The Worthington advance., 1882-10-12
Personal Mention.

Sergeant Mas0h, who tried 10 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. NY.
knew it was not good for man to be alone
for he had tried wedlock six times; 50
being wid0wer. he celebrated his 18th
birthday, Ihursday, by cOnferring upon
Miss Harriet Hammonls, 4 20 year old
neighbor, the degree of Mrs. Waldo VII.
A Kansas paper gravely accuses mail.
route agent recently discharged for in
competency of making sacks of mail pro-
Fortunate to the size of the town, and
throwing them Off regardless of the des-
t'nation 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, of Boston, left
all his property to his heirs, with the ad-
vice that they keep it In its present shape
rather than change it for other property
that may promise greater income He
says iu his will: IL have never looked
for large income. but have sought the
greatest security of the principal; gov
erncd 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 wears
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 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 N q lightning
style of descriptions: oscar Wilde? Oil,
yes. He's that outlandlsh person who
attempts to reconcile idiocy with art and
namby-pambyism with sentiment"
There was an insurance of 1000 on
the life of Lamson. the American mu,~
derer hanged in London, written by the
Scottish Widows Fund Association OF:
fice: Immediately before Lamson's con-
vlctlon 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 Philade]
ph'a aImshouse, ten years ago conceived
the notion of marrying Jennie McHenry
then six years old, when she would have
attained suitable age; but as the cir
grew up she did not fancy her lover,
who was 20 years her senior and of un:
attractive manners and person. Sunday
afterooon Field went to the residence Of
the McIIenrys, and in the presence %:
the girls mother drank quantity OF
laudanum. 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 other adorer, from
whose attention she had in vain endea'
vored to free herself.
Charles Folger, secretary of the trsee
ury, and candidate for governor Of Nov
York, is 64 years of age. He resides II
Geneva, on Seneca Lake, where ho has
a substantial but unpretentious house,
overlooking the lake. Over this one -
his daughters presides. His wife, whc
was Miss SelOver, of Auburn, died
some years ago, and he is widower. A
son, G. W. Folger, is farmer in Mime
sofa. A young daughter is ut school in
Massachusetts.
Mr.. Oliver Ames, who has been NOM
mated for lieutenant governor Of Massa-
chusetts, has been in the employ of the
Amcs Shovel Works at North Easton
since he was Is years old, and he has
been the superintendent. His father,
Oakcs Ames, died with an indebtedness
of IS, ,OOO, 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 q asurplus for the
resiluary legatees.