Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-05-19

family would suffer. ssA'
ALvAH WALKER, the father Of DR..
Mary Walker, died at his home, near
Oswego, N. Y, the other day, aged
eighty-two years.
Coz. CHARLES McCARrY, U. 8. A.,
has been invited to st. Petersburg to
show the working Of his new rocket and
dynamite destructive for battle fields.
GOVERNOR McCLELLAN's hobby is
china, and his house on the top of Orange
mountain Is made attractive by choice
specimens from all parts Of the world.
MASTER FRANK GUERTIN, U. s. N,
was recently married according to the
rites of the Greek Catholic church, to
Miss Niga Kastrometeriof, Russian
lady, 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.
Ir is said that Aldrich and Parsloe
have have cleared S36, 600 on Ny Part
ner," during its season of thirty weeks.
By partnership agreernent, Aldrich gets
$22, 300, and Parsloe $13, 800 of this
amount.
Or Captain Francis Sterling, Of the
Atalanta, it Is stated that he was a near
relative Of Commodore Sterling, who set
sail with his wife and children in the
steamer City of Boston from America
for England and was never heardof more.
The three sons of z. d. Bowen, OF
Wadley, Ga, all use crutches. Their
bones are soft and brittle as to often
break from even slight "jar." The
Oldest, Sylvester, has already sustained
twenty-six fractures.
JONES, Of Texas, is said to be the
oldest member Of the house. A tall,
loose-jointed, weird-looking man, with Q
pale face, wild, flying gray hair, and
long gray beard, he is the most eccentric,
erratic genius seen in Washington fol
years.
GENERAL McCLELLAN's complexion il
somewhat pale from recent illness; his
sandy moustache and imperial are touch.
ed with silver, and his hair is IRON gray.
He is, physically, very strong. As gov
ernor Of New Jersey, he has taken specia
interest in the subject of education.
An old messmate of Capt. Stirling of
the missing British naval training ship
Atalanta says that the captain, when a
midshipman, was the fortunate captor oi
the famous Chinese commissioner, Yeh,
at the storming of Canton, in 1868. He
pulled the old gentleman back by his
pig tail as he was diving through a
window, and wore his watch a. trophy
ever after.
CAPTAIN KIRwAN, who commanded the
Irish legion in the Franco Prussian war,
and was for three years chief secretary
of the home rule confederation in Ire
land, and who has for the past three
years been connected in various ways
with the press Of Montreal and Ottawa,
is in Chicago, where he will be engaged
in the preparation Of historical worh
for a large publishing house.
LOUISA JOSEPHINE EuGENIE, Princess
royal of Sweden and Norway, and crown
princess of Denmark, is one Of the hand.
soonest princesses in Europe. She isfull
of life and spirits, and q 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 il
the owner of collection OF the purest
and largest diamonds known.
THE late Elihu s. Hunt, Of 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
$3.50 each to the Young Mems Christian
association and the Young Women'a