Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 September 1886 — Page 10

TWO AMERICAN POETS.

JOHN JAMES PIATT AND MRS. S. M. B. PIATT AND THEIR WORK.

A Brief Sketch of Their Life—Tho Successful Experiment of the Marriage of Two Poets—Their Home in Queenstown,

Ireland.

[Special Correspondence.!

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—John James Piatt is "a western product, as is his cousin, Donn Piatt, the well known journalist. The family originally came from France, and came ina hurry. They were Huguenots, and therefore Hot popular with tho governing element of Franco in the early part of the last century. They emigrated to the island of St. Thomas, in the West Indies. From thence John Piatt, tho founder of the Piatt family In America, came to this country and located in New Jersay, twenty-five or thirty years previous to the revolutionary war.

At the beginning of that war several of his sons, including the greatgrandfather of Mr. John James Piatt, entered the Continental army and served until its close, each attaining the rank of captain. William Piatt, greatgrandfather of the subject of this sketch, subsequently became, with his elder brother, an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati, oeveral years after the close of the revolutionary war he raised a company of men near Scotch Plains, N. J., his home, for service against tho Indians in the Northwest territory, and, joining thp aruiy of Gen. St. Clair at Fort Washington (now Cincinnati), was killed at St. Clair's defeat in November, 1791.

Mr. Piatt's greatgrandfather was, therefore, first of the name to become associated with the affairs of Cincinnati, where several of tho family, sons and grandsons of his younger brother, Capt. Jacob Piatt, including Col. Donn Piatt, Gen. Abram S. Piatt and Maj. Benjamin M. Piatt, have taken prominent parts in its political and military hi&tory during the past half century. The fiatts had tha French love of arms in them. tCapt. James Piatt, grandfather of John James, also raised a company of men in New Jersey at the outbreak of the second war of Independence, in 1812, and served until its close.

Mr. John Piatt, the poet's father, settled in Dearborn county, Indiana, a few miles north of Rising Sun, and there the poet was born in 1885. When he was 9 years old his parents went to Columbus, O., where they resided until 1850, when they removed to central Illinois.

Huguenot blood grafted on New Jersey stock makes a Puritan money-getter. In John James Piatt the French blood proves too much for the Jersey traits, and he makes good poetry instead of bad money. He afciiended various schools, the most beneficial, it :might be said, being the printing office of his uncle, Charles Scott, for many years the publisher of the leading Whig newspaper there, "The Ohio Stato Journal. Later he entered Eenyon aollege, but did not graduate. Leaving the college with "little Latin and less

Greek" in 1853, he began to write verses. He rapidly roso to be an editor and handled the magic "we" with the dexterity of an old master. In his uncle's printing office, where both were employed, he made the acqu&intance and won the life-long friendship of W. D. Howells, who writes such pleasing though bloodless and eventless novels. The two published, in 1860, a volume of poems entitled "Poems of Two Friends." It quite surprised the critics by its refined simplicity. Longfellow said it was the first poetical prodact of the west that escaped scarlet fever.

JOHN JAMBS PIATT.

Mr. Piatt drifted to The Louisville Journal, then edited by George D. Prentice, who took a great fancy to the young poet, and said of him that he was the most original and purest American of the many then engaged "in making two words jinglo at the end of an idea." Certainly the author of "The Pioneer Chimney," "The Mowers of Ohio," "Going to Vote," and other touchingly original poetry has justified all that Longfellow, Lowell and Pren tice said of him.

Prentice had a corps of talented and beautiful girls writing poetry for The Journal. Ho gave them much praise, but little money, as editors are wopt to do, especially if the editors are proprietors and publishers. Among them was a lovely little Kentucky girl named Sarah M. Bryan. Piatt fell in love with her poetry and then with her. When he saw her, after a pilgrimaga to tho hills of Kentucky, made to that end and no other, he found her as pleasing as her poetry. Ho wooed and won her, and since then the two have charmed us all with song.

