The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-15
Personal Matters.

Stephen A. Douglas, Jr. is in Florida
visiting his uncle, Judge Thomas Settle,
ut whose home in Rockingham county,
North Carolina, be lived for much of the
lime during sever i years following the
war in company with his brother, Rob.
ert NJ. Douglas, now United States mar
saal for that district. Stephen was then
studying law, and in 1859, when he was
only nineteen, he was made member
Of Governor liolden's staff and appointed
campaign against the Kuklux klan. In
u public speaker.
A physician in Brentwood, Tenn,
bearing the frisid name of Jack Frost
has sued Mr.. James Knox Polk Hill and
bis wife for $4,000 damages, the latter
for alleged breach of promise of mar
riage aud the former for breach of con.
idsnce in cffecting bis own marrisge
with the co defendant, who at the time
was 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 o
horse and buggy for the purpose. and,
moreover, fitted him out with q new hat
for tho journey, and gave him good
dinner before be started, and that Hill
then basely married the woman himself.
lsaac Maddy, aged thirty-one, was
buried at Middletown, Missouri, the
other day. The cause of his death was
Addison's disease, so rare that but few
instances Of the same are on record.
Five months since lie began to turn
black, and became rs dark as any negro
of that PECULIAR color. The change was
the wonder oi the community and the
puzzle OF physicians. until one better
versed than this others pronounced it
Addison's disease. The last known cap,
was q lad at Greenviile, Ohio, and it at
tracted the attention OF the entire west.
ern medical fraternity. Mr.. Maddy had
been frequently examined by physi-
clans, who were keenIy disappointed
when he faded and died, and no post
mor,em was allowed to be held. Mr..
Madly was highly respected citizen of
AIiddlctown.
The average age of French generals 10
under forty.fvc; OF English, over sixty.
five. The average age Of American gen.
erals dc pcnds good deal ON whether
they are breathing this health-giving air
ofthe West fighting Indians, or languisb.
ing in the maIarial Tom and Jerry" Of
Washington.
The Schenectady Union mentions the
restoration Of sight to Rev. DIR. Backus,
of Union College, after ten years blind.
ness from cataract. It says that DIR. l,ac.
kus' Joy on returning to his family, able
TO sec their faces for tho first time in ten
years, cannot be described. Many whose
voices were perfectly familiar to him
we're 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 DR.. Backus had
been an influential member for many
years. had built large and handsome
structure on State street. and hs hed
passed it every day for years, but never
eaw it until last week. So throughout
the city the doctor is almost a stranger,
and each day finds some improvement
over ten years ago.
The late DR.. Holloway OF London, the
renowned manufacturer of pills and
ointment, began his business in small
way on the Strand, he and bis wife liv-
ing over the shop and doing all their
own work. His first advertisement ap.
peared in newspaper on Oct. Is, 1857.
In 1912 he spent S25, 900 for advertise.
ments; in l8a5. So, 600; In 1851. 500, 600;
in 1855. $780, 600; and for the pas. twen-