The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-15
PERSONAL AND IGPERSONAL.


Benjamin Boville, one of the famous
''six hundred who participated in the
charge of the Light Brigade at Balak-
lava, died the other day in Troy, N. Y.
Troy Times.
Mrs. Langtry has bought the man.
sion at 120 West Thirteenth street, New
York, and viii make her permanent
residence there subject to occasional
trips to London.-N. 7. Herald.
Thomas Van Vain, of Syracuse,
who is one hundred and four years old,
expects to see his one hundred and fif-
teenth birthday, for his grandfather
lived to that age.-Syracatse IN ~
Journal.
-Lucius FL. Murch, of Belfast, Me-,
passes as the most patient man next to
Job. Three times day for twenty
five years has Mr.. Murch recorded in
his diaries the state of the weather.
Boston Post.
One of the Oldest turkeys in the
country is Uncle George Keilholtz, the
jailer at the Northwestern police sta
ton at Baltimore. He recently cele-
brated his seventy-sixth birthday and
the fortieth anniversary of his labors as
a turnkey. Baltimore Sun.
The set of sapphires owned by the
wife of Mr.. Mackay, of ''bonanzan
fame, is valued at three hundred thou
sand dollars, and comprises the diadem,
bracelets, ring, earrings and necklace,
with large pendant. The contents of
her jewelry case are valued at one mil
lion dollars. = Chicago Tribune.
Charles Lee was buried in the War
renton (Va.) Cemetery more than a half
century ago. The other day a tablet,
with the inscription that follows. was
placed there in his memory: Charles
Lee. 1915. Aged ffty-seven years.
Attorney General United States from
1876 to 1901. - Washington STIR.
"A crazy statistician has calculated
that during his dramatic career Barry
Sullivan has committed seventeen thou
sand murders and been killed nine
thousand times. Irving has record
of fifteen thousand murders, and OF
death by violence seven thousand times;
while Charles Wyndham has in England
alone been divorced from two thousand
eight hundred wives.-N. 7. Post.
Russell B. Harrison, who recently
married Miss Saunders, daughter of ex-
Senator Saunders, of Omaha, is young
man of marked ability. In addition to
this his father is Senator, his grand
father was President, and, of his ances-
tors more remote, one was Governor of
Virginia and another a signer of the
Declaration of Independence. Chicago
Herald.
The venerable DR.. Taylor Gilman,
who died recently at Portland, Me-, was
a nephew of the famous Governor Gill
man, OF. New Hampshire, who read the
Declaration of independence to the as
sembled citizens at Exeter in 1776; and
DR.. Gilmans father was the third of the
family to hold for long term of years
the office of Treasurer of the State of
New Hampshire. -R1tlGaad Herald.
Hon. William D. Kelley, of Penn
sylYania, 'sFather of the House of Repre-
sentatives," says his health was never
better than now. He attributes the
cancerous tumor in the mouth, which
last year caused him so much trouble,
entirely to to the use of tobacco. ''For
fifty years" he says, 81 chewed and
smoked. Last spring | endeavored to
break the habit but it brought on ner-
vous prostration. I am happy to say
that have conquered the habit, and
now do not use the weed in any form. "
Chicago Tribune.