The critic., 1891-01-02
PERSONAL.

Nat NJ. Wills, clever young actor of
this city, who has been so emnently sue
cessful with "Peck's Bad Boy" Company,
joined the "Clean Sweep Campany at
Harris Monday night and is making
hit in the character of IanSy
Miss Florence Davies, whose lovely
voice has so long charmed the congrega-
ton Of st. Patrick's Church, has rendered
her resignation as leading soprano Of that
church.
Mr.. Joseph Abot of the National Hotel
has gone to Concord, n. H., to be present
at the reunion of his old club of which he
has been a member for forty-cight years,
and is one of the five surviving members,
Professor Irving of Melbourne, son of
the renowned Edward Irving, the sensa-
tional preacher, one of Carlyle's earliest
friends and his rival with the lady who
afterward became the wife of the Chelsea
sage, is on his way TO England in search
of health.
1t is likely that Representative Living
ston of Georgia will lead the Alliance in
the next House. He is tall, raw-bonel
old farmer with keen eye and glib
tongue He is fairly well educated, is
bright and shrewd, and has unbounded
confidence in himself.
The wife of DIR. Schliemann, the great
Grecan archaologist, is thirty years
younger.than her distinguished husband.
She is hardly more than a girl in years,
but she Is beautiful woman and has
been most carefully educated. She knows
several languages besides Greek, and Is
said to know nearly all of the Had by
heart.
Mr.. Caminetti, who has been awarded u
seat in the next Congress, is OF Italian
parentage, but q native born Californian,
and he Is said to be the first man from
| California in either House who was born
| in the State.
There are now ON exhibition at the gall
| leries of the American Art Association in
| New York three collections Of pictures by
| three American artists-Mr. Alexander
| Harrison, Mr. Charles Walter Stetson aud
| Mr.. William l.. Dodge. The pictures by
| Mr.. Dodge ill the lower room, those OF
| Mr.. Harrison fill the large gallery on the
| second floor and one of the smaller rooms
| opening ont of il, while Mr.. Stetsons
| pictures cover the walls of the long gallery
| at the top of the building.
| Mr. Robert i, Blum, whose etching of
THE Lady with Rabbit which ap.
| peared in the October number Of "The
| Studio" and who is now in Japan, com
missioned To illustrate the forthcoming
work by Sir Edwin Arnold, is the subject
| of an interesting article by Clarence Cook
| in the January number of "rhe StudiO.h
The striking portrait of Mr.. Blum, re
Gently painted by Mr., William NJ Chase
Is beautifully reproduced and appears a
a full-page supplement- in this number.
Dennis Miller Bunker, one of the mos
talented of the younger American artists
died in Boston after very brief lines
on Sunday, the 2sth of December.
The New York HcrdM says: "rhe dcatl
. | s,T tttD at
headquarters with profound regret, for h,
was well known here, had hosts of friend
and was noted as one of the most pDpula
men in the service. He was Il gallan
officer and q thorough gentleman. III
entered West Point in 1868, graduating
with hOnors in 1872, and was only abOu
10 years of age.
There We're ties in later years whicl
bound him firmly TO 1t. Paul and tn
ried Carrie NJ, Otis, daughter of the lat
George l.. Otis Captain Wallace dis
played his matchless herOism to spendi
advantage at the battle Of the Little hi
Horn.
During the engagement one Of his me
was shot and fell from the saddle. L
pitoous accents he besought the con-
mander to kill him, but the officer, fol
getting everything save the peril of one O
his men, sprang from his horse at tn
risk of his life, and throwing tn
wounded man across the pOmmel of tn
saddle, rescued him"
Captain William Mills, Second Infantry
dropped dead of heart disease on the Pot
ult., in Omaha, Neb, Captain Mills We
born in Michigan September 10, 1888, II
enlisted in the regular army in 1883 an
rose to be first sergeant of Company
Fifth Infantry. lie was commissions
| nptiDu second liputQuanf Iani1FV q III
second lieutenant Sixteenth lnfantr,
, February 10, 1868; first lieutenant san
date; captain, February 49, 1895, and W.
transferred To the Second Infantry Apr
II, 1869; breyet rank of captain Septen
bcr l, 1864, for gallant and merltorlol
services during the Atlanta campaign an
IN the battle Of Jonesboro', Ga.