The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-12-26
PERSONALS.

". 4. Il. Lcveland, who built the first
railroad in the Rocky mountain regions.
leading u Georgetown and Silver Plume,
Co.. died at Denver Monday, aged sixty-nine
years.
Ex-NIayor AMI ex-Consress.nan Richard
Vaux Of Philadelphia was seventy-sight years
OF age Thursday. Dec. %, and IS still able TO
talk fusnuy Of his dance with Queen Vic
toria, half a century or more aga
Edwin y. Curtis, the mayor-elect of Bos-
ton is thirty-three years Of age has held no
previous office except that Of city clerk, is
man of great ability and inherited a for
tune q few years ago from an unc.c.
Pioquinto Miranda of Columbia. Central
America, was born May ;, 1772 ana is stI
living, though blind and helpless. Within d
stones throw Of the Miranda house lives a
man who is los years old. VINO passes mis-
time in knitting MANILA bags. and who oc-
casionaly gets drunk.
After many wandarngs Robert Louis Stew
enSon dies in Samoa. Kipling has been
great glo5e-trotter. Brete Harte, Marion
Crawford and Henry James are practically
denauonalized. Julian Hawthorne, after
much travel, has settled down in Jamaica
Stanley J. Weymln has wandered over Eurcps
afoot Conan Doyle has Travelled much, and
IS planning further globe-trotting.
Julian Ralph says that IN Yokohama he
"Trilby" circulars; and in Shanghai applicl-
tons for the next available copy of the book
resemble petitions. IN the numoer Of sigma
lures attached. On the other hand. tne
Auburn y. Y, Advertiser says that many
readers OF the book in that part Of the
state are wondering why it. has attained
such widespread popularity. And two clergy
men of Roxboro. Pa. have requested the
committee on public libraries OF the board
n 4t-~a n r. he
public library shelves. on the ground that il
is immoral and antagon.stic 70 Christianity.
Among the last letters written by D..
Holmes was one 10 Charles F0llen Adams.
acknowledging the receipt Of his dialect
poem. Dot Long Handled Dipper'' in which
the genial autocrat said: Il thank you Tor
the fresh draught from this long-hanlled tin
dipper, which you have made a rival 10 the
Old Oaken Bucket Some OF my best Dir nks
when | was a bog Of fifteen az Andover were
from a cocoanut dipper. but that was not
destined u Immortality IKE the more for
tunate rccep.acies. / have always had n
great liking for Yawcoo and his younE hope
ful AMI l hope ;hey viii long continue to
make the world happier by their domestic
history and family portraits"
The New York sun. in speaking OF re-
cent sale OF bric-a-brac. the property of
Prince GaltAne recalls the fact that the
little Pennsylvania town Of GsEtzine was
named. came to America in 17S3 and estab-
lished himself in l7S9 at Lcretto, Pa. He hal
held from his birth a commission IL the
Russian army, but became deeply religious
while travelling in this country, AMI having
studied divinity under Bishop Carroll of Bal
timore. renowned his brilliant European
prospects, entered the catholic priesthood,
and going into the West established a
l'gious center at Loretto. IL b-clme famous
az a writer upon religious subjects AM died
after a pastorate a. forty-two years.
The first parish. in Dorchester. Mass, over
which the Rev. Eugene r.. Shipper Wa
Gently installed as pastor. Is the oldest
church or religious society in Boston. Ii is
unitarian. although N one usually we.l-in-
formed religious weekly IL is set down as
congregational. 1t is more than 300 years oil
and has had only eleven pastors in its his
tory The invarabe custom has been 20 n
stall a young man. and not To call a Minister
from another church. Nr. Saipp-n Is the son
OF the Rev. Rush r. Shipper, pastor of tht
Unitarian church in Washington. He is a
graduate Of Harvard. and for the last year
has been studying at Oxford. Previous to
that. however he was settled over con-
gregational church in Wichita, Kas The
Rev. r. r. Shppsn preached the sermon al
the installation CT MS son.