The Dickinson press., 1883-07-14
Personal GOSSIP.

Cashier Blaney, ''for ten years q trust.
ed employ of the Massachusetts Loan
and Trust company" has Just been dis
covered to be an embezzler to the ex-
tent of $4,000. He is under arrest, and
the bucket-shops or wildcat brokerage
establishments.
Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Trinity
Church, Boston, is preaching at differ
ent churches in London with great sue
cess, and when he discoursed at West
minister recently the crowd was too
great for the edifce.
Among the items in the estimate Of
expenses for the duke of Edia burgh's
special mission to Moscow was $500 for
"gratuities." When the Emperor Nich-
castle in 1874, he gave $4,000 to
the servants and $500 to
the h~ousekeeper, as we'll as six gold
snuf-boxes,- with his picture set in dia-
monds to the lords of the household;
and six with his cipher to the equerries
and grooms-in-waiting. These were the
s sb5at s 9 tSaisdSsHtt o Sf'r r,S Ssher wa atseRRsgaad sR,t
brooches vas distributed. When the
late Emperor Napoleon stayed at Wind
sor in 1855 he left about $500 for the
servants.
Mr.. John Leveridge, the oldest law
yer in New York, will be 90 years old
September l. He distinctly remembers
the funeral of Washington, witnessing it
in company with his sister at the cor
ner of Broadway and Vesey streets.
The event was forcibly impressed upon
his mind by the fact that when lie got
home he and his sister were soundly
spanked by their mother. -
The winner of the great chess tourna-
ment now in progress in London, LUX
ertort, is only one inch oyer five feet in
height Stejnetz, who is quite likely to-
be second, is inch taller; and Ma
sou, another of the best players in the
tournament, stands but five feet and
three inches. Evidently the battle il
notalways to the long. -
Adirondack Murray is now in New
York, and lives in purely democratic
style. He wears a colored shirt, without
vest, and a loose sack coat that shows
the signs Of use. He calls for his letters
at the general post Office delivery, ex-
planning that he can not afford just now
the luxury. of a look-hox. He Sd US he is
happy in the enjoyment of good health,
at the bar: He studied law in Texas,
wanderings which he will utilize in q
series of lectures. His hair has turned
gray, albeit he is but 43, and he wears
a smile upon his bronzed face.
Patterson, N. j., has a clergyman who
hos n,onxy n~sol1a nooo,k.. T-.L
Sunday he startled his flock by making
a public appeal to them for a special
collection for himself, that he might
send money to his family, which he
said was in California in a state border
ing on starvation. The collection was
taken up, and another in the Sunday
school, at his request, after which
o opara OF generosity the
itself that it was rather queer that a
minister in receipt Of a salary of SIPS
month as theirs was, should permit his
family to remain in California or else
where in the unpleasant condition de-
scribed. Another popularity in the
preacher cropped out a few weeks ago,
when he announced from the pulpit
that his people would have to buy him 4
clock OF take his watch out of pawn il
they wanted him to deliver shorter ser!
ons 1t was found that he had pawned
his watch and they redeemed it for him.
Two Boston boys, about six or seven
years ago, went to California, concluded
after a short halt that they had not
found just what they wanted, wandered
about awhile, founA "a low green val.
ley" amongthe hills of northern Guate-
mala, high enough up from the general
face Of good mother earth" $3.50 feetl
to make a good climate, squatted, pur-
chased their sovereignty over the acres
and set the Indians at work at eig hteen
cents a day. They harvested last year
about two tons Of coffee, it being the
fourth year from the beginning. This
year their harvest has been twenty-five
tons: and next year they expect a full
yield OF fifty tons. In harvesting their
crop, this year, they have proven their
ability to dry the berry by artificial
heat, and the business Of the partner
now travelling is to construct drying ap-
aratus of sufficient capacity to work
their whole crop next year. This is
very important discovery for the coffee
industry, for it has been said that dry
ing by artificial heat injured the color Of
the coffee. but the price realized by this
hrm for their crop this year %lseventeen
q pound) negatives that assertion.