Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
PERSONAL.


his American tour.
Mrs. MERRITT, of PHILADELPHIA, ex-
hlbits portrait of Minister Lowell at
the salon.
MIR. JOSEPH JEFFERSON has pur-
chased tract of 300 acres of land near
New Iberia, III.
JOAQUIN MILLER will read poem be-
fore the New York Press Association at
us twenty seventh annual meeting in
June.
MARIE RozE, the prima donna, was
entertained al breakfast recently by Mr..
ana Mrs. Gladstone at the premier's Off
clal residence.
HE Prince of Wales has of late been
wearing a hussar jacket of dark cloth.
heavily braided down the fronts. and on
the collar, sleeves and BASQUE.
JUDGE THAYER, of PHILADELPHIA. de-
cides that liquor can not be sold in Fair
mount Park, and many citizens are
gloomy at the prospect for the summer,
PERRY BELMONT, of New York. is said
to be engaged to the beautiful Miss
Iiangdon, daughter of the late Eugene
Langdon, and great-granddaughte of
the first John Jacob Aston.
Miss CYNTHIA ELoIsE CLEVELAND tbe
only lady lawyer in Dakota, and widely
and well known as the president of the
Dakota W. @. 7. u, has concluded to
enter upon the active practice of her
profession.
KEPPIER, one of the proprietorg of
Puck, who sailed for Europe the other
day, IS completely broken down in
health, and his trip is for the sake of
much-neededrest. He is said to be worth
over 100000.
EDWARD MORAN, the artist, appears to
be as obdurate creditor as the plaintiffs
attorney IN Bardell VS.. Pickwick, He
has kept Daniel P. Secord locked up in
Ludlow Street Jail, in New York, for the
space of two yeers.
EUGENE gives up home she was fond
OF IN renouncing her claims to the cha
teau IN Marseilles. It was presented
her by the people of that city when she
was empress and reclaimed by the mu-
nicipality since the republic.
DIR. JACOB S. ELLIOT, an old resident
OF Minneapolis, Mimi, but now living
IN southern California, has given Min
neapolis block of grounds valued at
$50, 900 and in the heart of it's residence
portion, for public park purposes.
Ex-Governor HoRATIo SEYMOUR,
whose political career dates back nearly
forty years, will be 70 years old on the
3lst OF May. He has one brother and
four sisters, the youngest of whom,
Julia, IS the wife of Roscoe Conkl1ng.
G. W. CoULDoCK, the veteran actor,
now in his sixty-eighth year, will sail
for England on June 18th, to visit two
sisters, one of whom he has not seen for
forty years. He will be absent from
New York, where he lives, eight or ten
weeks.
ANDREW J. B1ETHEN, lawyer, went
from Maine to Missouri a few years ago,
where he drifted into newspaper life.
He is now getting rich as the manager
Of the Kansas City Journal, and has
Just given the seminary at Kent's Hill,
Me-, $4,000 towards building a presi-
dents house.
Mr.. GoULD's principal holdings now
are Western Union, $50, 1000, 900; Mis-
souri, Pacific, 100000 600; Wabash
Pacific, $10,000,000; Denver and Rio
Grande, $40, 1000, 900; the balance of his
800, 100000 being invested in bonds
and real estate.
EX-SENATOR TABoR's first wife, whom
he discarded as soon as he became mil
ionaire, is said to remain faithful to her
affection for him, and although she is
now rich, she declares that the happiest
days of her life were when she kept his
grocery store at California Gulch.
EUGENE FIELD is in luck. The bread
he has charitably cast upon the waters
is coming back to him. A seedy and
needy prospector to whom he lent five
dollars when he first reached Denver
has since struck it rich, and there is q
report that he has given Eugene half
interest in mine that is "paying b1g."
GEORGE BANCROFT has passed far be-
yond the goal of many of the great his
torians with whom his name will be as
ISOLATED, Gibbon died at 81, Macauley
at SO, Prescott at 50, Motley at IS,
Hume at IS. Mr.. Bancroft has out
stripped the most fortunate of them by
nearly twenty years, and the tale is not
told yet.
CHARLES LowTHER, younger brother
of Lord Lonsdale and heir to the earl
dom, as the present earl has no children,
is seriously ill. ''Charley" Lother is
the member of his interesting family
who went round the country as a niger
minstrel, married a music hall singer
and had the memorable lawsuit with a
dog fancier.
LORD AvoNMoRE, once known as the
Hon. Major Yelverton, died the other
day at Biarritz. He was the hero of the
Yelverton cause celebre in which he said
in the witness box that he did not think
promises to marry were valid when
made to person not of Sc gentle blood"
a queer remark from one whose nobility
only dates from Barry Yelverton, a sue
cessful lawyer and the son of man who
began life as butchers boy.