The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-10-15

Mrs. John Kelley is a niece of Car
dinal McCloskey.
Rev. Sam Jones has been lecturing
in Madison, Wis.
Mr.. Randall's health is reported to
slightly failing again.
Ben. Butler has become member
of the Lowell (Mass.) G. A. r. Post.
Bishop Stevens protestant Episco-
par Of Philadelphia is seriously i'll.
In Boston the richest lawyer is Sid
ney Bartlett, set down at $12,000,O00.
Robert Bonner is over sixty, and is
worth between $5,00O,OO0 and $6,OOO,-
coo.
Senator Voorhees, delivered politi-
cal speech at Leesburg, Va, on the
18th inst.
In the treasury vaults at Washing
ton are $50,0O0000 in gold and $780,
100000 in silver.
Belva Lockwood is said to have
cleared $4,000 from her lecturing
tour since she wasn't elected Presi-
dent.
"Tax whiskey to death" is the mot
to of temperance adherants in the
South, where drinking is slightly on
the decline.
Professor Agassiz is to have mar
BILE bust in the new Academy build
ings at Neuchatel. A sufficient sum
of money has been collected by the
students of the Academy.
1t is claimed by those who ought
to know that Prof. James H. Smart,
president Of the State University ol
Indiana, is to be Dorman B. Eaton's
successor on the civil service commits.
sion.
OF the 5000 liquor-sellers in New
York City, 6,49S have been confined
in Jail Or prison, and 93 per cent, ol
the inmates of the House OF Indus
try have been sent there for crimes
resulting from the use of strong drink
Secretary Whitney does not in
tend to use his country place, five
miles from Washington as a regular
residence. He has had it fixed ur
more as place for an occasional visit
and uses it for entertaining his friends
who drive with him.
The Washington Post says that
President Cleveland can shake forty
hands q minute when the crowd il
large. Assistant Postmaster Adlai E
Stevenson can't shake as many fourth
class Postmasters as that, but he is 1
good man, and is doing well, never
theless.-New York Sun.
1t is said on what seems to be gooC
authority that when President Cleve
land assumed charge Of the Whit,
House there was not single set O
china or crockeryware that was com
plete. The servants under Ex-Presi
dent Arthur had broken some peice
of all the sets.
The oak tree planted by Lord By
ron at Newstead Abbey is still -four
ishing, although the alder on whicl
he cut the names byron and Angus
ia" long since died. The portion G
the tree on which the names wer
carved is preserved among the me
memtoes Of the poet in the abbey.
Gen. Edward F. Jones, who take
the place on the New York ticke
that Flower refused to accept, was
brave and skillful officer Of the volur
tecr army, He commanded the 6tl
Massachusetts, Regiment on its marc
through Baltimore in 1861. Twice h
has been the Democratic candidat
for Congress in his district, an
) though defeated proved his popularit
by running largly ahead of his tickt
both times.
The fall epidemic of elopements hs
broken out Miss Honora Harwoo,
daughter Of we'll known clergyma
in New Haven, left her home on I'll
eve Of her proposed marriage to
millionaire and secretely married a
English ale brewer worth only $40
600. The lady was former belle
8 the American society in Londe
Miss Anna Mcfarland, recently
! Flint, Mich, but now resident
: Caledonia, n. Y, has eloped with h
+ coachman, who is said to be an insi
nihcant little fellow.