The Dickinson press., 1884-08-23
Personal Pararraphs.

Personal Paragraphs.
Frank Calvert, the divorced husband
OF the present wife of X Governor
Sprague, of Rhode Island, died sud-
denly in q Cincinnati hotel Sunday af-
ternoon. There are suspicious of sui
eide, but all his friends agree that he
died of a broken heart.
John Q. Emo, the rascally and fugi-
tive ex-president of the Second Nation
al bank of New York city, writes to a
friend that he intends to live in Quebec.
He has sent for his family to join him.
His brother is already with him.
Miss Rolands, the American lady
who was married in London a fortnight
ago, is said by an exchange to have re.
ceived more than 600 presents. The
Jewels were of immense value, and the
silver plate would fill q dozen plate
chests.
General Gordon writes to a friend in
England describing the tactics which
led to the destruction of General Hicks
and his army. He says Hicks had in
tervlews every evening with the Mahdi'a
agents, who conducted him into o mar
row gorge. The Mahd1 then put SOL
dlers at each end of the gorge. Hicks
remained there for three days, when the
Arabs closed upon him and massacred
him and all his men.
DR.. Proust in Paris recommends peo.
pie during the prevalence of cholera to
avoid chills at night, long cold baths,
all exceeses of labor or pleasure, and
iced drinks-in short, everything that
can cause physical depression. He
advises care in selection of drinking
water, which should be boiled. He re-
commends abstention from raw vegeta-
bles, and remarks that both drunken
ness and indigestion are p~redisposing
causes.
Lord Strathnairn, n of the greatest
and most terrible of the English gener-
ais in the Indian mutiny, who lined the
road with hanging corpses has now fall
en- into his dotage, but a flicker of the
old flame appears in a notice he has
just given in the House of Lords of a
motion denouncing the short-service
system in the army as giving short
winded, pigeon-breasted and underaged
recruits, unfit for service in the field.
Francis Fl. Hatch, an old banker and
politician of New Orleans, died Satur-
day. He was collector of customs at
the outbreak of the rebellion, and
turned all of the Federal property over
to the Confederates, and continued to
hold the office under that Government.
At his request, the funeral services over
his remains will be conducted by a lib
eral Jewish rabbi.
Hon. Robert @. Winthrop has con-
sented to deliver q brief address at the
Inauguration of the Washington monu-
ment on the 22d of February next, and
Oliver Wendell Holmes has been invit-
ed to write q poem for the occasion. A
large number of military organizations
are expected, and some OF them willre-
main for ten days to take part in the
Inauguration of Blaine and Logan.
Rev. DR.. NJ. s. Terry, pastor of the
Forty-third street Methodist Episcopal
church, New York city, has accepted
the appointment to the professorship
in the Garrett Biblical institute, at Ev-
%anston, Ill, made vacant by the death
of DR.. Hemenway. DR.. Terry is the
author Of q number of theological
works, and ranks high as a theologian.
He is a powerful speaker and only AZ
years of age. y
DR.. Rufus Fl. Gilbert, the engineer
who devised the Metropolitan elevated
railway, has been recently on the sick
bed at his home, No. 464 West Seventy
third street. He was medical director
during the war on the stats of General
John A. Dix, and General John M.
Palmer, serving both in the eastern
and western armies. After the war he
spent several sessions at Albany endeav-
oring to secure a charter for his elevat-
ed system, but it was not until his old
commander, General Dix became gov
ernor that he succeeded. He had to
part with most of the stock Of the road
to get men and money to build it, and
when it was completed he had only
about $35, 600 of the stock and q con-
sulting engineers salary of $50 per
week for life to show for ten years of
hard, vexatious labor.