The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-08-23
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


suffers from nervous prostration and IS
unacle to do literary work.
Gov. Cleveland receives, it is said, fifty
requests day for his autograph, and has
two babies named after him every "a
hours.
Mrs. Iangtry' s audiences at Newcastle,
England. during the last week, were
large, and the critics of the local press
gave out that they had found improve
ment in her acting.
Matthew Arnold's daughter is reported
as saying that, having seen Niagara
and the Rockies, and dunk an Ameri-
can cocktail, there is really nothing worth
bothering about on the American conti-
nent
Prof. Baird is understood to be pre-
pairing an elaborate apology for having,
in recent official report, unwittingly
wittiIv made over his own signature the
statement that the United States Fish
Commission began on "a very small
scale
OF Mr.. Conlling's letter declining to
be made an honorary member of the NJ
bany ..Plumed Knights" Association the
Journal (republican) of that city re-
marks: .It disposes of the runor that he
NAV be a candidate for the United States
senate in 1885"
Gen. Chas. II. Grosvenor, republican
candidate for congress in the Athens CO..
district. draws q pension from Uncle
Sam at the rate of $50 per month for an
alleged injury sustained while he was in
the army. The pension is paid quarterly
at the Washington, d. c., Pension
Agency.
Mr.. Blaine's summer sojourn at Bal
Harbor naturally has drawn to that pol
itical Mecca many representatives OF the
labor interest. Mrs. James Leeds, IN al
adjoining cottage, gave a party lately a
which no less than twelve representative
Of English, French and German noble
houses delighted the dudes and enllvenet
the entertainment.
Stephen Ryder. of Jamaica, L. ].
while claiming in Jamaica Bay on Mon
day. was attacked by a shark that wa
about 7 feet in length. Mr.. Ryder wa
standing in water several feet deep, bu
he managed to reach shoal water on th
bar. the shark following him until 1t a
: most grounded. Several sharks hav
been seen in the bay during the pas
week.
Mr.. Cable. the novelist, who is at Sin
bury, Conn, is busy preparing a papt
concerning "The Status of the F'reedme
Before the Law. The production wi
: be read at the annual social science q
sembly in Saratoga during the month
> September. Mr.. Cable is contemplate
q longer soiourn there than was at fir
(, thought of, and it is probable that he w
" cootinue his residence ot Simsbury d
: ring the winter.
The late Duke of Wellington was n
wealthy for British peer, The STRAIT
held-saye property, the nucleus Of whi
was purchased by the nation, eXten
:, :, over Il, 900 acres, and produces year
" rental of S. an acre. Three or four the
:; sand more acres in Herts, Somerset Il
Berlxs make up the whole of the entail
= properly. which is ivh some $110,t
a wear. The duke had also an estate
:. Spain voted TO his father by the Cort
and described in magniloquent langua
bv Spanish writers, though not wol
= much.
10 Henry Clay. the veritable Mill Boy
ra the SIashes, has been causing luml
RI in Louisville Some days ago seve
men. with a block and tackle, attemp
,,,a to remove the marble statue of Clay fr
.he the court house grounds, and the cou
90 officers marched in body to drive
ts. intruders off. During lull in the &c
16 bat there was parley and an eXpia
ton. during which it was brought
no that the men had intended to trans
of. the statue temporarily to the exhibi'
building. But the officers held the
tho and the statue still stands.