Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-07
PERSONAL.

The name of Archduke John has been
stricken from the Austrian army list.
Rutgers College has conferred the degree
Of LII. ID. upon Hon. William Walter Phelps.
The Paris Gaulois says that the marriage
of Prince Murat to Miss Caldwell has been
postponed.
Hon. Daniel Clark Of Manchester, N. H..
Judge of the United States District Court,
has celebrated his s0th birthday.
The Court has ordered Dion Boucicault to
pay the sum OF $50 monthly as alimony to
his divorced wife, Miss Agnes Robertson.
The well-known firm Of Fowler Bros,
phrenologists, has for years been managed by
Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, sister Of the
Fowlers.
Lieut.. j. NJ. Trotter, Recorder Of Deeds
for the District Of Columbia, is In Boston
to attend the annual reunion Of the Fifty
fourth and Fifty-tfth Regiments.
George w. Shaw, Of Bradford, VT, who
was graduated from Dartmouth In 1887, has
been appointed Professor Of Science and
Elocution in Pacific University, Forest
Grove, Ore.
Some friends OF ex-President Robinson of
Brown University are to present an oil por-
trait Of him to the college gallery of portraits
In Memorial Hall. The picture is being
painted in Boston.
Assistant Secretary Of State Wharton Is
slowly recovering from an attack of the slow
fever. He Is confined at the summer resid-
ence of his father-in-law, w. ID. Pickman, at
Beverly, Mass, and viii not be able to go out
for some weeks yet.
Lord Dagnan, against whom PHYLLIS
Broughton, an English burlesque actress,
brought an action for 10000 damages for
breach of promise Of marriage, has paid
f2500 and the costs Of the action into court
and thus settled the case.
Jay Gould has not brought health back with
him from his Western trip. He arrived in
New York very much worn out, and would
see no one except his son George. His vital
ity appears to be almost exhausted, and he is
watched over constantly by physician. 1t
Is understood that his sons George and Ed
ward are to come to the front on the Stock
Exchange, backed up by his counsels and
experience.
The Springfield Republican announces that
"Prof. Mather's condition will incapacitate
him from further active work. The recent
surgical operation was successful, but it can
only result in prolonging his life by temper
arily checking the malady. Prof. Mather's
services to Amherst College have been in
valuable. He has been especially successful
in securing gifts for the institution, but his
work as professor has placed the art de-
partment Of the college in high rank in COM
parison with other institutions. His retire
ment at this time, while President Seelye is
away for his health and Prof. Croweli has
been afflicted with blindness, is an especially
severe blow to the college,"
Ex-Queen Nathalie Of Servia Is a very de-
cided person. She was approached recently
by Gen. Belimarkovitch with an offer of 4
sum Of money which she might herself fix II
she would accept certain conditions which he
She replied that she did not
understand that she had any right to a
dowry, fixed either by the Treasury or taken
from the Civil List, allotted TO her son, and
that she consequently considered the offer
which he made her as highly offensive, and
that he was greatly deceived If he imagined
that he could treat her like King Milan, who
was bribed TO remain outside Of Servia by a
pension which was not legally due him. The
General was furious. but could not prevail
on the plucky little woman to alter her de-
termination.