The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-18
PERSONALITIES

VII Gustave Dore's last ambition was TO make
. statue OF Shakespeare.
81. Sergeant Baeantine has not gone homo
y but is still in New York.
M Anthony Trollope left his family Slo5
QOO and copyright Of fifty novels.
IA General Fit2hugh Lee was the euesf N
6eneral Hancock on Governors Island the
other day.
ries Summers nieces, the Misses Hast.
washington. " Nv" '''i''"s
NJ. Arthur has nominated George W.
Murts, OF Pennsylvania, 10 be secretary ot
legation to Russia.
A memorial statue OF Ralph Waldo Eme,.
500 is to be placed in the public library ward
at Concord Massachusetts
Elk Senator Conkling having denied chat
he was ever knocked out by Mace, the lat.
Ger processes his Willingness to do it over
agaln in two rounds.
The czar has ordered his coronation
\ thrt ne. 1t will be made of blac, onk
carved in an antique Slavonic pattern. and
viii cost over $500.
N General James Watson Webb of New
"A ork, who began 10 do newspaper work
nity-slx years ago drank to his own health
we X since.
~ SAINT Gaudens, the sculptor, hes modelled
colossal bas-reiief of DR.. Alexander Vim.
ton to be placed in Emanuel church, Boston.
where he has so long oficated
1. ', Nanheusen, jr, of Albany, former.
~ sergeant in the signal service, furnished
The facts on which General Hazen has
been tmpaled by Congressman Beltzhoover.
The marriage is announced of Miss A nnie
forney, youngest daughter of the late Col.
John w Forney, and George W, Filler
nephew OF Edwin IL. Filter, ell Of Phila,
delpha.
Preston Powers has made at his studic.
IN Florence, n lite-s2e bust of Charles sum,
ner, and, having bought the bust for al .OOJ.
tie senior class of Bates college will present
II 10 that school.
!. The Rev Joseph Cook fell between train
4 OF cars and the station platform az Poult-
ney, Vermont, the other day, and was
pulled out by bystarder just in time TO
escape serious injury,
Luther Whiting Mason, who is employed
/. D. the Japanese government to instruct
japanese school.teachers in music, is visit
( ing boston on leave OF absence He lee
< tured in that city on japanese music few
evenings ago,
MIR. Gladstone, sitting every Sunday in
his uncushioned pew, listens with head
4 thrown back and closed eyes TO the ser.
mon. However unique the closed eye in
England, it is not uncommon among
American congregations.
Freeman III. Morse, who was member
8of the twenty-eighlh congress-lS43-i5.-
from Maine, is now living in Liverpool.
England, at which place he has made his
nome since the explr ition of his term as
consul at that place, many years ago.
George c. Min, the Chicago preacher
who lett the pulpit for the Stage, broke one
OF L ribs while playing Hamlet in Rich.
mond, Indiana, on Friday night. lie was
quitting the stage after his colouuy with
Ophelia a"d fell through an open trap.
Sarah Bernhardt's jewels were sold at
auction the other day. The persons in at
tendance were principally dealers and rep q.
resentaiive OF the demi.monde, A neck.
lace OF rose diamonds sold Tor 1900 francs
and two bracelets fetched 900 francs each.
Mrs: E.elnor II, Swain, who died at Raj.
eigh, North Carolina, last week, was promi-
nent in southern society nearly half a cen
fury ago. She was a granddaughter OF
Governor Richard Caswell, and the wife of
Governor David L. Swain, of North Carolina
Mrs. William Wallace, who lives at Coble-
skill, III Schoharle county, New YORK, re-
members when General Washington patted
her on the head, nearly century age. The
father of his country was then stopping al
the Schuyler mansion, in Cobleskili, Mrs
Wallace is l0i years old.
General Robert roombs submitted to an
operation for a cataract, in Atlanta, on
wednesday. He is nearly sightless. There
is story going the rounds wherein Gen
eraI Ioombs is said to have dlsinherited a
granddaughter because she married n youth
to whom he objected on account OF his
family. The fiery old mans will, in which
$4,000 were marked down for the young
woman, WAS altered, so that she now has a
husband, but no 'tr"~
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