Mr. Piatt has published several volumes of poems here and in London and Edinburgh, and has now in press at Dublin a small volume entitled "At the Holy Well." He and Mrs. Piatt together have published two volumes. He is also author of a small volume of proso entitled "Penciled Fly-leaves," and has edited, vdMi a biographical sketch, the poems of his old friend, George D. Prentice. His poetry has met with great favor both at home and abroad, and some of it has been translated into German. Some of his war poems are as strong and fine as anything in our literature. Withal, he is that most noble product of our beloved country, a gentleman— courteous, considerate and modest.

Mr. Piatt is our consul at Cork, Ireland, and has his office and residence at Queenstown. Ho is a faithful, painstaking official, and is justly retained by tho administration. It would bo real civil service reform to promote him. VVhilo gaining a trustworthy agent, the government would at the same time recognize literary merit.

The wife of John James Piatt, whose maiden name was Sarah Morgan Bryan, was born near Lexington, Fayette count}', Ky., in August, 1836. Her grandfather, Morgan Bryan, one of the earliest settlers of Kentuckv. was voiato"! to Dan Boone. He came

from the northwest just a hundred and four y«ars ago this month, having been besieged by them for several days before the celebrated battle of the Bine Licks.

When Mrs. Piatt was but 8 years old her mother died. This affliction, with its various consequent influences, gave to her delicate and sensitive nature a tinge of sadness not easy to outgrow and still to be observed in her. She was graduated at tho Henry college, and in 1861 was married to Mr. Piatt In their case, as in that of the Brownings, the perilous experiment of the marriage of two poets has been, successful.

She has published Several volumes of poems, at the sar.io timo has contributed to our leading magazines. Several volumes of her poetry have been published abroad, simultaneously with those issued by Houghton, Mifflin & Co:, Boston, "An Irish Garland," "In Primrose Time," "The Children Out of Doors" joint volumes by her and her husband), and "A Voyago to the Fortunate Isles." Her foreign critics have been extremely generous toward her. She was a new and wholly orignal singer, tho like of whom they had not before heard. The Independent, of this city, said of her: "Of other poets, you say one writes like Tennyson, another like Longfellow but Mrs. Piatt writes like herself. At her worst she is obscure, at her best she writes poetry delightful for its music, its tender sentiment, its subtle thoughtfulness."

Lack of the Old Time Vigor. The old coal miner who allowed his wife to thrash him daily tweause "it pleased her and didn't hurt I," was once noticed by a com-

When he disappears beneath the vile green scum whero he belongs, and his warty and diseased soul goes to its black home, all hell will shudder with horror at the intrusion, and the demons will draw aside their reeking gar ments lest they be polluted by his infectious touch.—Detroit Free Press.

The Place to "Write Plainly. Banker—What a very illegible signature old Moneybags has! I had one of his checks to-day, and the name was scarcely decipherable.

Baker—I never saw his signature but once. Then it was almost plain enough for a blind man to read.

from North Carolina with Boone's party, his "station," still Bean's station, on the Kentuoky Central railroad, was one of the principal points of attack by the Indians (armed by the British), whofnvaded Kentucky HOW THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

MRS. S. M. B. PIATT.,

In her young girlhood she began to exercise her poetical ability. Some of her poems then published were widely copied and greatly praised, and were even more popular, perhaps, than her later, better and mors individual work.

She is one the most, or yet produced in America. Her circle of poetic work is not broad, but is strangely effective. She writes things that are read through tears. Sometimes obscure, she is

read. She is at her best when singing a mother's love. Her lyrics are really hymns. Herself a mother of a brood of lovely children, sickness and death have come to her household and left the harmony of angels in tho wail of sorrow.

Kr\Ttit

hen

Elys5e,

,„an\

Bd!.tb0^sh

GERTRUDE GARRISON.

Limited Instructions,

New Butler—If you are Mrs. Smith the misses is out, but if you are Mrs. Brown please to walk in.

