The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1883-08-16
Personalities.


Branch ashort 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 she was me,
by person in authority, who pursuaqed
her it were better to return whence sne
came. az <s.sE s g
.'Beyond his gray hairs" says the
London Lancet, "Mr. Bright showed
hardly any traces of timewrought
changes, at the mass meetings at Briming-
ham. He spoke with all his old ease
and grace, and had evidently lost none
of that sympathetic power by which ne
has SO 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 it to carry his words to ~.
GOO 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, it will be particularly gratifying
Such lives as Mr.. Bright's have other
than political lessons to teach"
Private advices from Cascopedia 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 were for
warded to the government house at
Ottawa, and several splendid specimens
sent to the queen. The party leaves
Thursday for 3 months sojourn at the
citadel at Quebec. Chester A. Arthur.
son of President Arthur, and party
are spending few days with the vice.
regal party, and are enjoying the sport
immensely. The vice-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 preparationse 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 a
horse trough. On asking him why he
did not 60 to the house to be married
before them folks" ooh, yes, you
can; everybody in there is married but
your girl. Come on."; "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
suspicion, and they were married. The
company waited two or three hours, and
on being invited to supper were intro
duced to the bride and groom. They
became SO indignant that they all left
without partaking Of the supper.
The woman found dead beside the
body of Horace S. Shepard, in room
on Twenty-second street, New York,
was recognized as Mrs. A. G. Kelley,
She was IS years old, and the mother Of
Eve children. Shepard was shipping
clerk with firm of safe manufacturers,
| His father is a clergyman, the Rev. P. L.
Shepard, and is the head of large
school in Saybrook, Conn. A letter ad-
dressed him by his son, and written ten
days ago, declared the purpose of him
self and his wife, Kittie, to die together,
and asked that they be buried in one
grave. The letter states that they had
been secretly married, and had been
very happy together, but that death
seemed pleasant to them. The police
infer that there was some opposition in
Shepard's home to his marriage, and
that this was at the bottom of the trag.
edy. To his best friends Shepard's
marriage was unknown.
A colored sister of the Methodist
faith who was looking on at the INNER
sion of d 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
floating clergyman, whether through
malice or ignorance will probably never
be known, seized and sorlsed her into
the water before she had time to object
She came up too much out of breath to
speak, and under she went again. After
the second dip she emerged, clawing the
air wildly, and shouting: "G'way from
here! Don't you chuck me under ag'in,
you nigger" But the clergyman wa.
memorable and sent her to the bottom
third time. When finally she had
escaped from his clutches and: .stooe
dripping upon the shore, she:shook hel
| fist and screamed: son, I'll fix you
I'll bust the head often you, you Urinary
me, when you know'd we'll enough al
christeDed by dem OATS your betters,
and knows mo- bout 'ligion den all d.
Baptists dat ebber shouted. YOU mis'abl'
black scum! and me got de rheumatic
enough to set me crazy! ri see wha,
de law kin do for you'll I'll have you
rested dis very day, or my names no
Johanna johnson, you Woolly-headed.
herrin'! You hear me?" Then johanna
! went home to change her clothes anC