The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-24
PERSONALS.

W. J. FLORENCE hes sailed for BermuTa.
The Egyptian hero, Gordon, had a con-
tempt for suicides.
TIE late Lord Cairns was an indefatigable
Sunday-school teacher.
Mrs. GARFIELD will spend five weeks at
Willianstown, Mas, this summer.
Mr.. MooDY. the evangelist, will visit
Princeton College Saturday aud Sunday.
A scoTcH gelatine manufacturer sends out
with each package Of his goods leaf from
the Bible.
JOHN KELLY still controls Tammany. lie
was unanimously elected to his old position
Monday night.
GENERAL GRANT viii be sixty-thrse years
old next Monday. The people of Louisville.
KY, propose to celebrate the day.
TWENTY FOUR years ago last Monday Rob-
ert f, Lee resigned from the United States
Army to become Confederate General.
THE widow and children Of the late Presi-
dent Bsrfios, OF Guatemala, will reach San
Francisco this week. Mrs. Barrios' parents
live there, and she expects to make her fu-
ture home with them.
Mr.. LOWELL proposes to give a series of
social entertainments upon the arrival OF
Minister Phelps in London, for the purpose
of introducing the latter into society ss we'll
as into diplomatic circles.
PArRIcK and Fannie O'Brisn, the giants
familisr 70 dime museums, had fifteen.
pound baby born to them yesterday at Pc
oris. This is the first giant child from giant
parents born in this country.
Raw. DR.. TALMAGE says be is going to
Europe TO rest and get acquainted with his
family. BE has their photographs. but has
had no time to get acquainted. 1t is the frat
rest he has had in thirty years.
IT is announced that the marriage of Miss
Edwina Booth and Mr.. Ignatius r. Gross
man, OF New York, will take place next
month privately at the home OF the brides
father, IN Boston. The young couple will
take passage for Enrops on May 20, and spend
the summer there.
Mrs. JULIA JAMES, the wealthy widow |
whom it is rumored ex President Arthur will |
soon marry, has the dark beauty and pro
nounced features that indicate her Jewish |
origin. She spent the last season in Wash
ington, and assisted to receive at most of the
White House levees.
GENERAL GRANTS income has been derived
from the interest on the quarter million sub
scribed for him few years ago. and from his
pay lately rs retired General. Colonel
Fred Frant has no means. all his money hav-
ing gone up with Grant & Ward. Ulysses
s., Jr., is not likely to want, as his father-in-
Law, ex Senator Chafee, is very rich. Jesse
Grant is practically poor-the only reilly
settled child of the General being Nslis,
whose position by marriage with q member
of an old aud wealthy English family places
her beyond tie reach of want.
henry WARD BEECHEE and Fanny Fern
we're play mates in youth. why. certainly;
l knew Fanny Fern we'll" said the great
preacher the other day. when was a boy
at school in Hartford she was one of the most
lively and attractive girls at my sister Cath
srines school here. She was not Mrs Ed
ridge then. nor Mrs. Parton, nor Fanny
Fern, but she was simple Sara Willis, not
even known as n P. Willis sister Cstharine
kept lot Of horses for the girls to ride, and
my sister Harriet and Sara Willis were
together often. Sometimes as often as I
could joined them in gallop into the
country. Sara was blonde, with very fair
face and fowIr Haxen hair. She was quite
bewitching little c-eature-one of the pref.
test girls in Hartford" Fanny FERNS
pseudonym had becoms pretty we'll known,
bat she was struggling hard to support her
babes when Bonner took her breath away by
offering her 81 600 for a story making ten
cOlnmus of the T,adper