports concerning whose
ill-health have been much exaggerated expects
this week to enter upon her duties as superin-
tendent of the Womens Prison at Sherborn,
Mass.
THE wife of a brand-new member of Congress
told her neighbors that her family would remove
to Washington, but she was undecided as to how
they would live in the capital-she favored
taking one of the Potomac flats.
THE young Duke of Morny has been astonish-
ing Paris, if the chroniclers do not lie, by APP
pearing in salons in the gorgeous velvet coat
with sapphire and ruby buttons which he wore
at tile Vanderbilt ball. He meditates boom, IL
is said, in favor of scarlet velvet dress suits for
evening parties.
To youth who inquired whether in saluting
lady friend whom he met in the street, he
should raise his hat merely bow as well, a
Toronto paper replies that he should do both, as
the hat was "raised out of courtesy to the entire
dividual recognition"
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES was summoned home
from New York a few days ago by dispatch
conveying the news of Mrs. Hayes's alarming
sickness. A letter was received in New York on
Monday from Mr.. Hayes, stating that Mrs.
Hayes had rapidly recovered from the trouble
that called him home suddenly.
THE report that the Hon. Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia. was dangerously ill in New York. is
erroneous. His brother, Beverly Tucker, has
been i'll at the New York Hotel for six weeks
with rheumatic govt. but is now convaescent.
Congressman Tucker, when his brother last
heard from him, was in perfect health.
MR.. F. W. CHRIST, postmaster at Lititz, Pa,
who died last week, had not for fifty years, until
this spring. missed attending a single one Of the
peculiar services of the Moravian church which
are held in the burying-ground every Easter
morning. He was member of the National
Electoral College and cast his vote for Lincoln
In 1860.
JUDGING by the movements OF the Princess
Louise since her return Ottawa, her health is
fully restored. she is now paying daily visits to
the charitable and other public Institutions of
the city. On Saturday she inspected the Pro-
testant Hospital and the Geological Museum,
and yesterday the General Hospital, which is
under the supervision of the Sisters of Charity.
HUssEIN TEwFIK PAsHA, who succeeds Gre
goire Aristaohi Bey as Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Turkish
government to the United States, was formerly
Turkish minister to France, and since 1876 has
been Charge d'Affaires at Athens He is a man
of some fifty five or sixty years OF age, small of
stature, has a short, white beard, and prominent
nose
NEW YORK World: 'Lirtle by little the truth
ereeps out touching John Brown. 1t is now
openly stated in England that her MaJesty's
chief personal hencnman died OF D. T., and that
her Majesty knew it. Lord Torrington, one of
her Majesty's lords in waiting, is now commonly
know in London clubs as "John Brown the Sec-
ond," on the ground that at John Browns funeral
her Majesty, overcome with emotion, put her
hand kindly on Lord Torrington's shoulder, and,
to the unavoidable disgust of that peer OBJ
served: "You are now my Oldest personal
attendant"
Mr.. BoAD HARRIS, of Cherokee, Ca, says that
some years ago he and Colonel DuPree were
coming from Gainesville, and, stopping at
farmhouse in Barlow county to get water, they
saw gourd-vine that covered over an acre of
ground This vine where it came out of the
ground, was as large as his (Boad's) body. Boad
thinks that the vine, in direct line, would
measure over five miles in length. He and
Colonel DuPree counted the gourds on said vine
up to something over four hundred, and had to
stop on account of the lateness of the hour,
fearing they would not have time to get home
before night. Unless the vine meets with an ac
cidenJ 1t is expected to cover all Georgia.
You would not expect a man to fly into a fu-
rious passion because another man drank his
health. but this is just what happened the other
day to a prominent merchant of Portland, Ore,
1t seems that he is noted far and vice for his
charitable disposition, and this is how it hap
pened, as told by the Orcgonian; Regularly
twice week for the past two months a respect
able Ind hOnest-lO0king man has applied to him
for Twenty-Five cents to "buy his only meal that
day." The two bits were always cheerfully