The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-01-06
PERSONAL VARIETY.

Major ]. L. Mahan of the Indian Department.
has returned from the Colorado River Indian
Agency en- route to Washington. He says there
is no doubt If the death Of Victorio, the Apache
chief.
H. H. Hayden, the alleged murderer Of Mary
stannsrd is now working for a chair company in
New Haven, ct.
Miss Lisetta Reist of London, lately deceased,
left funds to be used in perpetually sprinkling
with pand Tower Street Hill In that city in order
10 keep horses from slipping.
Colonel T. W. Higginst n is building for himself
an odd kind of cottage in Cambridge, Mass after
the old colonial pattern. The outside is shingled
all over, and painted red.
Mr.. Allen Campbell, the new Comptroller Of
New York, married daughter Of Thomas Cooper
the tragedisn, another Of whose daughters be-,
came the wife OF Mr.. Robert Tyler, son OF Presi.
dent Tyler
Ex Queen Isabella Of Spain, retains high idea
Of royal obligations. When demonstrated with
lately for giving forty dollars to chance beggar
at her carriage window, she answered, "Could q
queen give lessR"
Gen. Grant gets his little 100000 In cash from a
few of his Philadelphia friends, but which would
have been more benencently applied to the
needy, sick and poor Of that virLuou9 city.
1t iq reported at Wichita Kan, on reliable au.
thOrity that Msjor Bloss Of the Oklahoma Colonist
sent per.emptory challenge TO Lieutenant
Wood at Caldwell Saturday. Capt. Parry is there
as the second Of Major BlosS and carried the mes
sage.
Some doubts having been expressed whether
the Hon. W. R. Woods, the new Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, was born In Ohio, be
writes to the Louisville Courier Journal that he
was born in Newark, Licking county, Ohio. His
father. who died last spring at the advanced age
of eighty. eight years. was q native Mason county,
KY. where he lived till after his twenty first
year.
San Francisco has lost an interesting hermit,
He was wealthy and educated German, named
George Jacob Hoefel. soured by the iaithlessnesS
Of his WIFE he retired from the world several years
ago, and lived thereafter In hut near the Golden
Gate. He ended his days In squalor and lonell.
ness.
The widow Of the late Mark Hopkins has an in
come OF q million year. and her residence, one
Of the finest on Mob Hill San Francisco, is crowd.
ed with works Of art. She is noted however for
her closeness In bargaining, and Giuseppe Carl.
bald1, the decorator, has Just sued her for dis.
puted bill Of $1,000
An astonishing beast spread terror In Heralds-
burg, CAL. by running through the streets, for he
was not recognized as Professor CANDLES hand
some snow white pony with his name and tail
sheared of, and its sides striped like a rainbow
zebra. The Professor had offended students Of
the Lltton Springs Academy.
Mr.. Frederick Arthur Law having presumed to
contract marriage with an English ward in
Chancery, without proper application to the Vice
Chancellor. and on fraudulent representations
has been committed to prison. The Court observ
ed that the young lady was entitled to consider
able fortune, and intimsted that that was Mr.
Laws induCement to marry her.
John Empey had no desire to live after the death
Of bis wife, at St. George, Utah, but he did no
wish to cheat his creditors before his debts were
paid. Therefore, he made careful calculation
by which with hard work, he could settle every
! claim in three weeks. At the end Of that time
owing nobody a dollar, he put his dead wife'
portrait to his lips and pistol to his heart.