Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-23
PERSONAL.

mas resumed her occupation as weaver.
Ex-GovERNOR CoBURN, of Skowhegan.
is the richest man in Maine. He gives
large sums to schools and churches in
different parts of the state now and then
when the benevolent mood is on.
The Oldest member of the new cabinet
Is Governor kirkwook, 81, and the
youngest is Robert II. Lincoln. 37
Blaine is 81, Window IS. Hunt AZ.
James 30, MacVeagh 48. President
Garfelds age is 80.
MRS. ELIZABETH UPRIGHT, of Butler
county, Iowa, is seventy-three years of
age, and her name was last week placed
on the pension roll. The report of the
pension committee shows that she had
eleven sons in the army, all at one time.
during the war.
The Archduke Rudolf has been adding
to his other accomplishments that Of
author, having written a book on hunting
in the Carpathian mountain of which a
few copies are to be published and dis
tributed among his companions on hunt
ing excursions in these mountains.
NATHANIEL BUTLER, of Troy. has re-
ceived medal from Queen Victoria for
bravery at the battle of Cabul, in AZ
ghanistan. He was corporal and lance
sergeant i'll the British army, and after
several years services in India went
through the Afghanistan campaign. At
the close of the war he returned to his
home in Ireland, thence came to this
country, and is now employed at the
Bessemer Steel works at Troy. The
British consul at New York forwarded
the medal to the recipient.
Miss TENNIE MILLS, the young lady
whom Whitelaw Reid is to marry. is de-
scribed as being of moderate height.
plump and graceful in physique, with
clear complexion, hght-colored hair and
large, clear, beautiful eyes and change
in color with intellectual influences and
feeling. She wears gold-rimmed glasses.
The assessed personally and realty of
her father, d. 0. Mills, are now S22,-
900, 000 Miss Mills receives dowrv of
$500, 900 from her father, and many fine
and useful presents from relations and
friends.
FERNANDO WOODS last wife is still
living, but is hopelessly insane. Her
mother, Mrs. Drake Mills, was, If not
insane, at least very eccentric She was
very rich, and during the latter years of
her life lived In small room on the top
floor Of second-class hotel. She took
great delight in annoying Mr. Wood and
his wife, with whom she was not on good
terms. She had the finest diamonds in
Washington, and her victoria, drawn by
magnificent pair of banged chestnut
horses, imported from England and driv-
en- by an old coachman of Lord Napier's,
was swell affair.
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"Under her own favorite rose-tree in the
cottage lawn rests the urn that holds her
handful OF ashes. Father and daughter
sit IN the warm sunset, and their
thoughts OF the dead are mingled with
no horrors of the church-yard. They
look from the freight out into the win
ter night OF snow and sleet with no signs
for the lonely grave in which loved
form is rotting. In their beautiful home
her handiwork is seen on Intel and
hearth-stone in exquisite carving, but
under the rose tree her ashes lie In a tinv
urn, which neither moth nor rust doth
corrupt nor thieves break through and
steal. !"
A CURIOUS specimen of artist died with
L. ID. Jones, tanner, stone-mason. mar
ble-cutter, carver and sculptor, of Ohio.
In 1870 he erected the Lincoln and SOL
dlers memorial in the rotunda of the
state capitol; in 1875 took busts of Sec
rotary Chase and Reverdy johnson. and
although nearly blind and suffering from
the effects of an ill-regulated life. at
! tempted to perpetuate President HAYES
In marble last spring. Among his works
are two colossal statues of soldier for
Ohio and Indiana, two busts of Lincoln.
medallions of Webster, Washington.
Victoria and Henry Clay, colossal stat
ues IN wood of Henry Clay, Gen. Mar
ion and Cincinnati fireman, and three
figures in bronze bas-relief. for Catho-
lie church.
OF General Garfeld's mother, the fol-
lowing incident is related by one of the
newspaper correspondents on the special
train to Washington: "The old lady is a
type of the northern Ohio pioneer
mother, and has not yet forgotten the
lessons of thrift and economy taught her
in early life by necessity. In the hurry
and hustle of the morning, the porter
forgot to exting,lish the lamps In the
car, and they burned at full head long
after daylight. At last the lighted lamps
attracted the old lady's attention, when
she said to the president-elect: James,
put out those lamps. It's no use vast
ing the oil when it is doing no good
General Garfield called the porter's at
tention to the matter, and the waste of
illuminating fluid was stopped immedi-
ately.'
TO-DAY / passed on the avenue
rather medium sized man. with square
shoulders, and whose countenance was
something familiar. Looking again, /
saw it was Governor Sprague, of Rhode
Island, formerly senator and rich
householder of this city. When he was
elected to the senate of the United States
he said that he would not live under any
other persons roof here, and bought
himself large house between the bust
ness quarter and the capital, where he