The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-22
PERSONALS.
ment Act.

PERSONALS.
GENERAL GRANT has not yet acknowledged
the receipt of the commission as genera
on the retired list, and his name has there
fore not yet been placed on the Government
payroll.
LOUISE IMoGENE Quincy. author of Songs
ct the Start" is a blonde girl OF twenty.three.
graceful, accom- plished and studious. She
will soon, it is reported bring out volume
of prose essays.
PooR Old William Peake, now in the Cort.
land County, New York, Almshouse indig-
nantly denies that drink brought him to his
impecunious condition, since he has touched
nothing intoxicating for the past twelve
years, and positively asserts that the skat.
ing Kinks killed the Swiss bell-ringing BUSH
ness.
PRESIDENT BARRIos the Guatemalau usurp-
er, married his wife when she was fifteen
years of age. He went to the convent where
che was at school and commanded the
authorities to give her up. He assumed go
bold front that they were glad to let him
have her to get rid of him. He has seven
children.
COLONEL CLARK, the new Assistant Becre.
tary of the Interior. is but forty-five years
OF age. He is small man, dry of aspect, of
studious look, face with sharp. light eyes
and dusky-hued hair. He wears a small
bristly mustsche. and might easily be taken
for a keen witted Yankee lawyer. He is
learned in legal lore, and is now said to be
full of malaria.
WHILE George G. Min gas playing in
Texas town recently, the Judge of one of the
courts Adjourned the trial of a murderer in
order to allow the jury to visit the perform
ance. At the request OF the jury for reduced
rates." Mr.. Min wrote the following to
Frank Cooper, his manager: This honora-
bic jury of twelve good and true men desire
to change one form of misery for another;
consequently admit for 81 head.n
DURING lecture IN Ithaca recently, Chap
lain McCabe referred to call he had recently
made upon General Grant. The Chaplain
said: After concluding my business with
the General l was about to leave, knowing
that his time was valuable Don't hurry,
Chaplain; take seat remarked the General.
Il will if you talk about the war General
Grant smiled and asked: What especial fea-
ture of the war do you refer to?' We'll,
want to know whether you took Lees sword
when he surrendered. I've seen it stated in
print that you did and that you did not;
now, / want to know from your own lips.'
L did not take General Lees sword replied
General Grant"
COLONEL SIMON MUssINA is probably the
Youngest old man in Galveston. He has
passed his four-score years, and is yet full OF
vitality and retains his faculties remarkably
well. In the United States Circuit Court re-
Gently Colonel Mussins argued a motion in
equity. and spoke for nearly al hour with
out the least apparent fatigue, and he made
all his points clearly and forcibly, handling
his case with as much tact and shrewdness as
would have been expectei from a younger
practitioner. The old gentleman has given
up the practice OF Law as profession OF late,
and it is only occasionally that he appe ara
before the bar which in earlier days he was
accustomed to adorn.-Galveston (Cex) }
News.
MADAME FANNY DUcHAUFoUR, who has lust
died at the age of eighty.nine. was long a
notable figure in New Orleans society. She
was q daughter CT DR.. Gsrdette, of Pnilsdel.
phia, who came to America in 1880 with q
French expedition. Madame Duchaufnur
was born of DR.. Gardette's first wife. The
second was Zuline Carrere. mother of Myra
Clark Gaines, who wss consequently step
sister of the deceased bat some ten years
younger. Madame Duchsufour had quite an
eventful career, residing at times in Phila
delphia, Nashville and New Orleans. In her
youth she was beautiful and accomplished
and retained even in old age remarkable
intelligence and vivacity. 1t is said that she
knew really more of Mrs. Gaines true rela
tionship to Daniel Clark than has come to
light.
PRESIDENT BARRIos. OF Guatemala, who
proposes to wade through slaughter to
J throne and shut the gates Of mercy on Cen
trail Americans generally. is a sort of Spanish
Indian. he has enriched himself by appro
priating everything that came in his way
Many storiss are told of his tyranny enC
greed. He has 81 the requirements o. des
, pot When he first obtained power il
, Guatemala he began a relentless war upor
: the Jesuits, aud finally succeeded in drivip,
them out of the country. He sited Nes
York q few years ago and purchA sed a resi-
cepcs for $4,000. He left his family il
that city fora short time. and the suppositior
was then that he intended to evacuat
Gustemala for his own good. He held hi
ground. though, and soon called his wife an,
children back to the land of .centipedss an
, revolutions.