Morris tribune., 1882-10-26
Personal Items.

General Robert Toombs, when told by
doctor the other day that his liver was
diseased, protested laughingly that he
did not know he had such an organ.
The veteran politician keeos up his
spirits i'll spite of the entertainments OF
age. He lost roll of bills containing
$500 in Atlanta the other day, and when
the finder returned the money General
Toombs insisted on presenting him with
a gold-headed cane.
The last will of General Judson Kill
patrick, executed in Santiago, Chill,
short time before his death, beaueaths
all his property to his wife, gives his
battle flag, presented to him by his reg
iment, to the state of New jersey, and
bequeaths to the War Department at
Washington his Damascus sword and
scabbard of silver, presented to him by
the troops under his command after the
battle of Gettysburg.
1t is related that Secretary Evarts was
once one ofa party who were visiting the
Natural Bridge in Virginia. AS is usual,
after tarrying at the top they descended
and viewed the wonder from below.
While there the story was told that
there and thrown silver dollar COM
pletely over the bridge. Some of the par
ty pooh-poohed this assertion, but Mr..
Eyarts gravely rebuked them, saying:
"Ysu forget how much further dollar
went in those days"
Mr.. Ernrult H. Williams, son of Hon.
George Hawkins Williams, of Baltimore.
who, it will be remembered, left last
spring on the eve of his arranged mar
riage to Miss Lizzie Hazlitt, one of Bal
timore's most prominent society ladies,
returned on Sunday. Last evening the
parties were quietly married at the res
idence of the brides parents. "AlPs
well that ends we'll.
Prof. VIM. F. Brown of Richmond, O.,
seminary became criminally intimated
with young lady pupil and married
her; but her father sought vengeance
and prosecuted him under a law bearing
upon that special offense of a teacher,
He had hoped for pardon but none came,
and he died. Wednesday, the doctors
say, of a broken heart.
General Sherman, while recently act
ing as secretary of war, during the tenn
porary absence of Secretary Lincoln,
recommended the pardon of Sergeant
Mason. 1t is believed that Secretary
Liucoln, who has Just returned to WASH
ington, will unite in this.
DR.. David Gordon Lyons has been ap-
pointed to the Hollis professorship of
Divinity in Harvard college,. The chair
has been vacant for many years, owing
to an insufficiency of funds. DIR. Lyons
is 50 years old, a native of Alabama, and
graduate of Harvard college The
chair he accepts is the oldest in this
country, and was founded by Thomas
Hollis, a London Baptist layman, in 172l.
In settling the estate of James Red
dock, a somewhat eccentric bachelor
farmer at Gray River, N. S., a couple of
barrels of buckwheat were sold. The
purchaser of one barrel disputed the
measurement, and the grain was meas
ured. In the middle of the barrel was
found small tin kettle containing SlS4.
The dissatisfied buyer then wished he
had held his tongue. This discovery led
to q search of the premises, when over
Sl00 more were found hidden away in a
similar manner.
A street scene in a Virginia town is
thus described: 1T was on Augusta street,
in Staunton, and she walked boldly to the
front on Monday last, with heavy hick-
ory in each hand. She was handsome
and in vigorous health, strong and de-
termined. She saw him. He was all
confusion, but couldn't hide himself soon
enough. She larruped him there and
then, right on that corner, in sight of
many staunch readjuster who had new
er seen snch a sight before. He crept
away as soon as he could without seem
ing to think much of the shower. He
had gone and married wife after hay--
ing paid his attentions to the angered
beauty for seven years. Oh, man!'
Business is booming in Dakota.