Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-28
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

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of really profound scholarship.
Iron Eagle Feather, Sioux Indian, has
just completed the scientific course at Dick
inson College.
Queen Victoria is the richest woman in
the British kingdom. She has accumu-
lated fortune of S20,000,000.
The descendants of Rebecca Nourse, who
was hanged as a witch in 1892, had a re-
union in Danvers, Mass, recently.
Lucas Silva, who was a doctor in the
independence Army of Bolivia, is still
alive. He has reached his 10th year.
Professor Huxley has never entirely re-
covered from the effect OF blood-poison-
ing contracted during his first post-mor-
tenn examination.
Lord Tennyson is to receive 81 900 for
the poem he is now writing. His first ac-
cepted poem brought him the munifcent
sum of ten shillings.
Julian Hawthorne says he did not write
any OF the arthur Richmond" letters in
the North american Rericr, and, what is
more, didn't read them.
J. Stanley Brown, Garfeld's Private Sec
retary, who married Miss Mollie Garfield,
Is to settle down in Washington, and in
tends to practice law there.
Prince Nicholas, of Montenegro, re-
Gently had his Minister of Public Instruc-
ton logged with birch rods for tampering
with the State archives.
Augustus r. Cazuran, the New York
journalist and playwright, who died last
winter, is also said to have written the
" Arthur Richmond" letters.
Rev. DR.. W. H. Campbell, who has Just
resigned the pastorate of his church in
Trenton, in his SD year, was formerly
President of Rutgers College.
Ex-Governor Oden Bowie, of MARYLAND.
whose face has been seen at nearly every
race run on the Washington track since the
war, is about to retire from the turf
The celebrated French artist, Nelson
Ter, who is rs years old, is shortly to be
married to Mile. Besancon, sister of his
lawyer, and his housekeeper for the last
twenty years.
Governor Lee, of Virginia, is said to
have accepted the superintendent of the
Lexington Military Institute. His term
OF office as Governor expires on the 1st of
January, $780,
Walt Whitman thus refers to his health
in recent letter: II am easier and rather
better these days, and am wheeled out in a
strong willow chair every day. But l am
a sad old wreck"
The Queen Regent of Spain is an ex-
pert embroiderer, and has done some re-
rk ahlU haarltif11 rrnrlr
Many of the dresses of the infant King
are the product of her hands.
Queen Olga, of Greece, is sovereign
possessing many charming domestic quali-
ties. She has many accomplishments, and
can supervise the cooking of dinner or
trim bonnet with equal skill.
1t is said that the wife of Count To!s-
toi, the Russian novelist, is staying at At
lanta City. She has come to this country
to look after the interests of her husbands
novels and works on religious subjects.
In attendance at the funeral of Mrs.
Hayes at Fremont, Ohio, were twenty-one
out of the twenty-four persons who were
guests at the White House on December
80, 1877, when Mr.. and Mrs. Hayes cele-
brated their silver wedding.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland is act
ing as referee in a suit involving about
SGT, 900 between Geo. B. Phelps, wealthy
retired capitalist and railroad contractor,
OF Watertown, n. " and c. H. Venner, a
prominent banker and broker of New York
and Boston.
Miss Mary Wanamaker, the Postmaster
Generals daughter, will make her debut
IN Washington society next fall. She is
not yet out Of her teens, but is an accom-
plished and beautiful girl She has had
the training of an excellent education and
is skilled in music and languages.
The Washington correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat says: A. w. Ly-
man, who has been the Washington corre-
spondent Of the New York Sun for the
past six years, has purchased the Helena
on. IT, Independent. The Independent is
the organ of the Territorial Democracy: =.
The Count De Vehrney, of Paris, now
visiting IN st. Louis, is the grandson of
the late General William S. Harvey. The
Count Is thorough Partisan in manners
and appearance. The object of his trip to
America is to secure his interest, which
amounts to one third, in his grandfather's
estate.
A New York paper published by col
ored men for colored men, expresses the
hope that Frederic Douglass will not go to
Hayti. Its reasons are that he is too old
for the work. doesn't know international
law, doesn't speak French, and is entitled
to something better than third-rate miss
ion anyway.
Queen Victoria entered upon the fifty
third year of her reign on June 20th, hav-
ing succeeded to the throne on the 20th of
June, 1887, on the death of her uncle,
King William ". This length of reign
has been exceeded only in England. Henry
~. reigned for fifty-six years and George
III. for nearly sixty years
II. Ward Leonard, the new General
Manager Of the United States Edison Man
ufacturing Company, is young man not
yet 80. He was an assistant under Mr..
Edison six years ago with nominal sal
ary, but his income from his present posi-
tion IS greater that of the ordinary bank
President He was graduated from the
Boston Institute of Technology in 1888.
Colonel Dom Piatt, says the Washing
ton Post, is engaged in writing religious
novel, and expects to have it ready for
publication in a few months. 1t will be
entitled Rev. Melancthon Poundex," and
will be directly opposite to Robert Els
mere" He is also engaged, he says, with
Henry Cist, member of General Thomas
staff, in writing history of the Generals
life.