The Worthington advance., 1882-10-05
People and Things.

Al AiS 1OEIual AcI~c1 uCCuulIiS W O0 ltlo
democrat candidate for congress in the
"shoe string district of Mississippi, Mr..
George NJ. Klein says: II am forced to
decline on account Of the personal atten-
ton required by my large business in
tcrests and my desire to be constantly
with my aged father in his declining
years"
A tablet bearing the following inscrip-
ton is to be placed on house in Rome
where Prof S. F. B. Morse stayed during
his visit to the Eternal City: rs. P. @. r.
In this house lived Samuel Finley Breese
Morse from the Goth of February, 1880.
to 5th January, 1881. He was the inven-
tor OF the electric magnetic telegraph.
Born in Charleston on the 22d April,
1871. Died in New York on the I'd of
April, 1872.
Major E. A. Burk, state treasurer of
Louisiana, who fought duel some time
ago with the editor of the New Orleans
Picayune, is in New York. He doesn't
walk with crutches now and says he feels
as we'll as ever. His visit is to confer
with the New York holders of the Louis-:
lana state bonds with view to inducing
them to accept the settlement of the
state debt which was recently proposed
by the local bondholders Of Louisiana
and approved Of by the state legislature.
\ gentleman in Valdosta, Co., has
made and gathered two crops of corn on
the same piece of ground this year. The
first was the early variety, and was
gathered in April and the early part of
May, for roasting ears. The second
crop, gathered last week, was the usual
variety of field corn grown in that Sec
ton, and is now hard enough ogrind in
to grits.
The aged Rufus Porter, founder of the
Scientific American, has been passing
his ninetieth summer perfectinga steam
wagon invented by him, and is now at
Bristol, Conn.,, supervising the man
uEacture Of tie engine required. His
wagon is to weigh about 400 pounds.
Judge Hilton, who refused Banker
seligman entertainment at the Grand
Union Hotel at Saratoga, because the
latter vas an Isralite, now offers to give
Of Russian Hebrew refugees. Several
gifts and subscriptions offered by Judge
Hilton to different Jewish charities have
already been refused. DR.. Brown, of
the Jewish Herald, thinks that the So
ciety for the relief of Hebrew exiles
should accept the gift.
Hon. Isaac Humphreys, who was the
first Union governor of Arkansas after
the war, died few days ago on his farm
in Madison County, Ark, where he has
lived since his retirement from office.
He was first chosen early in 1864, by the
Constitutional Convention, and later in
that year reelected by popular vote.
In 1867, during the reconstruction pro-
cess, the powers Ofhis office were absorb.
ed by military commanders, and after re-
construction he was succeeded by Powell
Clayton.
DIR. Edny of the royal navy, 20 years
ago, married, in Switzerland, ths sister
of his deceased wife. A few weeks ago,
she too, died, and in accordance with her
dying wish, was taken to her native place,
Penrhyn, for burial. As the English law
looked upon the marriage as illegal the
lady could not be buried except in her
maiden name. DR.. Edny was so distract
cd that he attended the funeral on foot,
clad in gay attire and when the body had
been lowered into the grave without
ceremony, he Immediately walkeda away,
and has been seen no more.
A remarkable career was that of Hon.
John Tod, who died recently at Victoria,
B. C., aged ninety-one years. In 1907
he entered the service Of the Hudson's
Bay Company, and within few years
had visited almost every portion of the
vast territory from Hudson's Bay to the
Columbia river. He visited Montreal in
1912, and Astoria, Oregon, in 1914.
Afterward, in the Peace River country,
he spent nine years without hearing his
mother tongue or seeing the face of =
white person.
Notwithstanding his pilgrimage to
Lourdes, the heir to the premier duke
dom Of England. now nearly three years
of age, is still unable to see, speak or
walk. He is taken to Little Hampton
daily and bathed in the sea. and is the
object Of much sympathetic curiosity
among the people Of that place, by whom
the duke and duchess of Norfolk are
held in highest esteem. The unfortu-
nate child is heir to far larger fortune
than that enjoyed by his father, splen-
did though it be, for he will, should he
reach middle life. inherit property Of
immense value in Sheffield, of which the
lease has to fall in.