Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-15
PERSONAL.
Bayard Taylor has $40, 900 insurance

Bayard Taylor has $40, 900 insurance
on his life.
Lucretia Mott is now eighty-five and
enjoys better health than for ten years.
A brother of George D. Prentice is
now a Clerk in the Navy Department.
Joaquin Miller was once Judge in
Oregon. His library consisted of q
copy of Blackstone and two six-shooters.
M. De La Matyr, just elected to Con-
gress in Indiana by Greenbackers and
Democrats, has been in the Methodist
ministry twenty-nine years.
During recent lecture at Rochester,
the Rev. Joseph Cook said that he
would never vote for man whom he
could not invite to his table.
"The original and identical witness
who obtained such renown in the
Beecher affair" is the way Bessie Tur.
ner is announced in Chicago on the bills
of ga Celebrated Case"
Lieut.. Schroeder, of the navy, il
married to Ben. Franklin's great grand.
daughter, in Washington. The young
lady's name is Wainwright. a.,d che is
granddaughter of the Bishop.
Sir William Armstrong, inventor oil
The Armstrong gun, lights his library
at Craigside, England, with an electric
current, the motive power producing il
being a waterfall fifteen hundred yards
distant.
King Humbert's son, the little Prince
Of Naples, has suffered so much by
vivid dreams since the attempt by Pas.
sanante, that quieter life with his
books and playmates, remote from cere.
monials, has been prescribed for him
Mr.. Sturgeon is credited with this
design on hubby's happiness: "When
am marrying young couples I gener.
ally tell the young lady to let her hus-
band be the head, for that is according
to Scripture and to nature but
always advise her to be the neck, and
twist him round which way she likes. II
Capt. Buchanan, of Winston, N. c.,
disliked his daughters sutton, Jerry
Sheldon, and forbade him to come to
the house. Jerry went, however, and
Immediately found himself in the old
mans grasp. After q brief combat,
Jerry threw the Captain down and held
him there. The Captain called his SER
vant-girl and told her to get q gun.
She obeyed. Then he ordered her to
shoot Jerry. Again she obeyed, and
Jerry was killed.
Mr.. George Thompson, the we'll.
known anti-slavery advocate, died at
Leeds, Eng, on the 9TH instant. Great
excitement was occasioned by his first
visit to this country in 1884. He spent
fifteen months in the United States con-
stantly delivering abolition lectures and
being frequently the object of mob vio-
lence. OF these outbreaks, the worst
was at Boston in October, 1885. He
was, in 1850, member of Parliament
for the Tower Hamlets. He came again
to America in 1859, and was again
mobbed in Fanueil Hall.
Governor Wade Hampton is SO much
better that he has written his message
of farewell to the Assembly with his
own hand. Your fattering selection
Of me-" he says, cas- Senator in the
Congress of the United States is only
one more mark of the confidence and
esteem which / have so often expert
enced at your hands, and which has
been never ceasing comfort and sup
port to me in my hour of success or
trouble. That 1 may be able in the
future to merit it as fully as I have in
the past received it, is my highest
hope"
Neal Dow having recently asserted
that Spurgeon, the famous London
preacher, used beer and spirituous
liquors very freely, Spurgeon writes as
follows to an American friend
IF Neal Dow knew the truth, he
would not make such charges against
me. My manner of life is before the
world. Ask them that know me.
Whatever faults may have, 1 have been
preserved at all times from excess, and
1 have given no ground for any one to
accuse me of it. l use no alcoholic
drink as beverage, but am habitual
abstainer, and, as q rule, total alb
stainer. Beer, Of which Dow speaks,
l never touch and l never thought,
much less said, that could not keep
up to my work without brandy and
beer. I do no. believe these or any
stimulants are help to any man."