The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-07-16
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The illness and probable retirement from
the limited States Supreme Court bench of
Justice Stephen j. Field is announced.
Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell recently en-
tertained a party Of antl-slaVery veterans at
her home in Dorchester, Mass.
1t is said that few women voted III WASH
ington Territory at the late election, aiIhough
they have the right to do so.
Henry Willard is coming to this country
again next autumn, but will not take up
any of his old enterprises.
The members of the Senate have contriput-
ed $40 each for the purchase of portrait Oh
Senator Wade Hampton, to be presented W
the State of South Carolina.
Henry Irving is coming to America 1or
holiday, and has asked number OF New
York and Boston friends to dinner at Del
monicO's the evening Of August IL.
The monument for the grave of Josh Bill
lings the humorist which will be placed IN
the cemetery at Lanesborough, Mass, will
bear only the inscription Josh Billings.
The demand for Gen. Logan's book comes
principally from the West. In Illinois 25,-
600 copies have teen taken, and in Kansas,
Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota the orders have
been large.
1t is said that Russia will hereafter not
confer Russian orders or decorations on
British, American OF Swiss subjects or citi-
zenS, because their respective countries do
not decorate Russian subjects.
Miss Gladstone writes in letter to a
friend: Papa regrets the results of the
election of course, but he is not at all dis
concerted He is quite happy, and is at this
moment reading Dante under tree
IN ha bad hxr
Charles Scribner's Sons will appear about
January, 1887. E. L. Burlingame, son of
the late Arson G. Burlingame, will be editor,
and VIM. A. Patton general manager. twill
be called Scribner's Magazine.
A young married woman described as
society belle of Scratchville, Alabama, has
left her husband and sued for divorce, be-
cause he recommended her to sell her pie
crust to Secretary Whitney for plates for the
new steel cruisers.
Ferdinand Ward has the finest cell at Sing
Sing, and furnishes it nicely The stone
walls contain many fine pictures, two of
which are large Photographic views of his
home at Grove Place. Rochester. A portrait
of his wife and child hangs over his bed.
After the adjournment of Congress Secre-
tary of State Bayard and his daughters will
go to some quiet seaside resort. The Misses
Bayard have not yet called upon Mrs. Cleve-
land, owing to their recent bereavement and
will not do so until autumn.
Miss Alice Freeman, the President of Wei
lesly College, is said to be in herself glo-
rious example of what woman may be-
come. Small and slight and handsome, only
% years of age, she has mastered thoroughly
seven languages, all the sciences, and won
the right to stand beside any professor on
earth as President Of college.
Senator Payne of Ohio, concerning whose
election there are such serious charges of
fraud, is described as mild hammered old
gentleman, about seventy-two years of age,
gentle and unassuming and genial in his
manner. His wife, motherly little wom-
an, is the daughter of Oliver FL. Perry, the
hero of the battle of Lake Erie, in the war of
1872
The oft-repeated and as often denied re-
port that there are differences between Nelly
Grants husband and her family growing
out of his unkind treatment of her, is re-
newed in Washington despatch. 1t is said
that the Grants have urged her to return to
this country and make her home with them,
but she steadily refuses to leave her hus-
band.
Carp" the Washington correspondent,
describes Attorney General Garland as a tall,
bent, starchy looking man, in an unbuttoned
double breasted frock coat, who walks along
in a lstless manner, with his head hanging
down and his dusty SLOUGH hat pulled over
his eyes. He looks far from happy and far
from proud. His step has lost the elasticity
of his senatorial days, and he begins to look
old and weary.
One day, in the year 1868, Charles Sumner
and his intimate friend, Henry w. Longfel-
low, were walking down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. in Washington, and Sumner proposed
that they should go into Gardeners and be
photographed together The picture was re-
markably successful. Sumner sits in an arm
chair, like those used in the Senate chamber,
and Longfellow in smaller chair in the
easiest attitude Imaginable The negative
was destroyed afterward; but the picture
has been copied, and is soon to be put upon
the market.