The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-22
ABOUT PERSONS.

HENRY WATTERsoN wants to be mayor OF
Louisville
MONTGOMERY BLAIR is lying i'll at his home in
Montgomery county, Maryland.
IHE ex-Empress Eugene will spend February
with Queen Victoria at Osborne.
MISS FRANCEsE WILLARD, whose lectures have
been complimentary to the South, has been re-
oeived warmly at Charleston.
AS General Shermans daughters are soon to
leave Washington, their receptions are crowded.
They are great favorites in Washington society.
THE agricultural society of Washington
county, N. Y, already aspires to have Governor
. Butler. of the Bay State, for orator at its fair
next September
Miss MABEL BAYARD, daughter of Senator
! Bayard, is to be married in Washington on
Thursday next, Jan. 25, at the Church of the
Ascension, TO Mr.. Samuel Dennis Warren, jr.. of
Boston.
IT is SAID that Mrs. Da Ponte, of New Orleans,
has gone to Washington for the purpose of sell
ing to the United States the original parchment
draft of the Confederate States constitution for
$30,00O-if she can.
IF girl wants to be romantic, the proper way
is to send up toy balloon with a card attached,
asking the finder to correspond with her.
Michigan girl tried 1t, and got letter from her
brother in Indiana, who found the balloon, and
told her not to be a fool
THE story is told of Congressman Smalls, Of
South Carolina, that being complimented upon
i the good order which prevailed in the House
while he was in the Speakers chair, he said:
"White men don't like to be ordered by a colored
man to be quiet. That is why they kept quiet"
! MRS. EMILY 8. STINsoE, a sister of Mrs James
! g. Blaine, died last Thursday at Augusta, Me.
Her husband, David stinson, brigade quarter
ms of
Ship Island during the rebellion, and two of their
sons were killed in battle or died from the effects
| of the war
! THE engagement is rumored at Washington of
Mr.. Walker Blaine and Miss Emily Beale, the
daughter of General Beae, General Grants
friend and recent host. 1t is said that the formal
announcement will soon be made, and possibly a
second wedding may occur in Mr.. Blaine's family
/ this season.
! FRANCIS MURPHY, the famous temperance ad-
vocare, will return to Philadelphia, after
an absence of nearly three years. His health is
said to be badly broken. He is threatened with
serious pulmonary complications, and has lately
| spent on that account much time in the Scottish
Highlands, but without the hoped-for benefit.
| PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON is a graceful story
teller. The early resemblance he bore to the
first Napoleon has measurably disappeared and
!
sonal appearance. His ordinary carriage is af-
fected, but he is subject to fits of abstraction in
which he walks tho street with the air OF man
OF energy and purpose.
SARAH BERNHARDT, says the London TRUTH
hardly seems a fourishing pecuniary con-
dtion just now. The receipts of the Ambigu
Theater are taken every night by Der numerous
creditors. She spent 80 900 upon the dresses,
scenery, ETC., of the piece now running, and the
company and general expenses amount every
night to above 4lOO The average daily re-
/ ceipts are only $50.
MRS. SENATOR JOHN F. MILLER, at her daugh-
| ter's reception in Washington wore a dress of
black velvet combined with pomegranate satin
and richly brocaded with gold. Miss Miller's
dress was of white satin, the front being a mass
OF flowers, fruits, grain, birds, gold and silver
One side of the bodice of oats and wheat
varied with butterflies and hummin birds; the
other side was of cherries, pears, apples and
| pums. Her crown of wheat and grapes had a
long Spaaish-lace veil, caught round the waist
She represented California"
PRINCE KRApoTKINE, who was recently SEN
fenced at Lyons for alleged completely in the
MontceauIes-Mines disturbances, belongs to
family that trace direct descent in the male
| line from the House of Rurk He is highly edu-
Gated, especially in sciences, and has written
several valuable works on geology and the ice
drifts OF Finland. In 1873, when he was cham
berluin to the Czarina, and the social lion OF the
Russian court. it was discovered that under the
name of Borodin he had been expoundng social
| st doctrines to the workingmen of st. Peters
burg. He was thrown into prison, but escaped
after three years, ana has since lived princi
pally at Geneva, where, with NJ. Elsee Reclus
and other kindred spirits, he has devoted him
self to social and political agitation. He has a
brother among the eXiles in Siberia, sent thther
for political and religious reasons
THE SPIRIT OLE THE PRESS