The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-10-12
Personal Mention.

Sergeant Mason, who tried to shoot
Guiteau, is still confined in the Albany
Penetentiary. He is looking thin and
haggard, and is evidently very much de-
pressed in spirits.
Deacon Samuel Waldo of Perry, N. Y,
knew it was not good for man to be alone
for he had tried wedlock six times; so,
being widower, he celebrated his 18th
birthday, Thursday, by comforting uncn
Miss Harriet sHammonds, q 20 year old
neiyhbor, the degree Of Mrs. Waldo VII.
A Kansas paper gravely accuses mail.
route agent recently dis charged for in
competency Of making sacks of mail pro-
Fortunate to the size of the town, and
throwing them Off regardless Of the des-
tination ofthe matter, SO that by the time
he reached the Colorado line he had no
mail left with which to serve Colorado.
The late Moses Williams, ofBoston, left
all his property to his heirs, with the ad-
vice that they keep it IN it's present shape
rather than change it for other property
that may promise greater income. He
says iu mis- will: ~ have never looked
for /. large income, but have sought the
greatest security of the principal; gov
rrned by this rule, have met with few
losses, and tothis owe my large estate"
Mr.. Nathaniel Deering of the Harvard
class Of 1910, who has recently been men,
toned as the Oldest Lying graduate of
Harvard college, died nearly two years
ago. The oldest living graduates Of the
college, therefore, are DR.. VIM. Perry of
Exeter, n H., and Mr.. William R. Sever
Of Plymouth, Mass, who were graduated
in 1911.
Herbert Spencer is not only a genius
but an epigrammatist, and as practical in
the fact of his epigrams as he is happy
in their utterance. He photographed
Oscar Wilde the other day m a lightning
style of descriptions: "Oscar Wilde? Oh,
yes. He's that outlandlsh person who
attempts to reconcile idiocy with art and
namby -pambyism with sentiment"
There was an insurance of FL 900 on
the life of Lamson, the American mur-
derer hanged in London, written by the
Scottish Widows Fund Association Of
flee. Immediately before Lamson's con-
viction the policy was assigned absolute
ly to Mr.. a. w. Mills, the solicitor by
whom he had been so zealously defend.
ed, to cover the balance of the costs OF
the defence. On the strength of a deci.
sion in the House of Lords, payment
could have been refused, but the money
was paid.
James Field, a nurse at the Philadel'
phia almshouse, ten years ago conceived
the notion Of marrying Jennie McHenry
then six years old, when she would have
attained a suitable age; but as the cir:
grew up she did not fancy her lovegaa
who was 70 years her senior and of urit!'
attractive manners and person, Sunday
afterooon Field went to the residence OF
the McHenrys, and in the presence O.
the girls mother drank a quantity Of
]audanum. He is doubtless dead ere
this, as the doctors said they could not
save him. The girl showed no evidence
Of sorrow for the fate ofheradorer, from
whose attention she had in vain endca.
vore,l to free herself.
Charles Folger, secretary of the tres2,
ury, and candidate for governor of Nev
York, is 81 years of age. He resides IL
Geneva, on Seneca Lake, where he hss
a substantial but unpretentiO,s house
overlooking the lake. Over this one O.
his daughters presides His wife, wha
was a Miss Selover, Of Auburn, died
some years ago, and he is a wiuower. A
son, &. w. Folger, is farmer in Mime.
sofa: A young daughter is at school in
Massachusetts,
Mr.. Oliver Ames, who has been nom
mated for lieutenant governor Of Massa
chusetts, has been in the employ of the
Ames Shovel Works at North Easton
since he was l5 years old, and he has
been the superintendent. His father
Cakes Ames, died with an Indebtedness
of s., 600, 900. In the time of panic the
son managed the assets, which were
scattered all over the Union, so that he
paid dollar for dollar, paid a million dol
lars in legacies, and had asurplus for the
residuary lepatees.