Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-05
PERSONAL.
Mrs. LANGTRY is growing stout.

GLADSTONE has donned eye glasses.
SECRETARY Of war Lincoln has little
son whose name is Abraham.
The wife of the late Senator Burnside
was Miss Mary Richmond Bishop, de-
scendant on her mothers side of Roger
Williams. She died in 1876.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Bulgaria, will
marry the heiress, Mile. Jessupoff, in
compliance with the wish of the emperor
OF Russia. Her dowry is $4,000, 900 of
rubles, Oh about $55, 100000.
w. l.. EVERETT, OF Winchester Coun-
ty, n. T., who died at Saratoga recently,
was the inventor of the machinery by
which the first Atlantic cable was laid.
For the last year of his life he was
entirely blind, caused by a paralytic
stroke.
WHEN Cardinal Newman was a Young
man at Oxford he was asked by the d.
rectors of the Times to join their staff
at SO, 900 per year, but declined TO accept
it because the directors would not let
him say what he thought.
THREE aged sisters have died in Con-
necticut within less than a month. They
were: Mrs. Russell Wooster, died at
Ansonia, September 18th, aged S.;
Mrs. Erastus Downs, died at Southbury
the week previous, aged SO, and Mrs.
Olive Tuttle, died at North Haven, Au-
gust 22d, aged 80.
The late John Brougham was well
known as wit, and his replies were al
ways on the spur of the moment. At
banquet in New York he was seated next
to Coroner Crocker. A toast was pro-
posed, and Broughman asked the coroner
what he should drink it in. "Claret,'
said the coroner s'Claret!" was the re-
ply. "That's no drink for a coroner.
There's no body In that.
Mr.. MURPHY, the thi1ty-years reporter
Of the senate, put William Pitt Fessen-
den at the head of congressional de-
baters, and says: "There was clear
ness and eveDness and ability in his
quick and rapid speeches and inter
changes that make him to me one of the
greatest characters Of the English-speak-
ing race in legislation.
Mr.. EDMUND O'DoNovAN, the plucky
correspondent Of the London Daily
News, who was recently a captive at
Merv, is on his way home, and will write
book about the Turcomans. Tt is said
the leading London publishers are bid
ding heavily against each other for the
book, and that more for it has already
been offered than Mr.. Stanley received
for How I Found Livingston.
The late General Burnside was de-
voted to his beautiful wife, who during
the war sent him daily letter. After
her death she never seemed absent from
his thoughts, and hefelt sons affection
for her aged mother. When the
senator's body was carried to Providence
it was taken into the house of Mrs.
Bishop, his nlother-in-law, that the ven
cradle lady might look once more on the
face that was always full of kindness for
her.
A South CAROLINA paper says that
the wife Of Representative Tillman, of
that state, Notwithstanding the cares of
numerous family, mounts her horse
detail OF her husbands extensive plant
the most successful managers of farm
congressional duties and business rela-
tons of Col. T1llman, he has turned the
plantation over to her.
GEN. BURNSIDE was a believer III
prayer. The Rev. Augustus Woodbury.,
of Providence, who served under him,
commented in his funeral Grafton upon
the deep religious element in the gener-
aPs character, saying: owe have had in
former days many a conversation while
in camp, beneath the stars and in early
dawn, on very high themes, and I was
instructed and helped by the clearness
of his thought and the purity of his
spirit Many time has he kneeled in
prayer beside me in our quarters before
entering to rest at night, and in later
years doubt not there have been hours
of secret silent devotion when he hum
bly, and sincerely sought the help OF
God"
BERT WILKINSON, a Colorado outlaw,
recently hanged by lynchers, had highly
respected family conn ections in Indiana.
His granduncle was Joseph A. Wright,
who was governor for several terms, then
United States senator, and afterward
minister to Berlin. His grandfather
was for many years a member Of the
Indiana legislature. His father was
cousin of the Hon. James F. Harlan, of
Iowa. Bert had for years figured as a
border barroom hero, and the murder
for which his life was taken was wan
ton, brutal and cowardly. When about
to die, however, his bravado proved
trustworthy. He adjusted the moose
himself, remarking: "Boys, TIL help
yon all [ can," and coolly kicked over
the chair on which he stood.
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