The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 18??-1882, 1881-10-07
PERSONAL.

umeS.
Mrs. Booth, the widow of the grea
tragedian, lives in a cottage at Lon
Branch, with her son Joseph Booth
Notwithstanding her four score year
she is extremely bright and chatty
conversing freely on past and presen
topics.
Mrs. Maria Jefferson Eppssine, grand
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, visitet
the White House ON the 9th and wa
shewn over the rooms. She had will
her the silver medal voted to Jefferson
by the continental congress for his ser
vice to liberty in drafting the Declare
ton of Independence.
Governor Foster says that Genera
Garfield never had time enough to d(
his work. He never had an idle hour
The Governor visited the President Oh
the evening before he was shot, and
found him more like the old Garfield
than he had been since his nomination
as cheerful and buoyant as school
boy.
TheyBuffalo Express has found the
musical prodigy of the century in the
person Of boy nine years Of age nam.
cd George Fox, born in the backwoods
of Canada, who without musical train.
ing plays upon his violin such works
as have been made familiar to us by
Wilhelmj, Remenyi and Wieniawsli,
and this, too, without having heard
them played himself.
p. T. Barnum's religion is Of the
practical kind. He recently attended
a meeting at Bridgeport, Conn, called
for the purpose of offering prayer for
the recovery of the late President Gar
field. After supplication had been
offered, he proposed that something
should be done for the relief of the suf-
ferers by fire in Michigan, drew up a
subscription, and headed it with 800.
Constantine Arthos, the Oldest in
habitant of Crete, has died, aged 118
years. He married a rich miller's
daughter one hundred years ago. He
has fought against six of the ten Turk
ish sultans who have ruled the island,
has buried five wives, and survived
nearly all near relatives, including
eleven of his children. Last year he
faithfully served as mayor Of his
village.
Mr.. VIM. H. Vanderbilt has, it is re-
ported, offered $50, 900 for 200 acres at
Greenwich, Conn. This piece of land
commands magnificent view of the
Sound, and is known as "Field Point"
The New Haven Journal says: "a pc
culiarity of the town is, that the laud
is held at high figures. A few families
own great many acres, and there is
sort Of family pride in keeping them
and handing them down to their de-
scendants. Most of this property is
taxed at farm rates."
The Sultan is described as growing
morbid in his fears for his personal
safety. He drove out twice the other
day to mosque, and on each occasion
the route was changed at the last mo-
ment. He seems disposed to become a
hermit. He no longer invites foreign
diplomats to the palace, and audiences
are obtained with great difficulty. The
Spanish Ambassador had to wait forty
days for an interview, and General
Wallace more than month.
DR.. Quinn, of California, is one of
the few men who are ''some pumpkins"
On land as we'll as on sea. He keeps
twenty ships busy Transporting his
wheat to England. He owns $4,000
acres of rich grain land, 45,50O of
which were in wheat this season. One
continuous furrow is seventeen miles in
length.-Another fairly well-to-do far
mer is John B. Raymond, of Dakota,
who has harvested this year $50, 900
worth of wheat from farm which
year ago cost him only $4,000. West
ern folk say that Dakota promises to
exceed all other States in the quantity
of its wheat.
An English gentlemen has had con-
structed for his personal enjoyment a
novel vehicle, twelve feet by six in
size, and divided into two compart-
ments, which he calls "land yacht"
The owners sleeping-room is fitted ex-
actly like yachtsman's cabin, leaving
the fore part as saloon, in which ac-
csmmOdation is also provided for a
servant. This "land yacht" is so de-
vised that it can travel either by road
or rail, and the owner will make his
first "cruise" along the Italian coast.
Colonel Dan Murphy, of California,
is the largest individual land holder in
the world. He has 100000 acres in
one body in Mexico, 10000 in Nevada,
and $4,000 acres in California. His
Mexican land he bought two years ago
for 5000, 900 or five cents an acre. 1t
Is 60 miles long and covers beautiful
country Of hill and valley, pine timber
and meadow land. 1t comes within
IL miles Of the city of Durango, which
is to be station on the Mexican Gen.
tral. Mr.. Murphy raises wheat on his
California land, and cattle on that in
Nevada. He got IS, 900 sacks last year,
and ships 5000 head of cattle year
right along.
Lord Lorne has won distinction as a
"crack shot," and is travelling in the
Northwest with a formidable collection
of guns. The camp equipage is of the
simplest, and the Governor General, it
is said, "roughs it" with his guide, and
spends little time on his toilet of
flannel shirt and trousers and hob
nailed shoes. At Rapid City British
Colonel in perfect afternoon attire ap-
peared to read an address of welcome
to Lord Lorne. The Governor General,
in CATERS and flannel shirt, faced him
gallantly, alone on raised platform.
in full view of his admiring friends,