Morris tribune., 1882-01-26
Personal GOssip.

Personal Gossip.
The people of Sommerville, Mass. pre-
sented to their venerable City Clerk, Mr..
Charles II. Gilman, gold watch and chain
| and seal on New Years day; and with
good reason, for they have annually elected
him by unanimous vots during a period
of forty years to the position which he still
| occupies. 1t is doubtful if any other man
| in the country can show as long continu-
GUS term of public service in an elective
| Office.
Mr.. Frederick Marquand has Offered to
| give $4,000 toward the erection of per-
manent building for the use of the Young
| Mems Christian Association of Brooklyn,
provided $1,000 more can be
secured beforeMarch l, 1882. To-
ward the endowment of the
| institution he also agrees to give anoth-
| er $5O, 900, provided simila sum shall be
raised within the time specified for endow-
| ment.
OF course this historical incident, related
by the Kingston IN. W Freeman, is truth
ful: THE Russell family of this country
can run back in their family history hun
| dreds of years, though no particular record
has been kept. The Russels formerly came
from Scotland, and an amusing fact re-
lated is that one of them brought with him
to the United States a horse that, when told
to hurrah for King George, would rear on
| his hind legs and strike together three
times the hoofs of his fore feet in such a
way that the sound would ring out full and
| clear"
A little rural burial ground at Rockville
| Centre, l.. l., has one remarkable feature
1t is row of sixteen little graves, in which
| lie the bodies of sixteen brothers and Sis
| ters, the children of Furman and Margaret
Abrams, all of whom died in childhood.
| The last child VINO died was buried few
days ago. Only one child of the family, a
| boy seventeen years of age, is living. A
family so large as this is an unusual thing
now-a- days
George Patterson, an engineer on the
Northwestern road, fell in love with a
Swedish girl while on u visit to Boston, last
October, and she came west with him. In
November they went east again on pleas
ure trip, and both were arrested on charge
of stealing 81 500 from Chinaman. The
woman was sentenced to two years in Jail,
but Patterson escaped on making full
confession. 1t seems the girl explained to
him that she was the daughter of a wealthy
citizen long since dead, which accounted
for her lavish display Of money.
While General Tom Thumb roclines in 4
wrinkle of his loungs, tells his friends
about his travels and urges the claims of
spiritualism, to which he is recent con-
vert, Captain Martin Van Buren, Bates and
his wife, at their farm house near Seville,
Ohio, 60 in and out of doorways ten feet
high, ride in gigantic wagon drawn by six
stout Norman horses, and sleep in bed as
big as wheat-feld. In their sitting. room
is an ordinary piano, but it is mounted up
on blocks two feet high, so that person of
normal size, who perches before it, looks
as absurd as little Mozart did when he had
clambered up to play the big organ.
The late Colonel Henry S. McComb,
whose name will naturally be remembered
chiefly in connection with the exposure of
the Credit Mobilier scheme, was the
wealthiest citizen of Delaware. His fortune
is estimated at from six to eight million
dollars. Before he turned to railroad en-
terprises he was prosperous currier in
Wilmington, and made great deal oil
money by furnishing knapsacks to the gov
ernment.
Mr.. Hannibal Hamlin will doubtless
maintain at Madrid all the traditions of re-
publican simplicity. 4 friend who called
upon him in Bangor just before his depart
ure describes him as opening his own from
door to his visitors, and as being plainly
even shabbily, dressed evidently in the
same clothes in which he had worked in
his garden all day. The very boots Of 6
dandy clerk in government Office would
cost as much as the entire outfit which the
American minister to Spain wore that even.
ing.
The Womdn's Journal is unhappy be-
cause President Arthur has written letter
of thanks to an old lady down in New
Hampshire, who sent him box of butter.
nut c,ndy, but has paid no attention to E
copy of her Woman Suffrage History which
was sent to him ky Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, although the volume was "calf.
bound and gilt-edged." The trouble il
there are good many men-aud Presiden
Arthur is probably among the number
who are sensible on most subjects, but wht
prefer butternut candy, gum drops, Or soms
other variety of taffy, to books on woment
rights.
The old provarb that cheating neve
thrives' sometimes proves true, although i
is by no means invariably So. The lat
Bernal Osborne, one of the most entertain
ing takers and, parliamentary debaters il
England, went with friend as "best man
to visit the bride few days before tn
marriage was to take place. He improved
the occasion to displace his friend in tn
affections of the young woman whose nam
was Osborne, and they were married on
evening. His name being then Bernal, h,
assumed hers. But the marriage it is sait
was never happy enc.
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, M. P, who
in his Young Ireland" ridiculed O'Con
nell for a supposed wooing Of Miss Nc
Dowell at g., she being 3S, has himsel
welded in his sixty seventh year beauti
full and charming blonde of eighteen sum
!, mers. This is the third time the ex-edito
of the Young Ireland Nation has ap
preached the altar Of Hymen. His frs
spouse he married in Ireland, his secon
in Australia. and for the last few years b
has been widower.
Minister LowelPs personal popularity
reaching across the British channel. Tn
' Paris correspondent of the London T,'ut
calls him rare talker under all circum
a stances, but only seen at his best when b
has his pipe in his mouth and faces arouu
r him which call up recollections of day
, that have long since passed away. He see
! through and through great many things
7 | WhiOh pcAudpS, 10 1ue IedSOu why HIS PHI
J osophy is SO genial. In his careless, un
' studied talk he throws off beautiful wor
pictures. The United States minister has
sympathetic appreciation of English char
D acteI md intellect and sees much that i
picturesque in town and country in Eng
land. But the smoke Of London he dis
likes and he is accordingly glad to escap
from it whenever he can.
How Attorney General b. II. Brewster
facial beauty was spoiled early in life is thu
explained by correspondent. 1T would b,
under usual circumstances, an open, agree
q able, yet somewhat combative face, with eve
4 wide apart, and light brown hair fallin
|. over it's warm complexion. But ills fac
terribly SCARED by fire. When child, M
Brewsters nurse, or some one of the fami