Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1882-07-05
HERE AND THERE.

in Iowa is now estimated to be a
high as $3,00O,OOO.
Lord Rosebury has offered tn,
Duke of Hamilton one million ster
ling for the island of Arran, on whicl
Hamilton Palace is situated, but tn,
Duke declines to sell.
Princeton, n. j., is fortunate in .
Roman Catholic priest, Mr.. Moran
whose unblemished life, strong sense
tact and urbanity, have secured hin
the highest esteem of men of all
creeds, even in that hotbed of extreme
Presbyterianism.
The Prussian Government has Sc.
lected Aiken, S. c., as one of the sta
tons for the observation of the transit
OF Venus in December next, and the
members of the expedition from the
Royal Observatory in Berlin are ex-
pected to arrive there about the end
of October.
The Boadicea, of 400 tons, the new
steam yacht of Mr.. Pearce of Glas-
gov, is said to be the finest vessel of
the class ever built. 1t is rumorcd
that Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has
challenged Mr.. Pearce to run against
his new steam yacht, the Namouna,
and that the race will take place in a
few weeks.
Great difficulty is felt in organic
ing the new Irish Criminal Investiga-
ton Department. Respectable Irish
men won't join the force, and Eng
lishmen are useless by their accent
alone. An attempt is being made to
get Irish detectives in England to go
to Ireland for very high pay if the
Treasury will give it.
The great California millionaires
don't run to family. Leland Stan
ford has but one child, boy of Is.
Flood has son, not very satisfac-
tory specimen, of %, and daughter.
a fine young lady. Mrs. Mackay
has daughter, Miss Bryant, by her
first husband, and two sons, who are
yet boys, by MIR. Mackay.
Miss Jesse Green, of New Orleans.
La, daughter of Protestant Episco-
pal parents, embraced the Jewish
faith, and was married to Mr.. Isaac
Feitel, Hebrew in that city, on the
18th inst. Shortly before her public
declaration of her change of faith
they were married by civil magis.
trate; after it they were united by a
Jewish rabbi.
Mr.. Anthony Trollope knows Ire
land better than most lrishmen. As a
surveyor of the Post-oilice, he Ina.
travelled again and again over its re-
hottest districts, and no novel he has
penned is so deeply pathetic as the
comparatively little known "Macder-
motifs of Ballycloran," which is foun
ded on facts which occurred where
the scene is laid.
Ashland, the home of Henry Clay,
has come back into the possession of
his family, having been purchased a
few days ago by Major Henry CLAY
Mcdowell, who married the daughter
OF Colonel Henry Clay of Buena Vista
fame, granddaughter of the states
man. Ashland, fifteen years ago, was
purchased by citizens OF Lexington as
a site for an agricultural college.
which proved an unsuccessful project.
The British Medical Journal saws
that a castor-oil plant was placed ac-
cldentally in room swarminp with
flies, but almost Immediately the flies
disappeared, and flies were found un-
der the plant, or clinging to its leaves
dead. The leaves are said to give
out a property deadly to insects.
Who knows but that the mosquito,
too, may succumb to castor oil, and
that New Jersey and Staten Island
may yet enjoy life, even in the dog
days. .
The. Marquis of Conyngham, who
died lately, was grandson of the old
Marchioness, whose career was one of
the scandals of the regency, and who
is SO often alluded to in Greville's
memoirs. He married daughter of a
former Lord Harrington by Miss
Foote, beautiful actress. The Re-
gents chere ami marchioness was a
daughter of self-made millionaire.
She had great fortune, and her only
brother left about million sterling
to her second son, who was made
Lord Londesborough.
Mr.. Lambart, of Beau Pare, Ire.
land, one of whose daughters is maid
Of honor to Queen Victoria, has had
nfne daughters, of whom eight sur.
vive. Lord Alfred Paget, Clerk
Marshal to the Queen, has eight
daughters, all unmarried. There is
prevalent feeling in England to.
day that Protestant nunneries must
soon come into vogue. The Queen
meanwhile, shows her sympathy as
best she can toward these quiversful
but maids of honor rarely marry.
Gen. William Raymond Lee, Of
Boston, carries in his nockethook .