The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-09-28
Personalities,

oAA WAAAh4 dlA1be1s WuObo Oebtu ID WI .
noanoed, was the inventor Of the projectiles
shot and she'll for piercing mor-plated
ships. He also invented the rifle COM
pound guns known by his name. He re-
tired from the army in 1871, and was
knighted by Victoria In 1873.
Petsr Mankins died recently at his home
near Fayetteville, Washington county, Ark,
and II days. He had been Baptist for
seventy FIVE years and a deacon seventy
years. Everybody loved him." it is said,
devotedly. He was married three times to
widows with, children; and though Wild
over at ninety the last time, he would have
married again, but that my eyesight fails, "
said he, and Il want to pick young girl
the next time" @fsf
Miss Lucy Maclem of Olean, N. Y, was
years ago, beautiful girl. She was gifted
with all the female graces, and when Sal
mon P. Chase, who afterward became so
prominent in our annals, met her, they
were mutually pleased, loved and became
engaged. Correspondence continued fel
some time and then suddenly ceased. Why
this was the result Lucy never would dis
close; but in little time she acted strange,
and in few years reason took its flight.
She is now harmless lunaic wandering
about Clean, asking for reuittances that
never come, or applying for money that ia
never lent. She is supported by her sister
Sara, seamstress.
Rochester Democrat: Premonitions
may he laughed at by the skeptical, but in
the case of Mrs. Doris, the wife Of Gen.
Doris, who lived near st. Louis, and who
was brutally murdered by her grandson,
Russell Brown, the mysterious warming she
received is not a subject OF levity. When
her attention was recently called to the facI
that Brown resembled the picture published
in newspaper of the lnurderers hung in St
Louis, she remarked, "Yes, the likeness
is striking; and now mark my words, Rus
sci Downs picture will be published in
this. paper, and Russell Brown will be
hanged for my murder
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is sixty five
years of age. She wears her snow white
hair arranged in little putfs on each side OF
her forhesd, with band of lilao satin tied
behind them, dresses neatly and becoming
~ and has matronly, motherly appear
ance. She has reared seven children; hel
youngest daughter is now studying mathe-
mates in the university of Paris. Miss
Susan b. Anthony is four years younger,
Out looks older.
Rev. DR.. Bellows was twice married, his
first wife being daughter of Elihu Town
send of the old firm of Nevins s. Townsend,
bankers, in New York. His children by
the first marriage are Rev. Russell N. Bel
lows, Unitarian clergyman, who was late.
ly in charge Of Unity chapel at Harlem and
daughter, Miss Anna Bellows. For his
second wife DR.. Bellows married daught-
er of the late Rev. Ephriam Peabody of
Kings Chapel, Boston, who survives him,
with three young chill .iren-Henry Whit
ney, Robert Peabody and Ellen Derby Boil
lows.
Every now and then the question is raised
as to whether George Washington was or
was not q communicate member of the
Protestant Episcopal church. The record
Of his baptism, April Sd. 1882, is preserved,
and the names Of his sponsors, two men
and one woman, according to the rubic, are
given. In Truro parish, which includes
Mount Vernon, he was vestryman, and
Pohick church was built from his own
plans and under his supervision. He was
also vestryman Of Christ church. Alexan-
dria, where he had pew. In New York
he was an attendant at st. Pauls chapel
and in Philadelphia at Christ church. In
AOld churches and families Of Virginia, I"
Bishop Meade says Washington was COM
municant.