The herald., 1897-05-24
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Gerard Wallop Is the name Of the Sec
retary Of the British National Society
for the prevention Of cruelty to children.
John T. Morris has completed twenty
five years service as president Of the
school board of Baltimore. and now de-
clines reelection, to the regret Of the
citizens.
Mr.. Brendish, the survivor OF the two
telegraphers who sent the historic mes
sage from Delhi announcing the out
break of the Indian mutiny. has just re-
tired from the Indian telegraph service.
London's fire chief. who is a command
er in the royal navy, was married re-
Gently in style-a procession Of one hun
dred flremen in full uniform and police
band accompanying him and his bride
to the church.
In his speech at the dedication in
Dallas. Tex, of the monument to the
confederate dead. Judge Reagan said:
President Davis had the chivalric cour-
age of Richard Coeur de Lion, and Cato's
virtue, constancy and love Of liberty"
Queen Victoria, during her recent visit
at Nice, expressed lively desire to hear
Nine. Sarah Bernhard, who was So
journing at the same resort. The great
actress obliged her majesty by perform
ing Jean Marie, by Theurlet, in the
queens private apartments at the hotel.
In nominating Ex-Governor Northen of
Georgia for vice-president of the South
ern Baptists' convention, now in session
at Baltimore, DR.. William Jones said he
nominated man who, while diligently
attending to his duties as governor al
ways found time to attend prayer meet
ing.
Captain Frank Baxter, night superin-
tendent of the Point-street bridge, Prov
idence. R. l., has saved twenty-eight
persons from drowning during his occu-
pancy of the position, not always with
the thanks of the desperate men who had
thrown themselves into the water,
though he has several times risked his
own life in his endeavor in their behalf.
Sir George Gray, the Australian ex-
plorer and administrator, recently cele-
brated his eighty-fourth birthday. Fifty
eight years ago he was given up for
dead while exploring the west coast Of
Australia. He lived to be governor of
South Australia, of Cape Colony and of
New Zealand, which he administered
during the Maori rebellion. He is
strong home ruler.
Colonel Vassos, the Greek commander
in Crete, is said to be of Montenegrin
origin. His grandfather offered his
sword to Greece in the days of the war
of independence, and became one of the
chief lieutenants of Karaiskaki, tha
great Greek leader. He then earned the
surname of 1.-The tenacious" and recent
events have proved that the old mans
leading quality has been fully inherited
by his grandson.
Paul Lindau, the well-known German
novelist. playwright and newspaper cor
respondent, and the present intendent,
or director of the Meiningen theater,
was recently arrested in Athens as spy.
He was on his vacation, and was SUBJ
jected to police surveillance in conse-
quence of certain comments in the Ath-
enian newspapers. The explanations
which followed resulted in his speedy
release and in apologies from the news
papers responsible for the incident.
Captain Lang of the British warship
Narcissus, on the China station, was
drowned, with a boats crew of men,
last summer, while shooting on the ST.
berian coast. His body has recently
been discovered. 1t was found soon
after the accident by some Japanese
sailors, together with those Of four Of his
companions. They removed all articles
Of value, buried the corpses, and on re-
| turning to Japan sold the watches, rings
and other jewelry They were arrested
for theft, their story became known, and
part of the jewelry was recovered and
returned to England.