Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-03-24
PERSONAL.

'1A NOoASO. /
PERSONAL.
SENATOR SHARON; poor man, is forced
to pay $500 0 of his hard earned cash
III taxes to the government.
BLOOMFIELD Moore, the late Phila-
delphia paper-maker, left about Sc, DOC
600 for his widow.
GEORGE HILTON, the postmaster of
South P~arsonfeld, Me-, is 81 years old,
and has occupied that position since
1880.
QUEEN VIcroRIA's three warnlest
friends are Dean Stanley, the Dean of
Windsor, and Principal Tullock, editor
Of Frase,''s Magazine.
Mrs. A. A Low has the finest collec-
ton of oil paintings in Brooklyn. One
picture bought at Florence three years
ago cost her SIS, 600.
The Honorable John A. Cuthbert o
Mobile is still practicing law in tina
city, although 81 years old. He was an
officer in the war of 1872, and was
elected to congress from Georgia in
1919.
GENERAL MEL1KoFr is a man of me-
dunn height, slender figure, is active and
energetic, and possesses the courage of a
hon. In him the conspirators and assas-
sins have aroused o keen and relentless
foe.
Mr.. JOHN MICHAEL WILLIAMS, one of
the great Cornish copper-smelters, has
just died, leaving an estate of some $780,
DOC, 600, and as none of the land is en-
tailed there is a good deal of curiosity
as to the disposal Of the property.
GEN. JOHN A. McCLERNAND and l.. F.
Hamilton, during the course of a trial at
Springfield, ILL.,, gave each other the lie.
McClernand hurled an inkstand at Ham,
ilton's head and sprinkled him with its
contents. The court fined each of them
80 for their shameful conduct.
Mrs. NELLIE McAFEE has notified the
Kentucky legislature that unless it pro-
vides for the erection Of a monument to
her father, Humphrey Marshall, she will
build n herself and inscribe it with an
epitaph rejecting severely on the base
ingratitude of his state.
THE digest of cases of the California
reports has one head that reads us fol-
lows: "People vs.. All Chung, People
vs.. All Cow, People vs.. All Fong, Peo-
pie We. All Flung, People vs.. All How,
People VS.. All Ling, People vs.. All Woo,
People vs.. All Yek."
THE late NJ. Cremieux more than obey
ed the Hebrew law that q man should
give one-tenth of what hehas to the poor
He divided his income of $4,000 in
halves, keeping one himself and giving
| tho other IN tho naolx, II 90 oosI That ~
one day he received begging letters ask
ing for over 5000 francs.
IT is said that at Wilhelmj's farewell
concert in San Francisco he was pre-
scented with a box containing a gold
cup, q gold shield, on which was a
violin handsomely engraved and cnamell-
ed, and a certificate Of stock valued
at $1,000. A wreath Of laurels embel-
hshed with German color-, and a cage
with a canary bird, were also presented
to the great violinist.
Mrs. KEsIAH JOHNSON, q colored
woman, aged 112 years, died in Youngs-
town, O. February oath. She came
from Kentucky during the war, and wal
formerly a slave of H. Walker Thornton,
of Harrison county. She was born in
Caroline county, Virginia, and went to
Kentucky when sixteen. The date of
her birth was in Thornton's slave record
book and is authentic.
AARON McKENNY died in Saco, Maine,
recently, aged 102 years, one month and
sixteen days. He had always lived at
his birthplace. When 80 he attended to
his farm, which he had literally hewed
out of the wilderness, and at his last
1;rkl1ox ~voo ol~1n IN cknnI ak u~.
and shave himself. He never sued a
man, or in turn was sued, prior to his
one hundredth birthday anniversary.
On the next Christmas after their mar
rage, which was a year ago, Commodore
Garrison presented his wife with the
largest solitaire diamond Of equal purity
ever brought to this country. It il
nearly an inch square and cushion shap-
ed. A dealer in diamonds last summer
ut Saratoga said that it weighed over
thirty carats. It is worn as a pendant
attached to black velvet. The earrin GO
Mrs. Garrison wears with it, which are
also diamond s~olitaires presented by her
husband, are valued at $4,000.
Mr.. FRANCIS PARKMAN, historian, is
an erect, slender, energetic person, Sc
years old. When a student at Harvard,
and only IL years old, he determined to
write a French-American history, and
straightway began to prepare himself for
the work. He has always been greatly
troubled with failure OF sight, and has
been obliged to employ a secretary.
While at work on "The Conspiracy of
Pontiac" he was not able to endure day
light at all; and could not make the least
attempt to read or write.
C%oLL1ErTE, the fifteen-year old daugh-
ter whom Alexander Dumas has proudly
introduced in society, and her sister
Jeannine, aged II, recently expressed
themselves to o lady questioner as fol-
lows: "Whom do you wish to marry?"
asked a lady of the elder of the girls.
"I wish to marry an idiot" abe replied;
"and the trouble is, I am sure some
day or other to meet q greater idiot
than he, and perceive that I have been
too hasty in my choice" "Don't be
alarmed sister," rejoined Jeannine;
"you will never meet a greater imbecile
than the mar who will marry YOU"
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