The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-09-23

Secretary Endic0tt h still ia the
White Mountain region.
A convention Of stamp collectors
met yesterday in New York.
There are 6.O00 saloons in sight Of
Trinity spire, New York City.
Denver has an anti-Chinese Club
which was organized last week.
General Hazen has sailed from San
FraneisO for the Isthmus Of Darien.
Miss Carroll, daughter Of Lee Car.
roll, Ex-Governor Of Maryland, is to
marry Baron Louis de 10 Grange.
Mr.. Gladstone wac Offered q sleeping
ear ride from Brussels 70 Cologne,
but preferred TO occupy an ordinary
compartment
Senator Edmunds' check for $50,
letter, has been received by the Char
lesion relief committee.
Detroit Is TO have q tOboggan slide
this winter. Bank cashiers are offer
lug inducements to have Il run across
the river into Canada.
Buffalo Is going to have q tremend-
Oue clock. The dials will be twenty
Eve feet 10 diameter, 1861 feet above
the street, and lighted by electricity.
Roscoe COnkling has had the beard
along the lower part Of his face close
ly trimmed. The New York Sun
says Il now looks like boar frost aud
Is whittier on his Fuddy cheeks.
Mrs. Pickett, the widow Of the Con-
federste general who made the famous
charge at Gettysburg. has been APP
pointed to position in the Interior
Department.
The profits OF prunes and peaches
and apricOts In San Jose. Cal, valley
have been three times as great this
season as those which have been real
lied from the orange and lemon groves
Of the South.
Miss Mary Anderson has been visit
ing the Earl OF LyttOn this week at
Knebworth Park. She IL going to
| give four performances In October 1T
Dublin for the benefit Of the Charles
ton earthquake sufferers.
Mr.. Nathan Robbins. the veteran
Boston banker, who last week cele-
brated his eighty-thlrd birthday, has
occupied an Office In Quincy Market
for sixty years, and has been absent
because OF illness only eight days.
Minister Cox writes home 10 q
friend that he would be very glad to
be back Ga the House, but since Mrs.
Cox opposes his Fe-entering upon
active politics he will not return to
Washington.
Thomas WIlkeson, of Adrian, Mich. d,
has q full beard that reaches 10 his
feet. It is nearly six feet In length,
and still growing. He can tie his
mustaehe in a double bow knot at the
back Of his head.
Miss Catherine L. Wolfe IL making
q $40. 900 alteration Of the house at
No - Lafayette place, New York.
The place is 20 be used for the Prot
estant Episcopal Bishop OF New
York.
Only four Of BaltimOre's "Old de-
fendersn who assisted In the battle Of
North Point In the war Of 1912, re-
main. These are George Bess, aged
80, james Q. Morford, aged 80. John
PettlcOFd, aged 81, and Nathaniel
Watts, aged 81.
guukG hEuEN n nlluEEaltGNGe TIC
famous rifle aud pistol shot, has
a superb baritone voice. At recent
dinner Of intimate friends 1T the Man
haitian Club, New York. he sang the
most popular airs from 1.-THE MikadO"
with great effect.
Baron Joseph Won Bedeus, the only
Austrian who received an honorary
degree at the Heidelberg Jubilee, IL q
Transylvanian scholar, whose historic
cal writings hsve done much 10 keep
alive the German traditions and as
piratiUas among the "SaxOnsn of that
province.
The Rev. G. w. Brady. post chap
lain at Fort Russell, w. T., died
last Thursday. Chaplain Brady was
9 fighting parsOn during the war,
serving with an lows Regiment. He
was In q number Of battles, Wes cap
tured and spent many months In Lib
by prison He was q brOther-in-laW
Of Frank HattOn.
In his annual address before the
New England Agricultural Society
recently George B. LOring stated that
the number OF farms IN New England
had increased from lS4 ,O64 In 1880 to
Isl. 252 10 1880 and that the value Of
these farms has increased 10 the same
period from S4T6, 9O4, Az to $3.50, T2l :
ass.
General Lloyd Aspinwall's will
was written huFriedly on both sides
Of a single sheet Of letter paPer. The
will Il witnessed by two house ser
wants. IL saves to his family about
500. 900 worth Of real estate which he
Inherited from his mother, with
power 10 bequeath. It would have
reverted 10 his mothers estate ~ he
had died without making q will.
Society IL astOnished, says the BOs-
ton Home Journal, 10 find that Mr..
Edwin Booth is q charming and de-
lightfnl man. For years he has been
considered morOse and moody, never
caring 10 make the slightest effort 10
be agreeable 10 any but his few init
mate friends. Within the last year
be seems 10 have turned q new leaf,
30 that now Il r. now q very great
pleasure 10 meet him IN society.
Lady Randolph Churchill goes 10
the ladies' gallery Of the House Of
Commons almost every day since her
husband has become Chancellor Of the
ExoheQuer. She sits In a corner Of the
gallery on the ministerial side, where
Mrs. Gladstone was 90 Often seen IN
Former times Her photograph and
thet Of her husband are nov seen Ia
rsondon n,oFa Frannauflv than fho1a NJ