The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
PERSONAL MENTION.


The Oneida community pays $40 70 $50 an
acre for sweet corn, for canning.
Texas sheep men are buying cotton seed to
prevent the starvation of their aocks
Theebaw's regalia has been sent from Man
dalay to London, and placed on exhibition
II. BarthoIdi win sail from Havre for New
York BY the steamship La Bretagne, Oct 10.
Mr.. John Boyle o'Reily dedicates his hook
of poems, an Bohemia" TO his @four little
daughter
Stanley, the African explorer. who IS about
to return 70 this country, is said TO be Of
Welsh descent.
lime. Adam got, as editor of La Nouvelle
Revue, s., 600 a year salary and s, 900 a year
more for entertainment expenses, etc
The volcanic peak, Pablof mountain, 800
miles southeast Of Kodiak, on the Alaska pen
insula, Is reported IN a state OF eruption
4 Montana stockIran has standing offer
of s250,0 70 any one who VIII insure his
range cattle this winter and make good all
losses.
Among the regular attendants at the camp
meeting which lately closed at Ocean Grove
were Mrs. e. S Grant and her two sisters,
Mrs. CrauaeF and hrs, Potter.
Five hundred million dollars were repre-
sented at the wedding OF Miss Rita Armstrong
and Mr. A J. Drexel. the bankers son, at
EIberon, the other day Among the presents
were $500 900 to the bridegroom.
Joel C. Harris t.sUncle Renus) who has
had months vacation, taken because of his
health, does not improve, and has gone into
the mountains for another month. He has
nervous affection which has SO far resisted
medical treatment.
Mrs. IT, S. Grant Is desirous Of selling her
cottage at Long Branch. Housekeeping all
the year round tells on her strength, and with
the cottage out Of her possession she could,
she thinks, obtain a beneficial respite from
household cares by travelling about in the
suIuIner.-New York Letter.
The Empress Eugene has been recon-
mended to try the italian climate during the
| forthcoming winter, as she is DESTROYS Of liv-
| ing very quietly Pisa is the spot which viii
probably be selected. Inquiries have already
| been made rs to which of the many palaces
at Pisa would be obtainahle-New York
| Post.
| N. Meissonier has left Paris for Venice TO
complete on the spot a large canvas he com
menced last year, IN which nearly 900 figures
are represented He paints every morning
in st. Marks, sitting astride on a chair at the
foot OF s1A lar, with his box of colors on the
floor beside him. The painting viii represent
a corner Of the chapel Of the Madonna, one of
the artistic gems of the famous basiica Paris
Letter
Governor Porter, of Indiana, finds himself
embarrassed in writing his history of Indiana
! from the fact that so few, comparatively, of
| the public documents Of the state have been
| preserved. Nevertheless, by searching the
federal well as private records he has been
able to obtain historical data of great value
and accuracy. The book viii be ready for
the printers early in 1sS7.-Chicago Times.
Andrew Carnegie is building on the sum-
mt. of the Alleghenies, near Cresson Springs,
a house, or castle, which viii cost 81 00o, 900.
The entire walls viii be built up altogether
| of the undrcssed surface stone which is to be
| found on the place, and they are not to show
in any place single mark of the chisel or
hammer Mr., Carnegies orders are positive
on this point, he having expressed a wish to
have, as far as possible even the moss ON the
rocks used in the walls undsturbed. Chicago
Tribune.
Mr.. John d. Bankenau, president of the
German hospital at Philadelphia, has begun
the erection of the Mary Drexel home on the
| grounds of the institution as a memorial to
ture of stone, three stories high with three
towers-one 200 feet high and the others $50
have frontage Of 245 feet with two wings As
feet wide and extending back I95 feet. 1t will
take nearly two years to complete the build
ing, which viii be furnished with a picture
gallery and hbrary.-BOston Transcript.
The Chevalier John Sartain, of Philadel
pllia, long distinguished as an engraver, i
almost so and very vigorous. He introduced
nlezzotint into America, established maya
zine, fed and clothed Edgar a. Poe, RECEIVED
decorations from half a dozen European po
tentates, managed the art department of the
Centennial exhibition, still occupies the houst
to which he brought his bride from England
sixty years ago, and next spring will proceed
to London to take charge of the art depart
ment of the forthcoming American exhibi
tion.-Harper's Bazaar.
Gen. Adam Badeau, author of "AristocracS
in England, is short and heavy set He anC
Tom Ochiltree have the same stocl1y build
only the Texan is somewhat taller. The gen
eral in his everyday attire might be taker
for prosperous farmer. He wears a sacI
coat Of dark material and trousers to suit
lie has full sandy colored beard, cropped
off as smoothly as grass in well cared fo
parterre. He walks with a brisk, quick step
| and has a sharp eye In conversation
though he doesn't ''shoot pigeons" as Dom
Piatt said of President Cleveland, but look
you straight in the face His writings abou
Gen. Grant and "Aristocracy in England
have made him snug little fortune He i
said to be always busy writing, having
! plenty of material on hand to draw FROM
New York Mail and Express.
With his detective camera under his arm
SO disposed as to suggest gripsaci1, and thu
to disarlh suspicion, Mr.. w Hamilton Gibson
caught ON the fly hundreds of characteristic
attitudes costumes and facial expressions dur
ing his recent trip south. Among his instan
Ianeous photographs are several that illustrat
the process Of telling the huge expresses of tn
Louisiana swamps, views of the cypress re
; ceiving its first blow from the "swamper's
; ak, or just beginning to swerve from the pei
pendicular, or falling with grand splash int
the water, or abandoned by the Sswampern i
his fight from danger. Some of the old slave
of the wharves of New Orleans-1nen and VIC
: men-are extremely picturesque as Ny. Gil
son took them, and he knows how to use hi
} material in the production of artistic pictures
) No pen or pencil sketches could have pre-
served a hundredth part of Mr.. Gibson's pho
, Geographic collection of vital facts-The Al
gonaut.