The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-03
Personalities.

:iLu,lt a year ago, Ms. Powell, :: Er5
ton widow ofgreat beauty and accom-
pIisl.nent went to E4rope, and va
slrrtly followed by Gov. Rice, " Ii,
married her in GERMANY Almost il,l-
showed signs of mental alteration, and
her friends. who have watched her NTH
painful anxiety HOW rehnQuish all hopes,
and regard her as an lncnrable 1n:ini;.t.
Letters of Lady Byron, the. wife Of lie
iurt, to the Lady Augusta Leigh lis,
sister, have been male public III | IN
don. They contain expressions ii tie.
highest regard and estt,e1n, and ettc ct,~
adv !t.iute he horrible :;l;tndtt that WAS
given form l,y Mrs Harriet Beccher
Stowe, and which has been !; more g,
rio'l>s blot upon her OWL POPULARITY han
upon the fame of Byron.
OF Mcheinet ALL the anrcStor Of the
plrse>nt khedive, the following stiiy is
told: "A milk woman came to he Ptshu
one day complaining t hat one Of his sol
,licrS had robbed her Of the mill: she
vas bringing to camp. The soldier Was
identified and denied having taken the
milk. What did lie do with ito asked
The. r;tslu. Drank it, was th.. r.llv.
AT Il sign the. mans head was of his
body and his stomach being opened was
fuuHh full of milk TO- said the Paeh:,
to the mortified milk woman, paying her
the value of the milk; but if he:h had not
taken it your head "onld have paid
for it,
The dreaded loLhpr chief Gurcsko;-
whose crimes are as manifold as they
are atrocious, was recently: brought into
court for sentence at the Russian town
Of IsmaiI. The courtroom was. crowded,
principally by women, for whom the
robbers exploits and, still more, his
physical beauty seemed to possess great
attractions. As soon as the sentence,
which was imprisonment for life, had
been announced, the women present or
2anized a comnittceto take up Il .cole,-
ton for the prisoner \ considerable
SUN was at once: obtained and one w,-
man in her cntl0sialn handed Gorcsko
Il costly jewelIed hreastpin, and assured
him that the good ear would speedily
ocOlulnnte the sentence.
*.'fhe Queens aversion for pahnt1stor
might lie called a caprice compared with
her loathing for Gladstone. Him she
considers little better than CROMWELL
He has never shows .henysa asa Princess,
the -conrtier-like 5sdeYotion gils
exact. He treats her as the head of the,
State; but shows no personal defer epce.
with her He laysshis.policy be fore her,
tilne,tomes carriessit into execution n
remorselcssy as the voteTsswho send III.
uncongenial majorities to- Parliament :. =
Adele Hugo, the :daughter.of Vict"f..
Hugo; who has for many years been con
fined in private l1natic asylum in Paris.
IS now about fifty years of age, but at
short distance does not look to be. half SC
old. She resembles to a. 4narvelous de
cree the portrait Of Madame Victor Hugo
painted by Tony: :JoAannot. To her
companions in misfortune she fire.
tluently relates her sad story how she
was married long ago, without he.
st;lttter's concent, to a naval officer, and
ShoW soon afterward he deserted her,
spcnniless, and without power to prove
i. the legality of her marriage. This blow.
unsettled her reason, and ever after
ward she has been kept under restraint:
ear by year She grows. more y: oul o!
her fathers fame, and has committed
most Of his poetical works to- memory
J. II. Blake, the Irish landlord recent
ly murdered, belonged one Of the. first
families in the west of Ireland. lie
was the second son of COL Blake Of Fur
ba'1gh, III the county Of Galway, uncle
to the count of Westmeath, and rel;,.
tive of the marquis of Clanricarde, over
whosss estate. ~yield ling aSi20, O00. a. year;
rentaE he was agent. EHessWRs cruel and
unrelenting to the tenantry. =. The mar,
quises Of Clanricarde were generally
kind and popular. The present mar.
quis. is the opposite-an absentee bache-:
lor, notorious in London through asso7,
cation, With the character known as
'skittles." In addition to the Irish. es-,
: bis snoi Gle ' Tos@ nFRs fortune ''""