The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-08
Personal AND DfpERsosAL.

Wendell Phillips is seventy-two wears
of age, and is not in good health. He
refuses to lecture. Boston Herald 'f
The Detroit Erennlg Journal al
ludes to Mr.. Sitting Bull as a ''distin--
gulshed relic of aboriginal greatness. y
Peter Hayden, of New York, is
worth Sl0,000,000. He is eighty years
ofage, while his heir is only two years of
age.-M Y. San.
Levi Mccormick, who has served
for thirty-two years as conductor on
the Cumberland Valley Railroad, has
been retired by the company on full pay
for the rest of his life PHILADELPHIA
Press
An eccentric individual of Dooly
County, Georgia, is seyenty-six years
old, but has never in the whole course
of his life spent one night from under
the roof of the house in which he was
born. st. LouiS Post. b
james H. Beard, the noted painter
of animals, was asked on Broadway
whether lady who was passing was
not beautiful. Yes" he said, she is,
as beautiful as cow" He meant this
as sincere compliment Y Times
MIR. John C. Jennings, Mayor of
Salt Lake City, appears and talks like
an Englishman. He is Mormon, has
two wives, and is a large stakeholder in
the cooperative store, which has bus
iness of $2,0OO,000 a year. Chicago
Journal.
Mary Cain, seven years old, of
Hamilton, Ont, lighted the fires,
chopped the wood, got breakfast,
scrubbed the floors and made garden,
and yet her parents abused her, and
finally turned her into the street. A
wealthy lady found her, and. as the
child's father. said he did not carefor
her, Magistrate gave the little one to
the lady for adoption. - Chicago Herald.
Weir, the painter of the great pic
ture in the rotunda of the White House..
"The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, y
still lives in New York, enjoying q
green old age, at eighty-tiye. He-is on
a list which seems to be preventative of
life-the retired list of the army. After
more than forty years service, as in
structor at The Military Academy, he was
in 1876 placed on the retired list with
therank and pay ofta Colonel of caval-
I, ry.-N Y. T.rihnae =
The ages of the five Oldest members
of the Newton family, of Woodbridge.
Conn, aggregate 397 years. the Oldest
being eighty-tive and the youngest
seventy-fve. Another living member
of the family is sixty-tye years of age.
Five of the family live within half a
mile of one another; the sixth lives about
mile and half from the others The
family has always lived in Woodbridge,
and the homestead which is of the fam
ily's founding, has been in its possession
14Oyears.
lin Greenville, " says correspond
ent Of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times,
''the late President, Andrew johnson,
lived, as tailor, alderman, legislator,
and President, and here he is buried.
The shop in which he labored as tailor
now stands IN the eastern part of the
town. Just over the entrance to the
| shop, which is 4 small frame building
and in which colored family is now
living, Is pine board, upon which is
| written, in letters now almost erased by
rain and storm, the following: "A.
Johnson, Tailor A little out from the
western border of the town staRds the
monument of marble which marks the
resting place of ANDREW johnson, Pres
dent of the United States,