The Portland daily press., 1889-11-07
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR,

It's announced that Clara Louise Kellogg
has retired from the stage.
Ex- Secretary 7. f. Bayard and Miss May
Clymer are to be married at Washington to-
day.
A club of Anarchist has been formed at
New Bedford, Mass, with twenty-four
Bohemians as members.
Ex-United States Senator William Pitt
Kellogg, of Louisiana, IS in Washington
seeking places for his friends, and storming
because there are so few vacareies.
Corporal Tanner, who is in Washington,
did not 60 home to vote. II don't take much
interest in politics just now" was mis- ex-
PLANTATION.
The statistican of the London Times finds
| that the United States leads the world in
| n ,wspapers, having $500. of which 1000 are
dailies. But the statistician takes the figures
of 1880. Today there are in this country
about $4,000 papers, of which about 100 are
dailies.
Sir Henry James, who is making his argu-
ment before the Parnell commission for the
Times, is unfortunate. The argument is said
| to be forensic masterpiece, equal to the
effort of Sir Charles Russell for the Parnel-
lites, but interest in the case has so diminish
ed that it is receiving little attention from
| press or people.
| Rev. DR.. c. W. Wallace of Manchester, N.
| H., willed $500 to the ministers and widows
| charitable fund and makes other requests to
| the New Hampshire Home Missionary So
| ciety, the American Missionary Association
| aud the American board of commissioners of
| foreign missions.
| A strange ecclesiastical question arose the
other day at Peterstorough, England, over
the fact that the sexton had committed suicide
| inside the cathedral. Some Jealous dgnitary
| started theory that. owing to this deed, it
| would be necessary to recOnsecrate the edi-
| nee. Oddly enough, no precedent could be
discovered, and so after long, heated discus
| sions before the chapter it was decided that
no new conservation was required.
The proud nobility of Spain are much exer-
cised over the elevation Of newspaper man
to marquisate by the Queen Regent. The
journalist in question is Santa Annals, self
made man, who went to Madrid forty years
ago with 50 in his pocket. He founded the
Correspondence dEspGnd, which is a most
popnlarsSpanish journal, and, amassing great
wealth, used it freely in the establishment of
| all sorts of philanthropic movements. The
nation as whole is pleased with the honor
| paid him.
Bismarck and Motley, the American his.
toran, were students together and close
| ltituuS Az OobblHg6n, anu IDeT6 bismarck
learned OF Motley that old song I'm Good
old Colony Times" Bismarck often recalls
those days of his youth and mentions Motley
| and the song. He did it several years ago in
| in one of his great speeches in the Rechstag
| and recently when a monograph was ex-
| hibited to him the first thing he did was to
shout into it snatch of the old song.
| Yesterday was General B. F. Buffers
seventy-frst birthday; and it led to the dis
covery that the year 1918 was very productive
| of Massachusetts Governors. Clafin,
Andrew, Boutwell,, Rice, Talbot and Butler,
were all born within seven months. Butler
was born 10 Deerfeld, n b., Talbot in
Cambridge, N Y, Andrew in Windham,
Me. The other three were natives of the
State.
Father Fling. known throughout New
Jersey as the 'canal missionary" died in
New Brunswick Monday morning. He had
worked for years among the boatmen on the
canal. Every cent of money he had and all
he could get from others was spent for the
boatmen, and he died very poor. His trips
were made on canal boats, and his meetings
were held on the boats and on the towpath.
Col. Elliot Shepard the Vanderbilt son-in-
law, and newspaper proprietor who runs
each morning scriptural text at the head of
the editorial columns of his paper, is the
victim of this story: That the colonel re-
questeG. not long since, our minister in
Turkey to make the following representation
| to the Sublime Porte--that Col. Shepard of
| the Mail and Express would give 100000 or
| more as a free gift to the sultan, If he would
| become a Christian.