The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-22
ABOUT PEOPLE.


Mexican mining speculation.
| Hon. VIM. WEST, the younger brother of the
British minister at Washington, has just died in
London.
THE reigning beauty of Ireland is Belfast
mill-Girl. Crowds, it is said, surround the mill
daily to see her as she takes her departure.
MR.. W. W. CoRCoRAN has sent $50 to friends
in Baltimore for Prof. Crouch, author of "Kath-
leen MavOurneen," who is in need of friendly
aid.
THE remains of John Howard Payne, the COM
poser of "Home, Sweet Home" which have been
removed from TunIs, are expected TO reach New
York to-day.
| THE engagement is announced of Mr.. Oliver
Fl. Northcote, a son of Sir Stafford Northcote,
long resident of New York, to Miss Edith Fish,
a daughter of ex-secretary Fish.
JUDGE HUNT, our minister to Russia, is said to
| have acquired the language of that country
since his residence in st Petersburg, and now is
able to converse in it easily and 1uently.
| CAPTAIN JAMES EsTILL was slain by Indians
in the battle of Little Mountain KY, 101 years
ago next Thursday. On Thursday lO1 guns will
be fired at Richmond. KY, in honor of the pio-
neer's memory.
In lakewood Cemetery, where the remains of
John Howard Payne are to be buried, the
mains of the great war secretary, Edwin NJ.
Stanton, and the cratic preacher, Lorenzo
Dow, are also laid at rest
SIMON CAMERON has rallied sufficiently from
| his recent injuries to move about a little and
Join in a sociable chat He visited Thurs
day by Charles A. Dana. Their trip to the
Pacific coast is postponed.
WITH the consent of the widow of the late
Richard Wagner and the sanction of the King of
Bavaria, twelve performances of Parsifal will be
| given at Bayreuth between July 8 and 80, next.
| Several artists from Munich will take part in
| the performances.
| 81 HOPE smoking is not offensive to you," said
a German baron American lady, lighting
his pipe on the deck of an Atlantic steamer. az
really can not tell" she answered indiferently.
mo gentleman mas ever smoked before me."-
Tales of the Ocean.
SYRACUSE Herald: "The widow of Governor
Davis, of Texas, has declined the postmasuership
of Austin, kindly proffered by President Arthur.
1t is the first and last duty of the never to
refuse an office, and If Mrs. Davis is a sample of
her sex, most assuredly women must not be
| given the elective franchise"
SENATOR PUGH has a bass voice of tremendous
depth, and a correspondent thinks his throat
must be coiled up like the stem Of q brass horn
| in order to get into his body, ample its pro-
portions are When he says mo during roll
call 1t sounds as if the voice came up through
| the traps from the subbasement of the Capitol.
MOST newspaper men think they are doing
pretty Well when they can travel on pass, but
the proprietors of the Boston Herald, Messrs.
Pusifer, Hankell and Andrews have built
road fifty miles longII Florida. which runs from
| the town of Sanford, on the st. Johns, toward
Tampa Bay, and like all the Florida roads, has a
large land grant All three of the gentlemen
named are down in Florida at the present time.
DO not be surprised any day, writes Paris
correspondent, to receive telegram saying:
Sarah Bernhard has committed suicide She
took morphine last night, and this morning was
found dead in bed. A letter on her dresslng-ta-
BILE confessed the crime, and attributed it to in
extricabe pecuniary embarrassments." Suicide
is even now, on her lips, the correspondent
adds, and even now often woos her as her best
friend, the only physician that can craze out
the written troubles of the brain"
RICH women pretty generally useful
members of society. Philadelphia has q good
many of SUCH At the head OF the list stands
next comes Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore-Miss
Jessup of Westtield-with So, 500, 900 in personal
property alone; Mrs. Anna W. Baird and Mrs.
Matthew Baldwin are worth 100000 each;
Mrs Adoph E. Borie, Mrs George Fales and the
two daughters of Henry Rawle are worth over
81, 900, 900, and they are all spoken of as active
in various charitable enterprises