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

A young man in Auburn, n. Y, has COM
mitted suicide because he was accused of
writing indecent anonymous letters. He
had no way to prove his innocence, and
adopted this fatal resort to convince his
friends.
Mr.. Julian Kennedy, the well known oars
man of Yale, is manager of the Edgar
Thomson steel works at Pittsburg, which
has turned out :5H tons of steel in one day.
he has given up rowing entirely.
Rev. Thomas III. Skinner, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church of Cincinnati.
will probably accept the chair of theology in
the Northwestern Theological Seminary at
Chicago
Gath Gays: 1-saw an Oregon capitalist
this evening, who told me that Henry Vii
lard had $40 Zoo, 900, derived from the sale
OF bonds lnthe two companies he controls
the Northern Pacific and the Oregon
Railroad Il Transportation company. This
is independent of any stock in the two
companies, and constitutes the largest sum
of money ON hand with any railroad man
ager of the day,
The account of the execution in Tunis
OF the fanatic who mnrderd M. Seguin saws
that when brought out to be shot he was
little more than a skeleton, having refused
all nourishment, lest there should be pork
fat in it, which would prevent him going
to heaven. He was terribly afraid he
might be beheaded, because then Moham-
med could mot hft'up his body by the hair,
1t was great consolation when he learn
ed he was to be shot, and he said Moham-
med was waIting &c receive him.
Katie Mulherns, a 15-year-old girl, is
the Grace Dazzling of Louisville, Ky. On
different occasions within the last three
years she has saved the lives of eight little
boys and girls, who had fallen into the
river, and naedal for her is very proper
~ under consideration.
Prince Leopold, Queen Victoria S young
est son, spends the greater part Of his life
attending charitable organizations and phil
,anthropic reforms His desire was to be-
,comea clergyman Of the church of Eng
land, but his mother strenuously oppos ed
1T. He has always been in delicate health.
Mn 9. Madeline Bres is the only woman
hysician practicing in Paris. She passed
q successful examination before the Paris
faculty of medicine and no one laughed on
seeing her gravely maintain her thesis
dressed in loose black robe. Nine. Bres
h0ldsthe rank of officer d,Acddemie.
Ihe divorce suite Pond VS.. Pond, which,
dHlangtthe past few days has afforded much
food for gossip for the people of Boston,
came toan end yesterday, in the defeat of
the plaintiff, Major Pond. The court re-.
viewed the evidences ia detail pointing cut
that no proof of criminal behavior had adj
vanced against Mrs. Pond, and the suit was
therefore dismissed with costs. The. fair
defendant was warmly congratulated by her
friends. while the court room rang with APP
plause and the major disappeared. Mrs.
Pond who was Miss Elizabeth Stone. al
legged that she was persuaded to marry Maj.
Pond, by Mr.and Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher.
Silas Cutler Of Burlington. Massachusetts,,
next to the oldest postmaster in the United
States, has resigned. He was appointed in
1882, and his salary has never reached $40
year. He says in letter TO thepostmaster-
81 have been postmaster here for
nearly fifty years. I am getting old and
feeble, and I wish to be relieved Of the care
OF the office, and should like, as soon as
may be, my discharge. cannot find any
one here who is disposed to take the Office
for the compensation have Aeceived. "
The Office has accordingly been discon-
inued.