The Mineral argus., 1883-09-06
Personalities.

Branch short time ago in suit of tights
identical with the style worn by circus
riders. When she LEFT her bathing
house en- route for the surf SIC was met
by a person in authority, who pursuaded
her it were better to return whence she
cane.
Beyond his gray hairs" says the
London Lancet, "Mr. Bright showed
hardly any traces of timewrought
changes, at the mass meetingat Briming-
ham. He spoke with all his old ease
and grace, and had evidently lost none
Of that sympathetic power by which he
has 80 repeatedly secured the ~raptatten-
ton Of vast audiences. For nearly an
hour his voice held out clear and strong,
and only after he had been successfully
calling upon il to carry his words to 2O,-
900 persons for that time did he get
hoarse. To those who recall how Mr..
Bright has twice been laid aside from all
work for considerable periods by serious
illness, IL will be particularly gratifying
that he is enjoying such a hale old age.
Such lives rs Mr.. Bright's have other
than political lessons TO teach"
Private advices from O~ascopedia river,
in Canada, state that Governor General
Lorne ard the Princess Louise are hav-
ing unusual luck at angling. A large
number of splendid salmon we're for
warded u the government house at
Ottawa, and several splendid specimens
sent to the queen. The party leaves
Thursday for q months sojourn at the
citadel at Quebec. Chester A. Arthur,
son Of President Arthur, and a party
are spending a few days with the vice
regal party, and are enjoying the sport
immensely. The vicc-regal party will
/. return to Ottawa the last week in Au-
gust, after having visited Toronto.
The Sumter (Ga.) Republican tells Of
a bashful youth who fell in love with a
damsel, and after counting her by proxy
made preparations TO marry. The day
was fixed and the guests assembled.
The parson was on hand and the bride
ready, but the groom did not material
! re. The friend who had done the
counting went out, and after looking
, around found him sitting or lying in q
! horse trough. On asking him why he
; did not 60 to the house to be married
he said: "Oh, / can't go thar and stand
D before them FOLKS" "Oh, yes, you
s can; everybody in there is married but
your girl. Come N. Get her to
come out doors, and we'll marry under
the shed, but let the old folks stay in
the house" The friend went back, got
the girl and parson out without exciting
. | BuSnlclOus anu LntI NCIG lLdIIACNs 4nC
company waited two or three hours, and
on being invited TO supper were intro
duced TO the bride and groom. They
b became so indignant that they all left
without partakiDg of the supper.
The woman found dead beside the
a body OF Horace S. Shepard, in a room
+ on Twenty-second street, New York,
was recognized as Mrs. A. c. Kelley.
I She was 40 years old, and the mother Of
70 five children. Shepard was q shipping
nt clerk with a firm of safe manufacturers
His father is a~clergyman, the Rev. III,
IL Shepard, and is the head of a large
q. school in Saybrook, Conn. A letter ad-
X dressed him by his son, and written ten
DAYS ago, declared the purpose OF him
"A self and his wife, Kittie, TO die together.
and asked that they be buried in one
= grave. The letter states that they had
W been secretly married, and had been
~ very happy together, but that death
y seemed pleasant to them. The police
" infer that there was some opposition IN
Stewards home to his marriage, and
o. that this was at the bottom Of the trag-
%, edy. To his best friends Shepard's
on marriage was unknown.
We A colored sister Of the Methodist
ed faith who was looking IN at the INNER
sion of a company of Baptist converts in
an Alabama river the other day, became
so interested in the spectacle as to ven
- ture close to the waters edge. The Of
lg' fciating clergyman, whether through
ties malice or ignorance will probably never
be known, seized and soused her intC
ek, the water before she had time to object
II She came up too much out Of breath tc
Il. speak, and under she went again. After
the second dip she emerged, clawing th'
air wildly, aud shouting: "G'way from
heTel Don't you chuck me under agin,
q. you niger !" But the clergyman wa
81 inexo,able and sent her to the bottom
a third time. When finally she haC
81. escaped from his clutches and stooC
dripping upon the shore, she shook hel
ler; fist and screamed: "Oh, I'll Tx you
I'll bust the head often you, you oTDarl
M trash! sousin' me and nearly drownln
ries me, when you know'd we'll enough al
los dc time dat Use a Methodist and bee
lie christeDed by dem OATS your betters
ne. and knows mo bout 'igion den all d
ms Baptists dat ebber shouted, o mis'abl
ing, black scuml and me got de rheumati
Ter enough 10 set me crazyl IN see wha
he de law kin do for you'll In have 20
ON rested dis very day, or my names NJ
Johanna johnson, you w~oolly-headed
we; hermit You hear me?" Then Johann
d. went home TO change her clothes an
e the ceremony proceeded.
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