The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-03
ABOUT PEOPLE.

LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COLERIDGE has accepted
an invitation TO pass some time as the guest of
General Butler.
YOUNG George Vanderbilt, the fourth son of
the rich man, is said to have the honest ambi-
ton to become a newspaper reporter.
SUMMER resort writer mentions Longfellow's
"Hiawatha" as "most nOnsensical alleged
poem, that is always suggestive of two-tailed
dog with an empty UPSTREAM to each"
MRS. GARFIELD has given the horse that Gen
eral Garfield rode at the battle of Chickamauga
to o. c. Moore, of Kent, who assisted the Cen
eral TO mount 1t the first time he rode it.
FERNANDO DARTMOUTH, the Communist, is
to become the wife of Roumanian count, with
a separate income. the principal of which is rep
resented by $SO0,OH0. She is twenty-five years
old.
MAYOR PowDERLY. of Scranton, for the past
three years Grand Master Workman of the
Knights of Labor, is typical American, tall
and slender in person and digniied in manners.
He is forty-three years old.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to have been very
much affected by the Princess Beatriee's recent
departure for the continent for a months visit,
as the mother and daughter have never before
been separated longer tnan two days.
Elk governor PLAIsTED, of Maine, has taken
up his abode in Augusta, and with Colonel C. r.
Morton, of that city, has purchased the New
Age newspaper Mr.. Plaisted will be the editor
of the paper and Colonel Morton the business
manager.
THE wife OF the editor of the Sydney Herald,
lady of great beauty, persOnifled ''The Press" at
the Savage Club ball in London recently The
dress was made of white satin which actual
copies of her husbands paper had been printed
In colored inks.
teruF hraach of nourt atinuatta avs Tnndon
Life, (which permitted a fair American belle
who had not been presented to show up at the
state ball, has not been allowed to pass without
comment. A little bird tells me that the influ-
ence of Mr.. Lowell accomplished the unheard-of
privilege.
A JEW who was recently summoned to sit on
a coroner's jury in London excused himself on
the ground that, being descendant of the high
priest he was exempt from seeing dead body.
The coroner ruled that the Levltical law was
not binding in this court, and fined the Jew fifty
shillines
LONDON Truth remarks of Oscar Wilde: "If
he was snubbed, he did not see 1t; If he
laughed at, he did not heed it. There was no
guile in the man, and little method In his mad
ness, for though on lap-dog terms with many
women he was never connected with any scan
dai, nor can 1t be said of him that he was
| hunter OF heiresses"
ANOTHER member of the English royal family,
Princess Victoria of Hesse, is about to be mar
ried to a German prince, Louis of Battenberg.
OF course he is a princely beggar, and a place
will have to be provided for him somewhere-in
the navy, perhaps. Mr. Labouehere suggests
that the Queen give him something from her
wel-filled purse. and supply him with free lodg-
ings In Hampton Court
CHARLES PARRISH, the coal king of the Wyom-
ing regions, after twenty years operating the
various mines owned by the Lehigh and Wilkes
| barre Coal Company, severed his connection
with them contractor on Wednesday. fare
well address to his many thousand miners was
prepared by him on Tuesday and was posted at
the various cOllieries the same night. The COM
pany will hereafter mine their own coal.
| QUEEN VICTORIA does not go abroad this year,
but will follow her usual routine Of Osborne till
| the third week in August and then Balmoral
| till the end Of November. The London Journals
| grumble because the special trains between
| Aberdeen and Baater, while the Queen is at
Balmoral, are not paid for by her, as is generally
supposed, but by the government They cost
$3.50 week. and during the last ten years the
amount paid has been $45,5 500.
| A GIRL at Long Branch speaks with an acquir-
ed London accent "Me cawt, me cawt at 5
/ O'CLOCK, S0o 6dlu TO INC ldluliy COdCunlhIy III u
| voice loud enough for veranda full of peo-
| pie to hear. "Csught what, miss?" the man in
CURED repetition of the order did not make
| him understand 1t, and she had to say in plain
American pronunciation, though she lowered
her voice and stepped closer in doing SO: "My
cart stupid; my village cart. at O'clock"
A CHAMBERMAID at the Asquam House, Holder
ness N H., made bold to ask John u. Whittier.
who is staying there, for his autograph. He COM
piled with the request, signing his name after
the following impromptu lines:
''The truth the English poet saw
Two centuries back, is thine
who sweeps room as by Gods law,
Makes room and action fine.
And in thy quiet ministry
TO wants and needs of ours, see
How grace and toll may well agree"
In his personal appearance Carey was describ-
ed as follows at the time of the trial: Games
Carey ia a tall webuit man of Forty or forty
five His face and bearing indicate GOODNESS and
determination. His high forehead and pleasant
looking blue eyes are calculated to inspire con-
fidence, while his quiet demeanor decent dress.
and general air of respectability mark him out
as different from the ordinary run of his fellow
artisans, aud suggest the successful tradesman.
His hair is brown, his eyes dark blue, and his
cheeks wear a hectic flush. He wears both
mustache and beard, the features of his face
istic of it is the prom hence of the cheek-bones,"