The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-04

called six times after one song, and masses
OF flowers were showered upon him. he Is
ambitious to come to America, and VIII
doubtless have a chance to crafty his am
bition before long.
No woman is less known to the newspa-
per world than Mrs. Depew. though her
husbands name is a household word all
over the country. perhaps because she is q
very quiet. housekeeping person, and be-
cause Mr.. .Depew is wise enough TO De
always civil and communicative to report
ers. so that their curiosity and investlga,
tive instincts are allayed by his cheerful
~frankDess. She is, however, as genial ana
pleasant tempered as her famous husband
and has a good deal of his hutnor, perhaps
through long association with him.
AN interesting incident connected with
the departure of the Hon. Frederick Dong
lass for his official post as minister to Hayti.
from the Brooklyn navy-yard, on Tuesday,
was the courteous visit OF Junior Lleuten-
ant Edward Lloyd to MIR. Douglass and his
family before the Kearsarge sailed. Lieut..
Lloyd is an officer of the new cruiser Bos-
ton, and is a great grandson OF that Col.
Edward LLOYD who was the owner OF Mr..
Douglass and his mother when they were
slaves. and is a son of the present owner OF
the old plantation in Talbot county, Mary
land, where Mr.. Douglass was born.
IDA SCHMIDT, Anarchist Lingg's sweet
heart, has been arrested in Chicago for
stealing. A portion of the money received
by her from the sale Of stolen goods has
been used to buy flowers with which to
decorate Lingg's grave at Waldheim: Ida
always had fresh and costly flowers in her
She is a beautiful girl. and was the only
human being, beside his mother and sister,
whom Lingg ever cared for. Ida went TO
the Jail every day to see Lingg. and some
are of the opinion that she carried him the
dynamite cartridges with which he blew
his head off the morning of the 10th of No
vember. 1881.
Nh. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIs's lecture.
Tuesday night, at Philadelphia, before the
National Civil-service Reform League, re-
calls the fact that a contemplated lecture
definitely postponed because of the inter-
ference of Alexander Henry, the then Mayor
of the city. That municipal functionary,
hearing that Mr.. Curtis was to lecture,
wrote to the committee In charge, saying
that the engagement was extremely, I'M
wise. "If.o he added, II possessed the law
full power, l would not permit his presence
on that OCCASION" The secret of the whole
business, of course, was that Mr.. Curtis
was a well-known advocate OF freedom and
the rights of man, and was. therefore, Often
sive to the gallant cavaliers and niger
WALLPAPERS" of the South. and to their sub
servient iackeys in the ranks OF Northern
''dough-faces."
GENERAL NATHAN Corr is a very popu-
lar Republican in West Virginia. He is a
dashing. intrepid and brilliant political
leader. Although a school-boy of seven
teen when the war broke out, he enlisted
in the Third Virginia Union Infantry. At
nineteen he was a second lieutenant, and
he left the army at t%wenty-one a brigadier-
general. He was a prisoner at Richmond
in 1864, and gained some n0tOriety by being
held a hostage for Major Armsey, who had
been captured by the Union army and con-
demned to death as a spy. General Goff
wrote the President that if Armsey was
guilty he should be shot, even if the con-
federates should carry out their threat and
take his own life in retaliation. But
Armsey was not executed, and Golf was
soon afterward exchanged. General Grant
appointed Golf United States district at
rorney, and in 1876 Golf ran for Governor of
West Virginia as q Republican. He was
Secretary of the Navy for a few months
during the Hayes administration, and
served three terms in Congress in q district
that Usually goes Democratic.
He that courts and goes way
May live to court another day;
But he that weds and courts girls still,
May get in court against his will.
Dublin Times.