Warren sheaf., 1881-07-20
Personalities,

Personalities.
An exchange says that Mr.. Royal Phelps,
Of New York City, who is the father law
OF the Hon. John Lee Carroll, has pur-
chased for $4,000 thousand acres in
Maryland part of the original estate of
Charles Carroll, of Carrol]ton. The resi-
dence upon it, which is called Carroll
Hall, cost about 75,00O."
William Bennett of Denton, Ala, wanted
to marry servant girl. IF you make such
an alliance we will disinherit you," the
father wrote. The girl refuses me, and
am about to commit suicide" was the mes
sage returned by the son before killing him
self.
John Burnside, the richest man in Louis
lana, died at White Sulphur Springs, Va,
the other day, aged 80 years, leaving an es-
:ate of 100000 He was the owner of
eleven sugar plantations, He was bachel
Or, and his estate will fall to Nelson Nc
Stea, young man.
Rev. G. w. Moore got possession of an
DID church in Chicago, gathered congre-
Saton, organized a choir and appointed
himself pastor. But an income for sus-
aiming the enterprise was lacking, and the
minister obtained temporary relief by pawn
ing some s1verware which his soprano lent
him. Several Of the articles proved to be
booty from recent burglary, and he was
consequently put into jail.
Justice Stanley Mathews has frequently
been mistaken for Grant, for Garfield and
for Hayes. Gen. Grant having the fact
called to his attention, recently said: Nov
you speak Of it I can see myself there is
likeness in him to each of us, though Meth
Or OF us looks much like the other. He is
sort of link between us. :"
The Rev. Henry B. Hooker, D. D., who
was for many years the secretary of the
Home Missionary society, died recently
in Boston at the age OF seventy eight years.
He was graduated from Middlebury col
lege in 1921, and from Andover Theologi-
,al seminary in 1925. He published sever
Il volumes, and two of them, "A Plea for
the Heathen'' and Put off and Put on"
had very large SALE He was also pro-
life writer for the religious press.
Clara Louise Kellogg, says New York
:etter, will sail from Europe for home the
latter part of this month, and after spend
ing the summer in resting, she will start
out once more in the United States as a
Drsa'eG donna. Her success abroad has
been great, and she returns with the knowl-
| edge that she is appreciated IN the Old
World as well as the New. Who will be her
manager next season is yet a secret. but it
is understood that her terms will be higher
;han ever.
Baren R. Sherman, the republican can
! didate for governor of Iowa, is not a BROTH
er of General and Senator Sherman, as has
| been reported. In writing to friend in
Washington some months ago Judge Sher-
man referred to this matter as follows:
''The secretary has two brothers in this
city (Des Moines, lowa), but am not one,
| My family is the other branch which settled
on the Mohawk river in New York, while
his emigrated to Ohio. My underestimate
Of the matter is that we are all from the
same New England stock"
| Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson many Years
ago, in the days of Transcendentalism,
supplied for long time pulpit in east
Lexington, Mass. The Rev. DR.. Hedge,
who was then young preacher in Maine,
came 10 Lexington through Mr.. En- ersons
means and preached for several Sundays.
A lady Of the congregation. says the Litter
airy World. was asked how Mr. Heds 9
liked. "Oh. F." said she, "we are very simple
people and can understand nobody but MIR.
Emer son."
After Mr.. Lincoln's offer of marriage had
been declined, under date of August 16,
1887, he again wrote to Mary Owens as fol-
lows: What do wish is that our further
acquaintance shall depend on yourself If
such further acquaintance would contribute
nothing to your happiness I am sure it
would not to mine. If you feel yourself in
any degree bound to me, am now willing
to release you, provided you wish it; while
on the other hand I am willing. and even
anxious, to bind you faster, if can be con-
vinced that it will, in any considerable de-
gree, add to your happiness. This, indeed,
is the whole question with me. Nothing
| would make me more miserable than to be-
| ieve you miserable nothing more happy
than to know you were So"