The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-12-30
Personal Items.

MADAME MAssENA, q Creole lady edits
the Magnolia at New Orleans.
GALUsHA A. Grow has been elected
president of railroad in Texas, and
has gone to that state to live.
POTTER PALMER, the Chicago Million
aire, is living in shanty on the edge
of the prairie.
Mrs ABRAHAM LINCOLN is living IN
| Chicago in the same house wlth her
son, Robert T. Lincoln.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS argued
case in Georgia court, week before
last, He shows wonderful vitality.
1t is stated. that Isabella, the ex-
Queen of Spain, is about to take up her
residence for the winter IL Malta.
KATE STANLEY, called the handsom-
est actress living, has sailed for
America.
GEN. FITZPATRICK contemplates VS.
it to Chill IL few weeks. Mrs. Hi
patrick is a native of that country.
CoRIsrH, Mississippi, finished an iron
Jail last week. and on the same night
three prisoners escaped frola 1T.
CARDINAL CAPALTI is announced as
the Jesuite candidate for succession to
Plus TX, to be supported sat all haz-
ards"
Mrs SARAH NORTON thinks woman
with the right of suffrage would be as
miserable as man liable to bear chill
dren.
WINE and women have been the ruin
Of DR.. Pardee, of Brooklyn, who IS
now in Jail, while his wife and family
are in deep affection
The health of DR.. Breckenridge, of
Kentucky, is steadily declining, and
there is scarcely a hope that he viii
i've to the end of the year.
DR.. CHAs MATTHEWS, the last sur
viving brother of the Rev. Father Mat
thews, the Irish apostle of temperance,
has Just died.
Miss ADDIE 81. BALLoU disciple Of
Victoria Woodruff, has brought suit
against the Terre Haute Gazette for
SO, 900 damages.
i CINcINNArI child tied Grape on the
door to see if the carriage would come
to take them out riding as it did the
family across the street.
The New York Times says A. T.
Stewart has bought Tweed's villa on
Washington Heights for something I'M
der $500, 000-doubtless a good bar
gain.
The daughter of Alfred Dyer, of
Portland, Maine; is shortly to be mar
ried to a son of Hiram Powers, the
sculpture, and they viii reside in
Rome.
CYRILLE DION, who seems likely to
enjoy the billiard championship of the
United States unmolested, proposes to
open q billiard hall on Broadway, New
York.
Col G. B. LocKErr, of Georgia, is
something Of a farmer. This year he
had 5000 acres of cotton, and 5000
acres Of corn and small grains. He en-
ploys $50 negroes, and has no particu-
lar trouble with them.
JOHN CHAPMAN, editor of the Salem
Register, has risen at haif-past twelve
O'Clock every Sunday night for fifty six
years, and gone to the Office to make
up his paper.
GARRETT SMITH has hit upon plan
not quite orlginal-of compelling at
tention to his speeches in the Senate
this winter. 1t Senators fail to listen
to the first reading, he threatens to
read until 'proper respect IS shown
him.
iR. RUsKIN means more than iaie
talk in advocating the "new depart
ure'' in art. He endows an Art Masters
chair with S25, 900 and makes no re.
striction on the bequest.
PIERRE BoNAPARTE married, at Brus-
sells, on November Is, Nine. Riffton,
by whom he has two children, and has
a desire to legitimize them according
to the laws Of France.
SPIELHAGEN, the successful author of
F." Problematic Characters Through
Night to Light" and other novels, is
to lecture on Shakespeare the coming
spring in the United States.
Tue marriage of the Hon. Eugen
Hail. the young Congressman from
Maine, to Miss Chandler, daughter of
Senator Chandler, will occur in Wash
ington City on the Doth inst.
L. BERTHIAUME, of the Montreal Min
erve won the silver composing-stick
offered to the champion type-setter of
the Dominion. He set 2, 794 Gems "
in two hours.
Our in Indiana we read: 'HThe self
raking reaper has slain its thousands.
The buzz saws bloody victims may be
numbered by scores. The sorghum
mill brushes its dozens. And now a
flax mill has elded the arm of Mary
Burns, of Union City"
MIR. j. d. AsHMoRE, O man of some
prominence in the southern states, shot
himself dead on the 9Th, in Sardis,
Miss. He was native of South Caro-
lima, and a member of the Legislature
of that state for six years. In 1858 he
was Comptroller General, and held that
office for two terms
Mr.. JOHN Dixon, the founder of the
fiourshlng town of Dixon, ILL.,, is the
only survivor of twelve young men,
who, in 1909, in New York, formed the
Young Mems Bible Society, the first
society of the kind to this country. If
not in the world, to distribute tie
Bible without note or comment.
COUNT GUsTAvE Won BLUCHER, grand
nephew of Field Marshal Butcher. of
Waterloo fame, has returned to Wash
lngton from France and desires to be
relnstrated in the regular army, from
which he resigned to take part in the
Franco Prussian war.
JAMES DoUGHERTY, grav headed
wretch of Elyria, Ohio, about seventy
years old, was lately tried for rape upon
a little girl onl " nine years old. When