The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-12-06
Personal Gossip.

The Methodist clergy and lalty OF Bos-
ton gave a reception recently to Bishop
Foster, who made an official tour of the
globe in the past sixteen months. The
bishop expressed his surprise at the
squalor and ignorance prevailing in In
dia.
DIR. Stocker who has been severely
snubbed by the Lord Mayor of London
because he is Jew-baiter, is Chaplain
of the German court. His nti-Jewish
sentiments do not meet with any SYM
patty among Engllshmen. His
lectures have been twice broken up by
Socialists. who gathered in Ne mortal
hall in sufficient numbers to take pos
session. Recently they hooted the doc
tor, unturled red flags, and seized the
platform, with cheers for the "next
revolution"
Lafayette Cook, an old man living at
South Auburn, Me-, announced to his
friends two weeks ago that he should
die within fortnight, and at later in
tervals referred to it. He prepared
himself for the coffin on Monday, though
apparently in usual health, ba his
friends good bye, stretched himself on
the lounge and passed into slumOer
from which he never wakened.
Ex-Governor James E. English is the
richest man in New Haven, Conn.,, hav-
ing 100000 which he made himself.
He started on a farm at Bethlehem,
learned the carpenters trade, followed
it a couple of years, and went into the
lumber business, in which he is still in
tereste6. John c. Anderson comes next
with Sc, 100000. His father started poor
in the tobacco business at New York, and
the son inherited the business and the
fathers earnings. Treadwell Ketcham
has between $1,000, 900 and Loco, 600
which he made himself.
DR.. James s. Goodwin of Portland.
Me-, whose ninetieth birthday occurred
Sunday, Nov. IL, is the youngest son of
the late Gen. Ichabod Goodwin of South
Berwick. He was graduated at Dart
mouth at the age of Is, and is the only
survivor of the class Of 1911. and with
the exception of two members of earlier
classes, is the oldest surviving aiumnus
of that college.
The romantic experience of Miss
Beach, the Bethel, Conn.,, young LADY
who wrote her name on the band of a
hat and finally married the New Orleans
gentleman into whose hands it fell, has
had an unexpected sequel, Of course
the other girls in the hat shop did the
same thing, and now a western firm has
refused consignment of hats sent on
their order because so many of them
have young women's names written in
side the bands.
The cable announces the death at
Mecca of Shiek Obeidullah from an at
tack of cholera. The sheik has played
an important part in Eastern politics for
several years. AS the head of the war
like ana predatory Kurds he has harass-
ed Persia, laying waste large tracts of ter
ritory and striking terror into the hearts
of the shah and his peace-loving people.
Descended from the daughter of the
prophet and being ofthe purest Bedouin
blood, he was esteemed the third hottest
parsonage in Islam. His followers come
from the race of sturdy mountaineers
who harassed the TANKS and rear of
Xenophon's army in their famous re-
treat, So ably described in the canada
SIS" The Romans also Jared badly at
their hands, as many Latin authors
have related in their histories and de-
scriptions of the Parthians.
Almost all the leading New York
papers are now managed by Western
editors. Ballard Smith, of Kentucky,
has just been made editor of the Her.
aid; Mr.. Bromley, who takes charge Of
the Commercial Advertiser next week,
g an Ohio man; so is Mr.. Reid, of the
Tribune; Albert Pulitzer, of the World,
and Carl Schurz, of the Evening Post,
are from Missouri, and Dana, of the
Sun, comes from Illinois. Nearly all
the Philadelphia papers, on the other
hand, are under the management of
Pennsylvanians.