The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-09-12
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

The bronze statue in honor of Starr King
VIII be unveiled In Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, In November.
State senator Francis Hendricks will prob
ably succeed j. S. Fassett as collector at
cans.
Don Pedro, the ex-emper0r of Brazil, has
not left his rooms at Vichy for some weeks.
The chronic heart disease from which he
suffers is now complicated by state of pre-
found melancnolia, from which it is impossi-
BILE to arouse him.
Miss Helen Cloak. a pure bred Indian of
the Blackfeet Nation, has been appointed nv
Secretary Noble as special allotinp agent IN
the Nez Perces Reservation. She is we'll
educated woman, and In every respect quail
upon her. ~0'o''o
Aunt Emily Ward, who recently died in
Detroit, got her name Of aunt when she was
stun young girl by her charitable nature.
Sne never married. but spent her life largely
in helping young people. in poor circum.
up fourteen young men from boyhood to ma.
turity, one OF whom Is ex-Postmaster Gen
eral Don M. Dickinson.
There was great gathering and reunion
wednesday at the birthplace and home of
General John A. Logan at Murphy sboroupb.
Ill. Among those present were Mrs. Logan
ana family Of Washington, ID. c.: ex-(5oy-
ernor Foraker of Ohio, Senator r. 7. Or
iesby, Gen. John M. Palmer, Gen. John 3.
BLACK and others. twenty-five thousand
people greeted Mrs. Logan and the other dis
tinguished guests.
Solomon Marshal, Yankee skipper, court
ed Deborah Sholes of Nova Scotia 81 years
ago. One day he secured a tress Of her gold
brown hair. Soon after, Solomon learned
that he had a trivial for the fair Deborah's
hand. In his rage and despair he bored a
hole into sapling, put lin the tress of hair
and plugged up the hole. He forgot the hair
afterward, for he succeeded in capturing
Miss Sholes. Last winter Edwin Smith who
owns the farm, cut down the sapling now
| grown into stout and lusty tree, and found
within the trunk the lock OF Deborah's hair.
The Carnegie Free Library in Allegheny,
Pa. has become the fortunate possessor of a
copy Of "Audubon's Birds of America" tie
gift of Mrs. William j. Alexander Of Monon-
gahela. The work is one of considerable
rarity and of great value, copies of the orig
inal edition of 1874 selling at from $25OO to
$4,000. 1t Is not generally known that the
great natnralists daughters live in the old
homestead near Audubon Park, overlooking
the Hudson. They were once possessed of
considerable wealth, but 1t was lost through
unfortunate Investments, and they are now
IN somewhat straitened circumstances.
some OF the big handsome plates from which
Audubon's monumental work was printed
are preserved in the Museum of Natural His
tory In Central Park.
1t Is estimated that ex-President Gre. y
died worth ten million francs ($2,OOO,OOO
When he was elected president for seven
years. Jan. 80. 1879. M. CREWS income was
about 40,0O0f (SSO0O). While In office-he was
reelected In 1886. and resigned in 1SS7-he re-
ceiyed ], zoe. 0Oof (S24,ooO) annually, of which
hold expenses, and 300 O0Of to defray the cost
OF his official receptions. He gave but few
OF the latter and never travelled. When be
invited guests to the Palais Elysee, his Off
cial dwelling, once the residence of Mime. de
Pompadour, he ordered the mGitre d hotel
never to exceed 10f per head per day for
their entertainment. 1t is estimated that he
must have saved from six to seven hundred
thousand francs per year. The late express
ident leaves one child, Nine. Wilson. who Sc
three children are girls.
Col. Charles Mitchell. who was a6iutant
general on General Lees staff, tells an inter-
esting little story of General Wise and the
surrender at Appomattox. Wise came rid
ing down the road furiously to where Gen.
eral Lee and his staff were grouped. He
was splashed with mud from head to heels,
There were great splotches of mud dried and
caked upon his face. Addressing General
Lee, he asked in theatrical voice, 'Is 1t
true, General Lee, that you have surren-
dered ?" '.Yes, General Wise, it is true"
II wish, then. to ask you one question
What is going to become of ma 9, Genera1
Lee looked at the splashed warrior for a full
minute and then said calmly and In a low
Tone. General Wise, go and wash your