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TOLD IN A LINE. Chief Justice Waite spends the summer at Lynn, Conn. Bartholdi, the sculpor, will be banqueted in Paris Wednesday. Senator Edmunds hasgone to Vermont with his wife and daughter. Roger A. Pryor was blackballed by the New York bar association Thursday. President Arthur recently repeated a whole page of Vernon Grey, not having seen the work in twenty years. Justice Harlan, who is holding court in Chicago, could not get rooms at the hotels and is sleeping in a room adjoining his court room. Mr. Emerson, known to the general the less name of sailed by the "Billy," public by conventional Adriatic for England. He has a horse entered for the Derby, to be run on the 26th. Miss Braddon, the novelist, has for many years given every Wednesday a roasted leg of mutton for dinner to the poor children of a neighboring public school. In private life Miss Braddon is known as Mrs. Maxwell. Webb, the heir to Byron's of Newstead commansion Algernon Abbey, lately suicide at int his The mitted estate passed Dambridge, father's England. hands from those of Col. Wildman, to whom it was sold by Byron. W. Drexel, the New York banker, the railway man, J. Senator J. Arkell, and A. Sleicher, of newspaper fame, become the directors of the Albany Journal, now newly incorporated, with $140,000 capital. Charles O'Connor's fine estate on North Shore, including his fire-proof liwill pass by into of the Roman the brary hands building, Catholics request of Nantucket. Mr. O'Connor paid off the entire debt of the town of Nantucket. Mrs. Frank Leslie's weekly reception at the Victoria hotel, Thursday evening was attended by the literary friends of Mrs. Robert M. Wilcox, nee Miss Ella Wheeler, the Wisconsin poetess, who was staying in New York for a few days on her wedding tour. Prof. Gilbert E. Bailey, the well known has been reappointed Territorial of Wyoming geologist, geologist Territory. Prof. is one of the early much to develop has Bailey done pioneers, the mineral and resources of the Black Hills of Dakota. Stone Pasha reviewed the Sixty"ninth regiment in New York Thursday night. He wore his Egyptian uniform, saluted the as it passed in review with and bore the his yataghan, regiment decorations of the Turkish order of the Medjidieh and of the crown of boiy on his breast. Robert Seney, a son of the president of the Metropolitan National bank, and a member of the firm of Nelson, Robinson & Co., of New York, was just about to start from London on a six-weeks' tour of the continent when he heard of the embarressment of his father's bank and the suspension of his own firm, and started for home. James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana poet, whose verses are everywhere quoted, was born at New Bedford, Mass. Capt. Riley gave the young man an ample fortune when he attained his majority, and young James invested the bulk it in hotel, which he named the of a his hotel Ocean View house. Riley sold in the winter of 1878, invested hismoney in Pennsylvania oil, lost everything, and thon moved to Indiana, to try farming. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the woman lawyer, is to deliver her lecture, "The Statesman and His Shortcomin on the 30th. ings," American Chicago In recent- this lecture, delivered in Washington ly, Mrs. Lockwood's strictures on Blaine and Tilden were so severe that the friends of those gentlemen asked her to leave those passages out hereafter. Mrs. Lockwood has in her possession photographic copies of the "Mulligan letters," which she will exhibit to her audience.
