The Washington critic., 1885-09-04
pEOPIEIN GENERAL.

Tms Is the last day Of registration in
Pennsylvania for the coming State election.
Miss CLEVELAND has consented to have
her picture in the subscription edition of
her book.
Mns. FRANCES l.. MACE, the poetcss, is
III at her home in Bangor Of complete physi-
cal prostrotion.
The LETTER CARRIERS ut Saratoga during
August collected and distributed i29,lI2
pieces Of mail matter
CoLoNrL CHARLES c. Lose, Of Egyptian
nrmy uotoricty is registered at Matthews
Hotel in Chincotcaguc, Va.
DR. GEORGE B IoRING, president Of the
New England Agricultural Society, is the
guest Of Hon. j, p. Bass Of Bangor
NlRs IIrNHY CRY CARLETON, formerly
Miss Helen Hubbard Of New York, is
dangerously i'll at StOckbridgc, Mass.
Nlus DAnLGREN the widow Of Admiral
Dahgrcn, has written new novel, which
is to appear In the Brooklyn Nd0d9i1c.
TuE SUPREME CouRr Of British Columbia
Is the only place in America where the
Judges and lawyers wear wigs ana gowns
gs they do In the courts Of Great Britain.
SENATOR PuGnof Alabama was registered
at the Gilscy House, New York, yesterday
and Senator Edmunds Mt the Murray Hill
Hotel.
Ex-SECRETARY CuANpLER's present ill
ness is not considered serious, although hc Is
compelled for the time to refrain entirely
from business.
REV. SAMUEL w. DUNCAN, the new pres-
dent OF Vassar College, is a Baptist clergy.
man, graduate of Brown and possessed of
a large fortune.
REV. T.. l.. HALE says that "good clam
chowdcr is probably the form of nourish-
mcnt which most quickly and easily comes
to the restoration or refreslmcut of the
brain of man,
BosToN possesses not only one of the
swiftcst of speakers-the Rev. DIR. Brooks,
who utters 2l3 words per minute-but also,
one Of the slowest-the Rev. DIR. Bartol,
whose average is sixty words per minute.
News HAS been received at Warrenton,
Va. by friends Of Colonel John S. Mosby,
late Consul at Hong Kong, China, that he
has opened law Office in San Francisco,
Cal, and will make his permanent home on
the Pacific Coast.
THE STATUE or Daniel Webster, pre-
scnted to New Hampshire by b. p. Cheney
Of Boston and located in Concord, is TO be
dedicated June IL 1856, and President
Bartlett Of Dartmouth College has been in
vtCd to make the address.
EDWIN MEREDITH, who died at Long
Branch on Wednesday in Phil Daly's gam
bling establishment, known as the Penn
Club. where he had been employed as pri-
vatc secretary, was formerly Philadelphia
merchant of wealth and high social stand
ing.
STANLEY AFRICANus, the Congo explorer,
says that when you can't otherwise get
round an African potentate you can scare
him out of his boots with ghost story. Mr..
b. f. Butler seems to have some idea of
this sort of warfare in his amusing proposal
to sue the President.-LNew York World.
Mr. JOIN RUSSELL YoUSG, late Minister
to China, on his return from Hartford spent
Wednesday evening with Mrs. Grant and
family at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr..
Young said he found Mrs. Grant very well,
very much composed and bearing up with
courage under her great sorrow.-LN. Y.
Herald.
Mr.. 1IUGH maxwell, brother of Mrs.
Commodore Upsher, and son of Hon. p.
Maxwell, who was Collector of the Port of
New York under President Taylor, has
| lately, through the death of his cousin, Sir
| William Wildwood, of Wildwood, Scotland,
succeeded to the family title of Earl of Niths
| dale Unfortunately for Mr.. Maxwell the
| title carries no estates with it, as they were
conilscated in l7l2. Mr. Maxwell is spend
ing the summer near Morristown, n. j.