Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-06-01
Personalities,

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Personalities.
Louis A. Cooley of Godey's Lady's Book
left an estate inventoried at 1921. 1854. AS
distinguished Frenchman said, LET me
publish the fashions of a nation and I
care not who loses money by publishing
its classics
Gard in the Chicago Tribune: The mar
rage notice that appeared in Sundays
Tribune of the marriage of Henry T. Fitz-
gibbon and Miss Mary Nettlebush, I. the
author, wish to state publicly that apollo
gize for my stupid joke.-Dennis McCabe."
Frederick Douglass is appointed, Recorder
of Deeds for the District Of Columbia. a
place worth $40, 200 OF ST., ZOO year, SUI
preceding Geo. A. Sheridan, an adventur
er from Louisiana.
Senator Mahone's favorite position in the
senate is mentioned by The Wusbingto ton
Star as "one Of ease if not grace" It re-
calls some chapters Of Dickens. The
doughty senator leans back in his chair,
places both feet on the top of his senator
ial desk and watches everything that goes
on.
Chang, the Chinese circus giant, is the
owner and reader of bible-in fact, Of
several bibles. He says he has read the
bible in six different languages. This is
more than some other persons have done.
Chang thinks the bible reads best in the
Chinese version, although, as he remarks,
the general idea is the same.'' He re-
CARDS the bible as intended to advance re-
igion."
General Frank Cheatham, of Tennessee.
who commanded corps in General Hoods
army during his campaign to Nashville and
who has remained stolidly silent in regard
to an effort to hold him responsible for the
failure of that campaign, has notified the
president of the Southern Historical Soci-
ETY. at Louisville that he is engaged in the
preparation of history Of that advance and
retreat from his own standpoint.
The late Mrs. Pamela E. Armstrong,
widow of Thomas Armstrong. of Baltimore,
bequeathed 81 600 each in government
bonds to the missio nary society of the
Methodist Episcopal church of New York:
the Maryland State Bible society, and the
Home of the Aged of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, of Baltimore, and $4,000 to
the Methodist preachers society, of Balti-
more.
The late w. H.. Bolton, of Memphis,
Tenn, who died Aug. l. 1870. left $4,000
to Stonwall Jackson's widow and dauehte1.
md they were paid $4,000 March l, 1872,
md SIS 600 May 10, 1880. Recently they
brought suit in chancery for the interest
accrued upon the amount after the expira-
ton of one year from the death of the tes-
tator, and Chancellor Mcdowell has Just
awarded them $4,O99.13.
Philip Wenzel, of Steinbach, Germany,
las been sentenced to death for numbering
his betrothed. Philip could not hope to
garry the girl for several years because he
had to complete his term of military service
first, and when she determined to remove
with friends to another city, the fear of
losing her and the forbodings of jealousy
caused him to take her into the garden be-,
hind the house and shoot at her until she
was dead. Many young German has
has done. Military service has always
been great burden in Germany. It has
blighted the prospects of life, and has
destroyed the happiness of many home.
DR.. Charles MacGill, an eminent ply
sician of Richmond, Va, died recently in
the seventy fifth year of his age DR.. Mac
Gill was a native Of Maryland He was
lineal descendent of Thomas jefferson.
Before the war he was resident of Hag-
erstown, Md. Upon the breaking out of
the war, the sympathies of the doctor and
his family being with the south, caused
them to be under constant surveillance, and
to suffer indignitics, resulting finally in
DR.. MacGill's arrest and confinement as
state prisoner in Fort McHenry and other
federal prisons until November, 1862, when
he was Internationally released The fol-
lowing year: during Gen. Lees invasion of
Maryland, he cast his lot with the fortunes
of the confederacy, remaining with the
southern ar1ny until Lees surrender.