The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-20
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

Mrs. Julia Il. Meade of Petersburg, Va,
widow of the Hon. Il. Kedder Meade,
formerly member of Congress from the
Fourth Virginia district, died March Is,
aged 50.
General Malone is said to be backing
United States District Judge John Paul for
one of the new circuit judgeships.
Major l.. l.. Tyler, general manager of
the Atlanta and West Point Railroad has
been elected president of the Atlanta and
Florida Railroad in place OF President
Robert Maddox, resigned.
Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the
Morgan Steamship Line, in Galveston,
Tex, died Tuesday night. He was widely
known, and during the war occupied u
prominent position in the Confederate
navy.
William ii. Herndon, Abraham Lin
coins law partner, and author of Life
of Lincoln" died at his residence, near
Springfield, ILL.,, March Is, of IL grippe,
aged -. His youngest son, Willis, died
six hours before from the same disease.
The Kohlsaat statue of General Grant,
now being cast for erection at Galena, ILL.,,
will probably be unveiled on Memorial
Day, that day having been agreed upon
by the committee having the matter in
charge. II is stated that the orator of the
occasion will be either James G.. Blaine or
Chauncey NJ. Depew.
Chevaler George ID. Epinos. who took
part in the great battle of Waterloo, formed
q part of the guard of honor which well
coined Leopold ]. sixteen years later, is
now, at the ageof 81, burgomaster in the
village of Epinos los Binche.
George Vanderbilts castle in North
Carolina will require ten years of labor
and the expenditure of from $4,000 900 to
$4,000, ,000 before ii is completed.
Mr.. John G.. Wickliffe, one Of the
leaders of the party which put to death
the eleven Italians in New Orleans last
Saturday, is native of Kentucky, son
of ey-Unitcd States Attorney Cripps
Wickliife of Bardstown, Ky. He II IS
been living in New Orleans for the pas
five years, and is associate editor of the
New Dclto.
Lieutenant Morrow and other members
OF the Corcoran Cadet Corps filed in the
deeds office supplementary certificate of
incorporation.
Mrs. Eliza Boteler, mother of Mrs. T. J
Magruder of Baltimore, died at her resi-
dence in this city Tuesday aged SO years
The original "Annie Laurie' was one
of the four daughters Of Sir Robert Laurie,
first baronet Of Maxwelton, by his second
wife, who was daughter of Riddell OF
Minto. The song was written by Mr..
Douglas of Finland about the end of the
seventeenth or the beginning of the eigh-
teenth century, but il is a sad fact that
the poetical lover did not obtain the
bonnie Annie for his wife. She was mar
ried to Mr.. Furguson of Craigdar Rock
The Ecclesiastical Court of the North
ern Ohio diocese of the Episcopal Church
having declared the Rev. Howard Mac
| QueaIy guilty of heresy and fixed his
| punishment at suspension forsiy months
| II may be regarded as settled that he will
withdraw from the Episcopal Church.
w. ]. Murphy, formerly general super
in.endent dent Of tRe ra Erie ,o Railroad after
his health, has accepted the appointment
| of superintendent of the Atlanta and
| Brunswick division OF the East Tennessee
Virginia and Georgia Railroad. The two
| divisions comprise 35S miles of road. Mr.
Murphy's headquarters are to be at Ma