Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-05-04
Personal Paragraphs.

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August Belmont has twenty five racers to
come on the turf this year.
Erastus Wimen, of New York, will pre-
sent Toronto, Cam, with two baths, which
are to be built upon piers and to cost be-
tween SIS, 900 and $4,000.
General John Ross, of the English army,
was made X. G. B. three or four weeks
ago, and few days later obtained divorce
from his wife on account of her desertion
and misconduct while he was in Afghanis-
tan. 5s
Disraei has prepared his n,emairs, which
he means tointrust to his former secretary,
Lord Rawton, not to be published until ten
years after his death, when the pungent
criticism made on his contemporaries will
strike less keenly on their descendants.
Mrs. Martha Stanton, widow of Dr. Ben.
jamin Stanton, and an aunt of the late Sec
rotary Edwin M. Stanton, celebrated her
eighty -seventh birthday at her home in
Salem, Ohio, on the evening of the 18th
inst.
Christine Nilsson says of Emma Abbott:
"She deserves all the success she has, and
it is satisfaction to me to remember that
she followed my advice in her musical
studies. She showed pluck and persever-
ance where another girl would have given
up in dispair."
Bernhardt appeared in Newark, N. j.,
Thursday night ooms had been engaged
for her in the best hotel in the city, When
she saw them she was so displeased that
she returned to her palace car and there
passed the night.
During the connection of Rev. Stephen
81. Tying, Jr., with the Church of the Holy
Trinity, New York City, he raised over
ST. ,5O0,0 900 for church work, one-third of
which is invested in real estate belonging
to his church.
A rich and eccentric old Kentuckian nam
ed Lewis Hamilton, who was killed by a
fall from mis- horse the other day, is said to
have left five children, bearing the surpris-
ing names of Avenue Belle, young girl of
eighteen; China Figure, another daughter
Of fourteen; London Judge, son, aged
twenty one; Hebrew Fashion, a daughter,
aged eleven. and Southern Soil, a lad of
eight years.
Mrs. Hughes. the mother of Thomas
Hughes, though more than 50 years old,
means to cross the ocean and spend the re-
mainder of her days in her sons colony of
Rugby in Tennessee. She will bring over
her furniture, pictures and books, and ex-
poets to arrive in this country in May. Be-
fore going south she will make stay at the
house of Geo. w. Childs, at Philadelphia,
and special car will convey her thence by
easy stages to her destiny.
William 81. Augur, a Union soldier, dur
ing the war assisted three sisters who were
in great distress at their ruined home in
Virginia. At the death of the last of them
some years ago, it Was provided by will that
the estate should be kept in trTst for certain
missing heirs until 1881, and then, if they
were not found, be given to Augur. Tho
latter, who has returned to his family at
Meriden, Conn.,, has been informed that
the time has expired, and, as the missing
ones have not turned up, the estate, valued
at $780, 900 belongs to him.
When Sophie Pieroffsky was arrested in
the streets of St. Petersburg she assured
the officer with much dignity that he was
grievously mistaken as to her identity, and
at the same time begged him not to involve
q lady in any disgraceful scandal in the
street but to escort her promptly and
quietly to the nearest police station. In St.
Petersburg the story goes that on the way
to the police Office she opened negotiations
with her captor, who demanded fifty ru-
bles for her release The young lady had
unfortunately but thirty in her pocket, and
the officer would not trust her for the rest.
Mrs. Huldah Bryan, an old and esti-
mable lady of Washington, Franklin coun-
ty, Missouri, died in that place on the LIST
inst. Mrs. Bryan was q great granddaugh
ter Of Daniel Boone, granddaughter of
Bocne's son-in law, Galloway, and daughter
Of Galloway 8 SON in.law, VIM. T. Lamme.
She was born in what is now called Warren