Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-10-05
Personal GOSSiD.

A Lowell, Mass, man played poker In
gambling house and lost 5000; then he
brought suit under the state law which
makes the owner of house liable for
treble any loss sustained therein by
gambling with his consent, and recovered
81 800. The suppression of gaming ought
to be an easy matter in the Bay State.
DR.. Coplestone, Bishop of Colombo,
has recently brought himself into I'M
enviable notice by dismissing school
master for engaging himselfto marry the
daughter of Methodist. am deeply
grieved," he wrote, ''that you had not
loyalty or courage enough to save you
from the wretched fall you contemplate"
''We are deeply grieved," adds the Lon
don Echo, which tells the story, 'that
the Bishop had not sense enough to save
himself from this wretched exhibition Of
bigotry."
In Hartford, Conn.,, there resides
young la syer who, a few years ago, babe
fair to make brilliant mark at the Con-
necticut bar. A year or SO ago he be-
came enamored of courtesan, and,
though he hid wife and three lovely
children, he neglected them and took up
with the other woman. She left him,
and he recently attempted to commit SUI
icide His wife recently was obliged to
apply to the town for support for her
children.
Mrs. Booth, wife and active coadjutor
of the Generalissimo of the Salvation Ar
my, of England, is the daughter of la
DIV of rank VINO was banished from friends
and home in early life because she reso-
lutely chose to marry Methodist lay
preacher in preference to a man of
wealth and position who was sutton for
her hand.
After the Ashantee war Sir Garnet
Wolseley received some additional let
tiers to his name and Parliamentary
Grand Cross of the order of the Bath, so
that nothing remains to be awarded to
him in the way of additional honor save
a peerage. This, if given will have to be
accompanied by large grant of money
and pension, if the dignity is to be sus-
tanned in the manner additionally
deemed befitting, and all the more so in
view of the Queens well-known dislike
to creating poor man peer.
A sanctimonious gentleman whose
cards bore the inscription, "Rev. F. c..
Fowler. l shall pass this way through
the world but once. Let me do my fel-
low beings all the good l can, now" has
been arrested at Middletown, Conn.,, as
skillful swindler of long standing. He
| was indeed doing his fellow beings, but
| he was not doing them good.
Rev. Vivian Dodgson was lately en-
gagged in preaching to crowd of idlers
upon the beach at Lowestoft, England,
heard coming from the sea. Mr.. Dodg-
son leaped from barrel on which he
was standing and ran to the waters
edge. There he saw that boat had up
set in the sea and that five persons were
struggling for their lives. Without mo-
ment's pause he rushed into the water
and swan out to the struggling creatures
/ One woman he brought safely to land
two were rescued by others, and a CHILD
was saved by man in the overturned
boat that could swim. 1t is presumed
that tie Royal Humane society will con
fer medal on Mr.. Dodgson.
Gov. Bloxham, of Florida, has of
fered a reward of 5000 for the arres
and conviction of the persons who tool
Charles Savage and Howard E. James
from the custody of the officers of the
state in Madison county, Aug. %, anf
brutally murdered them. Tue governor
says that the only means of vindicatins
the supremacy of the law, and securing
a proper obedience to the same, is in the
prompt arrest and punishment of the
perpetrators of such crimes.
Lieutenant R. w. Young, of the Fiftl
Artillery, q. s. A., and Miss NERVE
Richards were married at Salt Lake re
gently, the ceremony being performed
by President Joseph F. Smith. Lieu
tenant Young recently graduated from
the academy at West Point with great
credit. He was son of the late Hon
Joseph A. Young.
| President Arthur gave brief i'm
promptu reception to the people in Ban
gor, Me-, Tuesday afternoon. In tn,
midst of it he found time to compliment
q little miss upon her "Tam O'Shante
hat" and to say to some very small boy
who were sliding through the, room
"Come, boys, and shake hands will
me. like boys"
The Rev. Mr.. Landsdell, an Englisl
clergyman, who started several week
ago from st. Petersburg on missionar,
tour in Siberia, was arrested and brough
back, the police having taken the Bibles
he distributed for Nihilist literature
Alter some considerable difficulty, how
ever, the reverend gentlemen sfreet
himself.
Eleven hundred and forty trains da
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