Morris tribune., 1881-09-15
Personalities.

William 81. Moore is the Oldest living
undertaken in Philadelphia, and he calcu-
lates that he has buried over so, 600 people
in fifty years. He has been through more
than one cholera panic.
It is related of Daniel Webster that once
when he was to debate with Silas Wright,
a louuacious friend went over and said:
"Mr. Webster, you will have al easy victory
to- day; Mr. Wright is Grurk." Il would
have you know young man, said Mir. Web
ster, that Silas Wright, either drunk or
sober, is very hard man to encounter.
There is considerable comment at Pough-
keepsie upon the fact that Martin Vassar
has by mistake bequeathcd $4,000 to sew
en- churches in that city, or s., 600 to each
one because it is known that in the origin
al draft of the will he bequeathed 81 600
| in all, or 81, 900 each. The mistake was
| without doubt made by Mr.. Vassar in copy
ing from the rough original draft by insert
| ing the word leach" in that clause of the
document.
The supposed genuine wife of Arthur
Merritt, alias Thomas A. Marvin, alias
| General B. Arthur Morton, the wholesale
bigamist, visited her husband at Salem,
Mass, Jail on Saturday afternoon. When
she first caught sight of him she exclaimed;
"Oh, Artie, Artie, how could you do so?
against you? You know = did everything
| for YOU which you wanted me to. You
know there was nothing would not have
done for you"
Joseph Hendry, "who sounded the key
note of the loud skirl of pibrochs heard by
Jessie Brown and her beleaguered comA
panions when covering they crouched,
hourly expecting horrible death within
the confines Of Lucknow"-as the local
paper eloquently puts it's now crippled
pensioner at Arnprior, Ottawa, Canada.
Senator Ben Hill said to a representative
of the Washington Post recently, speaking
of the nourishment given to the president:
There is great deal of nourishment in the
k ,umiss which. during the last few days,
he has swallowed and retained. When l was
under treatment at Philadelphia I kept in
very good condition with koumiss as my
only food for some time tits palatable and
tastes very much like buttermilk. would
have LETT y with regret had it not been for
an excellent buttermilk ration which good
Philadelphia Democrat took pleasure In
supplying.
The Father of the House of Lords, the
Irish earl of Mount Cashel, aged eighty
niGe, is reported to be in hopelesly failing
health. He was born in 1892, succeeded
his father IN the title in 1882, and in 1856
was elected representative peer of Ireland.
He is the oldest peer in the house, as
"Father" of it by the longest tenure. But
after him there are no fewer than twenty
three peers who number eighty winters or
more.
Colonel Henry T. Titus, who died at
Titusville, Fla, a few days ago, had re-
markably adventurous career. He was born
in New Jersey, but in his youth went to
Florida, where he joined the Lopez expedi-
ton. In hard to- hand encounter at Car
denas he cleft the skull of a colonel of
lancers at asingle blow. He essayed another
landing in Cuba, but was unsuccessful. He
took an active part in the qnarrel in Kansas
in 1859, served in the confederate army
Joined the Walker expedition to Nicaragua
led a wild life in Mexico, Arizona and Colo
RADIO, and in his old age founded the flourish
| ing Florida town that bears his name.
The brothers Revs. Thomas K. and James
Beecher have clesreda a spotin the backwoods
| of Ulster County, N. Y, where they pass
| their summer vacations. The location is In
I, the mountains, near beautiful miniature
| AXE. They spend the time in boating,
fishing, grouse hunting and little farming.
Once week thay get their mail by drive
of seven miles. In reply to suggestion that
Henry Ward ought to enjoy summer here
as change from the Fishkill farm, No"
said James, she is too fond of asthetical sur
roundings for this spot. He wants too much
bric-a brac about him, which do not care
to lumber up my rooms with"