The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-09-14
Notes About Notable Peonle.


living in Virginia, the wife of Winfield
Scott.
General Grant persists in wearing an old
fashioned watch fob, and is very particular
about the way it hangs.
Princess Christian AMI the Duchess Of
Connaught both sang at a recent concert for
the completion of ST. Anne's Church at
Bagshot. The concert was given in the
grand stand of the fashionable Ascot race
course.
The daughter of Bayard Taylor has, until
recently, been supporting herself as a COVER
ness in New York. She and her mother de-
clined purse of $4,000, raised by New
York ladies on learning that Bayard Taylor
died poor.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Canada's new
governor general, will not receive unani-
nous welcome in that country. The Toron-
TO Advertiser says that the evidence is salts
factory that he is a harsh landlord and
narrow-minded, selfish man, and it is glad
OF 1t. The reason for this conclusion is that
the appointment will be all tire more calcu-
. lated to disgust Canadians with what it calls
the present rotten SYSTEM and to strength
en- the feeling in favor of independence.
Victor Hugo has not relaxM any of his
tasks since his arrival at Villenuye; and, all
though he devotes the greater part of his
day to enjoying the beauties of the locality.
he Invariably works from a. m. until 10
a. NJ His mode of writing is singular, sew
eral small tables being distributed about his
salon, and covered with manuscripts of the
various subjects on which he is engaged.
and he passes from one to the other as ideas
on any subject occur to him. On the news
OF the death of the Comte de Chambord
reaching him he seemed profoundly affect
ed, but made no remark beyond enchanting,
s'Il a bien souffert."
Mr.. VIM. H. Hurlbut, late editor of the
New York World, who. is now visiting the
Duke of Sutherland at Dunraven castle, In
Scotland, is paying the most devoted atten-
tons to the still beautiful widow of Scotch
duke.
One of the best Greek poets, Julius Tipal-
dos, Pretenderis, has died recently at Corfu.
He had risen to the highest judicial offices
under the English protectorate, and he
spent the last years of his life in Florence.
He was best known in Greece through his
collection of lyrical poems published at Cor
fu in 1857. They made great sensation,
and several of them became quite national
poems-Were sung and recited by people of
all classes. During his retirement at Flor
ence he occupied himself with transating
the "Gerusalemme Liberata'' of Tasso,
which had been already rendered into Greek
by NJ. A. 3. Rhangabe, the Greek Ambassa-
dor at Berlin. A part of this translation
into the popular language was printed in
1877 tthe third canto) and convinced the
Greek public that, if completed, this charm
ing version would be an ornament to Greek
literature. Unfortunately Tipaldos did not
live to see it printed; he, however, finished
it, so that there is little doubt of its being
published.
Mrs w. 2. Messick of Philadelphia has
brought an application for divorce from her
husband on account of his incorporate hab-
its. few years ago he was one of the most
promising lawyers at the bar and had a year
ly income of $4,000. His wife has a large
fortune in her own right and is an accom-
plished lady.
James W. Hinckley, who has purchased a
majority of the stock of the New York
Graphic, is son of Silas Hinckley of Bur-
lington, VT, and man of energy, industry,
tact and fine executive ability
Duke Robert of Parma, who is to receive
the larger portion of the enormous fortune
left by his uncle, the Comte de Chambord. a
fortune recently estimated at $12, O0O, 900, is
the head of the ducal line of Parma, one of
the branches of the house of Bourbon. He
is the son of Duke Charles Ill, the last
reignipg duke of the line, and of Louise de
Bourbon, daughter of the Duke de Berry
and sister of the Comte de Chambord Duke
Robert is comparatively young man, hav-
ing only attained the age of thirty-five. He
was married in 1866 to the Duchess Pia, a
younger sister of the eX-king of Naples, by
whom he has large family.
Princess Louise sent salmon she caught
in the Cascapedia River, New Bruins wick,
over the water to Windsor
The Pail Mall Gazette points out that the
Comte de Chambord has died in a month that
has proved fatal to many kings of France.
Philip |. died on the Sd OF August, 1860;
Louis VI. on the LIST of August, HOS; Louis
TX. on the 18th of August, 1926; Philip VI.
on the 23d of August, 1928; Louis XII. on
the Both of August, 1861; Henry III. on the
I'd of August, 1889. Louis Philippe also
died in exile on the 26th of August, 1850.
The oath of August. the date of the Comte
de Chambord's death, is also that of the
birth of the Comte de Paris, in 1854 fact
which will, perhaps, afford food for specu-
lation to the believers in omens 1t is,
moreover, the anniversary of the massacre
of ST. Bartholomew.
The trustees of Plymouth congregational
Church in San Francisco agreed to nav Rev.
FL. W. Beecher S2400 for his four lectures in
that city. Judging by the thin audiences at
the first two lectures, the probabilities are
that the trustees will lose money. Mr..
Beecher is not popular there. His former
utterances on the Chinese question alienat-
ed the sympathies of the people of the Pa
cific coast from him, and in an interview on
the same subject he expressed opinions
which will tend to increase his unpopulari-
ty. He says that the treatment which the
Chinese have received on the coast is shame
fl and ridiculous, while all the rest of the
world is adopting most liberal and ad-
yanced course in the matter of the freedom
OF persons to go and come without restraint.
Here he says, sis little strip of the
Western country insisting On a narrow. sell
fish policy of exclusion, which policy China
itself long since Abandoned