Lady—But I am. neither my name is Jones. New Butler—Well, if youH just Btay where you are I'll ask the misses.—Life.

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

SOCIETY IN FRANCE.

OF FRANCE ARE HOUSED.

Theodore Stanton Tells About the Palaces Inherited by the Xtepubllc From the Monarchy and Empire—The Etiquette

That Prevails in Official Circles.

[Special Correspondence.] \r

NEW YORK, Aug. 33.—The French president^ the Fmich rabinet^ ministera Mdttie other high state officials, such as the presi- I am glad to say, fo

dents of the senate and chamber of deputies, the prefect or governor of the department of the Seihe, in which Paris is situated, and the director of the Bank of France, are so well housed that they can entertain in away befitting their public station, no matter what their private fortune may be. ft

In Washington a member of the cabinet' often lives in a hotel or in some house whose rooms are so small that he would find trouble in accommodating a whist party, not,to speak of tho multitude that always responds to a public reception. About the same thing is true of the official world of London. But in Paris the situation is quite different. Tho re-

?ffltlals °f

panion to be very despondent, and he gave as face a year or so ago, because they wore pink a reason for his gloom that he "noticed the old woman's arm was failing." She could not strike as hard as she used to. In like manner the general public will regret to notice that tho vigorous abuse which one paper heaps on another is not as virulent as heretofore. For instance, here is a mild, inoffensive paragraph which a local contemporary applies to the editor of The Vicksburg Herald. He probably intended to be abusive, but the reader will notice with sorrow that the pen has lost its wonted vigor. He says of the editor:

Banker—Whore did you see it? Baker—Opposite the sum of ten dollars on subscription list.—Harper's Bazar.

Nothing Like Presence of Mind. The son of a clergyman was delivering a valedictory when, in pulling out his handkerchief, he pulled out a pack of cards. "Hello 1" he exclaimed, "I've got on my father's coat." —Durant (Miss.) News.

Solved Immediately.

"How Can I Leave Thee?" serenaded the young man under the window. The family stood it as long as possible, and then the old man let the dog out to figure on his problem. -Burlin jtoa Free Press.

public has inherited from the monarchy and 1brilliant ',™ empire a large number of palaces, some of °f ^,wbo crowd which were constructed centuries ago to be

the residence of princes of tho blood, while

Fffnchroof

lic not simply provided with a and

four walls. The same generous state fur-

nishes the houses in the completest fashion. Carpets, curtains, chairs, pictures, dishes, kitchen utensils, liveried servants, bed linen, everything, in short, except what the minister wears and eats, is given him. When he is offered a portfolio he has simply to pack his trunk, call a cab and drive to the palace of which he is henceforth the master, and when the ministry of which he is a member falls he has only to pack the same trunk, take another cab and return to his old quarters. In each ministerial department there is a special bureau charged with the business of looking

etc. It has been said, and perhaps with some truth, that one of the causes of the frequent change of ministries in France is the ease with which a minister can take up and lay down the household part of his office.

in all 1,200,000 francs. No wonder, then, that tnere is no end to social festivities, and that a man who is poor out of office can give entertainments when in office that only millionaires would undertake in private life. For instance, M. Goblet, minister of public instruction, invited several thousand people last season to a musical and dramatic entertainment where the leading singers and actors of the capital held forth, and whero the refreshments were offered on the most elaborate and bounteous scale. I have seen balls at the foreign office where they give you at supper whole bottles of champagne, which you set on your table and use as you might at your own house or in a restaurant. At the Elysge balls the buffets are besieged from 10 o'clock until daylight, and an appreciable hole must be made in M. Gravy's salary, large though it be.

