The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-04
ABOUT PEOPLE,

THE New York Evening Post is having new
press nuilt, and will be issued soon as a four
page paper, cut and pasted.
THE largest insurance upon the life of any one
person in the United States is held by one G.
K. Anderson, of Titusville, Pa, and amounts to
S315,OOO.
SENATOR LOGAN, after making three hours
speech, the other day, attended dinner party,
and then, at midnight was one of the lghtest
brightest aud most graceful OF dancers OF the
lancers.
THE first white child in the Yellowstone valley
was Edison Whitney, whose father moved into
that country in 1877, when the valley had only
been populated one year by frontiersmen. Now
the boy is attending graded school with $50
other children.
WASHINGTON Special: at was reported this
evening that Secretary Folger had sublet his
house Connecticut avenue, he agreeing to
give UP possession on Jan. 5. The Secretary is
also reported to have said that he expected to
sail for Europe at an early day"
MISS NJ. T. THOMAS. of Baltimore, has won at
the University of Zurich the degree of doctor
of philosophy, "summa cum laude," the highest
honor ever granted there. She received her
elementary training IN Baltimore and afterward
graduated at Cornell University.
ment is Immediately before a window which
looks straight, full and direct into the White
House. Every time he looks up from his wri-
ting, his reading or his talking, the venerable
rookery stares him In the face, but his ambition
turns elsewhere.
Mr.. W. W. CoRCoRAN, the Washington philan
thropist, received many visitors and almost
countless congratulatory letters and floral tokens
on Wednesday last, his eighty fourth birthday
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bancroft were among the
callers, and President Arthur sent a large gilt
basket, two feet high, filled with choice flowers.
THE Princess Louise has regular features, a
fine complexion and superb shoulders, and has
little or no resemblance to the old royal family,
but good deal to the house OF SaxOny. She has
quick wit, fine instincts, is very impusive and
very self-denying. She has as decided talent
for house keeping as for the fine arts, in which
practice she excels.
OMAHA Herald Letter: "One of the oldest mem
beers of the United States Supreme Bench was
heard to say, soon after Roscoe Consling's late
argument before that court that 1t was the ablest
legal argument that had ever been presented
to it during his own long service as Associate
Justice. He also said that Mr.. Conkling was
one of the greatest men intellectually OF these
times"
CHARLES +. FREEMAN, who sacrificed his
child in religious frenzy at Pocassett, Mass
three years ago, and Is now in a unatic asy um
is regarded as having recovered his reason, and
is likely soon to he released. "The child's life
was lost" he says Through ignorance and su-
persition. knowledge and science have saved
mine and restored my reason, I intend to be
guided by reason through the rest Of my life."
MRS. GEORGE W. MELVILLE, according TO a
writer in tho Philadelphia Press, has changed
greatly since she was released from the Norris
town Insane Asy lum. She has lost a great
de al OF flesh, and her eyes are nov sunk far
back into their sockets, while her face, pale and
haggarG, plainly shows the mental suffering