The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1882-10-14
Personalities.

Atthe marriage of Mr. and Mrs. George
Harris at Mount Meridian, Va, the
bride refused to say eyes" to the
question whether she would obey her
husband. She said that she saw DO rea-
son in such promise, and he concluded
that no harm would be done in emitting
it, since he intended to make her mind
anyhow" Two years elapsed, and a
few days ago the unsettled question arose
again George ordered his wife to fry
chicken for dinner, and she insisted on
roasting it. He brought in a horsewhip,
and declared that he would fog her I'M
til she obeyed. She shot and killed
him.
The cable announces the death of Ger
aid Fitzgibbon, the last survivor of the
spl endid batch of barristers who conduc-
ted the defence of O'Connell in the State
trials He it was to whom the then At
torney General Smith sent challenge to
duel in court. He was over so at his
death, and of singular habits. He never
tasted medicine in his life. He would
eat no bread that was not baked in his
own oven, and always carried his loaves
with him on circuit. He kept a COW in
his cellar in Gloucester street, where he
lived for years, and would not drink milk
or taste butter from a dairy. He had
been hedge schoolmaster in early life,
and was called to the bar when consid-
erably advanced in years, but succeeded
by his unf1inching labor and persever-
ance. His son is lord justice of appeal.
The Rev. William States Lee Is the on
ly man living of those who graduated
from Princeton college from las to 1872.
Frederick Douglass writes that his
health is by no means firm. He only
manages to keep on his feet by quiet
and regular living at home.
Rev. DIR. Lawrence of the Second Bap
fist church of Chicago evidently believes
that the way to prevent Sunday-night
theatre-going among his parishioners is
to give. the latter equally as good enter
tainment. He has therefore completed
IN arrangement for series of Sunday
light musical entertainments, which
shall continue during the winter. The
Chicago Quartet, a. most worldly-mlnded
organization, will add to its income, de-
rivable from singing at ward meetings,
vaudeville theatres, swell receptions,
ETC., by participating in these Sunday
night church concerts.
When general-then lieutenant col
onel-Sir Garnet Wolselev visited this
country during the rebellion. just twenty
years ago, he impressed correspondent
who met him in Richmond, Va, as ro-
bust young man of IS or 80, 5 feet 9 or 10
inches high, with a well-proportioned
frame, a lock of ruddy health, a quick,
alert step, clear, open, handsome, face,
quiet, easy manners, and peculiarly in
cisive, clear-cut style of conversation.
Everything about him indicated energy,
alertness, decision, and force of charac-
ter.
A cripple, living at Montgomery, N. Y.
met with singular death on Saturday
night. He was STOPPING over fence to
gather some catnip, when his crutches
slipped from under him and he fell, with
his head wedged between two pickets.
Being unable to extricate himself he
choked to death, and his body was found
hanging on the fence the next day.
Fred A. Wood, of the Eighth Maine
Volunteers, although an excitable man.
is well-known for cool bravery. In the
battle of Fort Harrison, September 26,
1854, he had just given to the company
that he commanded the "Right Dress"
when UNDERGROUND shell from the
enemy struck field gun within yard
of where he stood, and exploded, killing
one man and four horses, smashed the
gun carriage and sent a whirlwind of
splinters about the lieutenant's head.
Fred entirely undisturbed, roared out to
one of the men: "Step up there into
place, Jackman. You are always letting
some little thing draw away your atten-
ton"
During his recent stay in England &C.
tywayo was taken on board her Majesty's
hip Cambridge and permitted to ERE as
broadside bv electricity. When he had
touched the key and heard the unexpect-
ed and laundering result he is said to
have "fairly bounded into the air."
Your careful Englisman, when he enter
tains savage who may be one day an
enemy, thus very carefully combines
useful instruction with amusement. c.
tywayo will not soon 60 to war again with
a nation that can fire off q broadside
simply by touching buttons.