Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-12-25

Mrs. Flanagan, y hard-worRins
voman Of Holyoke, Mass. has been
notified by a New York savings bans
that a fortune Of some $4,000 awaits
ber there. beng the estate OF an eccen-
80 and only sister, who died two years
ago. Mrs. Flanagan did not know her
sister was dead, although well aware OF
her place of residence, and the bank
has been searching for her Tor twenty.
three months.
J. s. Morgan, Of LONDON, who says
he isn't about to marry the divorced
wife of the late Charles Sumner, has
been making q pleasant and protracted
visit in philadelphia to Mr.. Anthony
Drexel, one OF his American banking
partners
Abraham Thomas, OF England, re-
GENTLY won't to Indian Territory snd
married an Indian girl worth $l00,OOO
That, under Indian laws, makes him a
full. blooded member of the tribe, blu
does not give him any control o. the
property.
The old Schuyler mansion in Albany,
now to be razed, was built ] n l76o by
the wife Of General Philip SCHUYLER,
and was 4 marvel Of grandeur in It's
early DAYS. Franklin, Lafayette. Aaron
Burr and R~ocnamhean were among
its guests. Here Burgoyre was heio as
prisoner after his surrender at Saratoga,
and. in 1871, a desperate effort was
made by Tories and Indians to capture
General Schuyler. Gathering his lam
ily in an upper room, be stood siege IN
til relief came.
Henry James, the novelist, is report
ed to greatly resemble the Prince Of
Wales, and a London letter says he
tells this story of himself: He was
passing st. James Palace one day, when
he noticed that the sentry saluted him;
Il struck him as rather curious, and so
ne stopped and entered into converse
ton with the man, who replied, very
much 10 Mr.. James's amazement,
Yes, Your Royal Highness. No,
Your ROYAL Highness." This amused
| the author of Confidence" so much that
he continued to converse with the sol.
iier for some moments, and, at the close
! 81 their interview, presented him with .
generous gratuity.
A Roman Catholic priest. formerly
stationed at Hayre, France, by name M.
rAbbe LIE Mesle, was married the other
day in London to a Miss Loisei, daugh-
ter of o wealthy banker at Paris, The
wedding ceremony was performed by
special license by the Rev. p. Ahier, In
cumbent of the French Anglican church.
1t is the intention of the bridegroom to
work with Pere Hyacinthe in mis- work OF
Catholic reform in Paris.
Gen. Kountz, commandments OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic, was
escorted to Missionary Ridge battlefield,
in Tennessee, Thursday, by the local
post of tho Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie. He was taken to the spot where,
as adrummer boy, in 1868, he responded
to General Sherman's order to charge
and dashed squarely into the eonfed-
crate rifle pits, receiving a wound in bis
thigh which cost him his left leg. The
lady who lived on the battlefield, and
cared for him when he WAS wounded,
received him Thursday at the SANE spot,
and gave him q cordial welcome.
Judge Bichard Bsssett Carmichael,
who died at Wye Hall, near Queens
town, Queen Anne's, in Maryland, ON
Tuesday, was of a family distinguished
in colonial hstory as we'll as in the
chronicles Of later years. He was in
the Maryland h6sse Of delegates, in
] congress and on the bench for many
years. While he was holding court at
Easton on May ~, 1882, Marshal Nc
! Phail, with lbs men of d Delaware regi-
ment, arrested him in persnaise 81 Or.
ders from Washington, He was i'm.
prisoned in Fort McHa1ry, Fort Lafay-
cite and Fort Delaware until December
2, 1862 when be was released.
A young medical student named Kit
trell, of Mississippi, has been rendered
temporarily insane by the sights in the
dissecting room OF the Vanderbilt Med
ical college at Nashville. He was found
by the police wandering about the
streets, gesticulating wildly. He said
to an officer, at weakened my stom-
ach. ! can't stand it. I can't be a doc
tor. Oh, horrors to think that they
should know / could not live and want
lae crsll them my body for dissection
before 1 died. Never. / will go home
to Mississippi if l have to walk. Heav-
en- help me. ] am mad"