Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-19
PERSONALITIES.

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married an English girl
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL, the English
philanthropist, was As years of age on
May 81.
MISS MARY ANDERSON, the actress,
now tells her friends that she is deter
mined to settle in England after her
next visit to America.
PRINCE BISMARCK, while stopping at
hotel in Friedrichsruhe, was jeered
and hooted by the crowd until he grew
wild with rage and sent for the police.
JAMES E. SoRIPPs, of the Detroit Even
ing News, has given $4,000 to the Art
Loan Association, on condition that
the Museum of Art be public institu.
ton.
JOHN NINET, who occupied high
position in Arab Pasha's administers
tion, is writing a life of the Egyptian
agitator. 1t will be published at
Berne.
IT is reported that @. B. Lewis, the
IN. Quad" of the Detroit Free Press,
will, after September l, take up his resi-
dence at Newburg, N. Y, where he
formerly lived.
HENRY WHEELER, of Hickory Flat,
GA, has never seen city, and is "a
years old. He has 100 grandchildren
and great-grandchildren. He never
used rum or tobacco.
MIR. EDWARD KING is alarmed for
art because Rome sculptor is making
4O-foot-tall statue of John G. Calhoun,
to stand on proportionately elevated
pedestal in the city of Charleston.
IT is stated that J. h. Hammond, the
owner of the last Derby winner, st
Galien, has won on the turf during the
past few years not less than GsO,OOO, ex
elusive of the 100000 which he landed
on the Derby.
LUCY HAMILTON HOOPER, and Olive
Logan Sykes both are brilliant and
spicy Paris correspondents, and one OF
them is the wife of On American vice.
consul and the other widow of an
American cousul.
The Rev. Arthur Sloan, who was re.
Gently obliged to give up the rector.
ship of Christ Episcopal Church, Stra..
ford, Conn.,, because of his belief in
faith cures" will soon begin religious
! work in New York City.
HENRY WILLIAM EATON, member OF
Parliament for Coventry, who married
the only daughter of Mr.. Thomas L.
Harman, of New Orleans, has Just paid
| 6,2O0 guineas for Landseer's original
1.-The Monarch of the Glen"
SIR THOMAS BRAssEY and Sir Donald
| Nr1,+Y 1,a
British peers. Sir Thomas is rich
popular and has charming literary
wife, and Sir Donald has twice carried
OF the sick Premier and returned hin,
well in one of the floating castles.
FERDINAND PAoHEoo, native of
@ .lifornia, aged 81 years, died at Con
rad, Cal, few days ago. He weighed
AIT pounds and his shoes were No. is
The coffin in which he was buried was
four feet wide, three feet deep and
seven feet long. About two years ago
he turned the scales at 500 pounds.
WH1rELAw REID, editor of the New
YORK Tribune, has the finest house ever
owned or occupied by New York edit
or, and one of its best features is it's ex-
tensive library. He does most of his
editorial writing at home. He is now
40 years of age, and has been connected
with the Tribune for sixteen years.
Mrs. J. OWEN ROUSE, of Jersey CITY.
has placed window in the Asbury Park
On. J0 First Methodist Episcopal
Church as memorial to her daughter,
Mrs. L. De Witt Talmage, who was
drowned in the Schuylkill River nearly
twenty years ago. The window is a
double one and exceedingly handsome.
OLD Mrs. Septima Meikelham, the
granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson,
has declined the offer of Mr.. Louis
Schaefer, the Ohio philanthropist, to
give her home, and will continue to
live at Georgetown, where she and two
daughters are wholly dependent on a
third daughter who draws 81 900 year
as clerk in the Patent Office.
WHEN Maryon, one of the most re.
markable of modern etchers, was living.
he was glad to sell proofs of his master.
pieces for twelve cents each and live in
common garret Since his death in a
mad house essays have been written on
him, collectors have set their caps at
him, and those impressions which in
life he could not often sell for even
twelve cents are worth $25.
A FIDDLE upon which George Wash
ington used to play is now in the pos
session of Col. J. Washington, and an
effort is being made to raise $1,000 to
purchase it that it may be placed in
Miss Curtis music room at Mount Yer
non, where are already the harpsichord
presented by the General to Mrs. Cur
tbs on her wedding day and the flute
upon which he used to accompany her.
Mrs. STURGEON, the invalid wife of
the famous London preacher, has es-
tabished a "book fund.- fror.. which
she supplies books to poor ministers of
all denominations. BY making frames
for photographs she has earned $3.50.
which she has devoted to this work
Last year she gave away more than T.
600 books, and during the past six
years she has distributed nearly 49,
600.
AUGUSTUS ELY SILL1MAN, for many
years prominent banker of New York,
died last week in Brooklyn, aged 70
years. MIR. Silliman was known as an
eminently conservative and careful
business man in Wall Street, and main
tanned reputation of the highest order.
He was one of the committee of six bank
presidents who formed the Clearing
House in 1858. He read and wrote
much. One of his books which had a
large sale was entitled "Sketches of
American Scenery"
How the Speech Making Was Stopped.