Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-12-10
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
The lawyers of Great Britain are said to
be greatly interested in the trial of Guiteau.
Under the Scotch law the courts do not 20
into the insanity of prisoners family, but
simply consider whether he was or not in
sane when he committed the crime. IN
der the law of England, however, the courts
hear evidence going to prove hereditary in
sanity.
Our Whitelaw Reid, the distinguished
young editor OF the New York Tribune, r
rived in Vienna the other day, with his
blushing bride. The next morning, the
Zeitung of that city announced the coming
of "Mr. Raid, of the New York Herald,
whose bride, Miss Mills, brought him a
fortune of 1926, 1000, OOO." It is reasonable
to suppose that when the sensitive White
law read this personal he was mad that he
telegraphed the business manager Of the
Tribune to dock John Hay weeks wages.
Young William W. Astor is about 80 year
old. From his grandfather, William B. As
tor, he inherited about one half of the vast
property Of the family, consisting chiefly of
real estate. Its value is variously estimated
from $40,000,0 900 to s. OO, 900, 1000. Young
Astor was educated in the Now York schools,
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complete his education.
Chief Clerk Mari, of the first assistants
division, has been employed in the post
office department at Washington for more
than fifty years continuously. He was ap-
pointed to- $500 clerkship by Postmaster
General Barry on the LIST OF June, 1881, :
in President Jackson's first term. At that
time there were only s, 900 postof6ces, and
the annual revenue of the department
was less than $4,OOo,cOO per year. Now
there are As, 900 postof6ces, and the annu-
al revenue is over 1886, 100000
Captain Ericsson, the inventor of the
monitors used so successfully in the last
war, has now, in his seventy eighth year,
produced vessel which bids fair to create
even greater revolution in naval warfare
than his monitor created nineteen years
ago. The new war vessal is appropriately
named "The Destroyer" and it Yves exhib-
tied publicly for the first time in New York
harbor in the presence of distinguished
party of gentlemen.
w. s. Thompson, of Rochester, N. Y,
has just found his daughter, who has been
missing for eighteen years. During the
war, while with Sherman in Georgia, his
wife died. leaving small child. The
father could not obtain leave to come home,
and when he did return he could find no
trace Of his child. He has searched for her
ever since, and last Friday. through an old
friend, he found her in Detroit.
Mr.. Henry Clews, the New York banker,
was born in Straffordshire, Eng. His
early years were passed in his native
country, where he was educated with the
view of entering the ministry, having been
invited to become assistant of his cous-
in, who was vicar Of Wolstanton. His first
visit to America vas only pleasure trip
prior to completing his studies at Cam
bridge: He, however, became so impressed
with this country's immense extent and
boundless resources and the scope offered
for enterprise, that he at once resolved to
establish himself here.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has announced
her engagement to Mr.. T. B. Whitney, of
Philadelphia, whom she met for the first
tine abroad. The marriage will be solem-
engagement in the latter part of March, in
New York, not in Chicago as previously
stated. Miss Kellogg has sold her villa on
the Hudson and intends building q house
in New Hartford, Conn.,, but Mr. and Mrs.
Whitney will live abroad greater part of
the time.
The expected contest over the will of
Henry F. Durant of Boston, founder Ct
Wellesley College, who left an estate of ov, r
$4,000, 900. the college being residuary lek-
aztec, will not take place, the contestant, a
brother Of Durant, having acknowledged
satisfaction. By this agreement Wellesley
College is saved the expense of long and
sharp litigation, and perhaps portion of
the estate. The grounds of the contest
were that the brother was cut off with the
income of $780, 900, the principal being left
in the hands OF the widow to be used at
her discretion.