The Portland daily press., 1895-09-13
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Senator Don Cameron does not intend
to live in his old fashioned Lafayette
Square residence again, because of the
theatre that is being built next door on
the site of the old Blaine house. Mr..
Cameron made desperate fight in Con-
gress last winter to prevent the sale or
lease of the Blaine house to the parties
who announced their intention to con-
struct theatre upon the SITE In spiuesof
his efforts proposition to have the gov
eminent purchase the property was de-
feated, and the theatre building is now
almost under roof
Miss Powderly, the American secretary
to Lady Henry Somerset, is not related
to the labor agitator. She is New Eng
land woman, with a college education,
whose talents and abilities are many.
She is llnguist, musician, stenographer
and typewriter, besides being beauti-
full penman.
The fund of Sc, $50, presented to Pro-
lessor Mommsen last year, at the time of
his jubilee good part of it having been
subscribed in England and America, has
been given by him to the Berlin Academy
of Sciences to defray the cost of prepar-
ing complete record of Greek inscrip-
tiOnS on COINS
Charles A. Dana, who has just returned
to New York from his trip abroad, does
not think French newspapers are superior
to American. The news is poor in guam
tity and quality in French newspapers
and he says they belong to lower style
of journalism.
President Cleveland's9 mail at Gray
Gables is now increasing daily. So is
Mrs. Cleveland's. 1t is surprising how
many people write to Mrs. Cleveland on
matters that pertain to the President.
She is very conscientious about answer
ing letters addressed to her, and many
corresr ondents take an unworthy advant-
age of this fact
The Liberals of Montreal have decided
to erect a monument in memory of the
late Honore Mercier, prime minister of
the Province of Quebec This has reused
the ire of journalists of the opposite
stripe, and bitter war is now in pro-
gress. The Toronto Mail and Express
says "that the question at once arises
whether the movement will stand as a
public recognition of what he owes his
country or his country owes him. y
Mrs Harriet Maxwell Converse has
Just returned from 70 visit to the Tona-
wanda Indians. She attended by invita-
ton, the installation of young chief as
sachem-the highest office in the Indian
government The occasion was "a rare
one, and the religious and festive cere-
monies were observed by about 800 Indi.
ans During her visit the Indian women
the lawmakers-bestowe upon her, in
addition to her honored title of chief, the
office of 'sthe leader" or in Indian Ian
guage "PEt-her-in -front-of- them. - There
is large significance in this and the
duties conferred demand great degree
of watchfulness.
The leading candidate for Commander
in Chief at the national encampment is
Colonel Ivan N. Walker, of Indiana. At
Pittsburg last September Col. Walker
came within eleven votes of an election,
and advices from many departments now
indicate that unless a combination
stronger than has been apparent is made
against him the unanimous choice of the
gallant comrades of the Hoosier State
will this week become the head of the
great organization of Union veterans in
which nine-tenths Of the soldiers and
sailors of the Civil War are enrolled.