Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-09

with aching udders. Indeed, the straw.
berry belongs to the juiciest time of the
year."
PERSONAL.
FATHER, son, and grandson were
caught stealing together at Hubbards.
ton, Vt.
THE hero of Freiligrath's poem, "The
Trumpet of GravelOtte," died in Hal
berstadt, Germany, on the 22d of May
His name was August Brinkebank.
LAURA BAKER, of Clarksburg, Ind,
was forbidden by her parents to keep an
appointment with her lover; 30 she went
out and hanged herself.
PAYMAsTER BATES, of the United
States navy, now stationed at Erie, is q
nephew of Gen. Meade, and grandson
of Benjamin Franklin.
The late General Richard Taylor has
left all his property to his three daugh.
ters, appointing the eldest, Louise
guardian of the youngest, Myrtle.
MRS. LANaTRY, the London beauty
recently appeared at fancy ball dressed
in white and with her hair hanging In
long plaits.
JUDGE GILDERsLEEvE, of New York
is not only wonderful rifeman but 8
fine bird shot. He lately killed forty.
five pigeons out of fifty at thirty yards
distance.
SPEAKER LONG, of the Massachusett.
legislature, always had q copy of Virgil
lying on his desk during long and tedious
debates, and thus completed the trans
lation he has lately published.
s. II. KING 4 Co., the publishers oi
Tennyson's works in England, receive
about $4,000 q year for permision
to use various of his poems by composer
of songs.
CHARLES WADE, the Chinaman who
was conspicuous among the Chinese party
brought to North Adams by Sampson,
the shoe manufacturer, has married an
American girl.
JAMES G. FLOOD draws e62, 500 from
the national treasury four times . year
that sum being the quarterly interest on
5000, 900 invested in per cents. 1t ID
said, moreover, that he recently has put
another five million in per cents.
Mr.. PRESTON Powers, the son of the
late sculptor, and q sculptor himself, has
received from the state of Vermont q
commission for the statue of Judge Col.
lamer, which is to be placed in the CAPT
tol at Washington.
Ex.GovFRNoR FREDERICK HoL-
BROOK, Vermont's war governor, has
been for forty years member of the
Brattleborough congregational choir, and
for the most of the time chorister, and
sings now without q tremor in his voice
MRS. MAcKAY, wife Of the bonanzs
king, now residing in Paris, contemplatet
giving dinner during the month, where
the menu will be, as usual, engraved or
silver, but in addition, with the portrait
of each guest artistically fitted in.
ME-. ALVIN CLARK, of Cambridge
the leader of the telescope makers of the
world, is now eeventy-six years old, anc
still full of energy and skilL For forty
years Mr.. Clark was . portrait painter
and earned go, 900 by his art before hs
began his telescope experiments.
MCKEE RANKIN and wife have retired
after a season of forty weeks, to theil
island at the mouth Of the st. Law
renee. Rankin has quite . stock farm
there, his speciality being the raising O
Canadian and Shetland ponies. Theil
profit on this years business came to I
triae over $26, 900.
An English clown, Billy Walton, W.
buried according to his dying wish
There was procession of the performer
in costume and paint, the band occupy
ing the gaudy circus carriage, the air be
ing "In some fair, sultry clime," etc.
and as the grave was filled his brother
clowns turned . somersault over 1t.
WILLIAM WARNER died in Spring
field, Mass, the other day, aged sixty
three years. Formerly he was q leading
speculator in Wall street and San Fran
cisco. and at two different times was .
millionaire, but he died penniless, and
since he received . stroke of paralysis
in 1877, was supported BY his relatives
4 THEY were speaking yesterday OF =.
who has been appointed to = f0reig1
mission. "He's bad egg," says tersel..
one of the interlOcutors, who had haa
frequent cause to complain Of him
ooh, but you know" ssid the Other
" t04t No II vC1y CSpSUAOs AO1
capable of anything"
i CAL1No, who halls from Paris, An,
not, a. might be supposed, from Liner
ick, spends his summers in the country
and has two electric bells at the head o
his bed. Gone Of these bells IL for ycu
servant, remarks one of his friends, "bu
what use do you make of the other
(" Oh, that leads to the dog-h0use +
notify my dog to bark If should hea
burglars In the house"
i WHHN Badaioz surrendered to tn
British during the Peninsular wal, tw'
Young Spanish ladies' besought tho pro
lection Of Capt. Smith, who commandes
fort near their residence, explaininl
that their male relatives were all In tn
army, and that they knew mot where Il
turn for aid. The handsome y0unI
English officer treated them with th'
utmost respect, and one Of them becam
his adoring wife-as fond OF him at 9
q when she Arst met him.
| PRINCs JussUPov1, the proapectv
father-in-law Of Prince Alexander Q
| Bulgaria, h cnOruoualy rich, but xathe
miserly, Il ID rid. He hAs yearly n
| come Of several millions of roublel
whole governnsnts beiong . hins an'
| his Ht. fstenbuSg houses are rich palqcs
Hooked on from the 0uta3de. n
| Cologne Gdsstts says that only ssyeI
weeks agO he was sentenced ~ ~ ~
/ tiOe Of the peace, on ae0onnt ok n0a
/ observance Of tho public rules 00nceEu
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