Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-22
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

THE mother of George Eliot is 90 years
old, and resides at Hobart, Tasmania.
WINNIE REAM's brother has farm in
the Indian territory, and lives with the
Indians, having squaw for a wife.
DIS. ALEXANDER, the newly-appointed
fifth auditor of the United States treas
ury, served through the war as private,
entering the service when only Is years
of age.
The widow of the late Frank Leslie
has at last come into full possession of
the property of her late husband, and
will hereafter conduct in her own name
all the periodicals which he established.
CHARLES A. DANA was working on a
salary OF S. per week when he married,
and he is now worth half a million.
There is no trick about it; all you have
to do is to marry rich; and put your
wifes money out at interest.
WILLIAM G. CHoATE, late Judge of the
United States Supreme Court for the
Southern district of New York, was, it is
said, first scholar in his class at Harvard,
and curiously enough, Addison Brown,
his successor, was the second scholar.
MRS. HARRIET LANE JOHNSON, niece
of President Buchanan, is now at Wheat
lands nursing the only boy left to her
bright boy of eleven, of whose return
to health there is but little hope. Mrs.
Joh1son's eldest son died last winter.
JOHN ADAMS and Jefferson thrived on
quarTels and died at ninety-one and
eighty-three respectively, both on the
Fourth of July, amongst the fire works.
John Quincy Adams and his father to-
gether lived 1872 years, and Charles
Francis Adams is seventy-four, making
of three lives in direct succession 256
years up to this moment.
On June 10, 1861, First Lieutenant
John t. Greble was killed at the Big
Bethel affair, and on June 10, 1881, his
son, Cadet John T. Greble, was made a
second lieutenant, standing sixth in his
class of graduates at West Point, where
his father was cadet and an assistant
professor. The elder Greble was the
first commissioned officer killed in battle
on the Union side.
JOHN REYNOLDS, wealthy resident of
LackaWanna, Pa, added to the desertion
of his wife the meanness of converting
all his property into cash, and. taking it
along. Mrs. Gladstone, the woman
with whom he eloped, was meaner still.
Although her husband was comparative
ly poor, she stole the small amount Of
money which he had saved by years of
frugahty.
TR1cKETT is six feet three inches in
height and weighs about 175 pounds.
He was the champion of Australia for
years, and he defeated the best English
scullers in 1876. His last trip to Eng
land was a disastrous one, for he was
defeated by both Ross and Hanlan. He
was not in good condition at the time,
however. Trickett lost the third finger
of his left hand several years ago in
handling beer key.
FRED ARCHER, the jockey who rode
the winner Of the Derby and the second
horse in the Grand Prix de Paris, is
little over twenty-five years old, and is
the son of a jockey. He won his first
regular race at the age of fourteen, and
at the end of 1880 he had a record of
1,430 successful mounts. He rode the
winner of the Derby in 1877, In 1880 and
in 1881. He is still able to ride at 118
pounds. He went into partnership with
Matthew Dawson last January as a
trainer
SnAs CUTLER, of Burlington, Mass,
next to the oldest postmaster in the
United States, has resigned. He was
appointed in 1882, and his salary has
never reached $40 year. He says in a
letter to the postmaster general: ct
have been postmaster here for nearly
fifty years. [ am getting old and feeble,
and I wish to be relieved OF the care of
the Office, and should like, as soon as
may be, my discharge. I cannot find
any one here who is disposed to take the
Office for the compensation I have re-
ceived." The Office has accordingly been
discontinued.
HOBART PAsHA, whose name has fig
ured so much of late in the French
journals, is, as is well known, an Eng
| lishman, son of the Earl of Bucking-
hamshire, and a descendant of John
Hampden. It is not so well known,
however, that he played prominent
part in the civil war In this country,
having, while in command of a vessel
called the Don, several times run the
blockade of ports in possession of the
rebels. He was born in 1922, and rem
dered faithful service in the English
navy, which he entered In 1886. 1t was
not until 1867 that he became connected
with the Ottoman naval service, in which
he soon became a pasha and an admiral.
Last January he was made moucnir or
marshal of the Ottoman empire. In
England, where he is now visiting, he is
known as Hon. Hobart Hampden.