The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
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engineer, was paid $4,000 for an hours
speech before a committee of the House
OF Lords against the proposed canal be.
tween Liverpool and Manchester. The
Liverpool merchants paid the money.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, now Ell.
gagged in preparing q memoir of Elmer.
son, respectfully declines the assistance
of numerous people who presist in send
ing him anecdotes and reminiscence Of
the late lamented Billy Emerson, the
minstrel.
Oliver Johnson, now about seventy
five, and one of the original Abolition.
lists, it writing an autobiography which
will give a full account of the move.
ment. He was for many years editor OF
the Anti Slavery Standard, and an init
mate friend and associate of Wendell
Phillips and Lloyd Garrison.
Says the venerable Marshal Ganro-
bert, of France: 81 am q Christian, sir:
I am a Catholic, though not avery Ro-
man one, and / do not often practice my
religion. Still for all that, when I am
summoned to quit the scene / shall ask
God to sign my marching orders"
w. Fl. jackson, the recently appoint.
ed receiver of the Denver and Ric
Grande Railroad, is the husband Of Hell.
an Hunt Oh. H., the writer. He lives
at Manitou, COL, and for a number Of
years past has been president of the Ell
Paso National Bank at Colorado Springs
He has been actively engaged in rail-
road matters, and was at one time a
Director in the Denver and Rio Grande
under the Palmer management.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's daughter,
Mrs. Stanton-B latch, made her first ap.
pearance in London as a speaker last
week. She is described in q London
letter as at once pathetic and svmpa-
thetic; her look far away, as of one
dreaming dreams of a fairer future; her
thought both poetic and clear; her man
ner %childlike in simplicity. A careful
critic who heard it said: "Snch a
speech rs that comes from a long dis
lance"
Judge Bates, associate Judge of War
rem county, Pa, is under a cloud. he
is now Oh trial at Oil City, charged with
having received a present of q watch,
and also received money froh liquor
dealers for whom he afterwards used
his vote and influence in obtaining a Ii
cense. The testimony taken before a
commissioner shows that three saloon
keepers bought and presented the watch
to Judge Bates In March, previous to
the term for granting licerses, and that
n of them loaned the Judge a sum Of
money.
Mr.. Spurgeon was recently askedif
he thought the world had grown better
or worse since he came into it fifty
years ago. He replied that he thought
IN some respects it was worse. 1.-THE
truggle for hfe,p he said, 'sis harder
now; it is more difficult to make q liv-
ing, and the restitution is more appall-
iuEtA Otl1uh, bAuu II Ido GfcE OBCus
On the other hand there have been
many improvements, especially in the
direction of intemperance. He thinks
there is also an improvement in the att
titude of respectable people toward Ii
centious literature. Our g~randmoth-
ers," he said, ..sread books which our
daughters would be ashamed to open"
From Leaves from the Diary Of
Charles Greyille:" Dined with Lady
Essex. She told me Of a circumstance
that happened to Lady Becher Miss
ONeilD. Some time after her marriage
she was at a ball, when a lady accosted
her and said sAs ~ssvery diesirious Of
making her acquaintance in order to ex-
press her gratitude to her for the whole
happiness of her life. Lady Becher,
somewhat astonished, asked her what
she meant; when the lady told her that
her husband had been q gambler, but
thatMiss O'Neilrs performance Of Mrs.
Beverly had made SO extraordinary and
lasting an impression upon him that on
returning from the theater lie registered
an oath never to play or bet again,
which he had religiously observed, and
she considered that her happiness was
entirely owingt to her admirable perform
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