The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-03-05
PERSONAL.

JEAN INGELow is forty, small and gray.
THE daughter of Senator Pendleton is
an accomplished harpist.
Tom THUMB and his wife are now on
exhibition at Bowery museum in New
York; admission ten cents. How are the
mighty little folks-fallen.
The Hon. Mrs. Ronald Campbell,
whose husband was killed in the engage
ment on the hill of Kambula, will accom-
pany the Empress Eugene in her pill
grimage to Zululand,
GENERAL II. Z. LEE had pew in the
old Christ church in Alexandria, where
Washington once wOrshipped; and
every button has been taken by curiosi-
ty hunters off the cushions in that pew.
DIR. ENos Lowe, the founder of Oma-
Ia, and the gentleman who directed the
survey of the first town site, has just
died in that city. Only one of his COM
panions in that pioneer excursion now
lives.
SENATOR DoN CAMERON is slender,
well-dressed, rather quiet-looking man,
wearing reddish brown moustache, and
kindly manner with his friends. With
strangers he il described ~ being very
reserved.
The Rev. A. j. Kirk was giving salts
faction as pastor of United Brethren
Church, at Kansas City, when his use
fulness was suddenly destroyed by the
news that that he WAS fugitive bigamist
and swindler.
OLD BEN WADE never took "sass"
from anything human without 4esenting.
After his wife had zone on" for about
30 long he would get up, upset his chair,
and walk ont, and she was lucky to see
him again that day.
NAHALA SAUCER was 80 successful in
her breach-of-promise suit against Henry
Raymond at Weldron, Ind, in which she
got n verdict of ~, 900, that she has now
sued her uncle on the ground that he adj
vised Henry not to marry her.
Nix. Howard PAUL has erected beau
tiful monument to the memory of his
his wife in BromptOn cemetery, 1t bears
this inscription from Spencer: "Sleepe
after toyle, port after stormie seas; ease
after ware, death after life does greatly
please"
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. boy named w.
Il. Bates, ir., has been discovered ut
Columbus, Ind, who, it is said, wiclds
Il cornet in manner that gives promise
OF future fame as u sOlOist. Even now,
musicians claim that he il close to Levy,
Arbuckle and Emerson in the matter of
execution.
DENNIS GREEN was partione,, out of the
Massachusetts state prison in 1876. Re-
Gently he was recommitted for having
violated the conditions of his pardon,
and among his fellow convicts he finds
the two men through whom his pardon
was originally obtained-Charles p.
Stickney and S. Angler Chace.
CAPTAIN AUD, the former owner Of
Fred Douglas, died at st. Michael's, on
the eastern shore Of Maryland, few
days ago. 1t was Mr.. Douglass inten-
ton to attend the funeral, but he WAS
prevented by illness. He says of Cap
tain Aud that he was ian upright, tenn
perate, pions and conscientious man."
Mrs. GREEN is said to have $25, 0OO, 900
of the money which her father " Blub-
| ber' Robinson, made from his whaling
| ships. His vessels were all painted blue
| and known az the "Blue Line" Al
though her husband resides in New York
Mrs. Green il resident of Bellows
Falls, VT, where size devotes herself to
an invalid son.
A PARIS widow, with daughter fifteen
years old, married Paris widower with
daughter twenty years old. The rela-
tons OF the step-mother and step
daughter were extremely and unprece
dentedly cordial. When they spoke to
each other the former always said, affec-
tionately, "My elder daughter" and the
latter, d" My younger mother"
SIR EDWARD THORNTON and his two
| daughters ride on the roads about Wash
ington every pleasant day, the white
whiskered father on n handsome bay, the
young ladies' Oh two beautiful mouse
colored horses. The English girls high
hats and short blue habits are mentioned
as being of the most delicately trim
fashion, and they are remarkably grace
| full horsewOmen.