The Portland daily press., 1893-08-11
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Alexandra Guillmant, the French Or
ganist and composer, is coming to this
country soon. His first appearance will
be at the organ in Festival Hall, at the
Worlds Fair, August 81. Here he will
give series of concerts; and during the
months of September and October he will
probably be heard in some of the larger
American cities NJ Guilmant is Sc
year old, and has for more than 90 years
been resident in Paris, where he has
won the highest distinction as per-
former upon the organ and q composer
for that instrument.
The Prince of all Hungarian gypsies,
Ignaz Erdelyi, committed suicide a few
days ago in Buda-Pesth. He was one of
the most famous violinists of his race,
and in his lifetime appeared in every
country in Europe and in the United
States. He had been i'll recently, and it
is supposed took his life to end his suffer-
ings
1.-THE simplicity Of the unfortunate
Duke of Veragua is almost touching.
According to despatch to the St. James
Gazette, the Duke attended an audience
of the Queen Regent of Spain recently,
etiiU III dlluQlilG W Ills AulGI1Cdu UOuI
he took occasion to gratefully acknowl-
edge the collection of sum of money to
be presented to him as the ineal de-
scendant of Columbus" 70 complete
his Embarrassment, his creditors have
seen fit to regard his rather nebulous
prospects of a bounty from the gener-
Gus and grateful Americans as an asset,
and are said to be pressing him with
merciless clamor.
lo.ar e 1, Il,
of Kentucky, who first entered Congress
in 1885, and was Speaker of the House
for two terms, beginning in December,
1851, is still living, and talks interest
lngly of the political excitement of those
days. Speaking of the compromise meas
ures of 1850, she says that Henry Clay,
when they seemed likely to fail in the
House, visited her husband and said
that he was the one man who could
secure their passage, and SO prevent a
dissolution Of the Union. MIR. Boyd was
chairman of Che committee on Terri
tories, and an amendment offered by him
organizing the Territorial government of
New Mexico was the rider" which caught
enough votes to carry the whole bill
through the lower House of Congress.
But Boyd had to Withstand the persistent
and pressing entreaties of his fre-eat-
ing" friends in carrying it through. 81
always feel,n continued Mrs Boyd, that
NEITHER section fully appreciated the
purpose of the men who secured the
passage of the compromise measures of
$50. Mr.. Clay and my husband belonged
to opposite parties, yet know that both
of them labored for those measures to
save the Union at that time"
Here are true names of some we'll
known ladies who write under assumed
signatures Charles Egbert Grad
dockn is Miss Murfree; 1.-THE Duchess
Mrs. Hungerford; ALAN st. Aubyn" is
Miss Frances Marshall of Cambridge,
Eng; Miss M E. Bradden is Mrs
MAXWELL Lance Falconer" is Miss
Mary Hawker; "Graham r. Tomsonn is
Mrs. Tomson "Julien Gordon is Mrs.
Van Rensselar Cruger; Octave Thanet"
is Miss Aida French; John Oliver
Hobbies" is Mrs. Craigie, and John
Strange Winter" is Mrs. Arthur Stan
nard
The venerable Rev. William G. Craw-
ford, of Alvarado, is the sole survivor of
those Texan patriots who on the I'd of
March, 1886, signed the declaration of
Texan independence Gen. Samuel Hous-
ton, the first constitutional president of
the republic elected by the people, was
inaugurated October %, 1885, the first
Texan Congress having convened at Col
umbia on the third day of that month.
Gov. William Mckinley, jr., of Ohio,
has determined to drop the Jr." from
his name at the end of his present term
of Gee. He would have done SC I'M
mediately after the death of his father,
but it has been held by some that, as
he was elected as civilian Mckinley
ir., some complications might follow a
change of his signature His name will
be printed William Mckinley on the bal
lot this fall.
The Pittsfalls of '.Remedies.''