The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

MISS JEANETTE GLIDER, editor of the New
York Critic, has been seventeen years jour
nalist
SECRETARY ENDICoTT has been eating pears
from an ancestral pear tree. 253 years old, at
Endicott farm, near Danvers, Mass.
SEAFARING men incline to the opinion that
there is about foot more of water on the
Charleston bar than there was before the earth
quake.
DENNIsoN, the inventor of the convenient and
now indispensable tag, died last week in Massa-
chusetts. Over 225, 900, 600 of his tags are sold
annually
THE Paris journals announce the death of
Alfred Cambronne, descendant of the famous
general who won immortal renown by one word
spoken at the battle OF Waterloo.
THERE is much talk in England of the possible
restoration of Col Valentine Baker to his old
rank in the army. His friends are trying to per
suade the Queen that such an act of clemency
would befit her jubilee celebration.
MRS HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE writes to a
friend in Brooklyn that she does not consider
her health Shattered" as has been widely re-
ported but that it is only natural that after the
illness and death of her husband, she should re-
Quire the rest which she is now seeking by daily
open-air exercise Mrs. Stowe is at Hartford.
GEN. NEAL BOWS loss of $50. 900 through his
nephew, Cashier Gould, was not the first serious
financial misfortune of the prohibition leader.
Several years ago he lost $1,000 through the
defalcaton of Rev. D. B.'Peck. the State Treas
urer. General Dow is, nevertheless said to be
hopeful ard unruffled at the Of eighty-tw two.
Two benevolent societies of Los Angeles, CAL
recently received ST, 900 each from a religious
monomanac, who, Having seen vision and
heard voice." commanding him to sell all and
give to the poor. executed the demand, leaving
his family in utter restitution The directors of
the institution have returned the money to the
wife and children.
THE Washington Critic has information to the
effect that Mr. Tlton and Mrs. Billiard, whose
father left her fortune made out of Mrs. Wins
lows soothing syrup, are often seen riding out in
Paris together, and are a handsome-look
couple. 1t is added that Theodore Tilton's
daughter Florence, who married Peton, is living
with her child In Switzerland Tlton's other
daughter is living with her husband in Chicago
and Mrs. Tilton is in a Protestant convent in
Newark y
THE Rev. Emory j. Haynes preached SER
mon on the subject Shall Join Fraternity"
in Boston, on Sunday. 1t was apropos of the
visit of the Oddfellows to that city, and in it he
spoke strong words in favor of college secret So
ceties of the right sort. II pay a debt of graft
tude this day." he said. Years ago. when lad
l came from the State Of Vermont and went to
college, where had the companionship of some
young men who admitted me to their secret
honors. and l pay honor to them. They were
my friends, and they rebuked when did
wrong and rejoiced with when / did we'll.
Then they cared for me and bent over me and
saved my life when I was sick. 1 have a great
respect for these secret societies. owe as much
to the watchfulness and sympathy of that society
as owe to the college itself"
AUSTIN CoRBIN was a school teacher in New
Hampshire in his youth, then he became law
yer in Rhode Island, but without any practice to
speak of. Next he went West and, seeing the
need of money there and the high rates it
brought, he became a banker, in a small way at
first and finally in large way Now he has
been placed high among the inanciers of the
country by an election to the presidency of the
Reading railroad. His homo used to be in
Brooklyn, though he has farm in New Hamp-
shire, country seat at Babylon, l.. l., and an
elegant suite of in the Oriental Hotel
ConeY Island Hereafter he must add yet
another place to the list of his residences, for