Morris tribune., 1881-06-30
Personal Matters.

Mrs. Redpath, wealthy lady of Montre-
al, has given $40, 900 to endow a chair in
the Presbyterian college in that city.
Mr.. H. w. Grady writes to the Atlanta
Constitution that the profits of Mr.. Davis
on his book from the first years sales un-
doubtedly will be as much as 100000.
C. H. Bliss, who styles himself Travel
ing Elder of the church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints" is meandering through
the south after Mormon converts.
The estate of the late Rev. William
Morley Punshen is valued at $4,000. The
only legacy he left to any benevolent insti-
tuition was $3.50 to the Wesleyan Mission
airy Society.
Hon. Alex H. Stephens has been max
| ing q speech to an Augusta, Ga. hose COM
pany named in his honor. He said ne
never used spirits except as medicine land
advised them not to.
Henry w. Hook begueathed $4,000 to
Philadelphia charities, but the will has been
| delared invalid. George X. Tryon, the heir
of the estate, voluntarily pays the money to
| the institutions, declining to defeat the
wishes of the dead philanthropist.
Ex- Governor Morgan, of New York, has
bought Chessbrough farm at Broadway
and One Hundred and Seventy sight street,
which contains thirty nine acres and ex-
tends toward the North river, for $3.50,
| 600.
The Princess of Wales has been pre-
scented with two shawls by the associated
chambers of agriculture, with a memorial
urging her to adopt the use of fabrics of
home grown wool, in order thereby to as
sist the depressed state of agriculture, es-
pecially in Yorkshire.
B. NJ. McGinty, of Atlanta, Ga, owns q
pair of horses that understands everything
the driver says to them. If one of the pair
fails to do its duty the driver simply calls him
by name, stating that when it gets to the
stable punishment will be inflicted. The
animal at once shows its understanding of
the threat by trembling IN every limb, and
is frightened nearly to death when the time
arrives for the chastisement.
| The widow of Lieutenant Commander
William B. Gushing, who blew up the reb-
ell ram Albemarle, at Plymouth N. c. 1854,
has erected in Fredonia, Chautauqua coun-
ty, n. Y, handsome monument to his
memory and that Of his two brothers, who
fell in the service of the government-one
at Gettysburg and the other in an Indian
fight in Arizona.
Mrs. Harriet Lain Johnson, who is now
at Wheatlands, the former home of the late
President Bucannan, her uncle, is nursing
eleven years old, of whose restoration to
health his parents have little hope. He1
eldest son died last winter.
1t is said to be an open secret in New
York theatrical circles that Mary Anderson
played the principal part in the Greek
drama at Harvard, and currency is again
given to the report that she was not only
compelled to make desperate row before
she could induce Ham Griffin to relinquish
her property. but that she was even then
partially successful.
In recent letter from the Arkansas Hot
Springs to a friend in Texas, ex-Gov
Throckmorton wrote: Last week I had
some fever and sore throat; was confined tc
my bed for several days; yesterday I ven
tured out; I was out an hour to-day.
have improved very much indeed so far as
my rheumatism is concerned, although
think have lost at least ten pounds in
flesh. But if you could see the boiling anc
sweating enc goes through you would b.
astonished. I think I shall contine thu
boiling until I have got all the old ANNA
out and start new lease"
Nine. Helene Petit Marais, the charmin,
young actress who took the part of Ann
when the "Danicheffs" was brought out il
Paris, has lately died from cold induce
by the nightly drenching received in repre-
senting Gervaise in the LAssommoir'
The pail Of water thrown at her in thu
wash room scene was usually warm, bu
one night, through some mistake, it was ic
cold. and the young actress was so thorough
ly chilled that she was Immediately seize
with fever. 1t was while playing togethe
as the hero and heroine of the "Danicheffs
that Madame Marais and her husband frs
met and all Paris was interested in tn
courtship Of the handsome young pair an
in the pretty wedding which lately unite
them.