The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-15
Notes About Notable People.

Notes About Notable People,.
Rev. George F. Pentecost is going to Lon
don to assist Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
Beecher is thinking of going on q lecturing
thur abroad.
Wendell Phillips made his will only some
three weeks before his death.
1t is said that Nude will put in circulation
Immediately 1850 copies Of Queen victoriA's
book.
jefferson Davis has erected a ane monument
Of American marble to his benefactress, Mrs.
Sarah A. Dorsey, at NatcheE, Miss.
Lord Butte has given an order to Miss Edmc-
uia A. Edwards. the American sculptress, to
execute marble statue OF the Virgin Mary
for one of his chapels.
Queen Pomare of Tahiti has been so worried
by the New York reporters, that she has decid-
cd to abandon her incognito as Mrs SelomoR
and acknowledge her royalty She ia going to
France on pleasure tour.
Ia Difference to the wishes Of Mrs. Phillips
the movement for a statue OF Wendell Phillips
has been abandoned. tits, however, probable
that por rait OF the great philauthropist and
orator will soon adorn Faneuil Hall.
1t is recalled in Honeoye, N. Y, where tha
bride of Frederick Douglass lived in childhood,
that she had to be whipped by her fataer, an
active abolitionist. to make her kiss Douglass
when he visited tue family.
Democratic Claimant Hendricks, OF Indiana,
doesn't play billiards. "when came to set
lie up for the first game ever played" be
says, Il was told It was S3. How so?' l asked.
Because you were so long,, was the reply.
And have never tried billiards again."
The memorial bronze statue OF the martyr,
William Tyndale, who first translated the
New Testament from the Greek, was cast suc-
cessfully near London three weeks ago. The
figure is ten feet high, and is the work OF MIR.
Boehm. 1t will be set up on the Thames en-
bankment near Charing Cross bridge.
Atthe recent sale, in Baltimore, of the ef-
fects of the late W. W. Garter. hair from the
head OF Henry Clay was sold for thirty cents;
piece Of the towel used in stanching the
blood from Abraham Lncoln's death wound,
for 81 80, and an autograph OF Chief-Justcs
john Marshall for ftty-fve cents.
For the last month the Czar has been in such
dsplorsble state of nervous excitement that
to all intents aud purposes he may be regarded
as insane. He is said to be thoroughly terror
stricken, and lives ip q stabs OF panic which
would be lud;crous it it did not produce such
melancholy consequences.
The editor of Zons Advocate sent Mrs. Gar
field copy of that paper containing the SER
mon by MIR. Spurgeon to which she and Presi-
dent Garfield listened when IN LJ1don In July,
1867. In note acknowledging the receipt OF
/
sermon, and am very grateful to you for hav-
ing sent it"
In consequence of the difficulties In Rev.
DR.. Newman's church, New York, Mrs. War
lug, benefactor Of the society and warm
TREND Of the pastor, has revoked a clause in
her will. 6e which she bequeathed to the for
mer 100000. The money is TO be disposed OF
on her decease according to DR.. Nswman's
| Judgment
The Cincinnati Enquirer points out thst no
| incident in the life of Wendell Phillips better
| illustrates the eSrnestness with which be
| fought slavery than his hsDitual reply when
| he was asked his terms for a lecture-"I will
| come aud lecture on literary subject for one
hundred dollars night aud my expenses; on
slavery for nothing and pay my own ex-
penSes."
Mr.. Pond, the agent for Mr.. Gable, says
| Cables illness is costing good deal OF money
| bolh to himself. aud me. That young man has
| fortune il be can stand the work. He only
| weighs about hundred pounds, and the most
| of that is brains, believe. He is the greatest
success OF the time in the lectRriDg way. He
| is still up at Mark Twain's house, where he
J was taken i'll.
| One Of the Rothschild ladies went lately to
| MoDtmartre to relieve in person some OF the
| ragpickers who were deprived of their livsli-
| hood by NJ. Poubelle's decree ordering the
| rubbish from houses to be transferred directly
to the dustmen by the porters. The distress
was great, and many families were being evict-
ed. The large number OF children about
elected the fact that, with the singular kind
ness shown by the poor to one another, they
| were in many cases the adopted orphans OF
| ragDickers deceased.
The Boston Traveller says that the bequests
left by Mrs. Eddy to Lucy Stone and Susan B.
Anthony--S20, 600 to each-were not left in
trust for the suffrage canse, as has been erro-
| necusly stated, but left unconditionally. Wen.
read il to Mrs. EDDY he asked: "Now, II Mrs.
Stone or Miss Anthony chose 10 stand on In
dia wharf and throw this money into the ses
tney could do so, could they not2" "Certainly
they could" Mrs. Eddy replied, "and no one
could say them nay. trust Lucy and Susan
| ansoluteIv,"