Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-28

money he had lodged with her, and
won the day, Plays are frequently
founded on real incidents, but it is
seldom that. incident, as in this case,
appear to be founded on play. y
~ 71y131 Personal Gossip. hnr :.'
The $4,000 bequeathed in 1856 to
Hartford, Conn, by John N. Niles, to be
held until it had doubled, now amounts
to $40,3 35, and the income will be used
henceforth, in accordance with the terms
Of the bequest, to furnish poor families
with fuel. To- '"'"
Jenkins; says that the marquis of
Lorne and the princess Louise, on their
trip through the United States, never
used the gas lights at the hotels, but
burned the more aristocratic candles.
MIR. Moody has good word for the
circ,is-men, but it is more on his own
account than on theirs. He says that
those who build circuses have better
idea of how to reach an audience than
those who build churches.
Mr.: EJustus HI. Rathbone, the founder
of the order of the Knights of Pythias,
is an active citizen of Detroit. He was
school teacher i'll Michigan when the
idea Of the order, which now has a
membership of about 200, occurred
to him. '.'-ue @'t
The children of Donaldson, the lost
teronaut, are at present living in Roch-
ester with Mr.. Keller, we'll known
printer. They were boarding with him
at the time of their fathers tragic death,
and since then he has cared for them as
his own. There are two of them, boy
and girl, aged respectively ten and
twelve years. ---.--...
President Arthur has lately signified his
intention of visiting Kansas some time
i'll the autumn This recalls the, fact
that when Mr.. Arthur7was young man
he went out to Kansas with the expec-
tation of settling there permanently.
The civilization, however, was too
archaic for the young Gothamite, and he
speedily returned. to- New York city.
The people of Kansas are now getting
ready to point with pride" to the
-inafked progress the state has made
since then ,a ,,"b -'G2n.s.ualgi
Il Morsan, the Mason, whose revelations
of the mysteries of Masonry were pub
lished by Colonel Miller in the Batavian
: N. W Advocate, was abducted or dis
appeared from Batavia Sept. IS, 1926, just
fifty years ago Wednesday, and yester-
day tail granite shaft, surlnounted by a
statute OF Morgan. the result of yolun-
taly contributions from two thousand
j.! people in America and Canada; was -un.
yelled in the Batavia cemetary in the
presence OF a large number of people.
An address was made by Rev. David
Nc Fall of Boston.
* The Benton family, of Scarburgh CAL,
have turned their farms into separate
kingdom. The nine members passed
formal declaration of independence
few months ago, and crowned the hus-
band and father as king. They hoisted
new flag over the house, announced
that their hundred acres were no longer
a part of the United States, and refused
to pay taxes. They are to have war
on their hands, for the sheriff intends
to make an invasion.
Gen. ]. w. Denver, formerly terrific
rial governor of Kansas, and the pio-
neer after whom the city of Denver.
COL, was named, is revisiting his
namesake, which has grown be-
yond his recollection AS is the case in
so many other instances. General Den
yer never realized any pecuniary bene-
tit from being patriarch of the thriv-
ing young metropolis, and is now living
quietly in Wilmington, O.
Colonel Alexander made vigorous at
tack on Sir Garnet Wolseley in the house
of commons, lately. Abiding to Sir Gar
nets pet officers as the "Ashantee Ring"
the colonel said that outside OF it there
was no salvation. If he was to give ad-
vice to young officer about to enter the
army it would be to cultivate that ring
Otherwise he would be relegated to hon
orable Punishment or be hopelesslv
shelved.
When Cetewayo was photographed in
London it was hard work to impress up
on him the necessity of remaining still
during the focusing and arranging of &C
cessories; and in pleasant way, when
his likeness had been taken, he placed
the artist, in. the chair from which he
himself had just been released and
waived to the attendants to operate up
on him, as some sort of retribution for
the duress, short as it was, that he had
suffered in his own person. ..ra...
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