The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-07-19
ABOUT PEOPLE.

ROBERT BONNER now owns 10 horses
GEN. MCCLELLAN mas become an insu, ance
agent
Mn BEEcHER will spend the summer in
California.
THERE are no descendants of President
Jackson living.
THURMAN SAYS Blaine is the greatest OF liv-
ing politicians
JuDaE HoApLY is a graduate of Western
Reserve College.
JUDGE HoADLY's mother was a sister of ex-
President Woolsey, OF Yale College
RoRERT ]. BuapErrE. the humorist, Is
spending the summer ut Ardmore, Pa
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER now wears q
full suit OF ecru pongee, with its cambric
rufiieS
Or the IT, young men who applied for ad-
mission Mt West Point, twenty were
rejected
JAMES PaYN, the English novelist is said
to be strikingly like Talmage in personal APP
pearance
Mn A. s ApErI. the proprietor of the
Baltimore San, is estimated to be worth
Sl5,Oo0,WO
SENATOR BAYARD is three Doctors o. Laws.
Il.
Yale and Dartmouth
BARON HENRY DE WORMS is a rich Jew,
NJ L. for Greenwich, ambitious, it is under
stood, OF social and especially OF royal
recognition.
MRS. GLADSTONE, who was described by
Disraelt rs without single redeeming
vice." usually wears rusty black silk cos
tune with well-M orn boots and gloves She
avoids fashion that she may save money for
the poor.
GEN. II. W. SLncuM has taken the unex-
pired lease of Gen Sherman's house in
Washington. and Representative Wadsworth
will make his winter home in the one in the
same row that was formerly occupied by
Mr. Blaine.
SHERMAN w PLArr. n Young man belong
ing to one of the most respected families Of
Newton, c., has slept almost continuously
since last Christmas, and in the meantime
he has not once spoken He sits In ruck
ing chair, With his eyes closed. all day long,
paying no attention whatever to his mother
who ministers TO him consf antly, or to the
numerous friends and curious acuuaint-
ances who call daily at his home Twice u
day he rouses from what seems to be q
sound slumber, and in a half -dazed fashion
leaves his chair Go enter an adjoining room,
where the famllyS meals are served He eats
very little. The country doctors admit that
they do not understand the case. platt
was bright active young man until he was
attacked hy malalisl fever last fall after
suffering from sunstroke He was To have
been married, but does not recognize his In
tended bride when she calls and no efforts
have ayaIlrd To arouse him from his stupor
LArAYErrE's RUSTY RApIER
A rapier that once belonged to Gen Lafay-
cite is now IN the possession Of DR. W. 4
Conn, Of MeGaheysyille. Va After the bat
tie OF BrandsMine, Congress voted Iatayette
r. solution II thanks and presented him
| with a sword He gave the one he wore ut
| the time 10 Al aid de camp hy the name OF
Heaay. After the war this aid was arrested
for 4 debt OF ss0a Raphael Conn paid
the debt for his friend Headley, aud
when the latter left for Ohio, out of
| gratitude. he gave the weapon to
his nephew and namesake, the father OF
| Dr. Conn, OF McGayheysyllle, who il still
| living and well advanc Il IN the eighties.
The monogram OF Lafayette was plainly
visible under the hiit, but, unfortunately.
] the sword was hidden away during the
| late war, and when DR.. Conn tried to draw
1t from the seahbard it was found To be
rusted 80 badly that it was necessary to
1 place il IN u wise 10 get 1t out The pres
sure OF the wise oblterated the monogram
and part OF the Latin inscription, which MAS
sThe virtue OF the sword Ii in the bravery oil
the man --AoeAt,yAam ( fa.l Register.