The Portland daily press., 1884-03-22
Notes About Notable peonle

| Victoria has herself revised the German
translation OF her new book, which will
shortly be published at Stuttgart.
Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, GEL
| ebrated his seventy-second birthday last
| | thursday. The governor is ia excellent
| health.
Miss Anna Dickinson starts very soon for
California to fulfil lecture engagements, and
will not return before July. She will not
lecture in Boston before next fall.
Prescott Evarts, one of ex-Secreta-y Ey-
arts twin sons, is studying for the En,sco-
pal ministry. His twin brother, Sherman.
Is studying law. The latter is graduate of
Yale, the former of Harvard.
The Grand Army posts and citizens of
New Mexico have begun a movement for the
erection of fitting monument over the
grave OF Kit Carson at Taos. 1t is expected
that all The Grand Army posts west of the
Missouri will take part IN the project.
The Boston Transcript says it is proposed
to place 10 the new Hollis Street Church.
| Boston, which will be finished during the
! coming summer, memorial windows 10 the
Rev. John Pierpont and the Rev. Thomas
starr King, former pastors of the church,,
General Graham, whose recent victories
| in the Soudan have made him famous. was
| reside' t in Montreal about eighteen wears
ago and was then district commanding en-
| queer under Col. Forde, R. E. The gener-
al that time was one of the youngest lieu
tenant coionels in the service.
Mrs. Hunt, the widow of the Michigan
millionaire, has begun proceedings to con
test the payment oe $4,000 each to Eli PEI
kihs, Josh Billings and Artemus Wards
t,,l,t Oh
them by her late husbands will She claims
that he was insane.
Gen. O. o. Howard, who sailed on the
Beleenland Tor Ant Verp, last SATURDAY, now
lakes bis flrs' Through since the war; He
goes directly to Egypt and thence, if posi-
bic, to Khartoum to join General Gordon
and wi ness the further operati ons in the
Sondan. He will probably be absent from
this country about six months.
A Washington letter says that not lopg
ago a grandson of Won Moltke, the com
mander IT the German armies, successfully
| passed the civil service examination. and
| secured nine hundred dollar cerkship in
| the department of justice. He speaks some
half dozen languages and has Travelled over
nearly every portion of the habitable globe.
Mrs. Wilcox, sister of ex-United States
| Treasurer Spinner, is the victim of a curious
hallucination. She thinks that she has
bought the dwelling house of Speaker Shesrd
| OF the New York Assembly, alleging that
she paid $4,000 for it through her agent,
Gov. Cleveland. She has broken into the
house on more than one occasion, and on
Monday, Mr.. Sheard found it necessary 10
have her sent to the asylum at Bingham
ton. Her brother, now ghty-two years old,
lives on his plantation in Florida.
Joseph Cook is not stirring up entire una
nimity in Boston. The Traveller SAYS he is
"pacing himself in a position antae onistc
to many who have heretofore been his
| Waimesl iriet DIS. Some of them will rotor,
| by KEEPING away from his lectures in The flu
ture. III the discuss ion OF eschatology BIZ
has frankly avowed himself fifm believer
10 The doctrine of eternal punishment, while
in eulogy upon our great orator he spoke
not only of him as in The heavenly world. 10
which no one would object, but as in the
mpany of other eminent departed men.
some of whom, If not infidels, had no sym-
pathy whatever with Christianity or its We
| taries.o
Gen. Godfrey Weitzel. who died in Phila-
phia Thursday, was brave and competent
commander in the war of the Rebellion. at
whose outbreak he was first Lieutenant of
engineers, having been graduate from West
Point, second in his clas>, in 1855, at the
age of twenty. He went with Gen. Butler
to Louisiana in the spring of 1862, and
served under him and General Banks, gain
il high credit by successful exped ton
into the La Fourche and Teche districts;
and IN 1868 commanding a division at the
siege ard capture of Port Hudson. In 1864
| he was assigned to the Army Of the James
as chief of engineers, served under Butler
| in operations near Petersburg and Rich
mond, and finally nas prominent in the last
investment of Richmond, and occupied that
city on its evacuation, Issuing the first
Union proclamation and ordering the recep-
tion of President Lincoln the next dav. He
received brevets in the regular army through
all the grades up to major general in the
course OF the war, and was made major gen
eral OF volunteer 10 November, 1874 ne
was actually captain of engineers 8hen the
war ended, aud lieutenant colonel in the
line at his death.