The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-16
Chill HAS LITTLE rebellion on hand.
PERSONAL.

Lieutenant Mann of the Seventh Cav
airy, who died at Fort Riley yesterday of
wounds received in the Indian fight at
Wounded Knee, was born in Indiana, and
entered West Point in 1873. He was as
signed to the Seventh rs soon rs he grad
uated, and has served with it ever since.
Lieutenant Mann is well known here,
having married a daughter of Mr.. A. Ross
Ray, one of Washingtons prominent
citizens. He leaves u widow and one
child, a boy.
Justice Brown gets up steam mornings
by. wrestling with lifteen-pound dumb
Mrs. Stanley is fond of fresh air and
keeps the temperature of her room down
at 62 degrees.
Il. Marion Crawford is said to be worn
out with overwork, and to be seeking
health and rest at Tifls, in Asiatic Russia.
Miss Fordham, well-known English
bicycle rider, has ridden Il safety wheel
1880 miles at the rate of seventy-six, miles
day, and hopes to cover 1900 miles be-
fore the season closes.
Sir John Lubbock sticks to the principle
of his shop holiday scheme. He has rein
troduced his bill providing that when two
thirds of the shopkeepers in "a defined dis
trict wish to take weekly half holiday
the remaining one-third shall be com
PEELED to do so.
John Fitzroy de Courcey, Lord Kin
cade, who recently died in England, was
one of the two British noblemen entitled
by royal grant to keep their hats on their
heads in the presence OF royalty.
Harvard is to have a recognized and APP
pointed professor in rowing. This is the
outcome of the desire of the students TO
appoint Colonel Bancroft, coach of the
f,,.. ,s.,, 4 a, .,,I Nf IA,
refusal of the athletic committee to make
the appointment. The new instructor
will have full charge Of all boating mat
tiers.
The death is announced from London OF
Francis Charles Hastings Russell, X g.,
ninth Duke of Bedford. He was born Oc-
tober 16, 1910; q son of General Lord
George William Russell, seventh Duke of
Bedford. In 1874 he married Lady Eliz-
abeth Sackville-West, daughter of Count
Delawarr, and succeeded to the dukedom
in 1872. His heir and eldest son, George
William Frances Sackville, Marquis of
| Tavistock, born in 1852 and married to
| TO Lady Adeline Somers in 1876. now be-
| comes tenth Duke of Bedford. He was q
brother-in-law of Lord Sackville, formerly
Minister to Washington, and a member of
the Reform Club, London.
This instance of the late General Devens'
| bravery is cited. At the crossing of the
Rappahannock, in the battle of Freder-
icksburg, his brigade led the way over the
| lower bridges, and when the retreat was
ordered he asked that he and his men
might be the last to return. General
Franklin, to whom the request was pre-
ferrcd, turned and said to General w, II.
Smith: "Well, Badly, there doesn't appear
to be anybody else asking for that honor,
so well let Devins wait till the last If he
wants to-
Sonora Mendonca, wife of the new
Brazilian Envoy to the United States is
an American woman, the daughter of a
Down East sea captain, Captain Redman
of Thomaston, Me. When her father
sailed for Rio Janero twenty-five years
ago he took his daughter with him t0
keep him company on board his schooner.
Senor Mendonca was then young editor
in the Brazilian port and a chance intro
| duction of the young people ripened into
romantic courtship that led to marriage
Nine. Mendonca has a son % years old
and four daughters ranging from Is to2l
years of age.
The ladies of California under the chair
manship Of Mrs. George j. Bucknall OF
San Francisco, with Mrs. Senator George
Hearst as secretary, made Christmas Day
a happy one to Mrs. Jessie Benton Ere
mont, widow of General John G. Ere
mont, the pathfinder" Despite tha
lady's protests the California womer
raised $1,000 purchased the pretty cot
tage in which Mrs. Fremont has for many
years resided, and paid OF some old debts
The sensible gift will enable Mrs, Fremon
to live comfortably ON her pension anC
pass the evening of her life in peace.