The etiquette that prevails in French official circles is in many particulars very simple,

In order to go to an official ball or musical and dramatic entertainment a ticket of invitation is necessary, and it is often very hard to get one, unle you are on good terms with the American legation, or have friends in the chamber or senate. There was such a demand for tickets to M. Goblet's entertainment, which has already been mentioned, that the rather small parlors of the minister's house were so full that nine-tenth3 of the guests could neither hear nor see anything. At M. Gravy's balls you are packed as tight as in an elevated railroad car when the surface roads are on a strike.

M. Floquet, president of the chamber of deputies, is an advanced democrat. So when he was chosen by his colleagues to the high office which ho fills with signal ability, he decided to give a more popular tone to official society. Consequently, he announced through the public prints that there would be dancing at his receptions, and that uo cards of invitation would be sent out. Now there is a fine big ball room at the president's, and his wife is very rich, so that good music and good refreshments are never lacking there. No wonder, therefore, that at the third ball of the series, when the existence of this free dancing party had been bruited throughout Paris, there was such a jam that the demouiratic M. Floquet dared not venture on a fourth.

me jrmien are improving in their mm nm of dancing. They have always been fond of this graceful amusement but tho waltz, the n«wt elegant or steps, has been until lately very badly executed in all French ball rooms. The Boston, that slow, beautiful movement which characterizes the American waiters, is beginning to gam ground in France. At Pau last winter Ihe Boston was taught in the dancing schools, and at the last Elys£e ball I noticed more than one French couple indulging in the transatlantic step. The French round dancers never used to "xeverse," but would go round and round like atop until weary and bewildered, when they would rest

hava

and was in this palace that he

planned and executed the

°f the most, by some considered ol'to "S!s' ^d£?S "iginal and potent of women poets S

W„en Mil became prosidentof

never commonplace, and her sad so^p have °"°t '^^pScSTthe^'^the "IT"? official homes. JS**

and thus it happens that M. Lockroy, the

nothing tn^rfwifh^'h8'

others are of recent origin, and were builffor I JttlTL tf this or that ministerial department. Thus, the Elyat^e, where President Qrdvy lives, date^ °r from 1718, and has had as master or mistress I acfcvoly against "the Murat, Mme. de Pompadour, the great I

Napoleon, who retired here after Waterloo, SC SHT ihe consolidation and here signed his abdication Wellington Alexander I and Alexander II. Louis

HP-same

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racy

eoup d'ttot

let 011(1 the

though a little more rigorous than that of the homeliest girl I ever saw, present comWashington. A lady may go to public re-' ceptions in any kind of dress, but a gentleman will not be admitted if he has not donned a "swallow-tail" and a white neck tie. Some bucks had the doors of the Elys£e shut in their

necktios, for some reason or other. An English female esthete of the Oscar Wilde school, created no little sensation last winter at one of M. Grevy's receptions, but the ushers never dreamed of stopping her at the entrance door, because she was not in low neck and had discarded the regulation bustle. But let any man thus venture to disregard tho behests of the tyrant Fashion, and he will never be able to shake hands with the president of the French republic. The advocates of woman's rights should make a note of this concession in favor of the fair sex.

Now

for their

»wn sake. There is one class of French society that never appears at these official gatherings of the republic. I refer to the so-called nobility. Outside of the members of the diplomatic corps, who are of course required to be presant, you rarely hear announced a duke or a duchess, a count or a countess, even a baron

this country have a plethora of "titled people," many of whom have no more right to their noble name than the late Count Johannes. Some of these gentlefolk are the genuine descendants of famous old families, have education, culture and wealth, and would bo acquisitions to the often rather hum-

pres^fc.order

that

made him emperor. The priident of the

Tl,

chamber is lodged ill a wing of the Palais •i that the reP^hBourbou, and the home of the Prince i» US? T™?""f

view it

present minister of commerce and a member ,,

least exert a powerful

teach a

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....

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tc"'"dtbe

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She stood beside the telephone aod turned the little crantr. exasperation in her :one and xage in every '-yank." "Hi. there, when will you resurrect, you unresponsive knave? Will some old fossil please connect this business with the grave?

chords.

