Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-17

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hospital and she personally attends patients
| there.
Senator Sherman viii not begin work OF
| his new house in Washington until next
| spring, when all the political frost is out Of
| the ground.
President Harrison, with party Of
| friends, will 60 to Mount McGregor during
the summer for the purpose of visiting the
| cottage in which Gen. Grant died. :.
Ex-Governor Gilpin of Colorado and his
wife, after lighting the divorce question in
| the courts for years, have finally come to
terms and will live together.
Hon. Stephen Coleridge, son OF the Eng
fish chief justice, is an artist of no mean
ability, and has collection Of paintings Of
the lake country on exhibition just now.
The death is announced of Rev. Fathe,
Murray, parish priest OF 1niscara, in his
ninety-frst year. He was the Oldest priest
in Ireland, having been ordained sixty-one
years ago.
Queen Victoria has bestowed the deco
ration of the Red Cross upon Mrs. Grim
wood. wife of Commissioner Grimwood,
who was killed in the recent rebellion in
Manipur
General Ballington Booth, the head of the
Salvation army in America, arrived from
England on the Etruria on Saturday night.
He has been away for about two months,
and spent most of his time in London.
Russell Sage goes to bed at 10 O'Clock
every night in the year and is up at 6. He
is very abstemious in his habits, but takes
spoonful of whisky in water every morn-
ing and occasionally drinks little claret for
lunch
Henry Irving's two sons are about to fol-
low in the footsteps of their celebrated
father and don the sock and buskin. The
elder ore, Harry, will soon leave Lon
don for California, and the younger, Law
renee, viii follow his brother on to the
stage
William K. Vanderbilt is constantly I'M
proving his beautiful estate at Oakdale.
One of his greatest hobbies is the raising of
choice strains of poultry. He has just
given the contract for the erection of a
poultry house to cost SIS, 600. 1t will be 3S5
feet long.
Ex-senator ingalls, and Judge Horton of
Kansas are political enemies, though both
Republicans, and it is thought that the for
mer gentleman will not rejoice particularly
over the proposed appointment of the latter
as member of the new land grant court.
Mrs Lease, the Kansas Alliance woman,
recently received a letter from Ben Butter
worth notifying her that she had recently
been elected to membership in the college
VI HluherS'' OIL lne WOflQ. Sne HdS also
received ar offer of $50 and all expenses to
make three speeches before the Chautauqua
meeting at Atlanta.
H. H. Johnson, the African explorer, who
has just gone out from London as consul
general for Portuguese East Africa, and inn
perial commissioner for the transzambesi,
is a spick-and-span, debonair little man,
who, it is asserted, will exercise his auto
cratic powers with the airy grace of a
diplomatic attache.
Dom Pedro would doubtless like to end his
days as the returned emperor of Brazil,
but like the rugged old patriot that he is,
he declares that the experiment of
Brazilian self-government will prove
success. 'sThey will hold their place
among nations is his terse comment upon
his countrymen.
President Diaz of Mexico has put him
self in the position of taking a firm stand
against extravaganza and overwhelming the
national credit As Diaz himself has done
most of the over-pledging and been guilty
of most of the extravaganza, his reformation
permits a hope that the indomitable Thomas
B. Reed will appear in the next congress as
a champion of retrenchment and economy.