The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-01-02
PERSONAL.

KING AIPRoNSo has s slight NUE.
tSche, thick whiskers, and q sO!dierly
carriage
WHEN the mother al Father Tom
Burke, who was a w&sheTwomsn, died
in Galway few days ago, the celebrated
orator insisted that he should follow the
hearse % the grave on foot.
Miss SPSAGVE, the suthor of the
" Earnest Trifier, is described Is 80.
ciety woman, very beautiful and stately,
dressing in perfect taste, and celebrated
for ''her ecoentricity, her terrible sar-
cAsm and her beauty"
ALL the noted bc2uties of the day
were present 81 the marriage Of the
IAG SA:SE %f tAs Painter MIL - He-
warrior lover. Amang them Was Mrs.
LaBgtTy, who was quite conspicuous in
q tisht-6tting costume of scarlet
SENATOR q. F. HoAR has bought the
laad ST Prinoeion, Mass, on which John
Hoar, sn ancestor, redeemed captive,
Mrs. RowlSndson, from the Indians A
baNlder, called "Rs dsmption Rock,
lies upon this land, and on this bowider
a suitable inscription has been cut
SENATOR BRCCE Of Mississippi,
dresses with scrupulous care and nioeity
On his spoiiess linen sparkle diRnond
buttons, his garments are Of the hand
soonest cloth and most fashionable cut,
his boots shine with brightness, and HE
hair is most effectively arranged.
Mr. GERRIr SMITH MILLER, who is
going t. tbs legislature fron Madison
county. New York, represents the Kew
enih gen. ration of his family in that
body. Every male head of this p&rticu.
lar Miller family since the revolution
has been an ssssmblyEan, and three
have been congressman also.
CART. WM. VANovFR, formerly =
prominent politician, for eighteen yesn
4 6oorEeeper of the Missouri legislature,
personal friend Of Thomas e. Benton,
and who built the Missouri state house 81
Jefferson City, is now an inmate of the
Scott county poor asylum, n Scottsburg,
Virginia. He is old, poor, blind and
friendless.
TRAUTE-BAUEoNSKr, the great book
hinder OF modern times, has just died in
Paris. His finest Findings in mosaic
eqnpartmsnts of colored morocco cost
run one thousand TO three thousand
francs He did the gliding himself, and
was sided in his work by two assistants
by one Of the Rolhschilds
TIE King of Sweden, in 8 yery
large minded manner, is returning souo
for evil; he hiss charged himself with
the education of the lad who recently
wrote q threatening letter to the queen
demanding money for refssining from
killing the crown prince. The youth
declared that it was want OF means to
continue lie studies which led 10 his
crime.
A EUROPEAN correspondent Of the
OaSdssi rays 1hst Mr.. Fs!coner, Gho
died last month, made 100000 by the
Peep ODsy," which ran two years NJ
the Lyceum. Up 20 that time he had
been struggling provincial actor, anG
10y emhArking his cspiIsl in redecorating
and running Drury Lsns with piece
called "Bonny Dundee, an utter fail
ure, he lost ali. Theoorrespondent adds
that "O.d Drury" efieetually cleans out
every manager who tackles her.
Mr.. JOHN RANDOLPH BRYAN, name
sake and nephew by marriage OF John
Randolph, Of Roanoke, has dislnterTed
the remains of the brilliant VIrginiAn
At Roanoke and buried them again At
Hollywood, near Richmond. The Ro-
anoke property, which had pas~ed into
other hands, lately became dismantled
by fire, and Mr.. Bryan has thought 1t
hest TO remove the long.baried dust
Mr.. Randolph educated and was very
fond of the boy Bryan, the sun OF his
intimate friend, Joseph Bryan, OF
Georyia; and the Elizabeth Coslter, the
daughter of Randolph's only sister,
whom the young man married, was
great foyorite with the Virginisn, who
used 10 speak Of her ss"ny charm ing
niece"
AT the present moment the Partisan
are talking Q good deal about q poor
lady, Nine. O'C0unell, whose salca was
fifteen years ago one of the most brilliant
II in Paris, and who is now LOGGED among
the INDECENT lunaties in the Vile Ey'
rsrd asylum, near Paris. Mime. 0COn-
nell was the dau ghter Of q chOcolsts
maker in Berlin; she had taste foI
psinting, studied at Brussels. where She
! married q handsome Irishman, Mr.
o'Connell, who passed his life in prae
ticing fencing and arranging daels
. From Brussels she came % Paris, wher'
her aie.is- and saleA were freqnented b!
the artistic and literary pcOpie of N
time. Nov that her sd fate il know
her old friends. headed BY II. de Gi.EI
Ain, are organizing . Subscription SIMON
.iyes 20 give her some Elite con
; Ter :erriSle sfsiiciion.