The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-09-03
PERSONALS.
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REV. DR.. BAYLIss is busy with the editorship OF
the Western Christian Advocate.
A DAUGHTER of the poet Longfellow is engaged
10 be married to a brother of Mrs Ole Bull.
An exchange says President Arthur tans
easily" Yes, Chef used to be a country school
master
JOIN c. CALHOUN, nephew and namesake of the
great South Carolinian, has just been recCnciled
and reunited with the young wife from whom he
was separated nearly four years ago.
AT last Artemus Ward Charles F. Browne) is
to have a modest monument over his grave at
Waterford, Me-, his mother, the late Mrs. Caro-
line Z. Browne, having left $500 for that purpose.
LIEUTENANT GREELY says he is the only member
of his family that spells the name without an "e'
in the final syllable. but surely after what he has
gone through Lieutenant Greedy might now take
his case.
BARON LIEBIG claims that the downfall OF Rome
real begins with the building of the great sewers
that DETECTED th5 enormous sewage of the imper-
isl city INTO the Tiber. where 10 became a pollu-
ton and waste.
THE Oldest "old veteran in the form OF the old
est Mason this week is member OF the local lodge
at North Brookfeld, Msss.. which he joined in
1871. The latest claimant is Captain Bonum Nye,
who is nigh ninety
Miss FAxxIE DAvExroEr grows lighter and thin
Der in spite OF every effort She eats with voracity
candy, sugar, potatoes, and. in feet. all things
which she ceased eating when she wished to grow
thin. but she can not keep her plumpness.
Mss CATHARINE L. WOLFE paid for her "vin-
lsBo" al Genre Point Newport, at the rate of So.-
COO sn acre. and it is old and ofttold story that
tie late William Beach Lawrence's father bought
the entire tract OF sixty-ninc acres Tor $1,000
MS F. d. BLAKE daughter of the late General
and Bishop Polk and long identified with the
cause OF education, will return from the North to
Louisiana early in the fall to assume the Superin-
tendency OF st Katharines Hall, in New Orleans.
For twenty-five years one seat on the piazza OF
toe Grand Union Hotel. Saratoga, was occupied
regularly in summer by the late Samuel Mum,
who owned Vichy Spring. He died last fall aud
il is said the spot where he sat no longer looks
familiar.
SOME OF our sedate contemporaries are horrifed
to learn that this summer, "iack-pots" have been
opened on the table on which Jonathan Edwards
wrote his moral essays and the "racket'' has been
danced in what was once the trenchant theolo-
gisn's study.
"a THEATRICAL FRIEND" writes to a London
weekly: London managers grumble at the bad
business they are doing, and with reason. The
other night, at $3.50, not a soul was in my house.
At S:45 a small boy and an apparently engaged
couple strolled in. At returned the money and
went to bed"
MRS ELIZABETH LETcHER STUART. who died at
Wytheville. Va, few days ago, was the mother Of
the most famous of Southern cavalry leaders, Gen.
eral J. L. B. Stuart. She was the widow of ex-
Congressman Archibald Stuart Her age was
eiehiy-three years. Her descendants in Patrick
and Russell Counties children, grandchildren and
greatgrandchildren are numerous.
Mr. vANDERBnT's account with Maud shows
profit OF $40 coo nearly go per cent, leaving out
the expense of keeping the beast and her driver.
1t is said that Mr.. Vanderbilt behaved queerly