Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-01-25
Personal.


amounts to 1925, 600, 600.
JOHN B. Couch is lying ill at Scran-
ton, Pa, and his lecture engagements
are thrown up for the present.
The Ex-Empress Eugene was robbed,
while in Spain, of a casket of valuable
jewels, including a very costly neck
lace.
D. D. SEcoR, of the banking firm OF
Chas. Secor u Co., of Manistee, drew
a prize in the recent Louisville lottery
Of 81, $50.
The Grand Duchess de Schneider
has gone to St. Petersburg, where she
will cavort at the rate OF $1,25O per
week and expenses.
VICTORIA G. Woodruff delivered an
other of hel free.love lectures in Bos-
ton, few evenings since, and was
heartily Kissed by the audience.
A LADY in New York paid tie enor.
nous sum of $4,000 for one of the
smallest proscenium boxes at the Acad-
envy of Music, during Missions per-
Torrance there.
S1R CHARLES dixie, on visiting Paris,
the other DAY, was greatly astonished
to find the myrmidons Of the Theirs
government watching him as an ennis
sary of the Commune.
MILE. NILSSON sent note to some
obstreperous occupants of box at the
New York Academy, telling them if
they were not more quiet she should
speak to them publicly from the stage.
ANNIE LORD, the daughter of bath
ing attendant at Lynmouth, England,
recently received q medal from the
Royal Humane Society for rescuing a
lady who, last August, was swept out
to rea, and was brought insensible to
shore by her rescuer:
THEoPH11us L. HouaHToN, a veteran
printer, editor and publisher, died on
Saturday in Williamsburg. He for
merly edited the Orange County Ga
zette, and was during his career the
friend and favorite of Thurlow Wee /
and VIM. II. Seward.
THOMAS COIN, we'll known pioneer,
died in South America, Oct. %. He
was engaged IN experimenting the
construction of one Of Harry Meiggs'
railroads in Peru, but had recently CON
cluded contract to build narrow
guage road in the southern part of the
Republic. He left an estata to his wife
valued at $4,000.
The Philadelphia Star says that
John Steele, wel1-known in New. York
during the oil panic for his great OK.
travagance, is worth at present about
$50, 600 or $50, 600, and, profiting by
his former experience, knows how to
kept He occasionally visits that
city and puts up at the Glrard House
His oenchaat now is the purchasing of
diamonds.
GEN. CRAIG W. WADswoRrH, son of
the soldier who fell in the Wilderness,
died at his house in Genesseo on New
Years day. in his 30th year. The Gen
eral was, since the death of his father,
the head of one of the wealthiest and
best known families of western New
York, where in the early times his
grandfather owned q domain vaster
than q principality. The young man
served brilliantly during the wal, and
was with his father in tue Wilderness
not An hour before the rebel shot
struck him dead.
PRINCE CHARLES NAPOLEON Bona
PARTE, who resides haOitually in Rome,
at the Villa PaOlina, near the Porta Pia,
will repair to Chiselhurst about the
Goth OF this month, to take his turn of
duty in the Emperor's military house.
hold. The Prince served in Mexico
and in the late war with distinction, and
is attached to his imperial relative.
Prince Charles Napoleon will take over
to England ten very fine drawings. illus.
trativo of ancient fresco paintings in
some of the recently excavated edilices
on the Palatine, which the Emperor
has decided to present to the Kensing-
ton Museum.
BIAcQUE Beg, the Turkish Minister,
is Dean OF the Diplomatic Corps in this
country,-that il, being the Minister
longest resident here, he has, by cour.
tesy, the right to head and speak fol
the diplomats accredited, here, on &C.
casions of ceremony, etc., which are
not formal or official in character. The
absence of Madame Catacazy removes
from Madame Blacqne's path one Of
two rivals who contested with her the
palm of beauty and social attractive
ness. Madame Garcia, wife of the Ar
gentine Munster, is the only one who
disputes the title of the Greek lady tt
wear the crown. Madame Blacque'l
i'll health keeps her out of society thi.