The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-05

up and the gas Is turned Off. The thing
amuses the public and saves gas bills for
the storekeepers.
MISSES HATTIE BLAINE, Florence Win
dom Miss Miller and Miss Proctor will be
the Cabinet families contributions to the
Washington debutantes next winter.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw, Calvin S. Brice,
Stephen B. Elkins, ex-Postmaster general
James and Uncle Rnfus Hatch are all
members of the Saturday Night Club, of
New York. the membership of which is
said to represent more than $50, 600, 900.
JEAN PATIENT MANURE wrote his own
will and died in Philadelphia in 1922. Dis
pute and litigation lave followed ever
SINCE. the last point at issue being settled
only last week, after lawyers and court fees
had swallowed up nearly the whole estate.
MR. AND Mrs. j. MATT AUBREY are re-
ported to have received a letter of forgive
ness from Chief-justice and Mrs. Fuller.
Accompanying the letter was check for a
considerable sum of money, with which
they propose to rent and furnish a little
home in a quiet part of Chicago.
A REPORT lately laid before the Italian
Chamber of Deputies shows that in Italy
there are y, 943 persons who have received
licenses to beg. and who are therefore I'M
challenged by the police. A bill is now be-
fore the Chamber providing for the aboli-
tion of these licenses and for the erection
of a pOor-hOuse in each
THE luck of John McKeon, the oil kin G,
continues, his present income from his
wells being $4,000 a month. In addition
to his oil interests, he owns 5000 acres of
yellow-pine lands in Alabama, one of the
largest Hour mills in Minnesota, and a bust
ness block in Baltimore said to be worth
81 o 1000. Nevertheless, he goes about his
oil wells from 5 in the morning until late
In the evening, in an ordinary working
mans dress.
CONSUL MASON, who has cared for the
business interests of this country for four
teen years at Dresden, Germany, belongs to
an ancient Virginia family. He was ap-
pointed by President Grant, and all efforts
to remove him have been unavailing. He
was a college friend of don" Cameron,
and the Pennsylvanian's influence has been
strong enough to keep Mason in one of the
best consulates for an unprecedentedly
long period.
n of the most beautiful bouquets of
roses sent to the home of the late Justice
Mathews bore, in purple immortelles across
the front, the words: "Say not goodnight,
but in some brighter cline bid me good
morning. No card was attached to it,
and for a time the name of the Sender was
unknown, but it has since been learned
that it was the gift of the President, whose
affection for the dead jurist was of the
| warmes kind.
SENATOR CoLoU1rT. of Georgia, is one of
the finest specimens of physical manhood
in the Senate. He towers five inches above
the average pedestrian, and his face is as
strong intellectually as his body is in blood
and sinew. He dresses neatly, in rather a
clerical fashion. and his clearly shaven
face has. a ministerial appearance. Col
quit is about sixty years of age and is not
a rich man. Under the Cleveland regime
he enjoyed. great consideration. as Presi-
dent Cleveland took a great dislike to his
colleague, Senator Brown.
1T was just a year ago that Mr.. Ward
McAllister sprang into renOwn as the in
ventor of the Four Hundred, by announce
ing that there are only about 400 people
in fashionable New York society" Ever
since that time he has stood in the glare of
publicity as a social generalissimo, and
his regular army has been the butt of ridi-
Guile for those whom he excluded from its
ranks, including the Goldfish society," of
the upper ten thousand" of the times of
N. Willis. forty. years ago. People have
Allister to publish al authentic list of the
Four Hundred who recognize his authority.
DR.. E. b. M~IDDLEBROOK, of New York,
who was an exile from Connecticut for
seventeen years because of contempt of
court, died on Sunday night without hav-
ing revisited his native State. He was born
near Bridgeport, Conn.,. seventy-fve years
ago. He came of a family of physicians,
and adopted that profession after his grad
uation from Yale College. DR.. Middle
brooks contempt was in striking w. X.
Seely, a lawyer. of Bridgeport. for calling
him a liar while he was testifying. For
this Offense he was ined 500 and sentenced
to serve thirty days in the common Jail.
Besides this Mr.. Seely recovered 4 verdict
of 5000 in a civil suit. DR.. MiddlebrOOk did
not object to the fine or the damages, but
exiled himself from Bridgeport rather than
endure the ignominy of Imprisonment.
THE Boston Traveller says that "the Rev.
and Mrs. Herbert d. Ward are now in
Washington, where they are enjoying a
charming visit. and receiving much social
attention. No American woman, with the
single exception of Mrs. Stowe, has ever
won so cosmopolitan a fame as Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps. Like Elizabeth Browning.
she is q most accomplished scholar and q
profound thinker, as well as poet, and her
manner has q charm and distinction that
impress all who meet her. Mr.. Ward is
also a poet and o man of letters, and their
visit to Washington is marked by the ap-
preciative attention shown them, both by
the Cabinet circle and that distinctively
literary circle which a great institution of
learning like the Smithsonian attracts
about 1T. Mr.. and Mrs. Ward are on their
way North, and expect to be in AndOver by
the end of the week."