The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-21
Personal Matters.

IcISOudA IAdLLtsSs
Jay Gould is reported to have bought
General Grants Missouri farm for $75, 00O.
A correspondent writes from Nantucket
I saw Charles O'Conor or the street the
other day. He has g1own ten years young
er since he came, ard walks like a man of
thirty" .f-...; &
Mrs. Sherman says that her husband, the
general, during the th;rty-one years of their
married life has never been late for dinner
but once, and that he never stays out at,
night later than IL o'clock. F...- =
Mr. Vanderbilt has ordered from the,
French artist, Paul Lefebvre, magnificent
ceiling for his wife's own room, The de-
sign represents the departure of Might"
part OF the canvas showing beautiful fig
ure OF ''Sleep" recumbent on the rosy
clouds, while a little winged elf bends over:
to awaken her with kiss. e@
The Duke of Wellington, whose life was
for years almost daily in peril on the battle
field, was for years afraid to travel by rail
road, having conceived terror of locomo-
tive engines from seeing Mr.. Huskisson
killed by one. At length, in 1913, he made
the queen, who herself did not use them
until 1912. The injury done to tie railroad
cause by the death of H sskisson Was ina
great measure neutralized by the simultan-
eous news that Mr.. Stephenson's locomo-
tive engine carried the wounded man fifteen
miles in twenty-five minutes. To the end
of their lives some people in England never
could be brought to travel by railroad.
John Manning, Of Chatham, N c., has
accepted the professorship of law at the
University Of North Carolina, vacant by the
death of Judge Battle. Mr.. Manning has
been for more than twenty five years a law
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supreme court. He served term in con-
bilty. He has often served in the state
| legislature, and was q member Of the con-
vention of 1861.
State Senator Burton, colored, of Tort
Bend county, Texas. is estimated to be:
| worth $40 900. He Is an educated man.
| While a. slave in, Virginia he was taught
| reading and writing by his mistress She
was made very poor during the war, and he,
| showed his appreciation for her instruction,
in former days by supporting her in adver-
| sity until her death. On her daughters,
wedding day he sent her $1,000 check.
| The whole Of his property has been aquiredl
in Texas. esz
President Eliot Of Harvard college once
said that when be was called to the head of.
| that institution he was neither D. D. nor
an L. L.. d., tut that Williams College.
promptly stepped in and conferred the lat
ter degree upon him. President elect CAR
ter Of Williams was in about the same DO
sition till Union College recently gave him
the longer title.
A singular fatality seems to have overtak-
en- Keachh Female College, near Shrieve-
port, La. Three prominent professors died
in swift succession, two having committed
suicide and one being killed by a tornado.
The death Of the president, the Rev. J. e..
Tucker, from illness, is now reported.
Sarah, Bernhard, after playing for a.
fortnight at tie Gaiety Theater, London,
will 60 with MI. Meyer company to Brigh-
ton and also through Scotland and Ireland.
She will make grand tour through the
whole Of Europe, except Prussia. She de-.
clares that on no consideration will she re-
turn to the Coincide Franchise.
Silas NJ. Waite, the ex-bank president.
was taken to the county jail in Rutland, VT,
on Friday last to begin his six years term
Of imprisonment. The utlend Herald
says that he is evidently much broken in
health, and that it is the opinion Of those
best quah6ed to judge that he cannot live
TO the end Of his term, or, indeed, many
months. His sentence does not reqni1e
him to labor.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts- Bartlett
has been giving several large entertain
ments at her London house. She received
her guests the other evening at the door Of
the largest drawing room, her husband at
her side. She wore dress of pale gray
satin, trimmed with fine old lace, the bodice
cut square. She wore also the Ribbon and
Order sent to her by the SULTAN after the
war, some magnificent diamonds on her
neck and in her hair, and large lunches of
heartsease.
; A young man in Albany has the new
fashionable walk, and is thus described by
were springs nos in his feet, driving him M
and down; his head nodded from side to
side, his arms were akimbo like bow-leg-
/ ged man, and his breast protruded like that
t Of turkey cook. His pants were excessive
: " large. In one hand he carried little
: cane and in the other a glove. His face