The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-16

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have the plague die, and when a man is taken
every one flies from him. IL Is death TO be
touched by a man with the plague. and the
same is almost true Of the cholera Justice
Field attended dinner in Smyrna just at
about the time the plague broke out. 1t
was brilliant affair, and the guests were
at the table. A toast was about to be
! drunk, and the guests had risen and stood
| with their filled glasses in their hands As
they thus stood one of the walters who was
serving the guests fell upon the table dead.
| There was a cry, 1.-THE plague" and in
| moment every one had dropped his glass
| and rushed from the house. The place was
deserted by all. servants and owner. 1t was
not entered again until year later, when
| they found the decayed remnants or the
feast with the grinning skeleton OF the
servant lying in his clothes as he had fallen
while the feast was in progress
MRS. HORACE GRAY
Mrs. Gray will probably entertain consid-
| erably during the coming season. She has
one of the handsomest houses at the capital
1t is on the corner of Sixteenth aud l
| streets, and is within two blocks of the
white house. Mrs. Gray is the daughter
| of the late Justice Staney Matthews, and
was married to the bachelor judge about
| year and a half ago. She is very accom-
| plished woman, and is much more popular
in Washington than her husband. Justice
| Gray is so dignified at times that some
| people think he is inclined to be snobbish.
| He comes of one of tbs old families of Mas
sachusetts, and the Gray family was
| founded by this mans grandfather. who
was merchant of Lynn. He began life as
an apprentice. but he died the richest man
in New England, and he had at one
| time sixty square-rigged ships on the
ocean. After he had made his pile he
affected politics, and became lieutenant
| governor of Massachusetts,. He married,
and Justice Gray's grandmother was noted
| for her domestic virtues, and Gray GER
tainly,geus none of his snobbishness from
her. she attended to her own household
affairs herself and though her husband was
the richest man in Massachusetts,, she gave
the most OF her time TO the poor. Gray's
| father was, think, in trade, but one Of his
uncles was John Quincy Adams's private
| secretary while he was our minister to
Russia, and he was noted for his artistic
tastes. He collected 5000 rare engravings
and gave them 80 Harvard College,
and he left SIS, 900 to found a museum
and to BUY books for the students
there. Justice Gray has also a fine library
but he keeps it to himself A friend of mine
| wanted to look at it the other day in order
to mention it in an article she was writing
| on Was nington libraries, but the pompods
justics replied THAT his library was not
collected for exhibition" and the result was
that the young lady did not ses it. Never
theless Justice Gray's nature seems to have
its lighter side. He is fond of hunting, and
when he accompanied the President down
the Potomac in Mr.. Bateman's yacht he
wore an English hunting costume with
knee brooches to match. He is a portly
fellow, and l doubt not he looked we'll
MRS. BRADLEY.
Judge Bradley and his wife have been
| spending the summer at Deer Park, but
they are now back in their comfortable
| house on | street, not far from the capitol.
| There is no finer couple in Washington
than Judge Bradley and hisswife. The JUS
tlce is we'll along III the seventies but his
heart is no older than that of young man
of 30. He enjoys good novel, reads Shakes
| peare, and works out mathematical prob
| lens for fun. His wife, though younger
! than he is, is also advanced il years. She
is a bright, active, gray-haired little
woman, full of vigor. She is accomplished
| and we'll bred. She is the daughter of Chief
| Justice Hornblower of New Jersey, and the
| judge married her when he was a lawyer
| at the bar. The Bradleys are supposed TO
| be quite rich. The judge started life as a
| poor BOY. and worked in the summer to get
| the money TO go to school in the winter. He
made himself an eminent lawyer before he
got TO the bench, and has received many a
| big fee.
JUSTICE HARLAN's WASHINGTON HOME.
One of the finest houses in Washington,
| as far as location is concerned, is that of
| Justice Harlan, at the head of Fourteenth
| street. Washington city, you know, lies in
a sort of basin, surrounded by high hills
On one of these hills this house is situated
and it has commanding view of the who ole
of the city, miles of the Potomac and the
Virginia hills. 1t is very near Calumet
place, where Mrs. Logan lives, and Just
across the way from the big stone castle of
Asphalt Barber. which Chief Justice Fuller
occupied when he first came to Washing
ton. Justice Harlan is fully six feet two
inches high. He has a head of Jovian
cast, and his complexion is as fair as that of
baby. Mrs. Harlan is also tall and fine
looking, and the two form one of the dis
tinguished couples of our white house recep-
tionS.
J4stice Blatchford is just the reverse of
Judge Harlan. He is small and fiat-chestei.
His face is more like that of an English
barrister than an American justice, aud he
! does not conform to a single one OF the
items mentioned in Shakespeare's descrip-
ton of the Justice. Both he aud his wife,
however. are important features Of the
supreme circle. They are good takers, and
are notably popular.
Justice Brewer and his wife lived at the
Arno hotel during the last session, and l
, have not learned that they have fixed upon
their residence for this year as yet. Justice
Brewer is cousin of Justice Field. He is
, probably the youngest man on the supreme
bench. He is man of culture, aud both
himself and wife are very popular here.
SUPREME COURT WIDOWS.
There are several supreme CO rt widow
in Washington. Mrs. Wait, has led a very
quiet life here since the death of her bus
band. His estate was not large, and in this
day of giving civil pensions Mrs Waite had
quite as much right to receive one as The
widows of our Presidents and those OF
noted generals. She presided for years
here over the Waite manson, and she was
one of the most popular women of Wash
ington society. She was noted for her
charities. and she is still one of the leading
social figures of the supreme court circle.
| understand that Mrs. Stanley Matthew
intends to buy a house and settle down
, IN Washington. She is still a compare
lively young woman, and is fond of Wash
ington.
? Mrs. Wood also lives in Washington. She
1 is an Ohio woman. who married Judge
Wood long before he was elected to the