The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MISS CLEVELAND is said TO be much OPP
posed to dancing.
MISS CLEVELAND, sister of the President,
speaks four languages fluently.
EASTMAN JOHNSON, the well known artist,
is to paint portrait of President Cleveland.
Mrs. GARFIELDs fondness for horses is
only exceeded by her love for her chill
dren.
IT is said that ex- United States Senator
Hill has sunk $l20, 900 in newspapers in Colo
RADIO.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND is the first
representative Arkansas has ever had in the
cabinet.
SECRETARY END1coTTs grandfather, Jacob
Crowninshield, was in Thomas Jeffersons
cabinet as secretary of the navy.
GENERAL w. T. SHERMAN has accepted an
invitation to attenl the Decoration day cere-
MONIES at the National cemetery, Springfield,
Mo
EDWARD KING writes from Paris to the
Boston journal that Mr.. Stanley probably
will be governor general of the new Congo
state
MARSHAL MCMAHON is writing his me.
moirs, from the opening of his military ca
reer to the close of his term as president Of
the French republic
HUMPHREY MOORE an American painter,
living in Poris, sold two pictures lately to a
Mr.. Croker for $1,000. Mr. Moore is a
pupil of Gerome, and is deaf and dumb.
HENRY LLOYD, president of the senate OF
Maryland, has entered upon the duties OF
governor, succeeding Governor Mclane ap.
pointed by President Cleveland as United
States minister to France.
THE president of Venezuela has a cabinet
of six ministers, of exterior relations, OF
finance, of war, of fomento, of public works,
of public instruction. The minister of TO-
of the interior and postmaster general, and
the little navy is under the control of the sec
rotary of war.
GEORGE BLEIsTE1N, the new president OF
the Buffalo IN. " Courier company, is only
twenty-three, and in 1916 became Mr.
MCune's private errand boy. His advance
ment is phenomenal, and he is now generally
conceded to know more about the details OF
the business than any other one man. Mr..
MCune made him one of the executors of his
will and left him 5000
Hon. S. S. Cox, the new United States
minister to Turkey, was born in GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, in 1924. He graduated at Brown uni
versity, Providence, in 1916. He was the edi-
tor of the Columbus, Ohio, Statesman in
1888 and in 1854. He entered poll tics in 1855
as secretary of the legation to Peru. He was
elected to Congress III 1857 and served con.
tinuousy until 1865, when he left Ohio and
removed to New York city. He re-entered
SOHSTVSS Ill lcO' anu served Unere ever SINCE
In 1876 he was elected speaker pro tenn. OF
the House.
LORD WoLsELEY, the British commander
in the Soudan, is blind in one eye When be
was doing duty in the trenches before Sebas
topol a shell exploded in a gabion full of gray.
ell, in moving which he and two sappers were
engaged. They were both killed outright.
Wo!seley got 50 severe peppering with the
gravel that he was literally stuck full OF
stones from head to foot" There was not a
square inch of his face that had not grave
pellet embedded in it, part of his shinbons
was carried away; one of his eyes was ruined
and his eyesight was in so great danger thai
for weeks he was kept in the gloom of a cave
near Balac ava, and SO missed being present
at the fall of Sebastopol.