The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-13
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Emily Tood Helm aunt of the
Hon Robert Lincoln, and the widow of u
Confederate general has been rc-appointcd
for her third term Us postmistress at
Elizabethtown, Ky.
Nine. Modjeska is publishing q nara
tive of her tour in England and America
in Cracow newspaper.
Secretary Window has fixed the salary
of Miss Phoebe CouZins as secretary of
the board OF lady managers of the Chi
cago fair at $1,000 per annum.
They say that the bow which Mr.. JUS
tice Brown made from the Supreme Court
bench after his installation was not in
tended for the general audience, but for
his wife and party Of personal friends
whom he recognized.
The Archbishop Of Lima, Peru, has ex-
communicated Miss Clarinda Turner, u di-
rector of the sheet III faiW Illustrate, he
cause she translated and had published in
her paper "The Magdalene," Il novel by u
Brazilian journalist After the excom-
munication all numbers of Miss Turner's
paper containing parts of the objection
able work were burned in the public
square.
Alan Arthur is member Of the Prince
of Wales set and one Of the best cross
country riders in England.
Emma C. Thursbv, Clara Louise Kcl-
logg, Nine. Albani, Campanini and Maud
Powell will each have an article. giving
some vocal helps and musical hints TO
girls and women with musical aspirations,
in the February number of the LddJs
Home Journal.
Governor Francis r. Nichols of Louis
lana is dismembered To remarkable ex-
tent. He has lost n leg and an arm and
an eye. He lost his leg ut Chancellors-
vile, and his arm was carried away by q
u cannon ball at Winchester.
Jeanne Hugo is to be married to
Alphonse Daudet's son at Passy (Paris)
January 10. NJ. Jules Simon will make a
speech ON the occasion of the union of
the granddaughter of Frances nobest old
poet to the son of the charming provencal
novelist.
General John Newton, the civil engi-
neer, who has been put in charge of the
great drainage canal in Illinois, is best
known for the destruction of Hell Gate.
lie is now G7 years old and is the persona
| tication of vital energy and rugged
| strength. He was graduated from West
| Point i'll ISL.
Captain Silas C.. Casey takes command
| of the Newark February 2 and will have
| with him Lieutenant Commander Samuel
| W.. Very, as executive officer, and Lieutcn'
ant Benjamin Tappan and Ensign ]. ID.
| Bernadou.
The Hamburg companies, in which
| Captain John Orth, once the Archduke
| Johann of Austria, insured his ship Santa
| Margherita, have announced that, in case
they hear nothing about him before Janu-
ary II, they will then pay over the amount
| of the policies to his heirs. DR.. Hcrtzka
| of Vienna has Just received from his
brother, q Government engineer in Chill,
a letter containing, these words: ,Orth's
ship was chartered to take on load of
salfpetre at Junin, in the province of Tara
paca, which, after the last war with Peru,
| fell TO Chill. The ship has foundered be,
yond all shadow of a doubt. 1t has gone
| under with man and mouse, and that
is all that can ever be known Of it."
The New York Tribune of the 10Th says.
Lieutenant Allen G. Paul, flag lieuten-
ant on the staff of Rear-Admiral BAN
croft Gherardi, commandant of the North
Atlantic Squadron, is seriously i'll with
pneumonia at the st. George Hotel, Brook
lyn. Several of the officers and crew of
the Philadelphia have been sick with the
grip and when Lieutenant Paul was
excused from duty few days ago be-
cause of sickness, it was not thought that
his illness would prove serious. Iieriten-
ant Paul is one of the best-known officers
in the Navy and is q brother to Mrs. Will
liam Waldorf Astor. He was born in
ihiladciphia october ioti, ana was up
pointed midshipmant in the Navy Sep.
tembcr -, 1862. lie was promoted to his
present grade twenty years ago, and at the
present slow rate Of promotion, will not
be u cutenant-commandcr for at least
three years more. lie was sent to tho
nayy-yard about two years ago ON duty IN
connection with the construction of tn,
Maine, and few months later was ordered
as flag lieutenant on Rear-Admiral Cher
nrliiS staff IIn bnS hpnn pD that IutN nVn1
since, with the exception of few months
when he acted as naval aide to Secretary
Tracy during the absence Of Lieutenan
T.. B. NJ. Mason"