The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-28

them some Oh I00 lUWyVSo o0~ e~vSssA
Of the jury: Ona OF the lawyers. Den.
jamln F. Tracy, ie In the Cabinet Of
the President q the United STATES.
Mn. Tilton y more tortunateiy situ-
ated than her husband, foe sAe has the
company aod sympathy q hee cnll.
dren. Rnt Theodore Tloton hauute oos
Of the way places tn Paris, seeking
neither ftleuds nor. .fflendships, NILS.
orable and broken man:
James Gordon Bennett 10 Ia Paris
enough to be callod Parisian now.
AT any rate he alWAys keeps up MS
Psria eetabilshmeut. He 10 getting
old. Is the owner Of the Herald
would take him Q loog time to count
the gray hairs that now cluster On hls
head. But he b still % Hitting IN hts
habits as one OF Ouida's heroes might
be-. You may see him tonight at the
opers looking ON half cynlcaily, hall
stolidly for an hour perhaps, and tden
Won mpy hear the next day that he
has Just started for Constantinople OF
come other such plsce. Il 70 often saio
that the best people ct Newport aud
in New York would never receive or
recognize the owner Of the New Yerk
Herald. Without caviling ct the abtl-
ity of the persons making these etete-
meuts to define who the s'bsst people"
are. most Americans Who know any.
thing about tho matter, know that
there is 4 GOOD deal Of fiction about
them.
| But whatever may be said about
Bennetts social standing 10 New
York. II must be said that pretty much
every door IL open to him here. Truth
be told, however, be eeems 10 care
very little about society. He gives
more time to bis business than 10 gen.
orally supposed, and seems to nnd
more pleasure in his yachting trips
> than In anything else. He is said to
be spending good deal OF money on
= the London aud Paris editors OF the
Herald lust now, and his rivals 10 bus
), iuess say that he is losing . good deal
However, the statements Of business
l rivals are not always to be relied upon
In the gallery Of the Chamber where
Ronlanrer. Compte Dillon and Roche
|. EFFORT were tried there cat the other day
r slenderly but well built man, WIZ
=, =, eray hair and strong, intellectual face
y 10 which eyes, shiny black, sparkle.
r. The man has . large nose and iarg
N mouth, aud he was regarded With ~
rt terest by most of those present. Th'
at was not strange, for he Is most lnte!
~ estiug. He Is q man who'expecte !
ut be President Of France some day an
id who has q fighting chance to seacn %
lir goal of his ambition. He was nor
lea other than DR.. Eugene Clemeucea
or one OF the most important figures
lar the Chamber OF Deputies. Wheth
ms CIemeuceau ever becomes President
lea the French Republic remains TO
at seen. That he is one OF tho leading 9
OF ators and statesmen OF France ct pre-
In ent is very certain. There Is moi
be among the leading French politicla
who is go closely connected w
len America as Ciemenceau is. 1t ts ~
The about twenty years ago that the tn
ley Young and ambitious Frenchman,
Of exile In the Unitod States because
ort his belief in Republicanlsm and
in opposition to the Empire, was marri
-ew ia New York City Hall, Just % !
he present Duke of Marlborough and M
avs Hamersley were married by MAY
ood Hewitt. This was In 1869, ano IL Y
, of Mayor A. Oakley Hall, who has be
ght before mentioned In this article, "
in performed the marriage cersmo!
ago. The lady whom Clemenceau MARI
ians was Miss Mary A. Plummer, VINO Q
re-. heen member Of Clemeneea
,uld French class In New YORK. !
avs father had at frst opposed the mat
,esy He was u Wealthy, and 1t Is Just props
, to that he looked upon the yot
nan Frenchusu as an adventurer. But
the end he relented and the yo'
that couple had their way. 1t is PR
was evident how that Miss Plummer
acti- not make an unwise choice.
cav, Clemenceau still loves to talk OF
his four years he spent in America,
.ered he is never more happy than wher
has some Americans at dinner.
un- had varied career, too. He love
day chat of the days when he was &c
led a teacher In rural Connecticut, struge
), be as physician in the French qua
,orld. in New York, or toiiing as teach
liable, French in a ladies' seminary In
. not same city.
of his The latter was compensated fol
sctual the fact that II was In this calling
lines he met his wife. The French 81
long man loves dearly to talk OF the q
gray. spent In Piaff's, then favored o
there Bohemians of New York, but
N his like the Bohemians themselve
a tall memory. CIemeuceau rememoe'
have the gay and brilliant throng I'M
aat al uaed to meet check by j0Wl IL