The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-12-22
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Lewis Fl. Stanton, the only surviving SON Of
the great war secretary, is visiting in Wash
ington for the first time in several years. Mr..
Stanton lives at Morris, Mimi, where be has
a large stock farm in the delightful park
region which extends over the western and
northern part of that state. He is a young
man, considerably less in stature than his
father, but resembling him very much in face
and mental characteristics. He lives quiet,
uneventful life, stunning politics as he would
prairie fire.
Mr.. Heron Allen, the palm reader, who is
now the object of fashionable alteration In
New York, is a great Traveller. His hobby is
the orient and the eastern question. He is the
author Of many Of the Queer Stories" that
appear in London Truth, and in addition to
his literary requirements Is quite a linguist.
He is close personal friend of Capt. Burton,
the African traveller, and is twice as hand
some as Oscar Wilde.
William Lockport Hunter, the famous
Texan hero, who was of the fourteen sur
vivors of the massacre of Goliad, died a few
days since at Austin, Tex. He was also one
of the three men who left the fated Alamo in
the hope of securing help for the gallant gar
rison. At the time of his death he had
reached his 80th year.
2 Capt Billy Walsh, of the Salvation Army,
attracts considerable attention whenever he
takes his walks abroad, for on the front of
his red shirt are the words, "Jesus calls YOU"
and on the back, "a burning hell awaits the
careless" and his belt is labeled, ETERNITY"
The captain picks banjo extremely well
Mrs. Margaret Jerome, widow of Gen.
Jerome, the dashing Confederate officer, died
in a New York tenement house recently, hav-
b.,
poverty She persistently refused aid from
the charitable, and is said to have died of
broken heart.
A cousin of Charles Dickens, who is said to
be living in New York under very straitened
circumstances, absolutely refuses to sell valu-
able autograph letters of the great novelist,
though handsome prices have been offered by
collectors.
| Gerald Maxwell is the stage name of a son
of Miss Braddon, the novelist who is a mem
Der of Wilson Barrett's company. He is
very clever, and promises to become good
| actor.
Richard H. Davis, who is coming to the
front as writer of stories for children, is
said to inherit his literary talent from his
mother, Rebecca Harding Davis
NJ Gounod is being pushed by his friends
! Ior cnalr among Ine rOrJy 1HlIuoTtdis3 Dub
he does not himself covet the honor, and it is
even doubtful if he would accept it.
Postmaster General Villas takes his noon
| day lunch at a dairy restaurant, where he
! gets mug of milk and piece of apple pie
| for fifteen cents.
Gen. Neal Dow, who was on the bond of
his son-in-law, W. Z. Gould, the defaulting
Portland cashier, has paid the $4,000 he was
responsible for.
| It is said that ex-Queen Isabella still clings
| to the hope that she viii some day again be
seated on the throne of Spain.
Secretary Lamar considers James Russell
Lowell the best writer of pure English now
! living.
Ex-senator Roscoe Conkling never put a
! farthing upon a horse race, and does not
know how to gamble
Mark Twain is now said to be worth some
thing like million and half.
Mrs Theodore Tilton is in Protestant
| convent at Newark.
Levy is going to play his cornet around the
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