The Portland daily press., 1883-10-19
Notes About Notable People

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Moody and Sankey are holding enormous
revival meetings In Limerick
George W. Julian, of Indiana, is prepar-
ing volume of political "reminiscences.
The Duke of Argyle has been made
knight of the Garter.
David Davis is in Washington, but still re-
fuses to talk politics.
Gladstone refuses to talk with newspaper
men about his recent trip to the Continent.
Roscoe Conkling has his hands full of bus
mess in the United States Supreme Court.
General HazeD. chief signal officer, has re-
turned to Washington from an extended tour
in the West.
General Sam Cary will devote the coming
winter to reviving the Granger movement in
New Hampshire.
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana, has de- ived
great improvement from the baths at Carls-
bad
Mary A. S. Cary, of Michigan; and Louise
" Bryant, of Colorado, are the only colored
women lawyers in the country.
Robert j. Burdette has so far recovered
from the effects of his recent accident as to
be able to resume his literary and journals
tic work.
2. I. Barnum, who has just reached home
from Europe, says he never felt better in his
life than at present. Hlo ocean trip has
agreed with him. Neither he nor Mrs. Bar
mum ever feels seasick.
A friend Of the actor John Mccullough in
London has sent him rare old mezzotint
engraving of "The Death of Virginia." |. is
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from the collection of Skeene, the keeper of
the prints and engrayings in the British Mu-
scum.
Mr.. Ruskin has had scaffods erected
around tie Ducal Palate, Venice. in order
that casts may be taken of the scup ure
he keeps two artists constantly employed in
making drawings from the best continental
examples of old masters works.
A gentleman, whose name the Albany,
N. Y. Evening Journal is not at liberty to
divulge, has offered to give $25, 900 toward
the foundation of public library in Albany,
| provided enough money in addition b : raised
to guarantee substantial beginning.
The Prince de Joinville is laid up at Chan
lilly. The other day be had occasion to pun
ish little dog which mastiff had taken
under his protection. The latter, hearing
the former yelp, rushed to defend it, jumped
at the princes face and tore it severely
The wounds were SO bad as TO need to be
sewed up.
The Austrian African explorer, LIZ. Steck
| er, after five years absence in the service of
| the German-African Society, has returned
home. For the most part he travelled with
| Gerhard Rohlfs, but Stecker himself discov-
| cred about dozen countries east of South
| Abyssina, which 10 European ever entered
before. He was imprisoned spy by King
Meteles of Shoa, but was released through
the intercession of the Marquis Antinori.
London Truth hears that the queen has
| issued private memorandum enjoining the
| occupants OF certain royal pa ace to cor
rsction and reformation of manners Re-
| cent events have brought to her knowledge
| the fact that in one of her palaces gambling
| is regularly going Oh to an almost incredible
| extent. Enormous sums are won and
| lost. The ardent players are wont to con-
| tinue their amusement we'll into the morn
ings of Sundays and other days directed to
he kept holy.
Mr.. Shaw, the English missionary in Mad.
agascar, whose i'll treatment by the French
has been brought so prominently before the
public, is not a clergyman, but layman, ac-
cording to the Pail Mall Gazette. He is now
forty three years old, and was educated at
the Normal College of the British and For
eign School Society. Desiring to be employed
in missionary work. he undertook an educa-
tional appointment at Samoa. uuder the
London Missionary Society. In 1871 the So
Getty requested Mr. Shaw to become super
intendent of education in the Be,sileo Prov
ince, South Central Madagascar. In 1878
he came home for holiday, aud, on return
ing to Madagascar in 1880, was sent to Tam
atave. At Tamatave he has superintendent
every department of missionary work, lelig-
ious and educational, medical and mechani-
cal, Including the erection of schools and
churches. He is member of the Geological
Society of London and correspondent of
the Meteorological Society.