The Portland daily press., 1889-01-18
PERSONAL ARD PECULIAR.

Senator Beck has at last killed Georgia
deer. He shot 1t on Cumberland Island last
week and his heart within him is very proudv
Gen. Paul Vandervoort, late commander
in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
of Omaha, Neb., has been appointed assis-
tant secretary of the Republican national
committee. waH - = 9T1 81 lE'Fa
President William Henry Harrison entered
the army as a private soldier at the age of
10. A letter written by his father, Benjamin
Harrison, to Maj Gen. Charles Scott, after
ward Governor of Kentucky, dated October
10. 1892, establishes this fact.
Among the Christmas presents of the Ger
man Emperor to his son. the little Crown
Prince, was complete collection, in minia-
ture, Of the different uniforms which have
been worn in the Prussian army since the
days Of Frederick the Great.
Legitime, the President of Hayti, is as
black as the ace of spades. He is tall,
finely formed man about As years OF age,
His face is covered with heavy black beard
and moustache His manners are those Of a
refined and courteous gentleman.
James Gordon Bennett, by an instrument
filed in the registers Office, New York, on
| Thursday, has borrowed S131,559 from the
estate of his father, of which he is trustee.
He gives as security for the loan mortgage
on the Bennett building in Nassau street.
| A Paris letter says the whole of De Les
seps's fortune has disappeared in Panama,
and in addition he has personally accepted
huge bills to keep the works going. His
health has received tremendous shock, and
report says he spends his time weeping
Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore is superin-
tending the erection of a building in Balti-
more to cost 100000 which she will present
to the Bryn Mawr School, an institution
which prepares girls to enter the Bryn Mawr
College, near Philadelphia. The school will
also be endowed by her. m
I Maria Henrietta, queen of the Belgians
has started magazine of an inoffensive type
which is called La Jeune File. The idea is
to keep young girls up in household matters.
Carmen Sylva, which is the nom de plume of
the queen of Roumania, has been engaged on
the staff to write poem for every number
{ The New York assembly is not quite sure
OF the ceiling Of its chamber now, though a
new one has replaced the gorgeous painted
stone creation. that was found to be danger
ous.. The new one was to be of oak and
PAPER mache, but the assembly suspected
plaster OF paris had been substituted and
ordered an Investigation, which is not yet
concluded. 81 saN sHN 8
s The monument to be erected over the grave
Of Gen. Sheridan at Arlington will be pyra-
midal monolith of gray granite, rising from a
simple base. The whole structure, from base
to apex. will be ID feet in height. 1t will
bear design in bronze, consisting of large
medallion, within which, in deep relief, is a
life-like bust of Gen. Sheridan.
\ FRANCHISE Cimilieu, just dead in New Or.
leans at the Supposed age of 1903, came to
that city eighty years ago. She was then
married and mother. A great-grandfather
of General Beauregard bought her, and when
the future general was born in 1918 she was
assigned to duty as his nurse. The Beaure-
CARDS emancipated her many years ago, but
she remained with the family until her death.
She leaves one child, a daughter, now over
eighty years of age.
MIR. George w. Childs is quoted as say
ing that one trouble with President Cleye-
land is a negotiable want Of tact. For in
stance, no member Of the White House fam
lily attended Nominator Daniel Dougherty's
lecture in Washington, and request of Mr..
Childs himself for the appointment of a
great-grandson of Robert Morris TO pension
examinership was UNDECIDED Colonel Sing
erly on his return from recent visit Ia
Washington owned up to Mr. Childs that
President Cleveland was cold man.