Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-03-14
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE

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vita at Florence, Italy, for the season.
Mrs. KATE CHUTE, Of Boston is claimed
| 10 be the first travelling saleswoman for shoe
house.
DR. MAGEE, tie new archbishop OF York,
Is the first IrishmaR to hold the dignity Of
frlmate Of England.
/ PROFESSOR KocH's portrait has been
printed on cotton hankerchiets, which are adj
Nertised 70 be good tor nasal catSrrh," and
sell rapidly in Berlin.
4 MERRITT l.. FERNALp, youth Of i6. has
4 been appointed assistant botsnist OF Harvard
college. lie is a son of President Fernald, Of
the Maine State College.
4 ALICE, sister Of Patrick Bronte. and aunt
/ Of Charlotte and Emily Bronte, famousiu En-
gilSh literature, died recently, aged 81 years.
She was the last Of the Bronte family.
| EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER will 20 10
/ Nicaragua this month on business of the Nj
earagaa Canal Company, OF which he is the
president, at a salary Of So 900 year.
JOHN W. MAoKAN, Jr., has given up his
ldea OF going on to California. He will remain
I IN New York for few weeks and If nothing
should intervene will return TO England in
the Spring.
NINE, BRUNO SPERANI, the chief woman
novelist Of modern Italy, lives in Milan. She
Is IN the prime Of life, has written a number
OF successful novels, and is the center of
literary colony.
GENERAL ISRAEL PUrNAMs granddaugh.
ter, Mrs. Lille Norton, who died recently
was the owner Of the sword that the impetu-
Gus old patriot carried in his famous ride
down the stone steps.
DR.. SCHLtEMANNs grave is in the new
cemetery at Athens, in full view Of the Paw
thenon. II is not far from the spot where
Socrates used to sit uuds the plane trees aud
battle his feet In the llissus.
Mrs. MARIAN REID, the aged mother Of
Minister Whitelaw Reid, who resides near
Cedaryille, o., have recently received from
her son some leaves from the Mount of Olives
aud marigod from the Garden Of Gethsem-
ane.
MosT of the Astor family have been college,
bred men. The elder John jacob graduated
at Columbia in 1889, William received his de.
dree from the same institution in 1870; Will
lam Waldorf is also Columbia man, of the
class OF 1876 John Jacob, Jr., wasat Harvard
as special student for three years. But
none Of the Astor money has ever gone fof
educational endowments
PRINCE WoRoUzoFF, who recently killed
Lieutenant Lamonossoif in duel is a scion
Of one OF the most powerful families in the
Russian Empire, but this TACT will not pre-.
vent his trial for shooting before the signal
was given and killing his rival foully. The
thAr may be lyFaht, nut ne VIII not allow
such things to pass among the officers os
the Imperial Guard without a searching in
vestigafion.
j. A. MORSE, young man well known In
San Francisco, has set up q kingdom Of his
own on a little island in the Pacific ocean,
which he has bought for 5000 He has in
trodnced population Of South Sea Islanders,
and has had them employed in setting out
large quantities of cocoanut and banana
trees. lie is absolute ruler and monarch Of
everything in sight. His purchase promises
to be profitable one.
GENERAL JOSEPH f.. JOHNSTON has a re.
cord as pail bearer that It's unparalleled. Re
sides acting ut the funerals Of a number Of ia
nous Confederate chieitains, he and General
sherman rode side by side at the funeral Of
General Grant General johnson is now 81
years Of age, and since the war probably no
other Confederate general has enjoyed tho
friendship and esteem OF so many Union olic-
ers ofrank.
Mr.. STUART RoBSoS denies that there is
any truth in the rumor that he is engaged 10
be married TO Miss May Waldron a member
Of his company. This story has been started
by some theairical scandal-monger" said Mr..
Robson. My wife has only been dead eight
months, and ara old enough 10 be Miss Wal
dron's grandfather ] do not enre as far rs |
myself am personally concerned but regret
exceedingly these false and malicious reports
out Of regard for my daughters, as well as Miss
Waldron's feelings Miss Waldron is me e
life shows how dear 20 me was my late wife.
desire to deny emphathically the existence
oi any engagement between myself and Miss
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