The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-08-17
Personalities.

A woman undertook to bathe at Long
Branch short time ago in SUIT OF tights
identical with the stvle worn by circus
riders. When she left her bathing
house en- route for the surf sHe was met;
by a person in authority, who ~pursuaded
her ii were better to return whence she
cane.
"Bevond his gray hairs" says the
London Lancet, "Mr. Bright showed
hardly any traces of timewrought
changes, at the mass meetingat Briming-
ham. He spoke with all his old ease
and grace, and had evidently lost none
Of that sympathetic power by winch he
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 2O,-
600 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
that he is enjoying such a hale old age.
Such lives as Mr.. Bright's have other
than political lessons to teach"
Private advices from C%ascopedia river,
in Canada, state that Governor General
Lorne ard the Princess Louise are hay
ing unusual luck at angling. A large
number of splendid salmon wepe for
warded to the government house at
Ottawa, and several splendid specimens
sent to the queen. The party leaves
Thursday for a months sojourn at the
citadel at Quebec. Chester A. Arthur,
son of President Arthur, and q party
are spending a 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 q
damsel, and after counting her by proxy
made preparations 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 Il
horse trough. On asking him why he
did not go to the house TO be married
he said: "Oh, / can't go thar and stand
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 wen back, got
the girl and parson out without exciting
suspicion, and they were married. The
company waited two or three hears, and
on being invited to supper were intro
duced TO the bride and groom. They
became so indignant that they all left
without partakipg of the supper.
The oma found dead beside the
body of Horace S. Shepard, in a room
OF Twenty-second street, New York,
was recognized as Mrs. A. C. Kelley.
She was As years old, and the mother of
five children. Shepard was a shipping
clerk with a firm of safe manufacturers,
His father is a clergyman, the Rev. 2. l.,
Shepard, and is the head of q large
school in Saybrook, Conn. \ 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 hat there was some opposition in
~Shepard's home to his marriage, and
that this was at the bottom of the trae-
edy. To his best friends Stewards
marriage was unknown.
A colored sister of the Methodist
faith who wa 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
bciating clergyman, whether through
malice or ignorance will probably never
be known, seized and soused her into
the water before she had time to object,
She came up too much ont of breath to
speak, and under she went again. After
the second dip she emerged, clawing the
air wildly, and shouting: "G'way from
hefe! Don't You chuck me under ag'in,
you nigeer!' But the clergyman was
ln~exocable and sent her to the bottom
q third time. When finally she had
escaped from his clutches and stood
dripping upon the shore, she shook her
fist and screamed: ''Ob, I'll fix wont
Iii bust the. head often YOU ouornarv
trash. sousln' me and nearly drownin'
me, when you know'd well enough all
de time dat l'se a Methodist and been
christeped by dem OATS your betters.
and knows mo- bout 'ligion den all de
Baptstsda ebber shouted, Won mis'able
black scum! and me got de rheumatic
enough to set me crazy! III see what
de law KIN do for you! III have YOU
rested DIS very day, or my names not
Johanna Johnson, vou woollv. headed
hermit You hear me?" Then Johanna
went home to change her clothes and
the ceremony proceeded.
Death of Il Famous Soldier.