The critic., 1891-02-25

PERSONAL.

Miss Marion Langdon will make such
beautiful bride that IL is to be regretted
that her marriage with Mr.. Royal Phelps
Carroll will be celebrated so quietly at
Irvington on March 2.
Nine. Bruno Sperani the chief woman
novelist of modern Italy, lives in Milan.
She Is in the prime Of fife, has written
number of successful novels, and is the
centre of literary colony.
so that young Napoleon of finance,
Henry s. Ives, has returned to his old
Wall street haunts.
John w. Young, son of Brigham Young,
has completed big railway deal in New
Mexico by which he and other Mormons
have secured control of valuable railroad
properties and farming and grazing lands.
Ex-senator Saunders of the Utah Com
mission is i'll of pneumonia at Salt Lake
City. Mrs. Russell Harrison and her
mother, Mrs Saunders, were upon the
point of starting West, when telegram
reached them from Governor Thomas an
nouncing favorable change in the pa
tents condition.
The Marquis of Lorne has begun the
publication OF series OF remarkable let
tiers ON "The Crisis in Canada" Her
loyalty, he says, is loyalty to her own in
terests. He calls Goodwin Smith "a gram
matical negative of political aspirations"
President Harrison, ex-President Cleve-
land, Secretary Tracy, Cornelius Wander
Huntington and the Hon. John II. Starin
have all been made honorary members Of
the Driving Club of New Y York, and have
accepted the compliment.
The youngest member of the next Con-
gress is w. j. Bryan, elected from the First
District of Nebraska. His adolescence is
not, however, his only title to distinction,
as glance at his career, his wonderful
campaign and striking personality will re-
veal. William Jennings Bryan was born
in Salem, Marion County, ILL.,, March 10,
1850.
DIR. Stephens George Cowdrey. surgeon
in the United States Army, died February
q at No. 43 Lafayette Place, New York, Of
heart failure. DIR. Cowdrey was born in
this city in 1880 and entered the Regular
Army in 1867. He was first assigned to
the Carlisle Barracks, in Pennsylvania,
where he married the daughter Of u
brother officer. During his twenty-four
years of active service DIR. Cowdrey had
been attached to frontier posts in Texas
and New Mexico. He left Santa Fe in
December on sick furlough and was
compelled to ask an extension few days
ago. His wife accompanied him to this
city, leaving their two daughters at Santa
Fc. The body was taken to Carlisle, Pa,
| for interment.
The silver medal presented by General
| Washington in 1902 to. the Indian chief,
| Red Jacket, Is now the property of the
| Red Jacket Club Of Canandaigia, N. Y.
| II was given to the club by Mrs Elizabeth
| Townsend Meagher of New York, widow
| of General Thomas Francis Meagher.
Red Jacket wore the medal constantly
until his death, and left 1t to Captain Jas
per Parrish of Canandaigua, a noted In
dian interpreter and agent, who was his
| intimate friend. From Captain Parrish
1t descended to Mrs. Meagher, his grand
daughter.
| Colonel w. d. Crockett died Sunday
| evening at his residence in Waukegan.
ILL.,, in the 73d year of his age. He was a
Kentuckian by birth, and lineal de-
scendant Of Davy Crockett. He was
prominent as horseman, being inter-
ested in the breeding of pure-blooded
trotters for about forty-five years, first in
bis native State and later in Illinois.
Lulu, 2144, was bred by him. as well as
Star Hambletonian and Judge Hayes,
prize-winning trOtting stations. While
resident Of Kentucky he was delegated
to 90 abroad to select horses and cattle
for that State.
The Bar of Christendom will hear with
regret of the trouble which has overtaken
Mr.. Justice Stephen, who is rated as the
most distinguished of English judges,
next to Lord Coleridge. He is said To
have gone off his head to such an extent
that his continued presence on the Bench
is scandal; yet he refuses to resign. Un;
der the law as II formerly stood he could
have been removed but since the revis.
ion there Is no way of dealing with the
case save by an address from both Houses
to the crown. This cumbrous means will
be adopted soon unless he retires volun
tarily. His malady is popularity ascribed
to brooding over the Maybrick case.
Ex-Governor Foster of Fostoria, Ohio
is not in appearance at least as much of al
aristocrat as his residence ''of that ills'
might be held to indicate. He is one Of
ance breeds longing for BARRIERS. q desir,
to hear the snip of the shears and the sof
crash of falling hair. There may be nC
good BARRIERS in Fostoria but there are ex
cellent ones in New York, and the homo
of clipping the unshorn locks of the Sec
retary of the Treasury would no doub
amply repay their labor. There is IL,
accustomed TO Washington life and th
amenities Of Capital society the new Sec
retary will adjure his long hair and sof
hat and even have his chin-whisker
trimmed. They all do.-Nely York World
The Washington Masonic jewel, pre-
sented February % TO Palmas Lodge, No
20, A. i. and A. NJ, Ellicott City, Nd.
by State Senator W. B. Peter, came I,
him through his grandmother, Eleano
Custis, who married Thomas Peter
Eleanor Custls was granddaughter O.
Martha Washington, and in the third iten
of General Washington's will the wish
was expressed that she, with her brother
George Washington Parke Custis, be re
garded as his own blood relations. Tn
Jewel, with other property, thus came int
Mrs. Thomas Peters possession. AS preyl
ously stated, i was found ON Washington
body at the time OF his death. It Is In de
sign asword pointing to naked hear
and is in cameo and gold.
Lieutenant Frederick schwatka, th
Alaska explorer, is in town and Is stayin
at the Victoria Hotel. He is looking we
for man who has had his obituary pull
recently, as he estimatesit. He eXplaine
TO friend yesterday how it happene
that the obituaries came TO be writer
He was staying at hotel in Mason, low.
and in climbing the stairs caught his foC
and fell heavily against railing. A
Lieutenant Sohwatka weighs 265 pound'
he naturally felt the shock. He called i
doctor, and having studied medicin
J himself, held consultation with the ply
scian.
II was ascertained that no internal il
: juries had been sustained, and nothin
more would have come from the acciden
had not a wicked hotel clerk played
Joke on reporter from the Associate
, Press. The reporter heard that Liey
tenant Schwatka had been injured in
| fall, and asked the clerk at the hot,
where the Lieutenant was stayin
, whether he was badly hurt. The oler
} replied in stage whisper; "IIe will die !
, fifteen minutes.n Obituaries appeared /
J the newspapers next day.
/ Lieutenant Scbwatka expects to retur
, to Alaska soon,. and will have the a