Connecticut western news., 1889-11-06
PERSONAL.

The name of Archduke John has been stricken from the Austrian army list.
 Rutgers College has conferred the degree of ILL. D. 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 8Oth birthday.
 The Court has ordered Dion Boucicault to pay the sum of ESQ monthly as alimony to his divorced wife, Miss Agnes Robertson.
 The wellknown firm of Fowler Bros, phrenologists, has for years been managed by Mrs. Charlotte Fowler Wells, sister of the Powders.
 Lieut.. J. M. Trotter, Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, is in Boston to attend the annual reunion of the Fifty fourth and Fifty-ifth 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 DOT 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
 
 fever. He is confined at the summer resid- ence of his father-in-law, w. D. Hickman, at Beverly, Mass, and will not be able to go out for some weeks yet.
 Lord Dagnan, against whom Phyllis Broughton, an English burlesque actress, brought an action for f10,000 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 | see no one except his son George. His vital 1 ity appears to be almost exhausted, and he is | watched over constantly by physician. It is understood that his sons George and Ed ward are to come to the front on the Stock l Exchange, backed up by his counsels and experience.
 | The Springfield Republican announces that ''Prof. Mathers condition will incapacitate | him from further active work. The recent surgical operation was successful, but it can only result in prolonging his life by tempor- 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 a professor has placed the art de- partment of the college in high rank in com parson with other institutions. His retire ment at this time, while President Seelye is away for his health and Prof. Crowell has been afflicted with blindness, is all especially severe blow to the college"
 Ex-Qucen Nathalie of Servia is very de cided person. She was approached recently by Gen. Belimarkovitch with an offer of a sum of money which she might herself fix if she would accept certain conditions which he proposed. She replied that she did not understand that she had any right to a dowry, fixed either by the Treasury or taken l ha sf a fn that she consequently considered the offer which he made her as highly offensive, and that he was greatly deceived if he imagined that he couIl 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- 1 termination.