Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-03
PERSONAL GOSSIP.


AMONG the. treasury clerks at Wash
lngton are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
Thomas Jefferson and Robert Morris.
Samuel III. GLADSTONE, cousin of the
premier, is now In this country. He in
tends to buy up Colorado lands.
JUDGE PORTER, the newly-elected gov
ernor OF Indiana, is widower of wealth.
His only child is daughter, and one of
the prettiest girls in the Hoosier capital.
MOSES LEONARD, of Pierpont, n. Y.
now aged IS, and hale and hearty, has
been famous hunter. In thirty years
he has killed a. panthers and 1, 500 deer.
He once killed three panthers in one day.
Mr.. FL. H. WARNER, of Rochester.
has presented Professor Lewis Swift, Of
that city, with a check for $500 for the
discovery of the new comet. The gift
was made in accordance with a promise
given some time ago.
The Danville (Va.) Times tells a won
derful story about John B. Bagsdale,
who lives in that county. He is now in
his Goth year. His hair has been as
white as snow, but it is now turning
black again.
The death of the venerable Peleg
Sprague leaves Hannibal Hamlin as the
senior living representative Of Maine III
the United States senate All who had
preceded him are now dead, as well as
Nourse and Fessenden, who came after.
Mrs. PETER SKYE, widow of Peter
Skye, the Tuscarora Indian, who carried
Gen. Porter off the battlefield at Fort
Erie, In 1912, died ON the reservation in
Genesee county, n. Y, few days ago,
aged ninety-eight.
MAYOR Rose, OF Davenport, Iowa,
threw the first shovelful of earth in the
work of excavating for soldiers monu-
ment in that city. "Twenty-o ne years
ago." he said, in his address, 81 was
shovelling very near this spot for dol
lar day.
RAMON TRIsrANY, the famous Carlist
leader who has just died in Paris, was,
during his soldier-day, so fond of dis
cipline that his men gave him the name
Of "The Schoolmaster He was IA years
old when he died. Only last year he
married girl of twenty -four.
Mrs ISABELLA PIGEON, a weaver in
one Of the mills at Fall River, Mass, has
fallen heir to $4,000 by the death Of
an uncle who died in Australia, leaving
large fortune Mrs. Pigeon takes her
good fortune philosophically, and pro-
poses to go back to work in the mill until
her fortune is secured. ~
JOSEPH FIELD, who lives near Fair
View, n. j., did not marry until his
seventy fourth year. He is now eighty
eight. and has three children, boy and
two girls. He works every day on his
farm of 400 acres, directing all the de-
tails, and he carts a great part OF the
produce of his farm
THE Spanish Marshal Serrano's eldest
! son, who has lately been residing tn a
gentleman in London in order to ac-
quire the English language, has just
married Mile. Santanta, young lady
with a dowry of e250, 900; and the eldest
daughter of the marshal is about to
marry the brides brother, who has a.
similar fortune.
The Hindoo girl Toru Dutt, who died
a little while ago at % years of age had
already been recognized as the most
| promising woman of letters. She knew
Sanscrlt, and translated from it into
English; she wrote III English and
French as well as in her native tongue.
and she killed herself by mental over
work. Now what she wrote is eagerly
sought by English publishers.
HENRY HoLTENBURG had black hair
and ruddy complexion when he married
Miss Schwarz, at Nashville, Tenn. a
year ago. She supposed he was about
40, though he made no statement on that
point. The honeymoon was scarcely
over before his hair became gray, his
cheeks lost their color, and he showed at
least 60years. The fact was that he had
discontinued the use OF dye and rouge.
The angry wife wanted to sue for divorce,
but the lawyer told her that the grounds
were not sufficient. The worst she could
do was to desert him, which she lost no
time in doing.
QUEEN ANNE was fat and not very dig
nified, but she was always simple and
kind, at least until the jar came When
the poor little Duke of Gloucester died,
and Anne became childless, there is
something IL her adoption OF the title
unfortunate in her simple letters
which goes to the readers heart. A
mother of many children, but childless,
the wife OF harmless drone, separated
,, from all her natural kindred, what was
the simple soul to do but to surround
| herself with that little band of friendso
When Marlborough's only son died she
entreated to be allowed to go to them,
protesting that only those who knew the
same grief could comfort each other
In this. as in the heart of many a humble
sufferer, lay the tragedy of her life.
The Grand Duke Constantine is a
maritime Chesterfield. He has a ready
compliment for every one who APP
proaches him in society, and has a good
deal of light ehit-chat for all sorts of
persons. But in private his speech is
curt, and he deals in those expletives
without which the sailors vocabulary
would be incomplete. The grand duke
was married young to the handsomest
princess in Gernany-a blessing he
never much valued. He travels abroad
by himself, and the Grand Duchess
Constantine by herself. Const" 3ae
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