Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
PERSONALITIES.

SPEAKER and Mrs. Carlisle are spend-
ing the holidays in Covington, XIV.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is enlaro-
ing and rebuilding his cottage at Long
Branch.
VICTOR BoGY, of Liege, Belgium, haa
presented President Arthur with a
handsome gun.
MRS. E. d. e n. SoUTHwoRTH is in
her 65Gh year and is writing her sixty
fifth novel says the Baltimore Sun.
JOHN B. COUGH boasts that within
forty-two years he has travelled 100000
miles and delivered, $500 temperance
lectures.
MRS. CAROLINE BROOKS, who acquired
fame through the odd course of making
butter busts, is engaged upon one of
Mr.. Thurlow Weed.
Hon. THOMAS A. HENDRICKS has con-
sented to deliver jhe annual address be-
fore the Yale alumni and graduating
classes in June next.
PRINCE BIsMARoK's official salary is
$1,000 year, only, while the ambassa-
doris he sends to London, and st.
oOoISouTS Sob POI ,OUU eacn.
JOSE GOMEZ, an attache of the Bra
lillian Legation at Washington, has mar
ried Miss Louise Hatcher, niece of Gen,
Joseph Reynolds, of Lafayette, Ind.
HERR FLEGEL, the African traveller,
who will go to the Niger to establish
factories and make treaties is prevented
from starting by Inflammation of the
lungs.
MISS CONSTANCE EDGAR, daughter Of
Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte, has determined
to take the veil about Easter time, and
the announcement has caused sensa-
ton in Washington society.
TALKING of veterans, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gillette, of Canaan, Mass, have just
celebrated their SEVENTEEN wedding an
niversary in the house in which Mr..
Gillette WAS born and has lived for ninety
years.
EX-SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
GRESHAM, who resigned in order to take
the place of Judge Drummond, will re-
side in the future in Chicago. His son
Otto will remain in Indianapolis in the
practice of law.
LIEUT. GEN. D. FL. Hill, of Confeder-
ate army fame, who is writing war rem
iniscences for the Century Magazine,
has resigned the presidency of the Ar
kansas Industrial University, and has
taxed up his residence at Macon, GA.
The coming American pianist is
coming from California. He is James
K. Mansfield, who has been a pupil of
List, and lately has astonished crit
ical audience in Berlin by his wonder
full performance on the piano.
The engagement is announced in
London of the Duke Of Buckingham,
widower, 81 years old, and ISIS Alice
Young, a daughter of Sir Graham
Montgomery, long member of Parlia-
ment and for q short time Lord of the
Treasury.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in spite Of his rs
years, looks younger man than most
hard-worked New Workers do at so.
He has his slight stoop and his hair is
fast turning white, but his eye is bright,
his mouth firm, and his hand, whether
with pen OF ak, as steady as ever.
SPEAKER CARLISLE is said to receive
heavier mail than any other member
of Congress, and Senator Logan's
stands next. A very large proportion
of the latter comes from soldiers in all
parts of the Union, and il is Senator
Logan's rule to answer every letter.
PROF. MARTIN L. D'OoGE, of the
chair of Greek in the University of
Michigan, has received the appoint
ment of Director of the American
School of Classical Studies, at Athens,
Greece, for 1885 and 1886. He has been
granted leave of absence for that
time.
AMOS J. CUMMINGS, president of the
New York Press Club, is one of the
best-known journalists in America.
He served in the army during the war,
and correspondent with two or three
Eastern papers. He has been editori-
ally employed on the New York Tribune
and Express, and is now associate edit
or on the Sun.
IT will carry consolation to many
families to learn that the wealthy
Hindoo gentleman, Protap Chunder
Roy, who is translating the Mahabharata
into prose, will follow it up with an
English version of the Datavaya Bharat
Aafyalaya, ana LnaG the Iuu name OF
the translator will appear on the title
page of both volumes.
STANLEY, the African explorer, is not
married, and probably never will be.
When he first started for Africa he was
engaged to pretty New York girl, who
gave him up for dead in a year and
married another man within two years.
He did not return till the end of the
third year, and thought the damsel
should have waited for him, and her
course embittered his life.