Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-08-03
Personalities.

About year ago, Mrs. Powell, a Bos-
ton widow of great beauty and accom-
plishment, went to Europe, and was
shortly followed by Gov. Rice, who
married her III Germany. Almost inn
mediately after the marriage, the lady
showed signs of mental alteration, and
her friends who have watched her with
painful anxiety now relinquish all hopes,
and regard her as an incurable maniac.
Letters of Lady Byron, the wife of the
poet, to the Lady Augusta Leigh, his
sister, have been made public in Lon
DON They contain expressions of the
highest regard and esteem, and efe .tu-
ally refute the horrible SANDER that was
given form by Mrs. Harriet Beecher
rious blot upon her own popularity than
upon the fame ofByron.
OF Mehemet Ali, the ancestor of the
present Khedive, the following story is
told: "a milk-woman came to the Pasha
one day complaining that one of his SOL
diers had robbed her of the milk she
was bringing to camp. The soldier was
identified and denied having taken the
milk. What did he do with it" asked
the Pasha. Drank it, was the reply.
At sign the mans head was off his
body. and his stomach being opened was
found full of milk. Co. said the Pasha
to the Mortified milk-woman, paying her
the value of the milk; but f he had not
taken it your head would have paid
for it, "
The dreaded robber chief Gorcsko,
whose crimes are as manifold as they
are atrocious, was recently brought into
court for sentence at the Russian town
of Ismail. 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
eaniZed a committee to take up a cOlleC-
ton for the prisoner. A considerable
sum was at once obtained, and one wO-
man in her enthusiasm, handed Gorcskc
a costly jewelled breastpin, and assured
him that the good cZar would speedily
commute the sentence.
The Queens aversion for Palmerstor
might be called caprice compared with
her loathing for Gladstone. Him she
considers little better than Cromwell
He has never shown her, as Princess
the courtier-like devotion sovereign!
exact. He treats her as the head of the
State, but shows no personal Difference
He never even argues questions Of State
with her. He lays his policy before her
points out its purposes, and when the
time comes carries it into execution a:
| remorselessly as the voters who send W
uncongenial majorities to Parliament.
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Hugo, who has for many years been con
fined in private lunatic asylum in Paris
is now about fifty years Of age,- but at
short distance does not look to be half 81
old. She resembles to marvellous de
gree the portrait of Madame Victor Hugo
painted by Tony Johannot. To hel
companions in misfortune she fire.
quently relates her sad story; how she
was married long ago, without hel
fathers concent, to naval officer, anC
how soon afterward he deserted her
penniless, and without power to prove
the legality of her marriage. This blow
unsettled her reason, and ever after
ward she has been kept under restraint
Year by year she grows more proud O.
her fathers fame, and has committed
most of his poetical works to memory
J.>H. Blake, the Irish landlord recent
ly murdered, belonged one of the frs
families in the west of Ireland. He
was the second son of Col. Blake of Fur.
baugh, in the county of Galway, uncle
to the count of Westmeath, and a rela
tive of the marquis of fClanricarde, over
whose estate. yielding $l2O,0O0 a yeal
rental, he was agent. He was cruel and
unrelenting to the tenantry. The mar
quises of Clanricarde We're generally
kind and popular. The present mar
quis is the opposite-an absentee bache-
Ior, notorious in London through asso
citation with the character known a!
"Skittles" In addition to the Irish es.
tates, he inherited large fortune from
his uncle, Lord Canning.