The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-21

Aud now Brother Beecher's attention is called
to a provision of the New York code which
makes it manslaughter ill the first degree to
'advise, encourage, abet or assist" any person
in suicide.
MIR. W. W. CORCoRAN, the aged banker and
philantr0pist, who is now at home in Washing
ton after tho summer, drives out frequently.
and is comparatively, in excellent heath. He
still plays an excellent game OF whist.
PROF BoYEsEN pays a worthy tribute to
Tourguinef in the Critic of Sept. %, in which
number Miss Charlotte Adams writes of "West-
ern influence on Russian literature" The week
ly issue of The Critic is resumed with this num-
Der.
Mr.. SAMUEL B. STAFFORD, of Maryland,
kinsman of Paul JONES' has placed on exhibition
at the New England fair In Boston the flag car
ried and the cutlass worn by that famous cap
tain in his many voyages and battles on the Bon
Homme Richard,
AT Conway, in Wales there is a monument
erected in the church to the memory of dead
worthy, Alderman HOPES. His epitaph con-
| sists of the following sentence: "He WAS the
father OF twenty-seven children, and was the
forty-first child of his father
! WHEN Mr.. Case, the owner of the trotting
| horse Jay-EyeSee, saw the record lowered at
Boston last Saturday to 2:10a4, he rushed across
the track to the grand stand and kissed Mrs.
Case twice. Some people think that as a gene r.
Gus, grateful man he should have Osculated the
horse. This would have been q clear ease.
lola, the French writer, drinks brandy and
water while at work. John Bright, the English
statesman. has not touched spirits for ten
years, and he finds his health improved. Can
on Farrar is a total abstainer President Ar
thur drinks gooo rye whisky during the day
and never less than bottle of champagne at
| dinner.
Miss CELESTE MARGUERITE wINANs, Balti-
more belle, was lately married in Paris to Mr..
Gaun McRobert Hatton, of Grey Abbey, county
Down, Ireland The lady brought her lord 3d.
100000. Mr.. Hatton is attached to the United
States Legation at St. Petersburg, and the happy
couple will reside alternately in st. Petersburg
and Baltimore.
DENVER correspondent thus describes the
second Mrs. Senator Tabor "a labby blonde
about the medium height, whose form may have
been voluptuous once but Is only fat
heavy eyes, which are half braZen, half appeal
ing; general air of weight and malapropism,
and hopeless suggestion of crying to fit into
unaccustomed responsibility, with little chance
of success"
LADY GAY PAGET, who was married recently
to Lord Windsor, a young nobeman with the
comfortable income of $4,000 sterling year,
was accompanied on her bridal tour by q white
cat. novelty in wedding costumes was also
exhibited at this notable marriage. While the
bride was attired in the richest satin and dis
played wealth of pearls and diamonds, Lord
Windsor wore morning suit of mixed gray and
white tweed, without the slightest approach to
what the English call "smartness."
COUNT sHEREMETTEFF, a Russian. is celebrat-
ing his honeymoon for all there is in it. He
married not long ago the Countess Heyden. He
hired the steamer Oleg, which is taking
them up the Volga. The Drultna Steamboat
Company, to which the steamer belongs, re-
ceives payment of $3.50 day; in return for
this sum the count may travel when and where
he pleases Many wedding guests accompany
the Count and Countess SheremetIef, and there
are also on board the Oleg band, twenty sing
ers, photographer, physician, men and wOm-
en- cooks, and a numerous staff of servants.
| LAFAYETTE Courier: A private letter re-
ceived by the Burlington friends of Robert J..
Burdette states that he has been seriously in
jured. The Hawkeye learns that passing
coach caught the vase which he held in his
hand, striking it so suddenly and with such
| force as to turn him half way round and throw
his back against the side OF the moving car
which hurled him forward, rolling him some
distance, and inflicting painful and serious
wounds chiefly upon the head. His wounds
are not considered dangerous il properly attend
ed, but perfect rest from mental exertion has
been eDjoined for some weeks He is at his
! home, ArdmOre, Penn, with his family. who
hope by care and nursing to restore him to his
| accustomed health.