Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

FhUM1NENI tEUPLE.
Ex-Empress Eugene will spend the
winter at Naples.
Henry Willard has founded German
library at Harvard.
Andrew Carnegie expects to spend
$750,000 on his public library at Pitts.
burg.
Johnstown gave Clara Barton a recep,
tion before she left the stricken but CRATE
full city.
John A McCann, recently editor of the
Buffalo Times, has bought the Buffalo Sat
urday 1Tdtngs.
Deborah Powers has kept life's books
well. He is an active banker at the age
of 80 in Lansingburg, N Y.
Mrs. Constance Fenimore Woolson is
coming back to this country to live, and
will pass the winter in Florida.
Professor Englisch, the chess champion,
lately won thirty simultaneous games Of
chess at the Vienna Chess Club
Augustus Harris has given to the British
Museum complete set Of the programmes
Of Drury Lane Theater from 1744 to 1862
Professor W. II. Appleton, Greek Pro
fessor at Princeton, will succeed DIR. E. H,
Magill as President of Swarthmore College.
Thomas Hardy has been elected to fill
the vacancy in the Council of the Society
of Authors caused by the death of Wilkie
Collins.
Mrs. John Chanler (Amelie Rives) de-
nies that she has entered into a literary
partnership with the French auther, Catulle
Mendes.
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet, is very i'll with nervous prostration,
and will probably have to cancel his lect-
ure dates.
George Kennan has reached Boston from
his summer home at Cape Breton Island,
and is about to begin his second years
series of lectures.
Archbishop Corrigan has appointed
Rev. John A. Waters President of the
Archdiocesan Union of the Young Mems
Literary Societies.
Rev. DR.. Bartol has sent in his resigna-
tion as pastor of the old West Church in
Boston. He has had charge Of this church
for more than fifty years
DIR. Frithjof Nansen, the explorer of
Greenland, will come to America next
spring on lecture tour, accompanied by
his beautiful young bride.
Rumors grow that President Bartlett, of
Dartmouth, will retire next year and be
succeeded by Professor A. S. Hardy, the
novelist and mathematician.
Senior Torres Caicevo, who died recently
in Paris, was called the Victor Hugo of
South America. He was dean of the diplo-
matte corps in the French Capital.
Professor Todd, of Amherst, before sail
ing for Africa to observe the solar eclipse,
was thoroughly coached" on the general
subject of Africa by his accomplished wife.
Although Chief Justice Peters of Maine
is suffering from cataract of both eyes, he
pluckily attends to his official duties, and
hopes to serve out his term, one year
longer.
Ex-President r. B. Hayes will deliver
an address before the annual Congress OF
the National Prison Association, Of which
he was really elected President, in Nash
vile, November 10Th.
A check for several thousand dollars
sent to Pope Leo XIII. from Newark, n
j., has been regularly returned to the
bank ON which it was drawn and will be
preserved as a souvenir.
Alexander Parkinson, farm laborer at
Grand Forks, n D., has given up working
in the fields and gone to England to take
possession of an estate worth 81 100000, to
which he has fallen heir.
Mrs. L. P. Morton, Mrs. Grover Cleve-
land, and Governor Beaver are expected to
be the bright particular stars of the
at Philadelphia, November Goth.
Lord Brassey is deeply interested in the
question Of assisted emigration, and is one
of a number Of capitalists who have pur,
chased huge tract of land in Canada on
which to settle colony of British laborers.
Buffalo Bill is becoming so foreign, SO
Partisan, as to be almost disguised. His
clothes are made in London, he wears a
French goatee, and with his invitations
for he entertains handsomely, he is grow
ing more conservative.
At recent reception, George W. Childs
said to Marshall p Wilder Mr. Wilder
you are the first man | ever introduced
myself to. l have met the leading mer
on both continents, but never before pre-
sented myself to famous parsonage. II
gives me great pleasure to make your ac-
quaintance."
Joseph Cook has purchased the summit
of Mount Defiance, Ticonderoga, where
Burgoyne's batteries stood, and will erect
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diers from Ticonderoga who were killed in
the war of the rebellion, and with tablet:
to the memory of the illustrious men Of
earlier times who made the name of Ticon-
| deroga famous.