The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-05
PERSONAL.

Hon. s. NJ. Cummings, one of the first
colored men elected 10 the Baltimore
Council, will address the congregation of
the Ebenezer NJ. II. Church, Fourth and
c streets southeast, next Sunday at 3
o'clock.
Governor Jones has appointed Richard
W. Walker of Huntsville the additional
Supreme Court Judge for Alabama pro-
yided for by the Legislature.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's opera, 'Ivanhoe,"
continues to attract the favorable notice
OF the English press, and forms the sub
ject for column after column of review
Henry Drummond's latest work, "Pax
Vobiscum," has recently been translated
into Danish. The Danish translation of
the same authors 'Ihe Greatest Thing in
the W0rld' has already reached fifth
edition and it shows no signs of diminish
ing in popularity.
In the list of contributors to the Yonths
Companion of March 5 appears the name
Of James q. Blaine, our eminent Secre-
tary Of State. His paper on "How De.
bates IN Congress Grow" will be of special
value to the edler readers and source of
information to all those who are inter-
ested in the making of our nations laws.
At San Antonio, Tex, the courtmartial
Of Captain Henry Vessels of the Third
Cavalry, u. $. A., on the charges of
language unbccomlng an officer and gen.
tleman and insubOrdination, has been
dissolved on account of q technical error
in the accusing papers, the President not
having signed them.
Mrs. Salter, a looking and timid
little woman, who bosses a big husband,
looks after SIX children and does her own
housework, is the Mayor of Argonia,
KAN, and when any of the aldermen get
IN mr. ~ nm OH N ittut tx.a1 1lro
up to othem, asks IL they Consider them
selves gentlemen" and threatens to tell
their wives about their carryings on.
She'd like to see them attempt to override
one of her vetoes.
Senator Manderson has received pres
ent of the costliest hat ever seen in Wash
ington. II is a tall white hat, much like
the chapeaux worn by dressy men in
summer, and 1t weighs twenty ounces.
The cost was $1,000. 1t was made Of
cancelled greenbacks worth that sum in
the aggregate, and, except for its great
weight, Is a very genteel and desirable hat.
Wednesday afternoon Governor Hovey
of Indiana appointed Judge John ID. Mil
Ter OF GreeDsburg to the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench caused by the death of
Judge Berkshire. The Indianapolis Bar
was almost a unit for Judge Miller, and
his appointment was urged by attorneys
from various parts of the State.
II has been decided to unveil the Con-
federate monument NJ Jackson on June 3,
which is the birthday of Mr.. Dasis. Miss
Winnie Davis will be there. Adjutant-
General Henry has issued orders 10 the
various companies composing the State
National Guard TO be ready to participate
in the ceremonies.
Owing To the change made in the con-
stitution of Mississippi by the recent Con-
stitutional Convention "A new Legislature
must be elected next November. II will
be charged. among other things, with the
duty of electing successors To both Sen.
ators Walthall and George.
The Philadelphia Press prints engrav-
ings Of the most meritorious pictures ex-
hibited at the Academy OF Fine Arts in
that city, and among them is one enti,
tied death Of Minnehaha." The artist
isW: l.. Dodge, who, 1t says, was born in
| Virginia in 1867, but is now q resident OF
New York. lie is a pupil Of Geromc and
Won, important prizes at Paris and New
York.
The Mikado of Japan is to visit Wies-
baden next summer, partly for the waters
and partly for the spectacle of 'innocent
merriment." Six villas have been en-
gagged for the Emperor and his suite,
which will comprise at least sixty persons.
No Mikado has ever before left his own
| dominion.
Ex-Governor Fitzhugh Lee Of Virginia
was at the Hoffman House yesterday, aud
another member OF the immediate family
| OF the distinguished Confederate leader,
Miss Mildred Lee, was at the same time
the guest of Mr.. ]. L. Robertson, on West
Fifty-eighth street. Not Lady Florence
Dixie, nor Lady Brassey, nor Lady Mary
Wortley Montague, nor any famous