Morris tribune., 1882-11-09
Personal.

A queer case is reported from Port
land, Oregon, where young banker is
claimed as her husband by clairvoyant.
The man says if he married the woman
at all it was while he was under mesmer-
ic influence, and the minister who is al
legged to have performed the ceremony
makes the same plea as to his part of the
affair
BY the death of Sir George Gray. Mr..
Gladstone now sits at the privy council
as the senior commoner, having "kissed
hands" on his appointment forty-one
years ago last September, when the
queen had been only four years on the
throne.
When Mr.. Mackey, the bonanza mill
lionaire, came east through Arizona, re-
Gently, he was accompanied through that
territory by some friends to protect him
from the danger of capture by the cow
boys, who would have demanded a heavy
ransom.
M. Soye, deputy for the Aisne, in
France, whose premature death WAS re-
cent Y announced, was killed by an &C
cident. He was one of the very few
medical men in the chamber Being
sent to VervinS, his residence, fora con-
sultation, he started with a servant in
one horse chaise. Near railway sta
ton the horse took fright, rushed INTO
ditch and NJ. Soye ard his man were
SO severely injured that both died in a
few minutes.
An amusing anecdote is related of M.
de Lesseps. One of his little ones had a
boil at the fingers end; arrived at ma
turity, papa undertook to pierce it.
GLOW you tremble!' said Nine. de Les
seps, afraid of the improvised surgeons
experiment. ''Tremble! [ tremble at
piercing tester-I, who have pierced
an isthmuS?
An old woman ofsixty years, residing
at Buda-Pesth, has discovered the most
extraordinary mode of committing sui
eide yet heard of. She bought sixty
eeches, put them in a bottle, and wenttoa
bathing house. Here she put the leeches
on her body, put on her clothes again,
and left Hardly had she gone few
blocks when she fell down senseless,
and was thus found by a policeman who
forwarded her to a hospital.
Rev. Walter Ayrault, D. D., late chap
lain of Hobart College, Geneva, New
York, and formerly for long period
rector OF Christ Church at Oxford, n. Y,
died at. Geneva. He was educated at st.
Paul's College, by the late DR.. Mullen
berg, and was one of the leadinL clergy
men of the Episcopal Church. He was
for many years delegate to the general
convention from the diocese of central
New York, and was very highly re-
spe"ted and beloved.
w. w. Corcoran, Judge Carter, A. r.
Spoford, librarian of congress, DR.. Jo-
seph NJ. Toner, Jeremiah S. Black and
others, have taken out articles of incOr-
poration under the title of the 'Jetfer-
son Monument association for the
purpose. of erecting in Washington
monument to Thomas Jefferson. The
capital of the association is placed at
100000, with power to increase t.
100000.
A singular phenomenon was recently
observed by several persons of Ripley,
Chautauqua county, n. Y, while fishing
on Lake Erie. The day being fine and
the water very still, their attention was
attracted to spot some distance
away by OuObllng and tOam-
ing of the water. They proceeded to
investigate, and found that the troub-
ling of the water was caused by stream
of gas. which found it's way up through
forty feet of water, and which, upon
applying lighted match, burned for
several minutes.
On Saturday last thirty Yale students
went duck shooting on Long Island
Sound. One of them, a senior named
Loren Andrews, was bailing out his
boat, letting his gun rest on the gunwale
with the muzzle pointed in the air.
His movement and that of the waves
caused the gun to slide along the edge
of the boat until it fell upon the bottom
striking the trigger. Being only foot
from the muzzle of the gun he received
the whole contents of the gun in his
bowels, dying in about three hours.