Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1879 — PERSONALS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONALS.

Ex-Senator Eustis has resumed the practice of law in New Orleans. B®lva Lockwood, the leading woman lawyer, is tall and has blue eyes. Senator Hill, of Georgia, is 6 feet in height, and Weighs 181 pounds. Ex-Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, is 6 feet in height, and weighs 162 pounds. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is 5 feet 9 inches in height, and weighs 160 pounds. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is 5 feet 11 ; inches in height, and weighs 155 pounds. Gen. Garfield lives in a story-and-a-half farm cottage—a regular Cincinnatus. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is 5 feet 10| inches in height, and weighs 180 pounds. Jefferson .Davis is living at Mississippi City, on the New Orleans and Mobile railroad. Senator Hereford, of West Virginia, is 5 feet 9 inches in height, and Weighs 167 pounds. Mrs. Miller, of Portland, Ore., has given birth to her twentieth child, which is strong and well. That is the way to build up a Freddie McDonald, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., cried a few weeks ago because his pet chicken swallowed his only penny. Last week the chicken was killed, and the penny, worn thin and smooth, was found in its gizzard. “ He died in his boots ” is not true of Col. R. A. Alston, of whom Atlanta makes a martyr. While he was in the last throes his friend, Ed. Mercer, thrilled the bystanders with: “ Poor Bob! poor Bob, he shall not die in his boots ” —and pulled them off. During the performance of “Unknown,” in an Indianapolis theatre, the other night, one of the actors, T Z. Graham, staggered and fell as though drunk. The audience hissed and grew demonstrative. His character was the rollicking, laughable one of “ Pat.” He got up and went through the piece, not disconcerted. When a doctor called at his hotel, he was told that he was actually dying of consumption. He expressed the desire to die at home, and the next morning he was placed in a sleeping-car andsent towards New York. There died in Jacksonville, Fla., a few days ago, a colored man, John R. Scott, whose history is a notable one. He was in all the great battles of the war, not a combatant but as the slave and servant of Gen. A. P. Hill. After realizing that the war had left him on a higher plane, he began to study and soon became a scholar. He took to the pulpit and filled it creditably until his death. He was in the Florida Legislature twice, a Collector of Customs at Jacksonville for a number of years, and altogether a man of wonderful influence among both whites and blacks. Elihu Burritt’s sister, Eunice, is the wife of Prof. A. J. Sawyer, cf the Chicago University, and is now living in that city. In talking of her deceased brother the other day, she dwelt with great zest upon what Elihu did in his childhood. He was not interested in languages then, but performed astonishing feats in mental arithmetic. Often and often would he figure up in his head how many seconds old he was, calculate how many yards of cloth it would take to reach from the earth to the sun, and the number of barleycorns it would require to reach around the world. Senator “Bob ” Hart, the New York minstrel and popular man of the footlights, has been converted and baptized, and will become a clergyman. His real name is James M. Sutherland, and his age 47 years. He has been before the' world as a stump orator in the minstrel halls for twenty-three years, and his name and fame spread far and wide. Whisky began to creep upon him several years ago, and three weeks since had nearly submerged him. Then he heard that Billy Dwyer had signed the pledge, #id thought that all was not lost. He made a great effort, got the whisky out of his system, and the Rev. John Quincy Adams, of New York, performed the ceremony of immersion in the midst of a large congregation.