The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-08-23
Personalities.

| Young George Vanderbilt. the fourth
son of the New York millionaire, is said
| to have an honest ambition to become a
newspaper reporter. He will soon re-
covef.
Prince George; second son Of the
Prince of Wales, has arrived at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, in the British corvette Can.
ada. Prince George is 'Middy" on the
Canada.
Edmund G. Stedman. the Wall street
poet, is building cottage at Newcastle,
in Portsmouth Harbor, New Hampshire,
and last week Mrs. Stedman laid the
T cornerstone, which covers leaden
box containing copies of her husbands
! books.
The rumor that General Ord was
grandson of George III. has been COM
| pletely dlsproved by the publication of
a letter to friend in which he says:
| "My ancestors, as far as l can learn by
| studying tho family tree, were good.
plain folk withouta taint of royal blood"
Rev. William Cole, Baptist clergy
man of Lowell, Mass. started from that
city fourteen months ago with his horse
and buggy, and has just returned from
point some distance beyond Minneapo.
lis, Minn., having covered the whole
distance in his carriage. Both the horse
and carriage returned in good condition
after their journey Of about three thou
sand miles, the driver having made the
trip by easy stages. Mr.: Cole is much
and during the progress of his journey
visited over four hundred schools, be-
ing cordially welcomed.
Mrs. Kate Chase's fine estate near
Washington, called Edgewood, is ten
antless, while its owner roams in Europe.
She left little over month ago, with
her children for five years. tour
abroad. The grounds are kept in toler-
able good order by the servant in whose
charge they were put by her, but the
great house with its rich furnishings
stands precisely as she left it, and the
acres around it lie uncultivated. The
neighbors do not understand why no
one keeps them under cultivation.
Hon. Lewis Smith, who died at St.
Joseph, Mo-, recently, was we'll known
in New England, having keen at one
time a prominent member of the New
Hampshire bar. He was assistant clerk
of The lower house of the legislature.
While in Minnesota he was elected to
both branches Of the legislature, and
was auditor Of Dakota county. He re-
moved to st. Joseph in 1872. He was
rah Noyee of Henniker. The deceased
was formerly democrat, but became a
republican during the civil war. He
was sixty-eight years Of age.
The Count Of Paris, in the latest vol
ume of his history of the Rebellion mod
i6es the censure of Fitz John Porter at
the second battle Of Bull Run, printed
in an earlier volume. He thinks the ad-
ditional light thrown on the engagement
of Inquiry iustifes the recommendation
ofthat body, and that excessive prudence
is the worst charge that can be brought
against him. Had Porter attacked
Longstreet, he thinks the result of the
battle would have been the same.
A triangular episode involving a young
lady, a ''stern parent" and lover,
which had decided dash of romance in
it, happened in the Canadian village of
Lacolle the other day. The village hotel
keeper has I: winsome daughter, an op-
orator for the telegraph company, with
whom railway man fell in love, and
they went to ride together. The dam
sells father was Indignant, warned her
to do so no more, and rumor says horse
whipped her to enforce obedience. He
then starteddown to do the same thing
for the girls lover. But the railway
man turned upon his father-in-law pros
pective, thrashed him severely, and 60
ing to the hotel met the daughter, who
ran away with him, leaving the enraged
father in bed from the effects of the
beating intended for the unwelcome
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