Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-17
SOME PEOPLE.

SOME FEOFAE.
! BEN BUTLER took his regular trick at
the wheel when sailing in his yacht.
JUDGE J. L. RICE, prominent LAWYER
OF Keokuk, Iowa, has left by will $4,000
to Williams College.
ATHENS, Ga, has an express agent
who is a lineal descendant of the old
Welsh kings.
HERR KRUPP, the gunmaker, has
white hair and beard, high forehead
bright eyes, a strikingly Intellectual ex-
preston and commanding presence.
EX-SENATOR JAMES A. BAYARD, once
a leader in the United States senate, and
father Of the present senator, is now
badly broken down in body and mind
Miss NJ. G. CRANE, the rife shooter
of Saratoga, has had bracelet made of
dime and half dime silver pieces which
she has hit of-hand with her rifle.
MR.. HOLLOWAY, the English million
aire, has recently endowed a woman's
college with over half million pounds
sterling. 1t will be similar to the Vassar
college.
Mr.. ABE CARROLL, who was we'll
known in. Kentucky thirty years ago rs
one of Henry Clay's warmest friends,
died the other day at the Gait House in
Louisville.
HORATIO SEYMOUR walks through
the streets Of Utica with swinging gait,
with short black trousers and with heavy
soled boots. He is greatly liked there
for his good manners and disposition, but
is thought to be rather close in money
matters.
ACCORDING to the Boston Herald the
wife of Senator Cameron is one of the
bellies at Saratoga. The Herald says:
" She is young, handsome, rich, happy
and bright. Life seems full of pleasant
things to her, and she diffuses happiness
on all around her."
AT Aissingten, the German watering
place, an Englishman berated lady
whom he found in railroad car, that
he had expected to exclusively occupy,
and the quarrel became loud and violent.
The lady turned out to be the Princess
Bismarck, while the man was Sir John
Kingston James.
EVERYTHING in my life has come
too late. could not buy good food and
clothing until nay health was ruined.
Now I have the dearest wife, but can
not live to enjoy happiness" said the
late Henry Merritt, when dying, to his
young American wife, whom New York.
ers knew as Miss Anna M. Lea, the por--
trait painter.
The wife of the Rev. Mr.. McClay, of
, Yokohama, Japan, died in the native
church there On the 18th of July. She
: had presided at the organ and sang the
last hymn, "There is rest for the weary"
then she bowed her head in prayer. She
was seized with an apoplectic fit and
remained unconscious until the morning
of the following day.
Dr.. SCHLIEMk - says that in ten
years his wife has lstered nearly all of
the European Languages, committed most
OF the Homerlc poems to memory and
assists him with zeal in all his undertak-
ings. Sooner or later he thinks they
may come to America to reside perma-
nently, as his property is almost all in
Indiana.
, Mrs. THANKFUL TAYLOR is a re-
{ markable Vermont lady seventy years
old. In her younger days she thirsted
for thorough knowledge of English,
: Greek and Latin, and being poor, she
, worked for her books and then studied
, them as she stood at her spinning wheel.
. In this way she not only educated herself
, in the languages, but she learned eccle-
: siastical and profane history, medicine,
r science and general literature.
Col. BoD1NE, the cold reliable" Of
) the first American rifle team, whose final
: shot on the bulls eye gained the victory
for the United States rifemen over their
Irish competitors, has now charge of the
Jurors in Judge Gildersleeve's court, re-
ceiving 800 per month. The colonel
) has been unfortunate in business, and
, his friend and old associate on the team,
, Judge Gildersleeve, gave him an opening
in which he can earn his living.
AMONG the persons who "assisted ",,at
the funeral of the late Louis Napoleon
: was a certain General Schramm, who
served under Napoleon [. and was wound
, ed st the battle of Leipsic. The founder
of the Bonaparte family saw the young
officer then lieutenant, weeping, and
apparently dying on the field. why
do you weepW he asked, because I
am going to die without being captain"
was the answer. Napoleon made him
captain at once, in order, says the
+ chronicler, to "soothe his last moments"
The soothing turned out to be wonder
fully eficacious.
BLOWER Brown, the pedestrian, has
arrived at New York and is making
; ready for the great walking tournament
he and many others are soon to engage
, in. He resembles Rowell in many
respects. He is little taller and is also
!. stouter and heavier. He has short,
thick neck, and looks as though he could
run 1000 miles without much effort.
: He will not enter the race for the Asst
' ley belt, having promised to enter for
the O'Leary belt. Although profess
.. sional tramp" SO to speak, ne is great
favorite at home, and fashionable New
Workers take kindly to him.
THE Paris Gaulois says that the EN-
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