The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-02-19
Aud amid The blooming bowers
PEOPLE AND ByENTS.

It lie said that Lafcadio Hearn intend
to make fascinating Japan his permanen
home.
senator:elect Hill has applied for tn,
chair which Wade Hampton Will vRcatt
next month in Washington.
Meimonier had an abiding hatred fol
Americana. Though they bought bill
pictures with a generous hand and paiC
excessive prices for them, his detestatioI
was bitter and outspoken.
The Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the
heir to the throne OF Austria, is o tai
and very distinguished looking man
He has been very carefully educated
has considerable talent for art and
music, and is fine soldier.
Curfew shall ring tonight down in
New Bedford. The city council OF thai
antique town have voted that the bell
shall continue 10 ring every night at Q
o'clock, when, according to immemorial
usage, oil good New Bedfordes 20 to
bed.
Mrs. Calhoun, sister OF General Custer,
bears semblance to her dead hero
brother, and possesses many of the men.
tai characteristics that distinguished
him. She is a most fluent converse
tionaliSt, and an elocutionist Of wide
reputation.
Somebody is OVERRIDING the father.oi.
his-country relic business. The sword
that Warrington wore when he resigned
his commission was simultaneously Of.
fered for sale TO Massachusetts,, New York
and Pennsylvania. Massachusetts de-
clined it not only at $4,000 but also at
$4,000.
Somebody having started astory, per.
haps as q "feeler," that Senator Dawes
would retire from public life at the end
OF his present term in the Senate, that
gentleman takes occasion to remark that
he has not yet announced any such in
tention.
Admiral Porter once played a queer
April FOOLS Joke, when, as captain OF
Howard & sons steamship Golden Age,
he entered the harbor Of Sidney, his
flags at half matt. in honor OF the mem.
DRY OF Queen Victoria. The act will
never be forgotten by Australians, or
for that matter by any Of her Majesty's
subjects who are familiar with the frolic.
Among the three-star heroes that one
by one are silently striking their tents
and moving OF forever is soldier not
often mentioned. 1t is General Plasan-
ton. He is still to be seen on the streets
Of Philadelphia, walking with the firm
step OF hale and hearty man. The
General dresses rather oddly in great
coat reaching 10 the ground, wide
brimmed SLOUGH hat, and carries heavy
cane. He Is seldom recognized as he
moves along, except by some old army
comrade, and he seems 10 be absorbed
by his own reflections.
General Sherman, says Halstead in
the Brooklyn Standard. Union, has been
in the care OF his papers most method
ical man. His reports and correspond
ence are in perfect order and exceed.
insly yoluminous, and his brother, the
Senator, has preserved all his letters,
from West Point bowman invaluable
collection. There should be, and NO
doubt will be, the greatest estimation OF
the Sherman papers, because OF all our
military men he had the most happy
and forcible literary faculty. He may
have been exceeded in his writings IN a
few chapters by the. terss forms Of
Grants style, but this was exceptional
and incidental. Sherman will be mem.
orable as writer as well as warrior.
He was man so entirely great that he
handled with might alike pen and
sword. It is as il Wellington could bave
written like Napier.