The Owosso times., 1881-10-21
Personal Notes.
President Arthur weighs 215 pounds.

PreSident Artuur Welgns 10 pounus'
President Arthur was fifty-one Octo-
ber 5.
A monument to Dean Stanley is to
be raised in Westminster Abbey.
The Hon. James Russell Lowell, the
United States Minister to England, has
gone to the Continent.
The San Franciscans are proposing
to erect monument to President Gar
field in Golden Gate Park.
Guiteau has published an autobiog-
raphy which is likely to remove all dam
ger Of his escaping the gallows.
Tive ex-governors of the ''noble old
state" of South Carolina are in Jail, one
for murder and the other for swind-
ling.
Anna Z. Dickinson is to begin her
theatrical tour on Jan. 2, as Hamlet,
following that with Claude Melnotte
and Macbeth.
1t has been decided that the monu-
ment to Gen. Burnside shall be an
equestrian statue, and that it shall be
set up in Providence.
Stephen A. Douglas, Jr, has qualified
as Master in Chancery for the Cook
County (Ill.) Court, and filed his official
bond in the sum of $4,000.
Two American Presidents have been
of Irish descent. The father of An
drew Jackson and the father of Gen.
Arthur were both born upon the Green
Isle.
Gen. Joe. johnston is a walking
lead mine. He received eleven wounds,
nearly all gunshot, in the war of the
Rebellion, and now carries several balls
"encysted" in his body.
Princess Louise, who will sail for
Canada October 20, is far from well.
She has grown thin, has lost the fresh
bloom from her cheeks, and looks older
than her years warrant.
Orson Pratt, the Mormon "Apostle"
who died last week, looked like poll
tician. He had flowing beard, ruddy
cheeks, keen eyes and deep voice, and
he spoke with the air of a man of
authority.
Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, got up early
Tuesday morning to be married, the
ceremony taking place at five o'clock
at Exeter, Me-, in order to enable the
bridal pair to drive to neighboring
town and there take the express train
for Portland and the white Mountains.
President Garfield s private secretary,
Mr.. Brown, says that the property left
by the president consists of the Wash
ingtOn home, upon which there was
mortgage, now paid off; the Mentor
estate; half interest in some Virginia
land (the whole of which he and Judge
Black took for fee) worth perhaps
81, 500; little real estate of small value
in Chicago; and some mining stock.
This is all with the exception of the
life insurance.
A pleasant little story is related Of
Governor Holiday of Virginia by the
Alexandria Gazette. One evening last
week an old colored woman on crutch-
es entered a railway car in Washing
ton. The car was crowded and the
old woman requested a colored man to
give her his seat, as it was impossible
for her to stand. The man refused.
Governor Holiday, who was in the
car, overheard the conversation, and
promptly rendered the old woman his
seat, which was accepted with thanks.
Miss Clara Hamilton, the seventeen
year-old daughter Of Governor William
7. Hamilton, of Maryland, is, the heroine
of romantic runaway marriage which
has just been discovered. The Young
lady, who is of attractive appearance,
for several months has been receiving
attentions from John Stanhope, a |
young man of twenty years of age.
This intimacy has been strongly disap-
proved by the Hamilton family, and
the lover was forbidden the mansion.
Yesterday it was learned that on Au-
gust IL they went to Penmar, a resort
on thesummit of the Blue Ridge Noun
tains, and were married on the top
most peak by the Rev. Mr.. Murray. of
Westminster. Mr.. and Mrs. Stanhope
returned to their respective families,
and no intimation of what they had
done was received until q friend of
Governor Hamilton's discovered the
marriage certificate on file in the Clerks
office. Mr.. Stanhope has made several
efforts to see his wife but without sue
cess. Young Stanhope is quite boyish
in appearance and rather good looking.
His wife has $25, 900 in her own right
and is the favorite daughter of her faith
or, who is very wealthy.