Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-12-18
BRIc-A-BRAc.
Washington Critic.l

Mr.. Hendricks estate is worth
about 100000.
Senator Edmunds is estimated TO
be worth half a million.
Senators Blair and Frye are said TO
be the only Members of the upper
House Of Congress who are teetotal-
lers.
Captain j. NJ. Storey, ofGreens-
boro, N. c., was struck twenty times
by bullets in the late war, and is alive
yet.
NJ. Grevy, although the possessor
of more than 100000, is said to lie
too stingy to provide respectable
table.
The veteran Major Ben. Perley
Poore, begun last week his fifty-ninlh
year as a newspaper correspondent
in Washington.
Professor Eusti4 has been dropped
from the faculty of Harvard College,
and'James Russell Lowell placed on
the active list.
Miss Hewitt, daughter of Abram
S. Hewitt, of New York is thorough
ly posted on horses and dogs, and is
an accomplished musician.
A silver shoe buckle, supposed TO
have once belonged to General Wash
ington, was recently found among
some rubbish at Mt. Vernon.
The mother of the late Bayard Tay-
Tor, living at Kennel Square, Chester
county Pennsylvania, recently cele-
brated her eighty-sixth birthday.
General Longstreet lives on the top
of hill near Gainesville, Ga. His
long hair is white as snow, and his
clothes hang very loosely about him.
Professor William G. Sumner has
for some time carried his right arm
in sling. 1t is now announced that
he has been learning to ride bicy-
Gle.
The first wife of Senator-elect
Mitchell, of Oregon, washes clothes
in Oil City to help out her present
husband, who is poOrly-paid labor
or. She got the divorce.
"Cyrus w. Field,' says a curbstone
gossip, "always bends his head and
eyes in meditation as he lightly trips
it along with the air of a man who
would like to take a rest If he could.
Ills face is careworn, but the hair and
beard are full and curling and little
streaked."
Du Pho Pice, the last Mexican gov.
ernor general of Upper California,
returned to his old quarters at Los
Angeles soon after the country was
acquired by the United States, and
has lived there from that day to this
He has never been able to master .
single sentence of the English Ian
guage.
A prominent physician who wa
Mr.. Hendricks friend and attended
for longer period than any othc
physician, says that Mr.. lIendrck
did not die of heart paralysis. SIEVE
raj years ago Mr.. Hendricks wa
stricken with paralysis, from whicl
he never fully recovered, and, as i
usual in cases of partial paralysis,
clot formed that eventually reached
the brain and caused death.
General j. III. Van Allen lives il
the same houes with his horses. |
is not meant that that notable person
lives in a stable; on the contrary III
lives in very fine house indeed
the stables being under the roof .
the mansion, in Flemish fashion
Lyman Josephs likewise keeps hi
Lorses in his house. In neither cas-,
is there inconvenience from stamping
hoofs or Augean odors.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, will
be one of the principal speakers a
the dinner of the Holland Society o
New York to be given on Sth of Jan
uary. Senator Voorhees, is descend
ed in the direct mail line from Steph
ell Coerte Van Voorhees,, who cam
from Holland in 1860. Down to all
including the Senator's father tn
Dutch blood in his family has neve
been diluted by marriage with an
other nationality.