Morris tribune., 1881-08-25
Personal. 4

Personal. I
Mrs. McKiernan, wife of a horse dealer
in Montreal gets 100000 by the will of her
brother, Peter Donohue, who died in Cali
fornia in 1878, leaving $1.20U,0e0. a3sa
Mr., j. G. Whittier now carries worn
four -blaaed pocket knife which deserves
tender cane. 1t is the knife with which Mr..
Thackeray sharpened his pencils, and was
given to Whittier since the death of j. T.
Fields who carried it for some time,
A noticeable guest at Congress Hall, Cape
May, is Gen. q, r. Paul, Of Washington,
who is totally blind, both eyes having been
shot out While in the service of the United
States government during the late war. He
is accompanied by his wife and daughters,
whose devotion 10 him makes his life one
of comparative case and comfort.
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt is trying to
buy the land on the east Side Of Fifth ave-
nue. between Fifty first and Fifty second
streets, New York, just opposite his new
mansion. The Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum occupies the ground now, and he
has offered $500, 900 for the property. His
intenti N is, if he buys it, to remove the
building and lay out an extensive garden
ON its site. 1t is said that the officers Of
the Institution are willing to sell.
A classmate of the president said at
Williamstown prayer meeting lately.
Twenty six years ago tonight and at this
very hour, our class were on tho top of
Gray!ock to spend the night of, the Fourth
of Jsly. AS we were about to lie down for
sleep Garfield took ont his pocket testa-
nIent and said, 4 am in the habit of read
a chapter every night at this time with my
mother. Shall real aloud? All assent
ed, and when he had read he asked the old
est member of the class to pray. And thers
in the night, on the mountain top, we
prayed with him for whom we have now
assenaled,to pray" ID. .,.lr.
The late Dean Stanley said not long ago
to friend that he did not, like other men,
realize much salts faction through his senses
rs he had only one-half those allowed to
ordinary mo1tals. The conversation which
took place in the Jerusalem Chamber at
full the cedar wood sxlells!" Yes" said
the dean, $50 they tell me; but 1 cannot
smell anything" He then vent on to say
how his sense of sight was failing him, and
that his sense of hearing had also been i'm
perfect, as he could scarcely ever dis
tinguish. music from noise; he not only
had no ear for music, in the ordinary
meaning Of the phrase. but what to other
people was music gave him no satisfaction.
Gov. Farnham and two justices Of the
Vermont supreme court are soon to hear
the application of George Miles, the Barre
bank burglar, for pardon. Miles is dis
tinguished citizen of New York, who was
convicted for robbing the bank on the
night of July 6, 1875, by gagging the CASH
ier's family. He was convicted on the evil
dence of an accomplice, and Of other per-
sons, but it is now claimed that he did not
put in the evidence of on alibi, as his
lawyer advised him that he could be releas-
ed on habeas corpus. Judge Ward Hunt
however, thought the case did not call for
federal interference, and it seems as little
likely to call now for executive interfer-
ence. Almost anybody can work up an
alibi in six years. Miles escaped from
Sing Sing once without troubling the gov
ernor, when he was in for bank burglary,
and at the time of his arrest was rising
stable keeper at New York. He seems to
have had a singular misfortune for being
connected with bank robberies- all of
course by mistake.
Annie Louise Cary has returned to he-
| home in Portland, Me-, from quiet visit
to Minneapolis, MINI. After two week al
the seashore and two more in the noun
tains she will begin work again, commenc-
| ing with the two day festival at Worcester,
Mass, September 27. Miss Cary has ter
minated her operatic career.
Henry G. Won Hrlda, poverty stricken
German 81 years old, who claimed to be the
last member of an ancient noble family
which once possessed great wealth in the
Grand .Duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, hung
himself'in New York, He had long been
trying to acquire the means of recovering
his ancestral estate, which he asserted had
been wrested from his family by fraud, but
without success, and became discouraged.
Rev. James Kent Stone, D. D., who was
for years president first of Kenyon and af-
terward of rHobert college, but who now, as
a Roman Catholic priest of the Passionist
order, is known as Father Fidelis, has ar
rived in South America, whittier he was
ordered to 90 with number Of companions
in order to found at Montevido, the capital
city of Uruguay, new monastry of his
order.
Queen Victoria has invested the duchess
of Abercorn, whose husband had for many
years been the representative at the mock
court of Dublin, with the order of Victo-
ria and Albert. She had previously invested
the wife of another lord lieutenant, the
Duke Of Marlborough, with the order, which
is worn by the ladies of the royal family
and highly priced It is beautiful cameo,
engraved with the heads of the queen and
the prince consort, set in diamonds and
pearls. and surmounted by crown in dia-
monds and rubies. 1t is attached to a
white satin ribbon and worn on the left
shoulder of the evening dress.
A Georgia negro who has returned to this
country after ten years absence in Liberia,
says that the climate is very warm there,
with no difference summer and winter.
The people live mainly on fruit and root
resembling the sweet potato called casadas,
The crops are never harvested, butare taken
from the ground as they are wanted. Cof-
fee and ginger are the only money produc-
ing crops. Plews are not nsed in cultiva-
ton. The cotton plant grows to the size OF
tree and produces an annual crop of cot
ton. The narrator says that nearly all the
| negroes who have gone there from the
United States would return if they had
money to come with, but why he does not
| say.
Justice Harlan, of the United States su-
preme court, whose present residence is in
Louisville, KY, intends to make Chicago
his home.
VI tne IaSnlOn IN Wnlcn the late JOnn
Burnside. of New Orleans, bought his
handsome house in that city the st. Louis
Republican says that Mr.. Burnside went
| to a large entertainment at which he met
James Robb, who died near Cincinnati last
week. Mr.. Robb owned one of the finest
residences in New Orleans. The house
was built by him. Burnside asked Robb
what value he placed on his house. Robb
replied: "There is not an Irishman in
New Orleans rich enough to buy it. ask
| $185, 5,000." Burnside put his hand in his
pocket, drew out his check book and inn
| mediately drew his check for the amount,
and the bargain was closed. r.
| Abram s. Hewitt said .toa reporter in
| Chicago recently: "If President Garfield
shall recover, and will lay down practical
plan for ciyil-service reform, il WILDE sup
ported by the leading democrats in con-
gress. MIR. Garfield will have the greatest
opportunity that can possibly be represent
ed to u great and patriotic statesman. !
pray God that he may recover, in order
that he seize this opportunity"
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