Connecticut western news., 1889-09-11
PERSONAL.

Is dangerously i'll.
 Ex-Governor N. s. Berry of New Hamp- shire is 93 years old.
 Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright Is at Diamond Island, Me.
 Mayor Atkinson of Winchester, Va., was visitor at Boston last week.
 "Buffalo Bin" is making fine collection of paintings during his stay in Paris.
 Miss Caldwell, who will marry Prince Murrat in November, is in Switzerland.
 Senator Chandler of New Hampshire sailed for Europe on steamer Umbria, from New York.
 MT. Lawrence Barrett is expected to ar rive in New York rom Southampton toward the end of this week.
 The latest engagement announced is George Munro, son of Banker Munro, to Miss Otis of New York.
 Dr. Fricke, who was with General Gordon at Khartoum, has returned to Berlin after fifteen years spent in Africa. The engagement of fex-Congressman Benja- min Lefevre of Ohio to Mrs. Frank Leslie of New York has been announced.
 The illness of Mrs. James G. Blaine, has been so serious that all of her dates for the coming season have been cancelled. When Patti sang the Welsh national air at the Eisteddfod, the audience are said to have been divided between tears and en- thusiasm.
 f"~ MT. Lawrence Barrett is expected to ar- rive at New York from Southampton toward the end of the week. His health has i'm proved materially.
 Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan and her children are living at the cottage in Nonquitt in which the General died. Mrs Sheridan has entirely recovered her health.
 Uncle Rufus Hatch, in New York, says that nobody asks him for his opinion now that he is poor. Time was when he could not give opinions fast enough.
 Charles Dickens has a long novel in manu- script which he never had the courage to publish. He realizes that his work would | be compared with bis fathers. | Professor William James of Cambridge was one of the Cephalonia's passengers last week. He visited his brother, MT. Henry James, the novelist, while ill London. Senator John Sherman is in Paris, having | crossed and returned within three weeks. "I am here on some business affairs" he | said, ''and shall remain abroad until October" selected by Cardinal Gibbons to preach the sermon at the dedication of the new Roman Catholic University of Washington on Nov. W.J. Howard, the City Engineer of Brock | ton and Miss Anna Clifford, a well-known soprano soloist, were married Sunday by | J. F. Rapson, pastor of the Baptist Church | at Whitman.
 Charles Young, colored cadet at West Point, passed his examinations satisfactorily, l and was graduated. He is the second colored i cadet who has graduated since Cadet Flipper was given diploma.
 The suggestion that the young King of | Spain should be selected for the honor of opening the Worlds Fair in 1892 is not bad | one. But it is best not to be too premature in making such choice. Jennie Chamberlain has gone to London j! with her mother. The wedding has been postponed until October. Her extensive trousseau is in the hands of Doucet and | Magazin du LOndre in Paris.
 John Grass, the great chief of the Black feet Sioux, is seriously i'll at Fort Yates, N. D., and is not expected to9ive. He has tele- l graphed to Cheyenne Agency for White Swan, his mother-in-law, to come to his | bedside.
 Herbert Spencer's health is so much better that he has taken house in St. Johns Wood and intends soon to resume work on his 1 synthetic philosoPAy. He is vt present liv- ing in Wiltshire, occapied mainly with all autobiography.
 Sir Edwin Arnold's voyage to this country will remind many persons that it was due to his earnest representations to MT. Law son, the proprietor "- t," Daily Telegraph, that that journai ..e.i in the second African expedition ot Air. Stanley.
 It is understood that both Judge Fraser of Indiana, and Judge Samuel Phillips of North l Carolina, who WeEe. Appointed by President Harrison to act as ial ltrators in the Venezue- Ian claims have declined to serve, though they may act temporarily until some other persons can be founA to take their places.
 A white bronze monument was dedicated the other day, at Milford, Pa, to Tom Quick, noted Indian fighter of the earfy days. The monument was erected by Hon. William Bross of Chicago, ex-Lieutenaut Governor of Illinois, who was bora In the vicinity of Milford, and is grand nephew of the "Av cnger of the Delaware, i" as Quick described l himSeH.