The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-07
lT Is ex.surplus, too.
PERSONAL.

IIsIhSONALs
Ex-Governor William Il. Cameron Of
Virginia, who has been confined TO his
house for more than month, Is suffering
acutely with absccss of the entire right
law, and his dentist thinks an operation
the only remedy for his relief.
Mr.. II. T.. Lee, son of General W. II. L.
Lee, has been selected orator for the final
exercises at Washington and Lee Uni
versity next summer.
DIR. Francis 7. Drake, pensioner of
the war of 1872, died ut Lcesburg, Va,
last Wednesday, aged o..
Nine. de Barrios will start for st.
Augustine on Tuesday of next week and
will remain there fortnight.
Nine. Bernhardt is said to be of Hol-
lander-Jewish origin, and to have been
born in Amsterdam about forty-six years
ago.
Third Vice-President J. C. Stubb of the
Southern Pacific Railroad says that the
damage caused by the flood to the Arizona
lines will be repaired by Saturday, and
thereafter trains will run as usual
Clack Stone Harrison, a cousin OF the
President, died in Chicago Sunday night
at the age of so. He has been out of busi
ness for IL years, owing to illness con-
tracted in the war.
INODtTt NulttI isi4.hss thO
Senior Associate Justice of the Superior
Court of Massachusetts, died March 9th at
his home in Newton. Had he lived until
the 10th instant he would have been 63
years old.
A notable matinee will be given early in
April i'll New York for the benefit of the
Free Kindergarten Association, of which
Richard Watson Glider is the president
and Mrs. Grover Cleveland ice-president.
Mrs. Wilbur A. Bloodgood will take the
leading part in new play. She will be
assisted by n number of well-knOwn ANA
teurs, including Misses Alice and Rita
Lawrence, Misses Palmer, Coolidge and
Mack.
General Manderson, now president pro
tempore of the Senate made good war
record in the Army Of the Cumberland.
He commanded the Nineteenth Ohio Vol
untcers at Shiloh, though he had entered
the service as lieutenant. He received Il
severe wound ut Lovejoy's Station, Sep
tember 9. 1864, which so disabled him that
he resigned. lie removed from Ohio to
Nebraska in 1860. This is his second
term in the Senate.
There is absolutely no foundation in
the rumored engagement of Baron Mont
brun of France to daughter of Smith
| Cliff of No. 13 West Twenty-ninth street.
| Baron Montbrun is not stranger to New
1 hpihi 10 hS 10 opthuiib itio oSsohN Wih
| ter in town. Hisname appeared OCCASION
ally year ago in the lists Of private enter
tainments. He came to New York IN
company with a young man from Paris
named Frank Potter, who %as MT yelfp5eas lfpt,as
Princess Beatrice's book is tout" and ID
| proves after all to be not book lipon
lace, not work on nursing, but trans
lation OF German work called "The
Adventures of Count George Albert of
Erbach," a young gentleman who
fourished early in the sixteenth century,
stood six feet two in his stockings, and
was the twenty-second son of his father.
After all its talk about engaing some
one from Europe to take Mr. TRomas'
place the New York Philharmonic Society
will IN all probability elect Herr Seidl. He
is not only the choice of the majority of
the members, but is also willing to accent
the position should it be offered him.
Mother Superior Mary Agnes Mageye-
ney of the Sacred Heart Convent of Gal
weston, Tex, died last Wednesday night.
She had been Superioress of the Sacred
Heart Convent for eight years and form
erly occupied similar position at Column
bus. Ohio. She was 81 years of age and
originally came from Memphis, Tenn.
Ex-Governor Curtin has been sojourn-
ing at the Stratford, in Philadelphia, dur
ing the past ten days, but expects to leave
for Jacksonville, Fla, next Monday. He
has recovered from the prOstrating illness
OF the early days of January and has
been meeting old-time friends IN his
usual happy way.
William Porter Rodgers, secretary Of
the Municipal Consolidation Inquiry
Commission. died suddenly at the Hotel
Bradford, in New York, Wednesday night.
He n nf Tom ,f,1n LII
ers, U. S. N, and was born in Baltimore
seyenty-two years ago. Mr. Rodgefs, wax
never married. His brother, Cafkain'
John j. Rodgers of Baltimore, bv%a
strange coincidence, died with equal suds
denness. on Tuesday evening. Rear
Admiral Z: X. p. Rodgers of Washington
is also his brother, and the late General
McComb and General, Meigs of Wash
ington are brothers-in,law. He has three
nephews who are lieutenants in the
United States Navy.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Eleanor Mary Packard, daughter of the
late Joseph Packard of Albany, n. Y, to
Captain Arthur Vincent Hatch, First
Goorkas, Bengal Staff Corps, second son
OF General &. Cliffe Hatch. G. s. l., Ben
gal Staff Corps. Miss Packartl's sister is
the Countess Goblet d Alyiella Of Belgium.
Mrs. Packard and Miss Packard are
middle-aged and rather coarse.lool-
ing stranger who gave as his name Lord
Alexander Loyegroyc Hope" son of a
peer Of England, was arrested in Staun-
ton, Va, last Sunday night, charged
with stealing money and clothes found ON
him., The valley phyinim says: This
Lord Hope is evidently professional
crook, whose real name and home address
cannot now be determined. In all of his
transactions in Rockingham and Augusta
counties he has represented himself to be
an English lords son who has come to
Virginia to buy farms for English people
lie bought two farms at ilarrisonbllrg and
TWO at Pleasant Valley, without any cash
payment of course
Miss Lena Little gave Il song recital
thursday afternoon NJ ChiCkering Hall,
which was attended by an unusually large
and appreciatiye audience.
Ihereare comparatively few singers who
could sing a number of songs m success
son without wearying the audience, and
Miss Little is one of the exceptions. This
IL probably as much due TO her musical
ernditlon and intellectual comprehension
as TO the richness of her voice.
Miss Little is but slightly known TO
american audiences, for, although her
youth was passed IN New Orleans. her
artistic life has been spent in England,
where she has applied herself to the most
diligent study and WOE her success.-New
York lSaa.
The South and the Fair,
From ne CHICAGO Neus.
The alacrity with which the South. as
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