The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-26
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.


thc reunion of General Hartranft's old
division at Harrisburg in March.
Mr.. Florence has contracted with Mr..
Jefferson for another season, receiving as
AT present. $1,000 n week and all expenses
paid.
Capt. L. T.. Montague, late u division
engineer ON the Chesapeake & Ohio sys-
tenn, has been appointed chief engineer
of the Pittsburg Il Virginia road.
Evangelist Moody the other day made n
large congregation stand up while the
plate was being passed, SO that every ono
could get his hand in his pocket.
Rev. Thcobald Mathew of Cork Ireland,
who is now in this country on a special
mission, is the nephew of the great tenn
pcrance reformer, Father Mathew.
Gen. Don Carlos Buell., late pension
agent at Louisville, has retired with his
s~tcp-daughter, the only member of his
family, to his farm i'm M~uhlenbergc county,
Kentucky.
Ex-Presidcnt Noah Porter, of Yale Uni
versity, has accepted the presidency OF
the Phi Beta Kappa society. tn succeed
the late ex-President Theodore Dwight
woolsey.
Joseph Colt, a veteran stage driver for
over half n century i'm Southern New York,
died i'm Bethel, Sullivan county. February
o, aged 81 years. His last words were: II
can't gel my foot Ola the brakes"
Bismarck will be 80 years old on April
1, and tn commemorate his birthday,
prominent German merchants of New
York have decided to give a banquet on
the evening of that day AT the LenuoN
lycc,im.
Mrs. Bclva Lockwood delivered n lee
turc oil the marriage question Saturday
evening at the opera house i'm Hanover,N.
II. She doesn't believe that marriage is ::
failure. The abolition of marriage would
mean anarchy.
Lieut.. IL. &. wakcnshaw of the rccciv-
ing ship Vermont, who died Saturday
night at the Brooklyn naval yard, was
only - years of age, and was appointed
from New Jersey, June 10, 1879. He became
II junior lieutenant June 81, 1878.
Capt. William NJ. RcttiG, formerly of
the American steamer City of Washing
ton, has been presented by the Queen Re
gent of Spain with a large gold medal rs
n testimonial of his bravery i'm rcscuing
the crew of II Spanish brig in 1883.
Governor Beaver has appointed Rev.
David j. Waller, jr., of Bloomsbury to be
superintendent of public instruction for
Pennsylvania i'm place of DIR. Higbcc. de-
ceased, and the Philadelphia Record pro
nounces it "a capital appointment.
Mayor Mostly of Cincinnati is arranging
for n proper reception of the remains al
the late Hon. George Ii. Pcndletou. which
are now on the way to America. Senate,
Sherman will probably read tho memorial
Grafton.
John Il. Reding of Portsmouth, n. II.
$3.50 "Sos 80
with tho exception of Hon. Robert e.
Winthrop of Massachusetts,, the oldest OK
membe of from New England
now living. He IL over 30 and i'm Goot
health.
II. Stockett Matthews. who died i'm Bal
tiniore Saturday, was educated Mt Rocl
Hill college Maryland, and began the
study of law with =. Tcakle Wallis. He
afterward spent four or five years I'm Soutl
American travel. He became a membel
| of the hOtlSs, of SleleUntcS I'm 1861.
Browning appears tn bC oven more pop
ular now that he is dead than hc wa
while a living personality. The "Brown
ing ~crazc,' as 1t is called, has stnyin,
qualities that many did not believe hat j
possessed. Browning clubs and Brown
ing reading classes appear as plentiful m
ever, and the devotion to the great poe
increases daily.
"Prcsidcnt H~arrison," says "A Washing
ton correspondent, sis not n mar giveI
! to superstition, but lc is startled by tn,
casualties which have overtaken tho meI
connected with the administration. III
has often iokcd in the ~seclusion of hi
) family about the Harrison hoodoo.' Ill
has now begun To wonder whether Their
is not some unhappy Significance i'm tn
phrase"
The late Sir William Gull was u YER
energetic person. and often saved live
10y rough trcatmcut, where any othe
would have failed. In 1871, when TIN
Prince of Wales was given up for dcad
Sir William Mortified tho spectators at TN
bedside by pounding and humping tn
r prince and blowing violently i'm his no.
tr.ls. In IA short time he had the scemin
dead man breathing again.
A Positive Ejaculation.