The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-04-28
Personal (iOSSlD.

Personal GOSSIP.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is writing the
life of her father, Salmon P. Chase.
. Colonel T. A. Higginson is talked of as
a candidate for governor of Massachusetts.
Bonanza Mackey has paid $3.50, 600 for
residence in New York city.
Captain G. A. Boutelle, editor of the
Bangor Wing, who figured prominently in
tho Maine campaign last September, is
dangerously ill. His wife died few days
ago.
The Hon. George F. Comstock of SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, has just given $4,000 to the
St. Johns school at Manlius, which he had
previously befriended.
Nicholas Permemen, a highly educated
Englishman, was shot dead in hotel at
Grass Valley, CAL, by Mrs. Herman Aus
tin.
S. A. Dorsey, in}a letter denies the state
ment in some newspapers about the Repub-
lican national committee in the presidential
campaign, and gives warm praise to Chair
man Jewell for energetic and efficient
work.
w. W. Corcoran, the Washington banker
and philanthropist, has given away, during
his life, nearly $8,000,0O0 in public bene-
factions and 81, O00,0 900 in private charities,
and yet his present wealth is estimated at
over $3,000,OO0.
Governor Hawkins, of Tennessee, gave
the state commissionership of agriculture
to his brother, who appointed his son Chief
clerk, and the people are complaining of
nepotism.
Somebody told Gen. Hancock the other
day that Garfield had lost forty pounds in
weight since his Inauguration. ''That is
the first thing have heard" quickly re-
sponded the general, (which causes me to
regret that I was defeated
DR.. Henry Darling, of Albany, an
alumnus of Amherst, has been invited to
become president of Hamilton college.
He is in charge of Presbyterian church
in Albany, which gives him salary of
Sc 900; if he goes to Hamilton he must ac-
cept smaller salary.
Major James w. Pegram, who died in
Atlanta, Georgia, last week, belonged to
the famous fighting Pegram family" He
had two brothers, both of whom were in
the confederate army, and 1.-THE ten sons
of the elder Pegrams" also entered the
confederate service. Of the ten young
Pegrams five were killed in battle and one
was so severly wounded that the amputa-
ZION OF MS leg was necessary.
Old DR.. Thomas Scott, the famous COM
mentator, was tremendous worker. At
four o'clock in the morning of every alter
nate Sunday, winter as we'll as summer, he
was summoned to breakfast and then went
out to meet his congregation, about three
and-a-half miles away, probably the only
o'clock in the morning. He usually had two
or three hundred auditors, and administer
ed each time the sacrament He used to
observe that if at any time tempted to COM
plain at SO dismal walk in the depth of
winter, the sight of the newsmen equally
alert for different purpose changed his
repinings into thanksgiyings.
A physician in Tecumseh, Mich, named
Mause, has met with series of remarkable
misfortunes lately. About year ago he
was assaulted in the street, robbed and laid
on the railroad track, where train amputa-
ted one hand. At the Chicago conclave of
Knights Templar he was jostled from
platform and dislocated a shoulder; at some
horse races in October he fell by the rail-
road and was so severaly hurt on the head
by the car wheels that he barely survived
his injuries, and few nights ago he was
dangerously stabbed in the back and breast
by burglar who had entered his house,
and at whom he unsuccessfully fired three
shots.
Mrs Langtry has disappeared from the
London world at last without leaving even
a memory. The furniture in the little
house where the Prince of Wales used to
invite himself to breakfast has been sold
for the benefit Of creditors, and the mild
faced Jersey lily is said to have been put
to grievous straits to meet very ordinary ex-
penses. Her day for 800 hats and CO.'S
TUNES to match is past. Her father, late a
dean Of the English church, has fallen into
disgrace from his own weakness and the
watchfulness of his wife, and the entire
family has gone under cloud, as is apt to
be the fashion with royal favorites. The
trade no longer pays, out of Russia, even in
money, and it never paid in anything else.