The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-08-03
Personalities.

About year ago, Ms. Powell, a .Eos-
ton widow ofgreat beauty and accom-
pIisllment, went to Europe, and was
married her in Germany. Almost im-
mediately after the marriage, the lady
showed signs of mental alteration, and
her friends. who have watched her with
painful anxiety now relnQuish all hopes,
and regard her as an incurable maniac.
Letters of Lady Byron, the wife of the.
poet, to the Lady Augusta Leigh, ]tis
sister, have been made public in Lon
don. They conta in expressions OF the
highest regard and esteem, and ette "t,l
ally ltttlte the horrible slundel that was
given form By NJ rs Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and which has been Il more Sc.
rions blot upblEleNown. poi,hlarity than
upon the fame of Byron.
T OF Mehemet Ali, the ancestor Of the
present Khedive, the following st6iy is
told: "a milk -w0man came to the P:tsha
one day complaining that one Of his sol
diers had robbed her Of the milk she
was bringing to camp. The soldier was
identifed and denied having taken the
milk. What did lie do with 'it?' asked
the Pasha. Drank it, was tue reply.
At a sign the. mans, head was off his
body. and his stomach being OPENED was
found full of milk. Co. said the Pasha
to the Mortified milk woman. paving her
the value of the milk; but if he.had not
taken it your head wonld have paid
for it, ,~~-.
The dreaded 'roLber chief Goresko,.
whose crimes are as, manifold as they
are atrocious, Was:recently Brought into
court for sentence at the Russian town
OF IsmaiI. The courtroom was crowded,
principally by women, for whom the
robbers exploits and still more, his
physical beauty seemed to possess, great
ATTRACTIONS. As,soon as the sentence,
which was imprisonment for life, Had
aanized a}eomlnitteest0 take UP Il colle.-
ton for the prisoner. = 4 considerable
sum was at once obtained land one wo-
man in her enthusiasm, handed Gorcsko
q costly jewelled breast pin, and assured
him that the good ear would speedily
|scOnmute the sentence. ~ =
:: The Queens aversion for Palmerston
might be called caprice compared with
her loathing for Gladstone. Him she
considers little better than Cromwell.
He has never shoWR her asa Princess,
the :%tourtie like otion overeigns
exact: He treats the 1iad of the
State; but shows ho Iersonaf dsference.
He never even ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS State
with her. He Iaysshis policy before her,
points out its purposes, and when THO
times comes carriesitssint0 execution as
uncongenial majoTities to- ameIt. ;. :.
~ Adele Hugo, .ths daae ltsra6f Yhtof
Hugo; who has for many years been con.
fined in private lunatic asylum in Paris
Isl now about fifty years Of age, but at a
short distance does not look to behalf sc
old. She resembles to a, marvellous de-
gree'the portrait ofA1adame Victor Hugo
painted by ToflY:;Jolannot.. To her
companions in misfortune. she fire.
quently relatessher sad story ): how she
was married, long ago, without hen
father siconcent, to q naval officer, and
soon afterward he deserted her,
gpenniless, and without power to ! PROVE
The legality of her marriage. This blow:
unsettled her; reason, and ever after
ward she has been Kept under restraint
Year by year she. grows more ,p.oud Of
=, her fathers fame, and has committed
most of his poetfcal WORKS to- memory,
p j. H. Blake, the Trish LANDLORD RECENT
ly. murdered, belonged one Of The, first
families in the west of Ireland. He
was the second son of. Col. Blake Of Fur
ba,'gh, in the county Of Galway, uncle
to the count of Westmeath, and a rela-
tive of the marquis Of Clanricarde, over
whossTestates yielding ssaaa;Oo0 a yer.
unrelenting to the tenantry.r The mar,
quises of Clanficarde were generally
kind and popular. The present mar:
Quis is the opp IAN, absentee bache-.
lor, notorious IN, London, through asso7.
c e;:a1 With the character known as
'Skitt1es:" In addition to the Irish es:,
fates n ne inherited args fortune from