The Washington critic., 1885-07-16
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

Mn. GLADSTONE IS suffering from the
effects of throat affection.
SECRETARY ENptcorr visited Governors
Island yesterday and had an hours chat
with General Hancock.
THERE Is a growing suspicion that Sena-
tor Arthur =. German has lost his key to
the White House. Baltimore American.
JusT1cE SAMUEL BLATcuFoRp Of the U.
S. Supreme Court and Mrs. Blatchford
have gone from Newport for visit to
Jackson, in the White Mountains.
HARRIET Prescott SroFFoRp, the au-
thoress, resides on Deer Island Mass. near
the mouth of the Merrmac River, be-
tween Ncwburyport and Amesbury.
The REV. SAMUEL IREN.EUs PRIME,
senior editor of the New York Observer, is
seriously i'll at the Equinox Hotel, Man
chester, Vt. His brother, William Cow
Per Prime, is with him.
Mr.. Edwin ID. MoRGAN, grandson and
heir of the late Governor Morgan, who
has Just returned from yacht cruise
around the world, has gone to Newport
for the rest of the summer.
HENRY RANDALL WAITE of Boston is
being talked about for the presidency of
NIluulCDnTN lOllpEp, Vermont. Ut. w NUllt
is n relative of Chief-Justice Waite, and
graduate of Hamilton College.
JUDGE SMELL of Washington City has
publicly declared that labor unions are
nuisanccs. 1t is evident that the Judge is
not preparing to run for the Presidency
of the United States.-[N. Y. World.
THE PROPOSED EQUESTRIAN statue of Gen
eral Grant at Buffalo, will be due largely
to the enterprise of Sherman S. Rogers
who has been considering the matter for
several years. The cost is estimated at
$4,000.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, on his recent
visit to Boston, took lunch at the Puritan
Club where he was greatly diverted by
the contrast to its name which he found in
the sight of two members, reinforced by u
beer glass apiece, busily engaged in play
ing poker.
FOLLOWING the example of President
Amos Cummings of the New York Press
Club, President Lambert of the Philade-
phia Journalists Club has made proper
arrangements for the pleasant reception
of the Mexican editors on their arrival in
the Quaker City.
MISS BESSIE WEBSTER, daughter of Col
onel Il. II. Webster, collector of the port
of Baltimore, was married yesterday to
Mr.. William il. Harlan, a prominent
young member of the Belair bar. Rev. J.
| b. Craighill of Emmanuel =. T.. Church
| performing the ceremony.
MISSISSIPPI JUSTICE has decided that q
woman has no right to take money from
her husbands pockets while he is asleep,
whereupon theSt Paul Globe winks gravely
| and remarks, if married men had the dis
| position of affairs that the Mississippi
| Justice would be made President within a
month and they would keep him there
| for life.
| THAT LARGE SECTION of the Democratic
| party of Vermont, otherwise known as b
b. Smalley, is on his way to Washington
determined to find out why the Vermont
offices are not being distributed more
rapidly, which being interpreted means
he wants to know why his commission as
collector of customs at Burlington is moi
forthcoming.-[B Boston Traveller.
MRs. JOHN GIBBoN, wife of General Glib
bon, who succeeded General Augur las
week, was Miss Fannie Moale, noted
beauty of Baltimore. She is the daughter
of Colonel Samuel Moale, and the sister Of
Colonel Edward Moale, captain Third In
fantry, who is now stationed at Fort
Shaw, Montana. General Gibbon was tho
first commander of the famous Iron Bri
gade of the Sixth Corps but his brothers
were in the Confederate army from North
Carolina.