Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-04-27
Personal Intelligence.

Personal Intelligence.
"Cedarcroft," the residence of the late
Bayard Taylor, is again offered for sale.
AT the sale after the owners death it
was bous hit by Silas Warner, of Mont
gomery county, who made it his home.
MIR. Warmers wife has died, and as his
home is now broken up the property is
again in the market.
Prof. Swing, of Chicago, christened
even children of his congregation al his
residence Easter afternoon. The water
used had been brought from the River
Jordan by the grandfather of one of the
little ones, and the silver christening
cup which held the precious drops was
formerly the property of President Lin
coin.
Just before State Treasurer Vincent of
Alabama, %absconded, be handed to his
wife a package. which, upon opening,
she found to contain Sic, 900 for her per-
sonal use. Concluding that it was the
states money, she turned every cent
over to the proper authorities.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, the head of the house,
is said to make some people hold their
breath when they see him drive. A
man worth 5000 900, 900 and nearly sixty
five years old, driving himself at a
weight of $50 pounds in a wagon weigh
minutes and a half, on a road crowded
with fast teams, is thought by "Gath'' to
be "a pretty healthy, ruddy specimen of
the richest citizens of the world"
Mr.. John Peck, who died recently
near Peducah, KY, was the father Of
seven sons and daughters. Just before
his decease he called his youngest SON
to his bedside and told him that he had
dren. He attempted to say whore he
had concealed it, but before he had fin
ished the grim messenger appeared and
cut short his story. A search for the
hidden treasure discovered two Jugs
with the necks knockedof f in which MI.
Beck had been accustomed to drop his
savings. One was concealed in the stable
and the other in the smoke-house. To-
gether they were found to contain $780,
600 in gold. The rest cannot be found,
though it is believed to be somewhere
on the premises.
Joaquin Miller, in a letter to the Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette, says; "For
my own part, when I die and wherever
| die, wrap me in the sheet at once and
burn my body instantly, and scatter my
ashes on the hills. This is my only will,
and | appoint each American an evecu-
tor to see il enforced. l have q senti-
mental desire, too, that my ashes might,
if not too much trouble. be scattered
somewhere on the Sierras: That is all
low-soldiers when dead. And then the
right to rest on untroubled after all is
over ought to be somehow secured"
Hon. John NJ. Hungerford, of Corn
ing, N. Y, ex-member of congress from
the T%wenty-ninth congressional district
of that state, is dead. He was born at
Vernon, N. Y, December 8, 1926; was
graduated at Hamilton college in 1846.
engaged in the banking business at Corn
ing in lS4S, and commenced political
tional Convention at Philadelphia in
1872. He was elected as a republican to
the ~Forty-ffth congress, serving his ma
tive state from October Is, 1877.
Ezra Carville, a wealthy man living
three miles from Lewiston, Me-, was
called to the door by q stranger on the
p%retence of wanting help TO fix broken
sleigh. Mr.. Carville quietly put a cooked
revolver into his pocket and followed
the man, who suddenly turned and pre-
sented a pistol and demanded Carville's
surrender. Mr.. Carville Immediately
fired at the mans breast, when the
stranger groaned and scrambled into a
sleigh and drove rapidly toward the
city, since which time he has not been
seen. Mr.. Carville is heir in an impor-
tant contested will case, and it is believed
that his murder or abduction is in view.