The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-02-14
PERSONAL.

Senator Teller left for Florida yesterday
TO recuperate.
According to report General Longstrcet
experienced little or no physician benefit
from his recent tour in Texas. His friends
are anxious about him.
John ID. Rockefeller is Pennsylvania
Dutchman who loves Quet and simple
home life free from extravagant surround
ings.
Mr.. Moody declares that if an archangel
should come down from heaven and
preach in Boston the congregation would
find flaws OF grammar or logic in the SER
mon.
Ex-Chief Justice Marcus Morton of Mas
sachusetts, who died in Lawrence last
Tuesday morning, served thirty-two con-
secutiye years as Judge, the last eight of
which were as chief justice. His father,
Ex-Governor Morton, was also an eminent
jurist.
Stanley pronounces silly falsehood the
story recently telegraphed from Cleveland
to the effect that he purposed giving all
the presents he had received from crowned
heads and others to General Booth for the
Salvation Army.
Minus G. Keith, a Brooklyn man, is the
moving spirit in Costa Rican affairs at
| present. He owns the railroad and about
half the banana plantations Of the little
republic, and the majority of the inhab-
itants obey him as ii he were a dictator.
He is about 40 years of age, and is married
| TO native woman.
The many friends of Edmund Clarence
Stedman will regret to learn that that
brilliant man of letters is suffering from
| dangerous attack of pleurisy, compli-
| Gated with bronchitis, and has been for
some time confined to the house. His
| physicians, 1t is reported, have forbidden
any exertion, but hope that he may be
able to give his much-anticipated lectures
ON Poetry at Johns Hopkins in March.
A man died in Savannah the other day,
who played no small part in the sea
duel between the Alabama and Kear-
sarge. His name was Michael Maher,
and he was petty officer of the Alabama.
When the Alabama had been sunk by the
Kearsarge and the latters boats had
rescued her crew, Maher jumped from
one Of the Federal boats with the
Alabama's papers in his pockets, was
craft, and escaped to England.
The death of Congressman james Phe
Ian, of the Memphis district, Tennessee,
who died at Nassau on the Both ultimo
makes the eleventh vacancy in the present
Congress by DEATH The list is as follows
James n. Burnes. Missouri, January 2i
1889; r, W. Townshend, Illinois, March o
1850; Edward J. Gay, Louisiana, May 30
1880; James Laird, Nebraska, August H.
1850; $. S. Cox, New York, September 10
1880; William d. Kelley, Pennsylvania
February -, 1890; David Wilber, New
York, April /, 1890; Samuel j. Randall
Pennsylvania, April IS, 1890: James =
Walker Missouri, July 10, 1890; L. #
Watson, Pennsylvania, August %, 1890
James Phelan, Tennessee, January 80, 1891
This is the largest death roll Of any Con
,r lou
ment.
The wedding of Miss Ava Willing t.
John Jacob Astor will take place at th'
home of the bride, No. 507 Broad street
Philadelphia, on Tuesday afternoon at
O'Clock. The ceremony will be witnessed
by 100 people, who will afterward have |
wedding breakfast, to be served by Pinar,
follow at o'clock, to which all Of Mrs
Astors friends, as well as those of tn
Willing family, will be asked. Two spe
cial trains will leave New York, one at i
o'clock in the morning and one at
o'clock. A train win return from Phila
delphia at $50 o'clock, and there vii
probably be a later one. Mr.'Astor willgiv
his farewell bachelor dinner at the knick
erbocker Club tomorrow night. Hlsgues
will be his best man, Lispenard Stewart
and his ushers Thomas Howard Wood
bury Kane, Barton Willing, Elisha Dyel
IT,, II. lie Grand Cannon, Center Hitch
cock, Hamilton Fish Webster and Jane
l.. Kernochan.--NeeY York Tribune, 1871.
Henry Cabot Lodge, "the scholar /
, politics" is in danger Of losing caste wit
his alma mater, Mr., Lodge made q speec
this afternoon on the Barrundia affair
II was very forcible, very efcectiy
speech, and Mr.. Lodge, might have ,qu
the field IN q blaze Of glory If he had nc
ON concluding his remarks. exclaimed:
: "Mr. Chairman, | yield the balance Q
! my time TO the gentleman from Iowa.
"rhe balance of his time, forsooth,
, exclaimed Congressman from the will
! West, who never made any pretense I
culture, does the gentleman from Ha
ment that has just run DOWN. ohlceS
Herald, l2fh,