Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-22
PERSONAL.

MINISTER SARGENT was once printer
and worked ten years at the case.
OF Secretary FreliDghuysen it is
charged that he is socially very cold.
GLADsToNE's father once said that his
son William would "rllin. his country
and die in mad-house."
MAJOR EATON, of Lowell, Mass. has
for thirty years made $4,000 year in
popping and selling corn.
JAMES B. NANCE, of Nashville, Tenn.
is noted as the man who sounded the
last Confederate bugle charge of the
war.
OF Daniel Webster's family only two
are now hving-children of his daughter
Julia-Samuel Appleton and Mrs. Jer-
ONE Bonaparte.
CAMPANINI owns house in an italian
town, chalet in the mountains, q lake
side villa and the blacksmith shop in
which he once worked.
CONGRESSMAN DUGRo, of New York,
and his wife, are the youngest couple
among congressional families, he being
only 26 and she several years younger.
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL is now in bet
and his friends think he will live to cele-
brate on October Is, 1883, the golden
jubilee of his Episcopal conservation.
COUNT WALDERsEE, now adlatus to
Won Moltke, and practically head of the
German Army, is married to all Ameri-
can lady. Miss Lee, whose sister is the
wife of la distinguished Wurtemberg
nobleman.
Elk SENATOR SARGENT it is just learned,
has for some years written anonymously
for some California journal, and was the
author of a biographical sketch of Sena-
tor Chandler, which was extensively
copied.
EX-SENATOR SHARON lost his eldest
daughter, Mrs. f. q. Newlands, of San
Francisco, about week ago. She was
a brunette, slight in figure and winning
in manner, of retiring disposition,
stunning rather than coyeting display.
SUNSET Cox says that for S., 1000 he
and Mrs. Cox made the grand circuit of
Europe with Egypt thrown I'M stopping
at the best hotels, having the best rooms
and enjoying the services of the best
commissaries during an eight months
trip.
1IAhD1 UGlOI0 GLI6 VIII WAS
president of a South Carolina bank in
which ex-senator Patterson was director.
Patterson lately came across him in
Kansas City, Impoverished, but working
industriously as baker, and made him
his secretary, at Sc, 600 year.
SENATOR ANTHONY of Rhode Island
lives when at home in wooden house,
externally one of the plainest and most
ordinary in Providence The interior,
however, is filed with rare paintings
and bric-a-brac. Once year the senator
makes pilgrimage to his ancestral vii
lage of Anthony and delivers lecture to
the villagers.
LIEUT.. Col. WILLIAM FOWLER, of the
British army, who died short time ago
at the age of 50, was a veteran of the
battles of the Alma, Balaklava and In
hermann, and the sleges and captures of
Sebastopol and Kinburn. He had re-
ceived as tokens of his valor the Crime
an medal and four clasps, and the Sar-
dinian and Turkish medals
SOMEBODY has discovered some tall
and heavy boys in the town of Rossie,
St. Lawrence County, n. Y. Briefly
described they are: d. Jillen, IA years
old, feet % inches in his stockings; E.
Kelley, % years old, feet 81 inches,
and James Hunter, Jr., 6 feet inches.
Jason Lamb, Of the same town, has
son Is years old who weighs 1884 pounds.
ONE of the most accomplished of
stenographic reporters is Miss Abbie
Pulsifer, daughter of Major S. D. Pull
sifer, of Auburn, Me-, who has brought
up family of stenographers, and who is
the veteran of the profession in Maine.
Miss Abbie does not remember the time
when she could not read and write pho
biography, and kept a Photographic
diary when four years of age.
The Marquis de Pontecouant, sur
vivor of Napoleon's wars, died in Paris
recently at the age Of 49, He took part
in the Russian campaign and was made
a prisoner at Waterloo. Subsequently
he joined an uprising in Brazil and was
condemned to death, but made his escape
to France. In 1926 he became censor
of books; in 1880 he volunteered in the
Belgian army, and at Louvain was
wounded. Of late years he has devoted
himself to astronomy, archaeology, and
music. He has published books On mu-
sic and musical instruments in ancient
times.