Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-31
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

General Sherman spent day or two
with ex-Secretary Endicott in Salem after
the Grand Army gathering.
The Rev. Joseph Parker of London now
breaches one minute sermons after his
more elaborate efforts. He directs these
brief discourses to some particular class.
Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln and her daugh-
tiers, who reached their home in Chicago
from Europe recently, will spend the rest
of the summer in her old home in Iowa.
Mrs. DIR. Emma E. Chase, of St. Louis,
who was recently elected full member of
the American Dental Association, is the
first lady on whom the honor has been
conferred.
DIR. August LIE Plongeon, the antiquarian
whose researches have thrown much light
upon prehistoric times in America, has
started on European trip to seek rest and
recreation.
George Meredith, the novelist, looks
younger than his years, which number
sixty-two. In addition to his novel-writ-
ing he is "reader" for big firm of pub
fishers in London.
It is said that Prince Alexander, of Bat
tenberg, has adopted the children of the
late Major Panitza, who was shot short
time since for conspiracy against the ex-
isting Bulgarian regime.
The Rev. George Schwarts, of Jefferson
vile, Ind, who died a few years ago. was
probably the oldest minister in that State.
He remembered seeing the first steamboat
on the Ohio river in 1925.
John Burns, who led the great London
dock-strike, has gone back tc work. He
thinks the good results of strike, when
there are good results, do not compensate
| for the loss to the strikers.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is de-
scribed as "tall, thin, sharp-faced, shrill
voiced Senator, noted as the most excitable
man in the Senate, and good type of the
| old-fashioned controversialist."
! The distinction of being the first soldier
| who enlisted for three years in the late
Civil War, is claimed by Stephen Decatur
Phelps, of Cambridge, Mass. He is a
nephew OF Rear Admiral Phelps.
The author of "Metzerott, Shoemaker"
is now known to be Miss Katherine Pear
son Wood, of Baltimore, a believer in
! Bellamy. She has written a new novel,
entitled "The Mark of the Beast"
The Archduchess Valeries received a
| dover of 5000, 900 horins from her parents
on her marriage, and she is entitled to an
income from the State of about $4,000
horins year as a daughter OF the En-
peror.
James Robinson, man 40 years of age,
| is attending primary school in Kansas
| City. He went to Phoenix, A. T., in his
youth and accumulated large fortune, a
| portion of which he is now spending on an
| education.
Ward McAllister has a farm near New
port, r. l., where he raises cattle, sheep
! and poaltry. In summer he sells his
cream, milk, chickens and mutton in New
port, and in winter New York furnishes
market for them.
1T is reported that Prince Napoleon has
! landed at Tunis He is said to be travel
! ing under an assumed name and to be pro-
| yided with an Italian passport. His pre-
| text for going to Tunis was that he wished
to inspect an estate.
| Miss Helen Grazer, of Cincinnati, is a
customs broker and is doing large busi-
ness. 1t is difficult work, that takes a
long head and extensive knowledge of the
tariffs and monetary systems of all the
countries of the world.
Justice Lamar during recent trip to
Georgia, visited his first home and slept
in the room in which he was born. He
found everything pretty much the same
except that they didn't have to walk the
floor with him all night.
Senator Edmunds has very lucrative
law practice, and is constantly obliged to
decline business that is brought to him.
1t is alleged that the Senator is not SO old
as he looks, aud that he may be good for a
decade more of Senatorial life.
John Tinsley, colored man, who re-
members Washington and knew Hancock
and Hopkins two of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, lives iu
Toronto, Ontario, at the age of one hum
dred and seven years. He formerly lived
in Richmond, Va.
John Brown, son of John Brown of
Harper's Ferry fame, lives quietly at Put
Inlay, O., where he cultivates a small
vineyard and fruit farm. He is an old
man now, having been one of the promi-
nent persons in the stirring period in
which his father figured.