Morris tribune., 1883-09-08
Personal Gossip.

Boston's two heaviest taxpayers are
Moses Williams and Joshua Sears, who are
assessed for So, 800, 900 and So, 244, 900 re-
spectively. Sears is Q young fellow not
long out Of college.
Daniel Webster's watch, which he
gave a friend the day he died, is
on exhibition In a Boston jewelry
store. 1t is heavy gold openfaced
Swiss watch. made in the early part
Of the century.
Cardinal Howard, who has recently been
raised by Pope Leo XIII, to the dignity Of
arch-priest of the Basilica of st. Peters at
Rome, and who is remembered in London
as leading, thirty years ago, when an Cficer
in the Life Guards, the procession at the
funeral of the Duke Of Wellington, is the
second Englishman on the roll of the arch
priest of the Basilica of st. Peters. Another
cardinal arch-priest of che Basiica was
Henry, Cardinal York, the brother of the
young Pretender. 81 -
Oscar Wildes manager says he should
not be surprised if the ianguishing apostle
of estheticism were to carry back to Eng
land an American girl for his wife. If he
isn't particular about the locality it would
be well for him to choose a Chicago girl.
An expert certifes that 4she would take
the d--n nonsense out of him quick
or than anything else he could think Of"
Prince Bismarck lately wrote kina let
tor to German in Chicago who was form
erly in his service. After giving his cor
respondent divers bits of family news, the
| prince says that both his sons are in good
health, which" he adds, "unhapplly,
cannot always say of my wife, and not at
all of myself. hunt no more, and rarely
ride, since I am too weak, and if do not
soon get rest my vital forces will be worn
out. :"
Mr.. W. W. Ker, of Philadelphia, whose
assistance Attorney General Brewster has
asked in the preparation Of the route
indictments, is democrat. 4 prominent
lawyer is quoted by the Philadelphia Prese
as saying Of him: @Mr. Ker is, without eI-
ception, the ablest special pleader at the
bar. AS q preparer of bills of indictment.
or even q bill in civil suit, he has no
equal"
A Scotch correspondent writes Of
the work of Moody and Sankey, in Edin-
burgh: "The labors of the evapgslists
| among the lapsed masses Of the city IRE be-
ing crowned with manifest tokens of sue
cess. Day after day thousands of people
| assembled in the Corn Exchange, many Of
| them men and women who have been lead
Ing uOp6166o auu "lChCu ufcb, anu WIZ
were perfect strangers to religious services.
Conversation, in the inquiry meetings have
elected many heart-rending tales of woe,
family strife, of misery and degradation, Of
| drunkenness and vice"
Capt. Irish, of Newport, 3. l., who has
| Just received from King Alfonso, of Spain,
with the consent of the government at
Washington, the grand white cross Of the
| Order of Naval Merit, for services to the
| Spanish steam 6loop Of war PiZarro, was
! born at Newport, and at Is years of age
was appointed third lieutenant in the rev.
enue service, In 1863, serving on board the
United States steamer Constitution, at
tached to the naval academy station at New
port. Fe passed through the several
| grades with distinction, and was appointed
captain in 1874 He is now in command
of the revenue steamer Dexter.
The scandal involving the good name of
the Hon. Sackville West. British minister
at Washington, which was published in
New York paper, has reached London,
where the stories are pronounced false and
the inventions of his political enemies. He
has been in public life many years, and if
the escapades referred to are true, it is at
least strange that no one ever heard OF them
until he reached Washington. In Madrid,
WuGIS Tue 6laIT Is Sd1u W EdN0 Ldh tA p1dC0
while he was in the diplomatic service, the
reports are pronounced entirely groundless.
Whether they are fictions or net, Mr.. West
has shown wisdom and dignity by the in
difference with which he has regarded
them.
A New Jersey girl having been abandoned
by her husband refused to marry another
man until she was convinced of his death.
About year since notice appeared in
country newspaper announcing his death
in Montana Territory. She then married
and was living happily with her new hus-
band when her old one appeared and had
her arrested for bigamy. She pleaded her
innocence, and the case is still under adj
visement. The notice was published ad-
visedly, but whether by her old husband to
make trouble, or by her new one to per-
suade her to marry him, is not yet entirely
clear.