Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06
pERs0NAL AND IaTPERsONAL.


Senator Sharon, it is said, pays one
per cent. of all the taxes collected IN San
Francisco.
Sam 30, the son of a wealthy China
man of San Francisco, has disowned the
boy who, as student of the Chicago
university, has become a Christian
Chicago NetCs.
"A remarkable instance occurs in
the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Weeks OF
Portland, Me. Her birth, marriage and
death occurred alike on the 21st day OF
the month. Boston Post.
General Washington and General
Sherman, by curious historical coinci-
dence, issued their farewell orders to
the army on the same day century
apart-November 1, .1783-1883.
Mitchell Putnam, one hundred and
three years of age, travelled alone from
Texas to South Carolina to see his
former home. He was a soldier in the
war of 1872 and in the Texan struggle.
Warren County, Georgia, boasts of
a resident who participated in seventeen
battles for the lost cause, was wounded
several times, has been struck by light
ming three times, lay insensible from
one shock three days, is now not more
than forty years of age, and is as
healthy as any man, and weighs over
two hundred pounds. - Chicago Times.
"A Washington correspondent writes
that in one of the departments at Wash
ingtOn a needy female descendant of
George Washington's relatives was ap-
pointed not long ago. In the War De-
partment is a grandniece of Kosciusko.
In the Interior Department is employed
a great-granddaughte of Thomas JEFF
fersOn. Her little salary supports her
aged and invalid mother, who is the
last surviving grandchild of Jefferson
N. Y. Sua1.
Rev. Dr. z. l. Magoon, of Phila-
delphia, who has already distinguished
himself by his gifts of works of art to
various Institutions, recently celebrated
his seventy-third birthday by giving to
the Women's School of Design in Phila-
delphia twenty-five choice copies of old
masters, especially imported by him
self. They comprise cOSies of works
by GiottO. Fra Angelica, Michael An
gelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, Cor
reggie, Titan and Andrea del Sarto-
PHILADELPHIA Press.
Samuel Budd Riley, believed to be
of the ancient Delaware Indians, who
once occupied the State, died at Hamil-
ton Square, small village near Tren-
ton, recently. He was seventy-one
years of age, and was nearly a pure
blooded Indian. He was born and
raised near Crookstown. Many years
ago most of the descendants of the
Delawares removed to a reservation in
New York, and the race is now prac-
tically extinct. NewGr6 Register.
Rev. DR.. j. w. Scott, of Washing
ton, d. c., recently visited his daugR-
ter, Mrs. General Harrison, at Indian
apolis, and stopped for few days in
Ohio. For forty years DIR. Scott was
prominently identified with educational
institutions in the West, and no living
man has more loving constituency
than he has, scattered broadcast over
the land. lie was Professor in Miami
University, one of the Founders of
Farmers College. and the organizer of
two successful female seminaries, and
in every place was loved and honored.
He is now in his eighty-fourth year, as
full of life and energy as many men of
fifty, and takes full interest in all
questions to make the world wiser and
better and happier Chicago Tribune