The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-15
Personal Matters.

Stephen A. Douglas, Jr. is in Florida
visiting his uncle, Judge Thomas Settle,
at whose home in Rockingham county,
North Carolina, he lived for much of the
time during several years fol- lowing the
wal in company with his brother, Rob-
ert M. Douglas, now United States mar
shall for that district. Stephen was then
studying law, and in 1869, when be was
only nineteen, he was made a member
of Governor IIolden's staff and appointed
brigadier general of'militia during the
campaign against the Kuklux Khan. In
person, he is stout, and he is popular as
a public speaker.
A physician in Brentwood, Tenn,
bearing the frigid name of Jack Frost
has sued Mr.. James Knox Polk Hill and
his wife for $40, 600 damages, the latter
for alleged breach Of promise of
riage and the former for breach Of con-
fdence in effecting his own marriage
with the ~co-defendant, who at the time
was a widow. Frost alleges that he
commissioned Hill as his best man to
bring the widow down to Nashville to
marry him, and supplied him with a
horse and buggy for the purpose, and,
moreover, fitted him out with q new hat
for the journey, and gave him a good
dinner before he started, and that Hill
then basely married the woman himself.
The late DIR. Holloway of London, the
renowned manufacturer Of pills and
ointment, began his business in a small
way on the Strand, he and bis wife liv-
ing over the shop and doing ali their
own work. His first advertisement ap-
peared In q newspaper on Oct. Is, 1887.
In 1912 he spent $25, 700 for advertise
ments; in 1845. $4,000; in 1851. 500. 900;
in 1856, $50, 900; and for the past TWEEN
ty years an average of $780, 600 per year.
The size of the fortune left by him a.
only be guessed at, but for many years
averaged 81 ZOO, 900 a year. it is most
great benevolence, and that his medi-
cines really were good.
Isaac Maddy, aged thirsy-one, was
buried at Middletown, Missouri, the
other day. The cause of his death was
Addison's disease, so rare that 5ut few
instances of the same are on record.
Five months since he began to turn
black, and became as dark as any negro
of that peculiar color. The change was
the wonder OF the community and the
puzzle of physicians, until one better
versed than the others pronounced it
Addison's disease. The last known case
WAS q lad at Greenville. Ohio, and it at
tracted the attention Of the entire west
ern medical fraternity. Mr.. Maddy had
been frequently examined by physi-
ciane, who were keenly disappointed
| when he faded and died. and no post
| norton was allowed to be held. Mr..
Maddy was a highly respected citizen oil
Middletown.
The Schenectady Union mentions the
restoration of sight to Rev. DIR. Backus,
Of Union College, after ten years blind
ness from cataract. 1t says that DR.. Bac-
kus' Joy on returning to his family, able
| to see their faces for the first time in ten
| years, cannot be described. Many whose
| voices were perfectly familiar to him
! were entire strangers. He had never
seen his grandchildren. Some friends
had changed and grown old in ten years,
and but for their familiar voices would
scarcely have been recognized.
In the city the changes have
been great. The Young Mems Christian
Association. of which DIR. Backus had
been an influential member for many
years, had built a large and handsome
structure on State street. and he had
passed it every day for years, but never
saw it until last week. So throughout
the city the doctor is almost q stranger.
and each day finds some improvement
over ten years ago.
Somebody in Washington told General
Sherman that agreat many people would
like to see him President, and the Gem
eral, according to q more or less accurate
reporter. burst out with: What an ass
I would be to take that-to give up the
good thing I've got for life for four years
Of purgatory.'