Besides giving them a urhished house, the state also, provides a decent salary for its ministers. Under the empire they used to get 100,000 francs. To-day the sum is reduced to 60,000. But this is a large salary .... when you take into account the above men- must have been some barrel man, with leak tioned perquisites. President 'xr^vy receives

'Please give me Doctor Liver Pad—Oh, Doctor, is that you? My littb* boy is feeling bad please tell me what to do. He ate cucumbers, appfss too, a most uncommon lot, and now he's turned a bilious hue, and doubled in a knot. Beside"—Just then the central flead, switched to another wire, and then the tale that intervened filled all her mind with ire.

ing cask3 to mend here's what she heard as 'r" he began upon the other end: "Hammer the head until it's tight lighten the middle band water will swell it up all right, if it is left to stand. "Apply a coat of pitch without, and when it starts to swell, you needn't have the slightest doubt but 'twill do very well." You should have seen the doctor when the wires once more ran right, and madame got her wits again and riddled him with spite. "You nasty, nasty, horrid beast: Paint Johnny up v.-ith pitch! You're either mad or tight, at least I cannot tell just which." He stood aghast and wondering said: "Well, did you ever, now? A woman is the blamedest thing that's living anyhow." —Charles M. Snyder, in New York World.

Changing the Subject.

Miss Clara—Do you not think, Mr. Featherly, that Miss Smith, whom we met last evening, is a very plain person?

Mr. Featherly—Yes, indeed, I think she

him for a time at least. While they were talking about Bishop and his "jump," a young man all prepared for the occasion eluded tbeir vigilance and jumped from the center span, at the south roadway of the bridge. He was picked up by friends in a boat who were waiting for him, rowed ashore and arrested. Lawrence Donavin, the hero of this latest jump, is a pressman. Wm. Beid, the foreman of the press room* says that Donevin's plan to jump from the bridge was definitely formed about two weeks ago, during a dispute in the office one night about the chances of escaping from it alive. Donavin finally said be was not afraid to try the jump that killed Odlnm, so abet of $500 was arranged with foreman Beid. Preparations were made at once and last night all was ready. Everybody in the Police Gazette building knew about it and was anxious to witness the jump. Donavin did not work last night. He slept in the building, however, and was aroused at 4:30 as the "night shift" went off. He was immediately dressed for the jump. A pair of heavily padded drawers were put on, the shoes were blue canvas, the soles of which were weighted with two pounds of lead. Thus attired, a light breakfast vas partaken of, and Donavin and a friend proceeded to the bridge entrance near which a wagon was in waiting. They jumped on board and were drawn to the center of the bridge, where the distance to the water is about 120 feet. •frinter and pressmen employed on

the meanwhile, who fciows but that mornmg awspapere gathered in force

the high-necked dress may finallv ret the at the Deer street dock to see the dar-

may finally get the

upper hand and relegate its rival to the bal-

A A

""dies of the demi-monde. If this

occurs in Paris the lovv-nevk cause will be lost throughout the whole world,

4for

the

French capital is still the pope of fashion. THEODORE STANTON.

A TELEPHONE MUCOLE.

pany, of course, always ex—um—that is— Yes, she is certainly a very plain person. Are you lawn tennising any this season. Miss Clara?—Harper's Bazar. .•

Economy in High Life.

There is a great deal of nonsense about the

ing ucfc and a boat was rowed out into mid stream to pick Dooavin up. As soon as the wagon was halted, Donavin alighted, leaped quickly over the rail and let hipself down to the heavy cable which supported the bridge. Donavin now looked upward again, held his head straight and his feet together and let go. Soon after being picked up he said: "I went straight down, straight as a plumb line, and did not lose my sense? at all. It seemed a long time going down—as many minutes as it probably was seconds—but I didn't turn or swerve from the straight line. I clash and protected with padding, so that no harm could come to me. When I came up to the surface, 1 was no more exhausted than that I was able to swim a hundred yards or so to the boat. I was arrested at the pier."-

V'I

.. BLAINE.

protection from foreign comit on it in a trade. It would be absurd to enlarge our free tr«ido system so as to give foreigners access to it. One' of the sins of the Democratic party consists in their willingness to expose our workingmen to the competition of men who are not today getting one half the Wbges of American labor.

