Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-16
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

DR.. AMELIA B. EDWARDS will be among
this winters lecturers at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Mr.. GLADsToNEs son, Henry Neville, is en-
gagged to Miss Maud Rendel, the daughter of
Mr.. Stuart Rendel, NJ. P.
THE Russian Emperor as he grows older be-
comes in appearance more and more typical
Cossack-colossal in figure, entirely bald, fat
nosed and enormously mustached and bearded.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, who is wild
over, will. it is said, be married to Miss
Theresa Stoughton early next year. The en-
gagemenr was made last summer in sight of
the Alaskan glaciers.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, of Vermont, says his
daughter is about as skilled in the law as he is
She acts as his amanuensis and advises with
him when doubtful legal points arise. Such a
daughter is jewel in the parental crown.
H. REMsEN WHITEHoUsE, United States
Charge d'Affsires at the City of Mexico, and
Baron Won Zedtwitz, the German Minister,
have climbed the extinct volcano of Iztacci-
huati, Is, 900 feet high. This feat has only once
before been accomplished.
DIR. D. w. BLISS had debts owing to him at
the time of his death amounting to nearly SILL
000 Many Of the accounts, an inventory Of
which was filed by the administrator of the
distinguished public men, and most of them
are labeled desperate or uncollectble."
MARIA MAYO, the leading belle of Rich
mond, Va, had 100 suitors, and refused 80 of
them before accepting General Winfield Scott.
He had courted Miss Mayo when he was
young lawyer. After entering the army he con-
tinued his addresses, and was refused success
sively as Captain Scott and Colonel Scott, and
it was only as General Scott, the hero of
Lundys Lane, that he at last won the hand of
the much-admired BELLE
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE will give an
excursion to Annapolis to-day in honor of the
delegates to the Pan-Amerlcan Congress. and
to the International Maritime Conference.
The Cabinet except the Postmaster General
and the Secretary of War, and few invited
guests will also attend. There will probably
be over $50 people on the train, which will leave
Washington at 10 A. M, and returning leave
Annapolis at P. N. Luncheon will be served
at the naval academy.
HARRY WATKINS, the veteran actor, has
played with all the great stars that have shone
on the stage during the last so years. He
played leading parts with the elder Booth, Mrs
Mowatt, Ma2ready, Forrest, Burton, Hackett
the Placides, and others of former DAYS whose
very names are forgotten. Who now remem-
bers the name of Charles Burke, the original
Rap Van Wtntle, long before the advent of
Joe jefferson in that exquisite character? Mr..
Watkins is nearly 70 years old, but he is as ac-
tive as many men of so.
Tom MURPHY is a once powerful politician
who has fallen to rise no more During the
Grant regime he was Collector of the Port of
New York, with an annual income of Sl0UOOO.
He was the prince of good fellows. He spent a
fortune in champagne. One hundred dollars a
day went for his own personal expenses. Many
hungry politicians fattened on his bounty in
those old days Such was Tom Murphy in his
glory. Not long since he applied for room in
q cheap downtown New York hotel, and was
refused admittance because he could not pay
for it in advance