The Critic and record., 1891-05-06
ON DIT.

General Russell A, Alger is In New York.
Senator NJ. W Ransom OF North Carolina Is
nt the New York Hotel, New York.
Ex-senator Edmuuds and family OF Vermont
are at the Victoria Hotel, New York.
Secretary Blaine Is IN New York on II visit
to his daughter, Mrs Walter Damrosch.
Thomas + lIccnan, United states Consnl at
Odessa, is at the Hotel Brunswick New York
Mrs and Miss Bispham have not yet quite
decided where they viii 90 for the summer.
Mrs. and the Mis- e. Wanamakcr will sail
from New York for Europe ON the 10th in.
slant,
Mr.. Charles f. Mayer, the president Of the
Baltimore and ohio Railroad, Ia at the Brc-
wort, I'm New York.
ENsccrctary Of War Taft, who is seriously
ill at san Diego. Cal, was much better ycster.
day and there are now hopes OF his recovery.
General Clarkson, Miss Blaine, Mrs. Wilmer.
ding, Mrs. Levi y. Morton, Mrs. and Miss
Cameron sail on the TeutOnic from New York
for Europe to-day.
The elegant new residence being erected by
Mrs. John Nicholas Norton on tile corner OF
Sixteenth and l. streets is rapidly approaching
completion and will he ready for occupancy in
the autumn.
Mr. Walter Manton Of tho state Department
among his many accomplishments is painter
Of very decided talent. The beautiful portrait
Of Mrs. Emmons from his easel Is a fine con
trhution to art.
Chicf Justice Melville w. Fuller OF the
United States supreme Court, ex-senator John
j Ingalls, and United States Labor Commits.
sioncr Carroll d. Wright are ut the Firth Ave.
nue. Hotel, New York.
Chief Engineer George w. Stlvcrs OF the
Navy, the expert iaspec or of oils steel aud
other supplies at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, n.
Y, who has been seriously III with pneumonia,
was out Of his house on Monday for the first
time in several weeks.
DR.. Morris Murray, the eminent young
specialist, will probably go abroad for the sum
mer As one or tho most cultivated and pOpu-
lar men in society, he will be missed greatly
should he decide to 20 TO Europe, where he
studied his profession first,
During the spring months the ladies at the
N0vy-NArd arc enjoying lawn tennis and im-
promptu teas Mrs. Commodore Skcrritt aud
her two pretty daughters form OF themselves
the nucleus of one OF the most agreeable cote
rics I'm naval circles. and the Commodore is
J0cVjS pyNcepS, the host of hosts.
Roar.Admiral Donald Men. Fairfax, L. 5. n:
Mrs Fairfax and their son. MIR. Fairfax, are on
q brief visit TO the city and have apartments at
No. 1892 New York avenue. The Admiral has
handsome home ut iiagcrstown, Md aud often
comes down for few days lie and Mrs.
Fairfax are in very good health
Lieutenant and Mrs. Beatty received over $50
bridal presents, principally OF silver Senator
Barbour, Ex-Governor Holiday of Virginia, the
Chinese Minister, the First Secretary Of the
Legation, the people of the little town in Min
ncsota where Mr.. Beatty comes from and many
others being among those whose presents were
most costly and beautiful.
All the old family portraits OF the Carols OF
Dudington Manor, among them one of Daniel
Carroll, the revolutionary patriot, now hang in
the drawingrOOm OF Mrs. Burritt. No. 1914
street who was Miss Carroll. They are fine
specimens Of art. some OF them by noted
British painters oe the colonial period, one by
COpcy Is especially fine.
familiar figure in our law courts sud ''in
the RialO, where men most do cOngregate,' Is
that Well-tO-do lawyer, Col. Mike w oOd. who
commanded = crack Alabama regiment during
the late fraticdal contest. He was a rlttling
good officer, wore the finest uniform and the
| only boiled shirt in Joe JOhnston's army. How
| he managed to be always spiCk and span
was a wonder to the boys in the trenches.
| Mrs DR.. Wing OF Los Angeles, tho niece OF
! Mrs. Belden Noble, who, as Miss Stearns, was
| one of the beauties Of the season of 1886, will
probably come East this summer Mrs. Wing
| Is an accomplished artist, and in her leisure
| moments when here decorated the library OF
| Mrs. Btlden Mobiles lovely house, corner of
| Eighteenth street and MASSACHUSETTS, avenue,
| with ffieze representing the four seasons by
| flight of birds.
| One of the most agreeable members of the
| Austrian Legation IS a hungarian gentleman,
| who makes IL point to go home every year or
| two. lie suffers severely from nostralgia or
| home sickness, and nothing relieves him from
the grippy nature of the depression peculiar
to that affection but a visit to his own country,
| Our Anglomaniacs look ut him with utter
| astOmshment, for they are Mt home every
| whore but in their own country
The surviving oricers of that famous ante
| bellum regiment, the Second Cavalry, of which
| Albert sydney Johnston was colonel and r. 4
| II. b. Bradfute. lie is now living very quietly
| in greatly reduced circumstances at Uyalde
| Tex. lie has his pension rs n Mexican vet
eran, has learned the trade OF n carpenter anc
preserves that sturdy independence, loyalty tr
| friends and forlitudc in adversely the OLD
| soldier always does.