Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-04-13
About Noted People.

but says there Is evidence that the sea lev
| 81 is higher than formerly.
About Noted People.
Ex-Gov Walter Hartman of New Hamp-
| shire will sail from Boston in the Marathon
April l, on long tour to the Holy Land
| He will be accompanied py VIM. d. Chand-
Ter, second son Of Hon. w. E. Chandler.
The yonug man will travel with Gen. Halri-
man and subsequently go to Heidelberg as
| astudent.
| At Salem, Massachusetts,, John Bsrtram,
| IN old sea captain, died, after surviving
] the war of 1912 and all the other troubles,
trials and fluctuations Of this country for
eighty.six years. He leaves wife, three
daughters and five million dollars. In this
country an occasional man dies and leaves
nothing but family. g.
A Broadway publisher recently wrote to
Guiteau asking his signature, with permits
sion to sell Autographed copies, allowing
| Guiteau royalty of twenty-five per cent
on the gross sales. In reply he received
this letter, Endorsed ON the back: Send me
800, certified check or money order, and l
will allow you to do it. @. G." The assas-
sin regarded his signature as too valuable
to be given.
The statement of General Robert E, Lees
friends that Mr.. Lincoln once offered him
the command of the armies Of the United
| States has been questioned repeatedly, but
the fact is reasserted in the Philadelphia
Weekly Times by Rev. DR.. William Jones,
secretary OF the Southern Historical Socie-
ty. DR.. Jones produces a copy If letter
| written by General Lee, wherein the latter
explains how the comm, nd was offered to
| him.
| The death is announced of Miss Eliza
beth Hamilton, the daughter of the Scot
fish metaphysician; Sir William Hamilton,
of whose life and philosophy she furnished
an account in the new edition of the Ency.
clopeiia Britannica" Miss Hamilton is
one of the foremost promoters Of the move
ment in Scotland for the university educa.
ton of women. She went to Germany
work on the philosophy of Hermann
| Lotze.
Judge Jeremiah Black is quoted by o
correspondent of the Providence Press as
saving, in regard to the rumors of Mr..
Arthur's marriage: Il do not doubt that
the president is the constant subject of
matrimonial overtures from all quarters,
some of them most automatically present.
ed. Whsn was associated with President
Buchanan as cabinet officer from his own
state, was continually solicited to be the
medium of these delicate approaches and
propositions"
Although it is little more than two
months since Mr.. Low of Brooklyn left his
business in Burling Slip for the mayors
his friends think his intense application to
his duties is injuring his health. Mayor
Low is only thirty two years of age. He
married about two yeara ago the daughter of
Judge Curtis of Boston.
James Freeman Clarke is seventy two
years old. but he is! the most industrious
corpse by will, as there can be no property
in the dead body of human being. The
case was one in which man directed that
his body should be cremated, and the di-
rection was fulfilled by his daughter at an
expense Of 900. This the executors re-
fused to pay, and the daughter brought an
action to recover. The court decided that
her father had no.. power to
dispose Of his body, ala that the
executors were only bound to bury
it in manner beftting the estate of the de.
ceased.
One of the duties of the policeman or
guard on the Longfellows grounds on Fri
day was to turn away the players of hand
organs. For years it has been the custom
of the family to give six cents to each HAND
organ man, the result being that few Of the
| peripatetic musicians who came into the
vicinity failed to take the house into theil
circuit. Three appeared on Friday after
| noon.
The fashion Of mutilating statues, which
seems to be growing in Gotham, has result
ed in some ono breaking bronze ornaments
from the statue erected in Central Park tC
the N emory Of the members of the Seventh
regiment who fell in the civil war. There
is no evidence leading to the detection o.
the vandal, and the outrage must be as
cribed to some misguided iconoclist who
remembers that the Seventh did not Dc
much real fighting, but forgets that the
regiment furnished about six hundred Of
fcers and several thousand soldiers to othe
commands.
An article in an exchange is devoted to
discussion Of The Decadence of Modern
Manners" No person Of sensitive feeling
will be likely to read beyond the headlines
for while bitterly approaching the fact tina
ancient manners have been deteriofizsG
sadly in reaching US moderns, one canno
contemplate without shudder the though
that ths manners we see about Us at pres
ent can be still further impaired. If they
are reported on good authority as reall.
about to undergo this process, we might al
well begin to habituate ourselves at once t
breech- clouts and diet of raw meat, an.
get ready for the next stage in decadenoe