Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-22

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SKINCHI YANADA IL = japanese re-
porter, who came over the Bea with
Ulysses, and u now taking notes of the
Pacific coast receptions.
]. LLOYD HAIaH, Brooklyn, who is
making 800 miles of wire cable for the
Erie Canal, has already made ffty-fve
miles of it in one continuous piece.
MALLMaER, the German prima donna,
has married a man named Schimmel-
pfenning. 1t is al we'll that she retains
her maiden name for home use. n
CAPT. EDWARD DoHERTY, who COM
manded the detachment which made
John Wilkes Bootha prisoner, ID 4 street
contractor ct New Orleans. He received
a reward of $4,000 for his capture.
WHEN Bayard Taylor first came to
New York in 1848, Horace Greeley Of
fered him twelve dollars q week, with
the promise of promotion, and the
young man thought he was in great luck.
JoHN N. LAIRD, editor of the Green
vile argus, Ia Q veteran among the edi-
tors OF Pennsylvania. He has been con-
nected with newspapers, in one way or
another, for 66 years.
JAMES GOOLD, one of the oldest car.
riage.mAkers in the country, died at
Albany, Sged ninety. Goold made the
first passenger coaches used ID this coun-
try for the Mohawk and Hudson River
Railroad company. ga IL 1s,tW
BEFoRE leaving Japan, Gen. Grant
and Mrs.. Grant each planted q tree near
the T0shgu Temple, in Toxic. The Japs
have placed monumental stones BY the
side Of the trees, respectively inscribed:
I" Grants Hinohi," and "Mrs. Grants
Glyckuran." l' s. ~
TIE German emperor treats his tooops
in tho most pAternal fashion. "Good
morning, my children" he says with .
kindly smile, ashe rides past the brigades
drawn up to receive him; and al the
regiments answer Justify, "good morn
ing, your majesty" us
The princess of Wales, although she
left Denmark nearly twenty years ago.
is still as great q favorite with the Danes
as in her girlhood; they always welcome
her visits with immense enthusiasm.
The Copenhageners used to call her by
the pet name "Olestenen "-"the apple
of our eye"
CONCERNING Mrs. Elizabeth Aber-
cfombie, an old lady in Laurens county,
South Carolina, who died. a few days
ago, the Charleston Ne,rs says: "She
was one of the very few who could say,
on q given occasion, Rise, daughter, 60
to thy daughter and tell her that her
daughter hath a daughter" .
MAJOR THOREBURG, who was killed
on the 9th, by the Ute Indians, was a
younger brother of the ex-congressman
from Tennessee. He graduated at West
Point In 1868. In 1875 he was made q
paymaster with the rank of major, but
not liking the service, exchanged about
q year ago with Major Thomas, of the
Fourth infantry.
GEN. W. w. METCALFE, who served
calamity in the Confederate service dur
ing the late wal and lost all his property
during the conflict, has recently been
identified in the person of a farm.laborer
near Montgomery, Ohio. After the wal
he desired to live where no one would
know him, and he has succeeded in doing
30 until now. :
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, Jr., of Illinois,
and Robert NJ. Douglas, of North Caro-.
lima, the sons of Stephen A. Douglas,
are in New York. They have recently
come into possession Of about 5000, OOO
by the decision in their favor of a suit
in the court of claims for the recovery Of
the proceeds from a quantity of cotton
belonging to their father and c~onfiscated
in Washington county, Miss, by the
Federal troops during the war. Mr..
Douglas was a STAKEHOLDER, through hi,
first wife, and furnished the labor on
plantation owned by James McHutton
in Washington county.
DIR. J. w. Ross, of the United States
Navy, is a man who, for his brave dis
charge of a dangerous duty, which he
sought unsummoned, may well be called
q hero. Last year, although he never
had yellow fever, he volunteered fol
medical service at Holly Springs, and
after working zealously for two months,
very nearly died of the disease himself
This year he offered his services to the
National board of health and was SEM
down to Memphis, where he has beer
working in the most thorough and
etfectual way. lf7
PPoFEssoR NoRDKNsKJoLD is a man
of few words. When he got to Yoke,
hama the other day, he telegraphed hi
congratulations to the patron of his ex,
pedition, the King of Sweden; then he
sent this pithy little message to hi
proud wife: Gamma Nordenskiold,
Stockholm. All well. Adolph." Curl.
ously enough, both kilograms arrived ii
Stockholm at exactly the same hour al
they were handed in at Yokohama, the
seven hours which the transmission &C
cupied representing exactly the differ
ence Of time at the respective places
Great preparations are already beini
made in Sweden for the formal welconne
which is to be given to the explorer ane
his associates. t@f
JOHN STUART Mil, standing at hi,
desk in the India House in 1912, ha,
been pfcturesquely described by Prof
Balm, who saw him there. Mills tall
slender figure, his youthful, face and
bald head, fair hair and rudy com
plexion, and the twitching of his eye.
brow when he spoke, first arrested the
attention; then the ~vivacity of his man.
ner, his thin voice approaching to sharp.
ness, but with nothing shrill 81 painful
about It, his comedy features and sweet
expression completed the picture. HI
always, at that time, wore the same dress