Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-29
PERSONAL.


PERSONAL.
GENERAL Tom THUMB is Al yesrs old.
w. H. VANDERBILT invests $500, 900
yearly in paintings.
OsMAN PAsHA, the hero of Plevna,
looks pale and thin.
CYRUS w. FIELD is said to have made
81, 0OO, 900 by the rise in New York ele-
waited stock and bonds.
MRS. HARRIET BEEcHER STowE's son,
Charles E. Stowe, has just been ordained
to the ministry at Hartford, Conn.
All SAY, Chinaman, who for several
years has controlled Chinese labor on the
Union Pacific railroad, is a millionaire.
The Duke of Edinburgh, who is about
10 be promoted to be rear admiral, is an
excellent seaman-in every sense the
master of his ship.
Col. WALTER DWIGHT, of Bingham
ton, N. Y, left IS, 500 to give an annual
free lunch to the tiremen and journalists
of that city.
Mr.. LEWIS SWIFT, the keen.eyed
astronomer of Rochester, has had plans
made for an observatory at that city,
and expects subscriptions of 5000 to
enable him to build it.
SENATOR SARGENT's two daughters
have both studied medicine, and the
elder, having been graduated, is practis-
ing her profession at the Freedman's
hospital in Washington.
The only surviving son of the famous
Davy Crockett is Colonel Robert P.
Crockett, who is living in Texas old, in.
firm and poor. An effort is making to
procure pension for him.
Mr.. WALT WHITMAN does not see
how any man can work in place as mag
nificent as Mr.. G. w. Child's private
Office. II know / could do my work
much better with ink.blotches about me
and q litter around, and with q few
broken chairs in the ROOM"
SOUTH CAROLINA, with its two one
legged senators, is outdone by Hillsdale
county, Michigan, which has lifelong
cripple for register, a one-legged man
for treasurer, and one-armed man for
judge of probate, while the city tax col
lectOr of Hillsdale has but one arm.
A ST.. LOUIS beau and belle visiting
at Belleville, ILL.,, went out for ride
last Sunday on child's sleigh three feet
long, drawn by bay horse sixteen
hands high. Their turnout made SEN
satien, increased finally by the scholars
of Sunday.school that was dismissed
as they passed snow-balling them Sc
verely.
SECRETARY EvARTs, dressed in black
stood among the gaily be-
decked members of the diplomatic corps.
at the presidents reception the other
day. An eight-year-old boy, who had
accompanied gentleman into the room,
pointed to the secretary of state and said:
Grandpa, is that man too poor to buy
q dress?"
IT is said that Mr.. VIM. H. Wander
bilt has determined to build magni6-
cent residence corner of Fifth avenue
and Fifty-second street, New York. He
paid 5000, 900 for the ground, and will
spend 100000 for the building, ex-
elusive Of the interior decorations. The
new structure is to be a miniature of the
French Tuileries.
Two brave officers, Lieutenant Hele-
nus Dodt and Lawrence Warrington,
were placed in the same tomb 1T San
Texas, recently. Warrington
was descendant of the noted Warning
ton of Virginia, and received q medal
not long ago for gallantry in the Indian
wars Of the northwest. Both OF the
officers died suddenly from pneumonia.
JOHN G. CLARK left property worth
about $1,000, 900 when he died, in Texas
thirteen years ago. He made NO will.
and was not known to have a relative.
The state took possession of the vast
estate, and until this year no claimants
appeared; but now several real or pre-
tended heirs have commenced legal pro-
ceedingA
SAMUEL AND JAMES WILKINS OF
Groveland, Michigan, are remarkable
pair of twin brothers, looking 20 nearly
alike, though born in 1899, that they can
hardly be told apart. They married sis
ters on the same day; they always lived
on adjoining farms, and most singular OF
all, when one is taken with fever or
other prostratihg sickness, the other has
the same complaint within afew hours.
HORACE GREELEY, once called on to
advise young men who wanted to 60 over
to Europe and pay their expenses by
writing for the newspapers, said: i
never knew but one Of your class, Bay
ard TAYLOR. who achieved . real success
in thus travelling, and he left home
rood type-setter, with some knowledge
Of modern languages, 20 that he stopped
and worked at his trade whenever his
funds ran short"
Ex-Governor Fo0TE, supenntend-
ent of the mint, is annoyed because peo.
ple will insist that he is older than he
really is. "Sir," he il quoted ~ saying
the other day, Il was born in 1904, and
consequently am not seventy-eight years
Of sge. Neither am 30 in1irm in body
Is some people have represented. Why,
sir, am accustomed TO walking every
morning from Alexandria to washing
ton, about eight miles, before break
fast"
ROBERT ROBINSON, negro claiming
to be l20 years old, has just died q sum
ter, Fla. According to local tradition hs
was brought to Florida in ITS BY IN
African slave. trader and landed near st.
Augustine with number 0f other AiIi-
can slavea When nearing the shofe 10
escaped from the sessel ~ sninmings
and secreted himself Ia hollow ~,
amid the thick foliage Of : dense BWsnh
but his pursslers placed blco4keands on
his trail and he was recaptm1e le
y ~ 4. ~ a