Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-10
NOTES ABOUT NAMES.
Recently Noted In tho
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Newspapers.
Bearup & Csrraher are gss-dtters
in Grand street, near East River, NY.
Christian Angel has been arrested
At Detroit for refusing to support his
family. and Christian Whuson for
burglary.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rscoc1pense Sherry
Murphy have just celebrated their
Adams county, y.
Mr.. Kansas Nebraska Bill was mar
ried last week at Ssybrook, Conn.
Mr.. Bill was born in the time Of the
Kansas N ehraska excitement, about
1858 or 1854, when the Ksnsas-Ne-
uraska bill was every " here discussed,
aud his father. j smes A.Bill Of Lynue.
named him Kansas Nebraska. He has
a brother, Lecompton Constitution
Bill, and another, Jefferson Davis
Bill, has just been graduated at East.
man College.
Michael Sir Shepherd lives ct
Ilford, England. When his mother
was hidden, "Name this child" she
curtsied and replied: s'Michael, cir,
and Michael Sir it was. Au old Irish
song records Q parallel case, where .
dog, ans ering to tho name sDennts,
was making himself too busy at the
christening, aud had to be checked
by the mo- her with the result de-
! scribed:
{" WHATS his name ~ says che priest; down.
So Down ; D:nsis Is Bulsiuddsry they ehris.sasa
Doctor Willard Bliss is the name Of
DR.. ID. w. Bliss who attended Presi-
dent Garfield. He was 90 chrietened
after DR.. Willard, who presided at
his birth At Auburn nearly fifty years
ago.
The Rsv. Ebenezer Bholanath
Rhose has beea appointed curate Of
st. Andrews, Bethnslgreen, London.
The Rev. William Napoleon Bar
leycorn has been sent to Fernando Po
as missionary by the En4lish PIim.
tive Methedtsts.
Mr.. Arthur Wellington Waterloo
is an ex-army surgeon in England.
Mr.. Eidersley Clinton Dorlard do
Clements keeps laundry Ut Detroit.
Miss Pauline Castle Garden, aged
two aud . half, was picked up in tho
rotunda on the night Of the 4th Of
July, named by Superintendent jack
son and sest 10 the Refuge on Wards
Island.
.. Messrs. Nova Zembia and Adaman.
tine johnson are residents Of st. Louis,
Missouri.
, Mics Mary Germanic Vanderbilt
Phillips was christened on the Ger
mamie ia May last, receiving . $500
Vanderbilt standing sponsor also for
> her mothers bill at the Now York
Hospital-a rival of Miss Circassia
Wray Barrett, OF the Anchor line.
Mr.. Hieronymous Popp, Of Brigh-
ton, Mass, recently popped his knife
through the check Of au anonymous
:, fellow resident.
Master Endymion Garfield Chester
was recently christencd At Milwaukee.
Wis. Six names we're put IL . hat
and his parents drew two.
. Misses Gala aud Rose Budd are the
daughters Of Mr.. Charles Budd. of
Carthage, i'll this State.
j. Mr.. Aaron Burr Hays. the oldest
bank cashier in the world, died re-
Gently. He always signed his same
IA. b." being ashamed Of ito origi-
I, nal bearer.
Miss Mazin Grace Brooks is q resi-.
y dent Of Kansas City, No., her pious
> mother having named her 10y earl
out of the hymn.book "Maxin grace.
. how sweet the sound ~
DIR. Theodore Ledyard, of[Nev
:. York. used to be DR.. Theodore Led
= yard Smith, but obtained permission
from the court OF common pleas to
drop the last name. He gave 90 a rea-
:. son that 'sit is HE ambition aud hope
To become master of his profession,
l. and to build up and establish dis
ttnct individuality in his practice. and
}. he fears that because Of the great
}. lumber Of doctors named Smith that
:, name will hinder him in his object -
=, Mr.. Charles Oliver Brewster Brock.
way, Of Chicago. was recently al.
>. lowed TO drop the "Brockway." His
mother through gratitude 10 DR..
:, CHARLES Oliver Brewater, who had
cured her Of . painful malady, chris
o tened her child after him. The young
= ''concatensted name cannot be spoken
without great labor Of speech and
l. great use of time. nor can It be writ.
ten without uncommon knowledge
= aud skill in English literature."
The late Mr.. Lewis Hamilton, OF
(. Kentucky, left five children: Mr..
London Judge Hamilton. Master
|. Southern Soil Hamilton aud Misses
Avenue Belle. China Figure and He
o brew Fashion Hamilton.
Congressman Richard Gunther'a
}, claim to his seat has been contested
OH the ground that he changed his
IL name from Klsingunther without
Especial authorization Of law or legis.
Il lstive act. Long ago, in New York.
it was decided that q man had right
10 TO change his name to suit himself
without order of court or legislative