Mr. Biaine then proceeded to speak of the important matters which depend on the result of the approaching ele3tion in this state. His attention having been called to the circulars distributed among the audience by the Prohibitionists, he reaffirmed the position he had

extravagance of fashionable people. LT it not previously taken in his speeches of this plain to seo that'the ladies, rut things down as week in regard to a national whisky tax. low as possible? Texas Siftings. AOnJ nrUK nrnwm

Lincoln's Recipe for Happiness. An autograph letter that I would like to own was shown mo a few days ago. "A. Lincoln" was boldly signed at the end of it, and this wisdom was there, paragraphed in this wise: "Do not worry. "Eat three square meals a day. "Say your prayers. "Think of your wife. "Be courteous to your creditors. "Keep your digestion good. "Steer clear of the biliousness. "Exercise. "Go slow and go easy. "May be there are other things that your especial case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift."—Holston in New York Times.

BROOKLYN'S BRIDGE. THE MATTOON LOTTERY.

Lawrrace Donavin, a Pressman., Grand Chief Arthur Explain* the S the Latest Leayer. k" •, He Worked for the New York Police Gazette—He is Unhurt.

T.^oii Mass., owinga jarrest

ibe town of Lowell. three days board bill. The police on duty on the bridge this morning read of Bishop's jump and were congratulating themselves upon the fact that they

woWpraba^ot'"^ "troubled 3

He closed with warm words of commennmnm&n. dation for Mr. Dingley, the candidate for re-election to Congress and for Mr. Bodwell for Governor.

BADLY BURNtD.

An Explosion of Natural Gas. On Friday afternoon Will Morgan, a miner, was badly burned at Board's coal mine east of Sandford, Ind., by an explosion of natural gas. The mine caved in last year and has not since 1oeen in operation. On Friday Morgan, began to work around the mine preparatory to starting it when the ex-plosion took place. His head, arms

e.iad

Relations of the Brotherhood to the Scheme.,

PERU, Ind., Aug. 26.—[Indianapolis

28.—Tho Brooklyn Arthur, ohirf of ..too .Brotherhood of Locomotive En-

NAW YORK, Aug, bridge police hare been on the lookout1 ... .. ., ,. ,,

,, gineers, was the city today, to adjust

the past week for Charles E. Bishop, the' ,, if possible, the differences between the I., P. & 0. engineers and the oompany.

man who announced that he would jump from a balloon over the bridge. He did not appear, however, and the last accounts of him state that he jumped

Uutil he was told by your correspondent, Mr. Arthur had not heard of the

cini_ i,-.

Nlxon

an(*

Wilbur Mit-

ten for violation of the law in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers'

lottery enterprise. Concerning that enterprise he said: "I was invited to Mattoon, 111., last winter by Division 37. 'I heard about this lottery then for the first time, at a dinner given me. I was driven'out to the farm offered as one of the prizes, by Mr. Nixon. I was shown the indorsements of prominent business men and bankers of Mattoon. If there was anything in it contrary to law I did not then and do not now understand why it should be indorsed by them. Churches and business men have these gift concerts, and the money of this one was to go to the orphans and widows of the engineers. I saw nothing wrong in it. I think the Brotherhood were to have 20 per cent, of the prooeeds. After the sales of tickets were made there were' a number of tickets left, and the managers proposed to give than to the grand officers. I told them we would have nothing to do with them. After the drawing was made I was notified, at Cleveland, to send some one to Indianapolis to receive the deed to the farm that was drawn by one of the tickets held for the benefit of grand officers. I wrote them we would have nothing to do with it and that they might make a report of the thing to the convention ami the convention might do as it pleased. As far as the grand officers are conoerned that is how the matter rests. We value our good name, and if there has been anything wrong in the conduct of this affair I do not know it, and the responsibility rests with the Mattoon division and not .with the grand officers or the Brotherhood at large. I propose that this whole business shall be fully explained to the public—how the drawing was made and who got the prizes. We don't lack for money, and we would rather that the entire sum be given to some charitable institution in Mattoon or distributed to the discontented than take it with a particle of wrong in it."

'DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE.

He is Pushing the Maine Campaign for All it is Worth.

Som8 Extracts From Yesterday's Speech at Lewiston. LKWISTON, Me., August 28.—Mr. Bitune in his campaign address yesterday advocated the policy of protection against that of free trade. Among other things, he said that we only needed to protect those products which were brought into competition with these of other nations. Numerous articles, like tea and coffee, which we could not produce in our climate, were not taxed and were placed on the free lilt This was absolute free trade, and the United States have it to a degree never known in any government since government was' known among men. England has no free trade with her colonies. They tax her products. England cannot export an article to Ganada without its being taxed at the Custom House, whereas all articles produced in any part of the United States are sent to every other part free of duty. There was more free trade in this than con Id be found in the whole continent of Europe. Therefore we combine the benefits

Three Hundred Lives Lost.

ATHENS, August 28.—Greece has again been visited by an earthquake which has been most disastrous in the Morea and in which the loss of lifi, according to the best information reaches the enormons sum of 300. The villages of Fyrgoaod Phyliatra, both situated on the western coast of the Morea, were the chief sufferers and these furnish, it is believed, all that have perished. In Pyrgo not a house is left standing, while Phyliatra is almost swept away, swallowed up in the convulsions of the earth. The shocks were experienced throughout the entire Greece in a greater or less degree. In the .town of Zante every house was damaged and the inhabitants fled in terror to the open country. Several towns in Italy were also visited by the* earthquake but not to any serious extent, Naples-, Brindise, Foggea, Caserta and Tarunto being of the number.

ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 28.—Violent shocks of earthquake have been experienced here and in other parts of Egypt, causing terror among the natives, but so far as known doing no serious damage.

PABIS," Aug. 28—A cabinet council was held today at which it is asserted Pourparlers were issued to obtein the sense of the Powers on the advisability of holding anew conference for the pur^ pose of restoring order in Bulgaria. M. Waddington, French ambassador at London, refuses to change positions with Baun De Couriel, ambassador at Berlin.

GREEK GEORGE.

A Professional Wrestler In The

The

breast were

badly burned, but it is thought that he can recover.

ft r. a •m

City.

Greek George, of Springfie/d, 111. who is notorious as a Graec/Roman and catch-as-catch-can wrestle r,is in the city on his way from Cincinnati to St. Louis. G. G. is a swarthy athlete, built from the ground up and without a twinge of rheumatism in any joint or muscle. He is anxioas to meet any local athlete and will give such a one $50 if he can not throw him four times inside of an hour. Here is a fine chance for some one witii more mnscle than money to make ti stake. G. G. can be met at the National Garden theatre or at the GAZETTE office which he has kindly consented to use as headquarters for the few days he is in the city. Any of the GAZTSCTTE'S friends who are anxious to down us can come around now and let TYS turn Greek George on them, and let 'diem catch him if they can.

Catholic University.

WASHINGTON, Aug., 30.—The Board of Trustees of the proposed Catholic university will meet in this city next month to make arrangements for building the institution or at least the theological branoh of it. It is understood that the plans have been agreed up6n by prelates and that funds are not wanting. Bishops Spalding, Keane and Ireland, who have done most of the collecting, have sent in reports which justify immediate building speculations Besides the $300,000 contributed by

Miss Caldwell, of New Yark, the treasurer is svid to have about as much more raised throughout the country since last .November/'