The Northern Pacific farmer., 1882-10-05
People and Things.

In his formal letter declining to be the
democrat candidate for congress in the
Shoe striny' district Of Mississippi, Mr..
';rorye VI. Klein says: II am forced to
decline on account Of the personal atten-
ton required by my large business i'll
ltrr$ts and my desire to be constantly
with my aged father in his declining
years.
\ tablet bearing the following inscrip
ton is to be placed on a house in Rome
where Prof S. +. g. Morse stayed during
his visit to the Eternal City: IS. P. q. Il.
In this house lived Samuel Finley Breese
Morse from the 2Oth Of February, 1880,
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 T.. A. Burk, state treasurer of
Louisiana, who fought a duel some time
ago with the editor of the New Orleans
picavune, is in New York. He doesn't
walk with crutches now and says he feels
as well as ever. His visit is to confer
with the New York holders of the Louis
lama 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.
A gentleman in Valdosta, Ca, 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
Nav, 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 to grind 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
ut;,cture of t',e engine required. Lis
wagon is to weigh about 400 pounds.
Judge Hilton, who refused Banker
>elign,an entertainment at the Grand
Union Hotel at Saratoga, because the
tier was an 1sralite, now Otfersto give
81 900 t. the exi]e'S fund for the benefit
at Russian Hebrew refugees. Several
gifts and subscri ptions offered by Judge
Hilton Indifferent Jewish charities have
aNradv been refused. Dr. Brown, Of
the Jewish Herald, thinks that the So
cicty 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 lie has
lived since his retirement from office.
He was first chosen early in 1864, by the
n f.{t tt,,fI al fl,
that year reelected by popular vote.
In 1867, during the reconstruction pro-
cess, the powers Of his office were absorb
ed bv military commanders, and after re-
construction he WAS succeeded by Powell
Clayton.
DR.. Edny of the royal navy, 20 years
ago, married, in Switzerland, the sister
of his deceased wife. A few weeks ago,
she too, died, and inaccordance 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.. Euny was so distract
cd hat he attended the funeral on foot,
clad in CAV attire and when the body had
been lowered into the grave without
| ceremony, he Immediately walked away,
and has been seen no more.
A remarkable career was that Of Hon.
John Tod, who died recently at Victoria,
B. g., 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 Iludson's Bay to the
! Columbia river. lie visited Montreal in
| 1912. and Astoria, Oregon, in 1914.
! Afterward, in the Peace River country,
| ne spent nine years without hearing his
| mother tongue or seeing the face Of a
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 a 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 S''effield, Of which the
lease has to fall in.