Connecticut western news., 1889-10-23
PERSONAL.

Senator Vest is very ill at the house of his sister in Sedalia, Mo.
 Mrs. Frances H. Burnett is writing reply to Mrs. Winthrop, who called her plagiarist.
 Private Secretary Halford is to teach 8 Bible class in the Church of the Covenant, Washington.
 Mrs. Elliot F. Shepard will build a seven- story building for Young Woman's Christ ian Association of New York.
 The son of Baron de Faya, Italian minister to the United States, has been naturaliZed, and will follow civil engineering.
 The inquest in the case of Lineman Feeks, killed by an electric wire in New York will be held on Friday, with carefully chosen jury.
 Lady Victoria Campbell, daughter of the Duke of Argyll, is addressing meetings of young women during her annual visitatation of the Western Islands of Scotland, and is everywhere received with much enthusiasm.
 Judge Cooley, chairman of the inter- state commerce commission, has been pros trated by overwork. He left Washington for Michigan recently. His physician has order ed him to take complete rest.
 Reports about the Prince of Wales health are exaggerated. His leg is much better, and he can walk and ride little, and now he is much more careful as to his diet and smok- ing than formerly. There is no cause for the alarmist rumors which are flying about.
 The copyrights of Dion Boucicaut's plays were sold at auction yesterday in London. Scud," $50; "Arrah na Pogue," f152; "Long Strike," E42; "After Dark" gro; ''Formo- sa," f54, and the others small sums.
 The Emperor of Russia has ordered the well-known Russian artist, Professor Bogyn- boff, to paint picture after the style of Saz- William into the harbor of Kronstadt. It will be presented to the German Emperor when finished.
 The city of Livorno, Italy, is at present excited over the disappearance of the Duch- es dAurei, member of one of the most aris- tocratic houses in the kingdom, who has left debts to the amount of $2O0,000 behind her. The police are endeavoriug to discover her whereabouts, but as yet have been unsuccess- full. Senator Quay's new home at Washington is the house which the Hon. J. A. J. Cres- well of Maryland. formerly postmaster gen. eral, and now president of the Citizens Ma tional Bank and candidate for the vacancy | on the supreme bench, built for himself, and | which the millionaire lumberman, Senator Philetus Sawyer of Wisconsin, occupied un- til his beautiful new home on Connecticut | ave. was built.
 South American millionaires are cutting a wide swath in London. Col. North, the nitrate king, has rival in MT. Sanford, who made a vast fortune in Buenos Ayres. San- ford has purchased the old house of the Duke of Leinster in Carlton House Terrace, and is converting 1t into a palace of the renaissance style. The marble stairs, man. tels and walls will cost enormous sums. A firm of upholsterers has been authorized to expend $300,O0O.
 Hermann Schurig. the celebrated human sculptor, is in New York to study American art and incidentally to put the finishing touches upon bust of T. A. Edison, upon which he has been working for some months past. Herr Schurig made cast of MT. | Edison's head while he was in Heidelberg, but the plaster was injured, and he had to | follow the inventor across the Atlantic in | order to repair the damage