The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-08-22
rNopLE IN GENERAL.

SURROGATE DNWEL G. RolLiNs Of Now
York has joined cX-Prcsidcnt Arthur at
| West Island.
A SEW story Is entitled the Ediiors
Wallet We have not read IT., but we know
1t must be very flat Lowell Citizen.
Mrs W. B OGpES, formerly Of Chicago.
but lattcrly Of New York. ha, presented a
chime Of ten bells TO the Trinity Cathedral,
at Omaha, Ncb.
PEorEssuR JoHN s. NEwBERRY Of Column
bia College, New York, Is going as dele
gate To- the International Geological Con
grcss which meets in Berlin August -.
REV. LANSING BuRRoucus, d. D., Of Au.
gusta, Ga, an eloquent Baptist divine and Il
past eminent commander in Sir Knight
Masonry, is making his first visit IN New
England.
COMMANDER WOODWARD Of the navy,
now at Saratoga. is expected TO attend the
annual reunion Of the Naval Veteran Asso-
ciatiuu of Connecticut at Savin Rock Sep
tomlcr 10.
Mr.. MoopY, the evangelist, will hold
meetings at the Newport Skating Rink on
the 2Gth, 3Oth and 3lst Of this month. 4
volunteer choir Of about scvcnty-iivc singers
will be In attendance each day.
LIEUTENANT Howard Of Hartford will
start for Canada September l2, in charge of
the Second Regiment GatIing Gun Platoon
Of Connecticut, to show the Canadians how
the gun is handled. The trip will cover
about ten days.
ADMIRAL LACoMBE and the officers of the
French frigatc Flore had such a rattling
good time on occasion Of the Isero rcccp-
tion in New York that they will not at all
ol ject to being ordered back to that port
The ship is expected about the middle Of
September.
A GENTLEMAN who has recently taken
Office in one Of the Government depart
mcnts here says 1t takes whole hatfils of
language to explain the bearings OF the
civil service law to the horde of hungry
ofliceseekcrs. And then they are not salts
fled Phila. News.
SECRETARY MANNING places no confidence
in the yarn about President Clcveland's i'll
ness. He and Mrs. Naming returned to
Watch Hill yesterday afternoon. Several
of the prominent sOiourncrs paid their re-
spccts to Mr.. Manning at the Kane Cottage,
where he was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sidney Webster of New York.
Miss WHOM, known by her stage name,
Emma Nevada, is to be married TO DR.. Pal
mer, who was her secretary during her re-
cent American engagement on October /.
The ceremony Is to take place in the Eng
lsh-speaking Roman Catholic Church, In
the Avenue lToche, Paris, where she en-
hraced Catholicism two years ago.
MRs HELEN NJ CuArELLE, secretary of
4 NJ, L.. 4
letter Of thanks from Colonel Frederick
Grant, dated Mount McGregor, thanking
her for the idea of the design of a floral
clock sent as tribute by the Women's Re
lief Corps of New York and Brooklyn. lie
has ordered IT to be placed in the tomb.
w. IL. HUNTINGTON, the oldest American
resident of Paris, has made second valu-
able gift of Franklin pictures, medallions,
etc, with some other interesting matters,
to the New York Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Among them are a full length of
Washington by Charles Wilson Pcale and Il
copy of an original pastel portrait of Frank
lin.
AMONG THE bright sayings of General
Grant which have seen in print his best
has been omitted. After Mr.. Sumner had
criticised him so savagely, some one was
taking to Grant about atheism in New Eng
land, and remarked: even Sumner does
not believe IN the Biblc,n "Why should
he?n quietly replied Grant, she didn't write
it, Boston Globe
MARQUIS DE MoREs, who has just been
indicted for murder by Dakota grand
jury, arrived at the Hoffman House, New
York, last evening from the West. lie Is Il
son-in-law of Mr.. Won Hoffman, Wall
street banker. The trouble In which he is
involved grew out of fatal alteration
about two years ago with some cowboys on
the Bad Lands, in which one of the latter
was shot