The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-03-01
Gossip
About Men and Women.

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record tells the following story:
Last week Col. Moulton, the Cincinnati;
lawyer who married sister of General and
Senator Sherman, was making an argument
before the supreme court, when Chief JUS
tice Waite, who has grown great since he
day when he used to practice with Moulton
at the Cincinnati, bar, startled him by say
ing: "Mr. Moulton, the statute does not all
low an appeal to the class of cases to which
| your case belongs" When Moulton, who
saw that if Waite was right he had no sta d.
| ing in court, had recovered from his sur
| prise, he said deferentially: 81 think your
| honor must have forgotten that the statute
| makes an exception in favor of cases of this
| class" It was more in sorrow than in an
| ger that the Chief Justice replied: "The
court is too familiar with the statute in uues-
ton, Mr. Moulton, to be mistaken about
It." just at this point, Associate Justice
Stephen Field. who sits on Waite's left,
and who had been TAXI a glance a the
statute, nudged the Chief Justice, and, lean
ing over, whispered something iu his ear.
Waite's face was hot as he turned toward
the bar and said: $50 on, Mr. Moulton,
the court will hear you." Mr.. Moulton was
not interrupted again by Chief Justice
Waite.
The Boston Journal relates pretty Incl
dent The young lady must have been
Portland girl visiting Boston: Two pretty
girls were walking down Winter street; they
were handsomely dressed and were chatting
and laughing with the delightful abandon
peculiar TO the roseate period of youth, and
they seemed the very last persons who
would be interested in suffering humanity.
dirty and ragged beggar woman, evident
ly nearly blind, was crossing Washington
from Summer street, and was In great dan
| ger OF being run over by an approaching
team, when one of these same pretty girls
| darted to the crossing, took the beggar wom-
| an by the arm, and hurried her over to the
| sidewalk, where she left her in safety, and
| then walked up Washington street with her
former companion as if nothing had hap
pened. Three rich and handsome bachel-
ors OF thirty-hve, to whom an eye witness
related this story, are now eagerly seeking
to obtain that young lady's address.
was informed by "a leading Bonapartist
that Eugene when in Paris signed a certain
document acknowledging Prince Victor as
her heir, and that it was in order to do this
that she went to Paris. saw her on her re-
turn to Charing Cross. She looked wretch
eddy i'll, pale as death, and seemed almost
blind, leaning upon stick YEARLY, and an
| parenty feeling her way as if she dared not
| trust her rapidly failing sight The empress
is, am assured, growing blind, her sight
| having been irretrievaby injured by inces-
SAINT weeping.-R. Davey's London letter in
New York Mail and Express.
Sir Harry Verney's political jubilee was
celebrated on January Both by dinner Civ
en- him by his Buckingham constituents.
Mr. Gladstone wrote from Cannes letter
of congratulation in which he said: canon
my own recollections of the year 1888 are
some, and those perfectly distinct. of your
per. onal kindness to me at that epoch.
| which has never since been intermitted. .
Letters were also read from Floreuce Night
lngale, John Bright, the Duke of Argyll,
| Lords Granville, Spencer and Northbrook.
Sir Henry BRAID, Messrs. Forster, Fawcett
aud Chamberlain, and many others
A gentleman in Lincoln, Nebraska, owns
an autograph letter written by Abrahanl
Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois, April 16,
1853, to Mr.. I. ]. Picketts, personal friend
/ in Rock Island, in which he said: GAS to
the other matter you kindly mention, must
in candor say do not think myself fit for
! the presidency. l certainly am fattered and
| gratitied that some partial friends think of
me in that connection, but l really think it
best for our cause that no concerted effort
| such as you suggest should be made. Let
this be considered confidential
In reply to'a request to play in Paris for
the benefit of the sufferers from the floods in
Alsace-Lorraine Able Franz List wrote
from Budapest, Jan. 2Sth: ''In my dispatch
of this morning have told you with regret
that cannot take part in your concert. 1t
would be pleasant to play, and cannot for
| get what + owe to Paris, where have passed
my earlier days. But seventy-two years of
| age disable me as a pianist. For years
have not practised, and | could not try my
ten fingers in public without suffering de-
feat. On this there is no doubt, and in con-
sequence of my advanced age have decided
not to appear as public concert player in
any country.
One who knew her there writes as follows
of the visits Of Miss Alice Longfellow, the
poets daughter, TO a Boston hospital: Gun
assuming in manner and transformations in
dress, few knew that she who wore the
quiet gray was the daughter of our dis
tinguished American poet. So it was with
the utmost satisfaction | used TO point her
out or describe her to my compatriots as the
young girl N the soft gray dress hecked with
red. moving out and in among us with her
quiet words of greeting as being really Miss
Longfellow. This was her charge, her hos
ptal work; thus one day she came to our
Kaiser worth TO give it her time, her voice.
and her presence. When once making her
rounds, a patient with fearful Yankee
drawl asked, upon discovering who Miss
Longfellow was: Be you The one in the TO-
tygraf without emmy arms?" "a common
delusion at the time the photographs were
issued, from The arrangement of the group,
that one was born without armsl. AT which
Miss Alice made laughing reply as she
showed her two good useful hands and
arms.o
do you know" said lady, whom asked
about the senator's home life, ''that Mr.. Ed
munds is model-yes, perfect model
husband and father? 1t is no uncommon
thing for him, if Mrs. Edmunds is sick,
which she is good deal of the time, to
make her cup of tea or coffee or broil her
steak, and prepare her as dainty repast
as the most exacting palate could demand,
with his own hands. He is not one of the
gushing kind, but it is not in human nature
for man to be more devotedly attentive to
wife and daughter than Senator Edmunds
is to his. And that is not ALL" she said,
''for he is one of the best neighbors in the
city of Burlington. never saw man so
ready or one who would put himself out so
much to accommodate another as Mr. Ed
munds. He had couple of Methodist
clergymen visiting him, and requested his
man of-all-work to black their boots in the
morning, which he declined to do Mr.
Edmunds promptly discharged the fellow,
went up stairs, got the boots, and polished
them himself | could tell you any number
of such anecdotes about him. Burlington
Letter to the Chicago News.
Successful Parties.
TRoston Gazettay