The Portland daily press., 1884-12-27
Personal Paragraphs.

cessful aud worthy temperance revival in
Pittsburg
Sergeant Otto Haltnorth, who is said to be
the person who purloined the Howgate let
ters from Lieut.. Greely's desk is to be court
martialed.
Campanini, in his retirement in Italy, is a
cattle-raiser, wine-merchant, miller, silk
grower, tenor singer, Sunday school teacher
and farmer.
Howard Carroll received 5000 from Rhea
for his play, "The American Countess"
which is TO be brought out in Washington
next month.
General Hazen, of the Signal Service, is at
work on the proof sheets of a book to be
published early in March, entitled "a Per-
sonal Narrative of Battles"
Mr.. B. F. Jones, Chairman of the Nation
al Republican Committee, is to be Mr.. D.
j. Morril's successor as President of the
American Iron and Steel Association.
Presidents Eliot, of Harvard, Porter, Of
Yale, and McCosh, of Princeton, will dis
cuss the Greek question before the February
meeting of the New York Nineteenth Cen
tury Club.
Major L. P. Sanger, of the Eleventh U. S.
Infantry, died suddenly in Amboy, ILL.,, Tues
day. He was on his way South. Major
Sanger was for some time instructor in mill
tary tactics at Bowdoin College.
Miss Alice Howgate, daughter of the no.
torlous Captain Howgate, is an instructor in
a military school in Cleveland, and Mrs.
Howgate, her mother, keeps boarding.
house in Washington.
Gen. Grant now recalls that in his class at
West Point he was only three from the foot
in languages and five from the head in math-
ematics, but he was ahead of the whole on
horseback riding, which didn't count in
competing for honors.
Ex-Cengfessman Walls of Florida has had
enough of public and political life, and de-
votes himself to profitable kitchen gardening
on the st. Johns river, having already accu-
mulated an estate of $25,000 by raising early
vegetables for the northern market.
There are five DE lean war veterans now
now members of the United States Senate,
as follows: Alfred Ell. Colquitt of Georgia,
John A. Logan of Illinois, John S. Williams
of Kentucky, James z. George of Mississippi.
and Samuel Bell Maxey of Texas. In the
House of Representatives there is one, Viii
liam III. ForneY of Alabama.
Rudolph, crown prince of Austria, is er.
gagged upon a literary work of considerable
pretensions. l. will deal extensively with
the ancient aud modern history of Austro-
Hungary, its geology and ethnologY, as well
as descriptions OF scenery and people from
all points of view. The work will be illus
trated by the best artists, and is likely to
| prove of character that will cause the
Archduke's name to live in literary as well
as kingly annals.
| John Taylor, the head of the Mormon
Church, swere in recent trial in court that
he had absolutely no knowledge of certain
matter, but qualified the statement to his
congregation in his sermon on the following
| Sunday by saying that he had absolutely no
| knowledge of it to divulge. Nice sort of
man that, to he at the head of a church, and
a nice sort of church it is that has snch a
man at the head of it.
Theodore Roosevelt has been hunting in
! Montana, and has killed three grizzly bears,
six elks, S'several;' buffaloes, and "innumer-
able" anteIopes-to say nothing of small
game. He is particularly proud of twelve
hundred pound grizzly, whose skin will fol-
low him in a few weeks to New York. He is
very near-sighted, and the bear approached
within nine feet of him before he saw 1t.
The animal had seen The assemblyman, and
was prepared to embrace him in brotherly
fashion when rife ball Ia the forehead in
duced him to desist.
The London Standard says: SIT is ad-
mitted that the proposal for the celebration
of the centenary Of DR.. j Johnson has fallen
dead, and that its failure\ arises, doubtless,
from two causes, the first being that people
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tions as bores; the second, that Fr. johnson
was a literary man, and that literary men Sof
| the present day have no organization which
Ell ables them to act as body. At any rate
| it is settled that there is to be no centen ary
| The stone which marks DR.. Johnson's grave
in Westminster Abbey is cracked, and the
simple inscription recording his name, age
| and date of death is almost illegible."
Brother Moody is going to Richmond, Va,
on January 4tb, and there is some little
doubt as to what sort of reception awaits
him there. A Mr.. B. D. Core, described as
| well-known citizen, has published a card
in which he asserts that in April 1876, in
the New York Hippodrome, he heard Broth
er Moody say of Robert E. Lee and Stone
wall Jackson: "By every illustration and
auimus of their lives and actions, they more
| forcibly represented the character Of the
King of Darkness than any names which my
| knowledge of the worlds history enables me
to call to mind since Judas betrayed the
Lord of Glory"
A Washington correspondent of the Chi
cago Times, referring to the painting by
Lltchfeld of '"The Deathbed of Lincoln"
states the following: "When the President
was slot cry arose lis there physician in
the theatre?' DR.. Charles S. Taft, of the ar
my, happened to be present.. and he went at
once to the side of the dying President. 1t
| was through his orders that Lincoln was re-
moved to the Peterson House. Taft re-
NAMED with Lincoln until he died. OF
course he expected to be represented in the
picture, and was; but later, Surgeon General
| Crane had Taft scratched out and his own
portrait inserted in it's place. The picture
| was photographed when first nainted. and