Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1883 — ABOUT PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT PEOPLE.

William H. Vanderbilt has eight children and eleven grandchildren. Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, editof of St. Nicholas, is at Intervale, N. H. Mrs. Mary Clemmer Hudson and her new husband have gone to Europe. Ex-Postmaster-General James receiver?, from Hamilton College the degree of LL.D. George Augustus Sala, who witnessed the coronation, declares that it was a distressing sham. Ex-Senator Tabor is said to be about to add a daily newspaper to his other extravagances. William M. Evarts makes a tax return showing his estate in Windsor, Vt, to be #60,561. Cadet Whitaker’s father has just died, leaving him #3,000 and a fine farm. He was once a slave. A Louisvillian, who has no hair to spare, makes the scientific assertion that no idiot was ever bald-headed. Thomas McElrath, who founded the New York Tribune with Horace Greeley, lives in a humble way in Harlem. . Rev. Peter Butler said to the Andover alumni last week: “I must speak or burst, i.ndl don’t want to burst.” Mrs. A. T. Stewart is reputed to be the econd-largest United States bondholder. She has #30,00D,0J0 invested. s It is proposed to erect a memorial chapel and manse at Epworth, in England, the birthplace of John and Charles Wesley. Paul Du Chaillu bronzes with age instead cf growing, gray and wrinkled. He is as active and wiry as he was twenty-five yeprs igo. Time has dealt kindly with ex-Vice President Colfax. His hair is entirely gray, but hi’ figure is erect as ever and his brow re mains unfurrowed. Mb. George Leonard, of Huntington, Vt has in his possession the trowel used by Gen’ Lafayette in laving the corner-stone of the University of Vermont. In Idaho ten years ago there was but one Mormon member cf the Legislature, but in tiotb houses, with thirty-six members, the Ja-’t session, eleven Mormons were found to ?at« a voice in legislation.