San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-07-27
IN THE SWIM.

Mass.
Rosina Vokes sails for England
Wednesday.
William Black, the novelist, is to
visit America.
Miss Nora Perry is summering at
Scarboro Beach, Me.
Grants cottage at Mt. McGregor is
visited by throngs daily.
Rose Coghlan and her brother are
to go to Nova Scotia next month.
Mrs. Maggie Van Colt, the woman
revivalist, is at work at Old Orchard,
Me.
The estate of the late Hiram Sibley,
of Rochester, is estimated to be S1O,-
OOO, 900.
Sir John Millias is engaged upon a
three-quarter length portrait of Miss
Vanderbilt.
Miss Annie Whitney, the sculptor,
is spending the summer on her farm
in Vermont.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has returned
from her western wanderings, and is
at home at Newport.
It is said that DR.. Calling is at work
on new gun which will cause great
sensation in military circles.
Nonquit has developed into cele-
brated seaside resort since Gen. Sheri-
dan reached his quaint cottage on the
sands.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor,
who is visiting her native land after
thirty years at Rome. is now at Bar
HarbOr.
J. H. Lippincott, who purchased Mr..
Edison's recently perfected phono-
graph, says that the sum paid exceeds
81 900, 900.
The wife and daughter of Senator
Sherman will soon leave Washington
for the summer and return to their
home at Mansfield.
Kate Castleton will leave California
next month and come east to begin
work for her season, which opens in
Syracuse September "a.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, niece
of ex-President Buchanan and once
lady of the White House, will pass
the coming month at Rye Beach,
n. H.
Mr.. Haweis. the sensational Lon
don preacher, is short in stature, and
he bears well his fifty years. He is an
admirable companion, and an eX-
quisite performer on the violin.
Attorney General Garland is an en-
thusiastic sportsman. At HOminy
Hill, his country home in Arkansas,
he has a fine collection of fishing
tackle, with handsomely mounted
rifles and shot guns. He has also a
pack of ten hounds.
Secretary State Kelsey, of New Jer-
sey, has been authorized to appoint
committee to secure designs for and
erect shaft over the remains of Gen.
Mcclellan, in Riverview cemetery.
The monument is to cost s. 900, and
the funds are now in hand.
Thomas Mast, who went into the far
West to lecture and renew his health
some ten months ago, has returned
from the Pacific coast to his home in
Morristown, n. j., having visited
British Columbia, California and the
mining regions of Colorado.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has
changed little since the death of her
husband, though she is now seventy
six years old. At present she is living
at the ST. George hotel, in Brooklyn,
but she is soon to 60 to her daugh-
ter's, Mrs. Scovil's, at Stamford, CT.
The Beecher house at Peekskill re-
mains unoccupied, and Mrs. Beecher
goes there only occasionally.
The Political Science Association of
the University of Michigan has made
arrangements for a course of six lee
lures to be given during the next
year. These lectures will treat of the
American constitution as reflected in
the federal and the state courts, and
will be delivered by prominent jurists
of the country, Hon. Stanley Mat
thews, of the supreme bench; Hon. 7.
Cooley, Chairman of the interstate
commerce commission; Hon. Daniel
H. Chamberlain, ex-governor of South
Carolina; Hon. Henry Hitchcock, of
st. Louis, and others.