Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

Buckley, the blind Democratic politician, of San Francisco, who has had great ups and downs in the past, is in power there once more. Bishop Henry C. Potter, who has just returned from Europe, thinks that a tour abroad is the best cure for what is called the “big head.” Mr. Mancherjee Mcrwanjee Bhownuggee, the Parsee who is about to ' seek parliamentary honors of an ■ English constituency as a Unionist, is well known in London. A Western bishop of the Episcopal church says that the success of the church’s missionary operations in the far West is largely due to the munificence of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the youngest son of Charles Dickens, has been living in Australia for more than twenty-five years, and is a member of Parliament from Wilcannia, New South Wales. Governor-Elect Woodbury and Lieutenant Governer-Elect Mansur, of Vermont, have each an empty sleeve —the right sleeve. Each man left his arm in Virginia some thirty years ago. The Rev. Father Peter Havermans, of Troy, N. Y., has been a priest for sixty-one years, and for fifty-one years has been pastor of St. Mary’s church in that city, which he built and in which he still celebrates mass every Sunday. Since he first went to Troy, in 1841, he has taken an honorable and conspicuous part in the civic and social life of the city, and today it contains no citizen more revered and esteemed.

Bishop William Carpenter, ol Ripon, England, is the court preacher. A story is told of him that when he was asked how he managed to address so exalted a person as the sovereign, and yet maintain his composure, he replied that he never addressed her at all. He knew there would be present the Queen, the Princes, the household, •the servants, down to the scullery maid. “And,” said the Bishop, “I preach to the scullery maid and the Queen understands me." Archbishop Ireland is hailed by the eloquent ex-priest, Hyacinthe Loyson, at Paris, as “the initiatorol the urgently needed reformation ol the. Roman Catholic church,” and as “the representative of the new spirit which is to place it in accord with modern life and thought." It remains to be seen whether approbation coming from such a source is likely to be of service to the populai American prelate at the Vatican, where Loyson is in exceptionally bad odor, being regarded as an apostate