Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
PERSONAL.

AUSTIN DoBsoN is 40 wears old and
government clerk In London.
Mrs, ANNA S. STEPHENS, the novelist,
has just celebrated her 10th birthday,
Ralph WALDO EMERSON keeps cows.
aud sells milk to citizens of Concord,
Mass.
DANIEL MCFARLAND, OF the NcFar-
land-Richardson tragedy, Is a penniless
patient in a Lesdville hospital.
A WEALTHY Indiana faamernarled Dam
lei Swygart has starved himself to death
under the hatlucinatioaa that If he ate has
family would suffer.
ALvAH WALKER, the father of Dir.
Mary Walker, died st his home, near
Oswego, n. Y, the other day, aged
eighty-two years.
The richest woman in America is said
to be Mrs E. e. Green. of Bellows
Falls, VT Her estate is valued at $685.
100000
CoL- CHARLES IICCARTY, U s. A.,
has been invited to ST. Petersburg to
show the working of his new rocket and
dynamite destructive for battle fields.
GOVERNOR McC1E11sN's hobby is
mountain is made attractive by choice
specimens from all parts of the world.
MASTER FRANK CURTIN, Il. S. n,
was recently married according to the
rites of the Greek Catholic church, to
Miss Nigga Kastrome5eriof, p Russian
lady, a resident of Sitka. Alaska.
MARY BEANE deemed herself neglect
ed by her lover at Denver, and shot the
man with whom she found him playing
cards when he ought TO have been visit
ing her
TT is said that >Aldrich and Parsloe
have have cleared $50, 900 on MY Part
ner," during its season of thirty-weeks
By partnership agreement. Aldrich gets
So, SEQ, and .Parsloe S13, 500 of this
amount
OF CAPTAIN Francis Sterling, Of the
Atalanta. it is stated that he was near
relative of Conan odore Sterling, who set
sail with his wife and children in the
steamer City of Boston from America
for England andwas never heard of more
The three sons of z. d. Bowen, Of
Wadley, Ga. ali use crutches. Their
bones are soft and brittle as to often
break from even slight "iar" The
tWenty-s1x fractures.
JONES, of Texas, is said to be the
eldest member of the house. A tall
loose oSnted, weird-loo1ing man, with a
pale face, wild, flying gray hair, and
long gray beard, he Is The most eccentric,
erratic geni1s seen In Washington for
years
GENERAL -MCCLELLA&'s complexion is
somewhat pale from recent illness; his
sandy moustache and in perial are touch
ed WITH silver, and his hair is iron-gray.
He is physically, very strong. AS gov
enor of New Jersey, he has taken speeaal
interest III tie subject OF education.
The Bangor Me- Commercial saws
that n the Village Of Saltwater, that
state, Capt9J. r. Blen. dashing young
young cavalry officer of the war of 1872.
now 81 years of age, led Miss NJ. C.
johnson, sblushing BRIDE of 65, to the
altar.
Az old messmate of Capt. Stirling OF
the missing British naval training ship
Atalanta says that the captain, when a
n2idshapman. was the fortunate captor of
the famousIhinese commissioner, Yen
at the stornlEg of Canton, in 1853. He
pulled the AGld gentleman back by his
pig ts1l as de was diEng through 6
window, andFwore his watch as a trophy
ever after.
CAPTAN KRwAN, who commanded the
Irish legion in the France-Pr1lssian war.
and was forahree years achief secretary
of the home. rule confederation in Ire
land, and whe has for the past three
Years been connected In various WAYS
with the press of Montreal and Ottawa.
is in Chieago, where he VIII be engaged
In the preparation of historical work
for large publishing hou9e.
LOUISA JosRFaINE EUGENE, Princess
royal of Sweden and Norway, and crown
princess of Denmark, is ems of the hand
soonest plIacesses In Europe. She is full
of life and spirits, and model wife and
mother She has very large private
fortune. and will. by-and-bye, be one Of
the richest women In the world. She Is
the owner OF a collection of the purest
and largest diamonds known
The late Elihu S. Hunt, eof Lowell.
Mass, bequeathed $500 to the American
and Foreign Missionary society of the
Protestant Episcopal church for use in
the south and west, $500 to the american
Missionary association in New York, $500
to the ministry at large of Lowell, and
1850 each to til. Young Mems christian
association and the Young N.omen's
home of the same city
A CONDUCTOR on one of the Boston
horse~cars has been absent from a 1leigh-
boring town for over fifteen years Re-
Gently, having been granted vacation
on account of sickness, he thought he
would revisit the scenes of his yogth.
Judge OF his surprise when he WAS re-
ceived as one risen from the dead, and
informed that tablet eeenmemoEating
his memory as one of the volunteers wlzo
had fallen in the late war was about TO
to be placed in the town memorial hall.
Some Old Relics.
(Frorl the Fredonia Censor.l