The Portland daily press., 1886-06-21

Miss Mispah Breckenridge, the daughter
of Congressman Breckenridge of Kentucky,
is studying law, and will eventually prac-
tice with her father.
Minister Phelps has sent to the Yale law
school fac smile copy of the Magma Char
ia TT was obtained from the original docu-
ment extorted from King John GIL years ago,
and now in the British museum
Capt. Bray, who for years commanded the
the childrens missionary vessel, the Morn
ing Star, and took the new steam barkentine
from Boston to Honolulu, has settled perma-
nenlly in Oakland, California
Stephen Kelley, a Pennsylvania veteran,
goes up to Gettysburg every year and deco
rates his own grave. The records, through
some mistake, show that he was killed and
buried at Gettysburg, and his grave Is duly
marked in the National Cemetery.
Miss Coffin, daughter of Commander Coffin
of the United States steamer Quinnebaug,
who commanded the Alert in the Greedy re-
lief expedition, was married to Dr. Frank
Anderson of the United States navy in Lon
don last Thursday.
1t was not only to ex-President Arthur
and the wife of ex-President Hayes, and
Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Tyler, Mrs Grant and Mrs.
Garfield that the President sent a box of his
wedding cake, sbut he also remembered Mrs.
Harriet Lane johnson, the late ex-President
Buchanan's niece.
The committee Of Dartmouth alumni, APP
pointed to consider some method of increas-
ing the influence of the alumni in the gov
eminent of the college have decided to rec
ommend an advisory council, to consist OF
fifteen alumni, who will advise the trustees,
but have no voice in their deliberations
Senator Hearst is said to be worth $780,
100000, and his wife gives away $4,000 a
year in private charities. Their sole heir
is son who will be graduated this year
from Harvard, and will go into the newspa-
per business, beginning as Police Court re-
porter on his fathers paper, the San Fran
cisco Examiner.
1t is said that Archibald Forbes, the Eng
fish war correspondent, has more decorations
than any other private gentleman in the
World. He can wear only the Victoria
Cross in England, however, as the Queen
considers his Dukes collars, Counts med
ais, Princes orders, &C., ''incongruouS in a
man who has no title in his own country
In his address to the graduating class this
summer, the president of the University OF
the Pacific, won the applause of all Califor-
MIA with this short speech: ''Young ladies
and gentlemen of the graduating class, be
true to your instructors, true to your Alma
Mater, true to yourselves, true to your God,
and as your past has been honorable, your
future shall be assured" Scarcely less to
the point was the address of the venerable
principal of certain institution in Maine,
who took leave of a class of young ladies
with this injunction: "Be true to yourselves,
your God and your fellows"
When Earl Roseberry, most loyal Eng
fish Liberal, and always literally loyal, was
called upon to contribute to the election
fund.- he agreed to subscribe whatever sum
Baron Wolyerton would give. Lord Wolvep
ton, who is millionaire and childless, was
then visited and informed of Earl Rose
berry's promise. With quiet smile and
without moments hesitation, the baron
drew the subscription paper in front of him
and put down his name for 100000. The
paper was returned to Lord Roseberry III
due time and as his eye fell upon the sum OF
Lord Wolverton's donation momentary ex-
preston of surprise crossed his face, but he
promptly set his name opposite a like amount
and handed the list back without word.