Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-30
PERSONAL NOTES.


SENATOR EDMoNDs is reported to have
saved $4,000 from the proceeds of his
law practice.
@. G. BALDWIN, the new president of
the Louisville and Nash lille road, is 46
years old, and is worth So, 900, 900.
The only living child of Henry Clay is
John M. Clay, who resides on a portion
of the original Ashland estate of his
father.
The late Drouyn de L'huys is said
to have been the most decorated man
In Europe He had $50 crosses-too
many to fit on the lid of his coffin.
1T is no stretch of facts, says Don
Platt, to set down Senator Vest, of
Missouri, as the best story-teller and
mimic in either branch of congress.
JOSH WARD, the once famous oarsman
and member of the Ward brothers
crew, has been elected collector of the
town OF Cornwall, N. Y.
HE Rev. Fred. Schumbach, the Evan
gelist, who is called the German Moody,
was an infidel down to 1868. He owes
his conversion to the late Gen. Albright.
MR.. PAUL HAYNE, the southern poet.
lives In rough cot of pine boards on
the Georgia railroad, where, completely
isolated from the social and artistic
world he devotes his life to literary work.
JUDGE HUNT, the new secretary of the
Navy, was for two years member of the
class OF 1S43 at Yale. He left college at
the close of his sophomore years on ac-
count OF the financial embarrassment of
his father.
HE Terre Haute Gnd.) Express as
serts that Mr.. and Mrs. Luke Carroll,
who are living IN Franklin township.
Marion county, that state, are aged re-
spectively 105 and LOG years, and are.
probably, the Oldest couple in the
United States. They are both natives of
Virginia.
FRED A. PLAIsTED, in addition to his
fame as an oarsman, will soon acquire
the reputation of being general athlete.
He has been fair pedestrian, is fancy
club-swlnger, put on the boxing gloves
with well known professionals at exhibit
tions, and, last, offciates as referee at a
Greco-Roman wrestling match.
PROFESSOR HIRsCH, of the University
OF Greifswald, Germany, fell suddenly
dead, recently, from a paralytic stroke
while delivering his usual lecture. He
had lately celebrated his jubilee or
fftieth year as professor of history at
Greifswald and was jealous worker in
the field of Prussian history.
Mrs. LINCOLN has never recovered
from the shock of the martyred presi-
dents death. In 1868, unable to live
quietly at home, she crossed the Allan
tic, and has since resided most of the
time In Europe. At present she is in
this country, having returned In Octo-
Der last, still broken in health and spirits.
The new senator from California, Mr..
Miller, is not only the president of the
Alaska Seal company-he is, also, a
model Christian. He rose at one of the
Moody meetings in Frisco, recently,
and asked prayers for himself in his en-
deavor to lead Christian life. His
family dress is sealskin to the very heels.
Mr.. CARLYLE, coming home one
night from stroll with a friend,
mounted his steps and pronounced I'M
der the stars in his deep voice this
solemn obiuration: t'Work, now while
it is called to-day, for, the night com
eth, wherein no man can work" 1t
was this deep and abiding sense of the
earnestness and seriousness of human
existence which constituted a remark
able feature of his character.
A GREAT circular panorama of the bat
tie of Gravelotte has been completed and
placed on exhibition in Berlin. It rep
resents the moment when the Prussian
corps of guards and the Saxons, having
pressed round by forced marches to the
extreme right of the French position, are
moving forward to the storming of st.
Privat. The spectator is supposed to be
standing on one Of the first of the burnt
villages shattered and burnt by German
shells, around him being charred rafters
and all the debris of war; The landscape
is true to nature in all it's details, and of
many of the combatants correct portraits
are given.