The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-14

operate airs and chatting pleasantly to his employees
many of whom have spent the best years of their lives
| in his service He is very liberal employer, the
payroll of his imn ense establishment amounting, in
the busy season, to over $50 600 week
| MRS. FITzHUGH LEE and Mrs. John S. Wise were
| guests at one of the hotels of Old Point Comfort
when the news of Lees nomination by the Demo-
cratic convention reached there. The guests at
| dinner. Mrs. Wise arose from the table passed over
to Mrs. Lee and congratulated her, saying; "If my
| husband is to be beaten I had rather he should be
beaten by your husband than any living" Mrs.
! Lee returned thanks and said: Mrs. Wise, I only
regret that both our husbands cannot be elected
Governor of Virginia at the same time"
| THE Countess de Ia Tore of London an eccentric
character, now in jail for not paying her rates has
Partially for and dogs who form considerable
portion of her family sanitary inspector lately
made two lists to her house. On the first visit he
thirtyone cats and sixty dogs running about the
| premises The floors of the rooms the basement
ground floor, and first floor IN an abominabe and
most filthy condition saturated sawdust filthy rags
and other materials lying about. No one was in
charge Of the house, which totally unfit for hui
man habitation Many of the animals seemed half
| starved.
GENERAL GRANTS article the siege of Vicksburg
| in the September Century viii have for companion
| piece the diary of woman in Ficksburg while the
siege in progress. There will be printed in this
number SMILES of Grants original unconditional
surrender summons at Donelson and his dispatch to
Secretary Stanton announcing Lees surrerder,-the
latter being in the possession of his aid, General
Badeau. who by General Grants permission copied
the dispatch for the telegraph operator and kept the
| original, which Grant wrote in Badeaus notebook
laid upon his knee in field between the house where
the surrender took place and his headquarters.
PARIS advices announce that Cora Pearl the retired
leader of the de1ni4nonde supposed to be dead
to the front by selling the Villa Beausejour on
the river Loire. Cora acqur ed this historical feuda
residence from the last Baron Beausejour, her pro
ector. After retrcating from Paris life she filled the
house for years with the best society, but high life
ruined her. Cora, i'll her decline, fascinated com
mercial upstart the son of a contractor of bouons
named Duval who spent his fortune Of 500, 900 I'M
der Coras guidance; and then committed suicide
Coras extravaeances however, have continued una
bated. but she has at last to the end of her
tether.
MRS MADELEINE VINTON DAHLGREN is spending
the summer quietly at her South Mountain home,
deavoring by entire rest to become fully restored
from the shock of her accident of last year. She will
probably bring out new novel next winter. "a SAD
and touching funeral says the Washington Star,
was held in the beautiful chapel her home the
23d and Oath of July On the night of the 23d, just
before midnight the bodies of her first husband, Mr.
| Daniel Convers Goddard, and of their son, Lieut.
| Ninton Goddard slowly borne up the mountain
| in hearses Up the white road batbed in the white
| moonlight, it was indeed solemn scene In the
crypt Of the chapel they placed their final
resting place upon the earth. Masses said on
both succeeding mornings, and the ceremony of dedi
eating the crypt also performed
AT the last meeting of the French Academy of Med
| cine DR.. BrownSeQuard related very remarkable
instance of the power of sympathy which within
his recent observation A little girl looking out
of window in house in the Batignolles few days
| ago. The lower sash raised, and the child had
placed her arms the sill. Suddenly the support on
which the SASH rested gave way and the window fell
with considerable force the little girls nfict
| ing severe bruise. Her mother, who was in the
room at the time happened to look toward the window
at the moment of the accident and witnessed it, She
tainted with fright AMI remained insensibe for min
| ute or two. When she recovered she conscious
of severe pain in both arms and examining the
seat of it she amazed to find each bruise
corresponding i'll position to that left by the accident
on the childs though more extensive.
A CURIOUS relic of Murat has just turned up. A
gold watch which belonged to him figures in the in
ventory of the estate of the late Russian Colonel
Tschernoboutzof. 1t bears on the interior of the
the inscription: Joachim Murat Capitane Chas-
seure pied, and engraved on trnket attached to
the chain are the words: 'Eleonore a Joachim
Ne 'oublie pas" On the evening before the battle
of Moskowa, the King of Naples, while making a
reconnaissance fell into the hands of party of Cos
sacks. The Russian soldiers about to fire when
the future Colonel Tschernoboutzof, who then a
simple Dragon, and who happened to know Murat By
| sight stopped them. He ordered tho to
present arms and called for cheer for le Roi des
| braves" And Murat was allowed to ride away
Recolectng himself however, and not wishing to be
outdone in gaantry by Russian, he rode after the
party and begged the leader to accept the watch with
which his wife had presented him years before while
| he still young subaltern.
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