The record-union., 1891-08-15
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT

Edwin Booth has won a suit for S15, 600
against the Long Point Hotel owners
The suit was based on the foreclosure Of
a mortgage.
Professor Lounsbury is busy with the
proofs of his lOng-looked-for work on
Chaucer, and the three volumes will un-
doubtedly appear in the autumn.
Philip d. Armour is said to be the larg-
est individual commercial operator in the
world. His transactions last year reached
the enormous aggregate of S63, 900, GOO.
Herr Alvary, the tenor singer, bears an
assumed name He is really the son of
Andreas Achenbach, the well-known
marine and landscape painter of DuesseI-
dorf.
Lord Tennyson was seen in London
the other day, hale and hearty, sight-see-
ing in the picture galleries and other pop
ular resorts. He showed great bodily
and mental vigor.
The first experience of the North
Greenland expedition, headed by Com
mander Peary and wife in the steamer
Kite, was TO be ice-bound in the Straits Of
Belle Isle for two weeks.
The reports derogatory to the character
of Z. ID. Bassett, private secretary to
Minister Douglass, i'll Hayti, accusing
him of fraudulent practices and gamb-
| ling, have been shown to be entirely un-
! founded.
The statue of Pope Leo XIII, Lu-
| chetti's handiwork, and the gift of Count
| de Loubat to the Catholic University in
| Washington, has reached its destination
! from Rome. The formal unveiling takes
! place next month.
| General Booth now has large number
! of the London poor at work on his
"Home farm" at Hadleigh, Essex, and
as soon as accommodations are ready. the
number will be increased. The scheme
/ is watched with good deal of interest.
Whittier's bodily infrmities have
/ reached point where he feels obliged to
abandon his daily walks, except about
/ his own grounds. He cannot endure the
| fatigue Of driving, and his hearing has so
far failed that il is with difficulty he can
converse. 1t also prevents his attending
church any more.
Mrs. Leavitt, who has been upon a
! temperance crusade around the globe,
/ tells the women of Chicago that the daily
routine in India is: A soda with dash of
whisky after arising; little drink before
and after each meal and whisky with
! soda before retiring. The system is
known as ''pegging away"
John C. Calhoun, grandson of the South
! Carolina statesman of that name, declares
that alternate generations in his family
/ smoked and eschewed smoking. He
the great apostle of notification never
did, either; but his father and great grand
father were inveterate smokers.
Mrs. Martha ID. Washington, widow OF
the late DR.. Washington of Denison
Tex, died there the other day, aged IL
She was the wife of a grandson of Law
renee Washington, brother of the illus
trious father of his country. The home
in Denison contains a sword and several
letters belonging to General Washington
Mrs. J ohm 4. Logan thinks that Ameri-
cans abroad to-day show less toadyisnl
and far more patriotism and pride in their
country than did American tourists few
years ago. The reason, although Mrs
Logan does not hint it, says the Spring
field Republican, is that the American
common people are going abroad to-day
as they never did before.
At the unveiling of the Jackson monu.
ment at Lexington, Va, Mrs. Jackson
sat just behind the famous Generals pres
ent. She is in the prime of life, her black
hair still unmixed with gray, and she
possesses a most attractive face. Her eyes
are large and dark. She wore hand
some costume of black silk, trimmed with
crepe, black gloves and crepe bonnet g
General Abner Doubleday, who aimed
the first gun fired in defense of Fort
Sumter in 1851, has been Ill for weeks al
Mendham, Morris County, n. J. Re-
Gently the fourth of series of assesses
has been opened, and he is much ex-
hausted by the attendant fever, though
signs Of Improvement are diScernible
His continued illness, however, causes
his friends in Washington much anxiety
AS yet he is too feeble to read, write OF
leave his bed.