Connecticut western news., 1889-11-13
PERSONAL.

Major D. X. Burke, whose record as State Treasurer of Louisiana, has given rise to much gossip and some charges, is said to have successfully floated q vast Honduras mining enterprise in London.
 Prof. F. W. Morse of the State College and Experiment Station at Hanover, N. H., has returned to his duties i'll good health.
 The condition of the King of Holland has greatly improved. He is able to transact State business, and every day he goes out driving.
 Sir Charles Dilke has been invited to con- test Putnam at the near Parliamentary election. He will probably not accept the invitation, however.
 Miss Wanamaker, eldest daughter of the Postmaster General, made her debut in society last week, at Lindenhurst, the Wana- maker country place.
 Patti sails for the United States on Thurs day, November 21, and Mime. Albani sails two days later with her husband, MT. Ernest Gye, for New York.
 Abraham, son of Minister Lincoln, is ill, though not seriously, in France, and his London.
 MT. James D. Reid, who has been ap- pointed United States Consul nt Dunferm- line, is commonly called ''the Father of the Telegraph" He personally handled the first Presidents message ever sent across the Alleghanies by wire.
 Samuel J. Randall is so i'll in Washington that he is unable to leave his bed. He has not progressed toward recovery as rapidly as his physicians thought he would. He spends his time in reading and dictating. His wife never leaves his bedside.
 Judge James w. Locke and family, who passed the season at Kittery, Me-, have re- turned to their home i'll Florida.
 Hon. B. J. Cole, an ex-member of the Ex- ecutive Council and President of the Cole Manufacturing Company, at Lake Village, N. H., has so far recovered from his serious illness as to be able to resume his duties.
 Maj. Gen. A. D. Ayling, of Concord, has been authorized by Gov. Goodell to go to Washington to examine military papers there for the purpose of perfecting the war records of New Hampshire.
 The Governor General of Canada and party have left Victoria, B. C., on their homewurd journey, and will come straight through, ar- irving in Ottawa the latter part of the week
 Prince Albert Victor of Wales, who is about to make a tour of India, arrived at Bombay last week. and was given an enthusi- astic reception.
 Cardinal Gibbons new book seems to be full of plain, practical advice to the laboring man. Among other things the worldly Car dinal points out to his flock that ''the ballot is the expression of the will of free people, and its purity should be guarded with the ut
 
 John Tyndall, father of the famous sci enlist, was carpenter by trade. He lived in the little town of Carlow, A miles from Dublin, Ire.
 The Empress of Austria, who has arranged to spend part of the winter at Corfu, is hav- ing house built at Gasturi in a lovely and secluded spot south of the capital, where she will probably pass great part of each year. . Gen. Beale of Washington, who was one of Gen. Grants most intimate friends. ob- jects to the removal of the great Generals remains from New York to the Soldiers Home or to Arlington, but thinks that they should finally find repose in the grounds south of the White House, and that the re- mains of Abraham Lincoln should also be removed there.
 Baroness Won Glumer, who was ill her youth Miss Frances Bartlett, daughter of United States Naval Commander Bartlett. and who married wealthy Cuban planter who died years ngo-now lives with her second husband near the city of Mexico, and writes in one of the leading daily papers in the Mexican capital. She is the heroine of Edmund c. Stedman's poem of ''The Dia- mond Wedding" She has an ample fortune, but is fond of literature and of journalism.