The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-13
Personal and Society.

ferbOn8I ana SOcIotys
Mr. and Mrs. L. Ayres will give . dinner
party this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Parry will leave to-day
for the South to remain until spring.
Mrs Geo. French will leave in few days for
California to remain an indefinite time.
Miss Mary Murdoch will arrive on Monday to
spend severa. weeks with Miss Nellie Young.
Mrs Lee Cannon will entertain a party of
friends with donkey" party on Saturday
evening.
Hon. Jos. e. Mcdonald will return to Wash
ington to morrow evening. where he joins Mrs
Mcdonald.
Mr. and Mrs w p Bingham will give tea
tomorrow evening in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
A Lemcke.
Mrs. Emma Holloway, of the Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Knightstown, is spending few
days in the city.
Miss Jessie Hughes is the guest of Mrs. Rob
ert A. Miller, at Canton, o., where she will re-
main several weeks.
The second ball of the Indianapolis Light In
fantry will occur tonight at Tomlinson Hall.
The dancing will begin at o'clock
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Shideler gave pleasant
progressive euchre party at their home on East
Ohio street, with the accompaniment OF pretty
prizes.
The condition of Mr.. Oscar B. Hord yesterday
was much improved. and there Is now hope for
his recovery if no Inflammation ensues from the
clot on the brain within the next ten days
Lieut. A. w. Stahl, of the United States
navy formerly detailed at Purdue University,
passed through the city yesterday, with his
wife, en- route to Philadelphia, where he Is now
stationed.
The aged mother of Mrs. John NJ Butler,
Mrs. NJ. M. Jennison, died very suddenly on
Wednesday evening, at her home In Crawforos-
Vile, and Mrs. A. FL. Shows Wednesday after
noon receptions are discontinued in conse-
Quence.
Mr. and Mrs. William G. Malone. of Chicago,
are visiting their cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. G. Il.
Coffin. They are on their way home from an
extended wedding trip. Mrs. Malone was
formerly Miss Carrie Sharp, and has many
friends in this city.
Mrs. and Miss Heron gave an elegant recep-
ton in honor of Miss Ida Mitchell, of Prince
tor, Ind, at their home on North Illsnois street.
from to 5 P. NJ Wednesday, which was at
terioed and enjoyed by about enc hundred and
twenty-five ladies of this city. and others from
abroad including Miss Lincoln. of Baltimore,
MIS-. NJ. Roberts and Miss Kate Heron, of Con-
nersville.
Gen. H B. Darlington, now living near Bos-
ton has turned over the details of the business
in which he has been engaged to give more at
tention to his own literary work. The material
for the fifth thousand OF his large and standard
work, BATTLES of the American Revolution
has gone to the publishers. His Battle Maps
and Charts, for 1885, has been adopted for use in
connection with every school history IN the
United States The sixth edition of Indian
Operations on the Plains, published by Lppin-
colt & Co., only awaits certain official matter
Ront Veil and Other POEMS Light and Grave, y
is ready for the printer. Battles of the Bible,
commenced in 1879, "Washington's Holidays, ~
"Cyrus the Beloved" and 'Gideon the Brave, y
the last two. Sunday-school books. are pigeon
holed until the completion of Patriotic Reader
which occupies his evenings. 1t will be seen
that the General is quite busy man, and is
making himself we'll q useful one.