Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-05-22
PERSONALITIES.

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GRAY BEAR, an ex.chief of the Sioux
Indians, is police officer in Fargo,
ID. T.
GouNT CoRTINA died the other day in
the City of Mexico, leaving his daugh-
ter a fortune Of 81, ,0O0, 900.
Mr.. PIERRE LoRIIhARD has opened a
free library and reading-rooms for the
8, GOO employees Of his tobacco factory in
Jersey City. &
| Rev. DR.. A. A. MINER has Just COM
lpleted his thirty sixth year as pastor of
the Columbus Avenue Universalist
Church, Boston. itsas
PEDESTRIAN FITZGERALD made in the
New York walking match So, 456; Rowell,
So, ,670; Panchct, 81, ,OO4, and four Others
from $500 to 81, 1000 each.
Rev. DIR. TERHuNE, the husband of
"Marian Harland, J" the wcll-known
writer, now of Springfield, Mass, has
accepted the call recently given him to
Brooklyn church.
| Ex-STATE SENATOR j. 81. MORSE was
appointed postmaster at Morse's Mills,
Jefferson County, No., during President
Fierce's administration, and has held the
Office ever since. nearly thirty years.
THE gold and silver medal provided
by the Prince of Wales for distinction
in classics, the highest gift in Queens
College University at Kingston, Ont,
has been won by Miss r. T. Fitzgerald.
The Crown Prince of Austria is de.
scribed as meditative young man, with
passion for ornithology. When the
Grown Prince visited Constantinople, re-
Gently, the Sultan gave him q reception
that cost 81, 1000, 900. q
THRY say that the Empress OF Austria
IN her equestrian performances carries q
whip in the head of which is stored a
charge OF electricity, SO that at will she
can startle or subdue the horse Instant
ly by administering an electric shock.
GOETHE, between the years 1912 and
1928, wrote many letters to the Countess
Josephine O'Donneli, many years lady
ln-waiting to the Empress of Austria,
These letters have been handed to Prof.
Werner, and he has undertaken to
arrange them for publication.
SIR CHARLES UPPER, who has held
portfolio in the liberal conservative gov
ernment OF the Dominion of Canada
since the confederation, has resigned the
office of minister of railways, and will
take up permanent residence in Lon
don as Canadian High Commissioner.
GEN. SWAIN, the Judge advocate gen.
eral of the army, and former close friend
OF Garfield, is pictured as short, stout
man, with rustic air. He has dark
hair and whiskers, a horid face, is care
less in his dress, usually has cigar in
his mouth, and is quiet and retiring in
his manner.
JOHN f. SLATER, who died at Nor
wlch, Conn, was known chiefly on ac-
count of his munifcence toward the
freedmen. In 1872 he gave $1,000, 900
as fund for their education, and the
money is being distributed BY board
| of trustees to deserving schools in the
South.
PRoF. LoNaFEILow's daughters mani
fest an almost morbid mania for sea voy-
aging, and seem to think nothing of the
paternal poets lines in comparison
with favorite steamship lines. They
have just returned from England, and
their next proposed trip will be with
Nine. Ole Bull to Norway.
WILLIAM HAYES, a bachelor of 60 liv.
ing at Green Ridge. Staten Island,
promised to marry Mary Sullivan,
servant girl, but he backed out, and
Mary brought suit for breach of prom
ise. The jury gave her verdict for
$500, which Hayes promptly paid, say
ing he was glad to get free from the
trouble so easily.
SECRETARY FREn1NaHeysEs occupies
large third-foor office in Washington,
furnished in walnut and light brown
leather, with Turkish rugs on the hard.
wood floor. At the side Of his desk is
small stand bearing polyglot Bible,
with notes and index. In writing the
secretary uses gold pen in cork
holder. a
MGR. CAPE1 boldly tells friend in
Boston that he never even read "Lo.
THAR, in which his portrait is supposed
to be drawn In the character of Catesby.
And yet in the first edition of the novel
the printer, the proof.reader and Dis
raeli himself overlooked single page
where the intended name Catesby was
written and printed Capel.
CAPT. TRAYNoR, the Bath, Me-, crank
who in the summer of 1881 crossed the
ocean in the smallest sailboat which ever
made the passage, will set out in June
to row across the Atlantic in his dory.
he says lie can row fifty miles day in
favorable weather, and he expects to
reach Bristol, Eng, in about three
months. He will get a cat to accompany
him, and bis provisions will consist of
canned food. His boat is thirteen feet
keel, five feet beam aud twenty-five
ipchea deem So ts'at - -sasti-