Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-26
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The great grandmother OF General georgeP q.
McGlellan, Mrs Samuel Mcclellan, planted
three elms in Woodstock, CT, for JOY, when
she heard the news Of the battle of Lexington,
and they are now the largest and finest eirlls irs
| the town.
Hon. l. E. Chittenden, Register of the Treas.
ury under Persistent Lincoln, has presented 70
the university of Vermont his large and vai,l-
able cabinet Of shells, containing from 2 0o1 10
3,0O0species and q rare collection Of the eggs
OF American birds.
The statement that daughter Of 4 G. Ram
age Of Bellaire, Ohio, who was bitten on the
right hand nine years ago this summer By
copperhead snake, has suffered intensely on
each anniversary OF the day on which she was
bitten, the arm and hand becoming swollen
and the original symptoms of paralysis ap
pearing, has aroused much interest in the med
lcal profession
It is related that when Chief Justice Waits
and Judge Hall of North Carolina, with other
dignitaries Of the bench, were down Chesa-
peake Bay on a Goverement steamer with IL
party of official excursionists, Judge Hall be-
came very seasick. As he was retehing over
the side Of the vessel and moaning aloud IN his
agony the Chief Justice stepped gently to his
er, said: 'sMy dear Hall, can do anything
for you? inst suggest what yon wish Il
wish" said the seasick Judge, 'Your Honor
would override this motion"
An English critic who has been describing
the genesis of the famous ballad, ''Auld Robin
Gray" says that Lady Anne Lindsay, who wrote
it, told her little sister one day that she was
writing ballad, and was expressing her hero
inc with all manner OF misfortunes. u have
already sent Jamie to sea, broken her fathers
arm, made her mother fall sick, and given her
auld Robin Gray for lover; but poor thing,
[ wish to add another misfortune to her IN fiye
lines: 'Then steal her COO (cow),' piped up
her little sister, and accordingly the cow was
stolen and the ballad completed
Henry Wizards reception on his recent visit
to his old home in hheinish Bavaria was very
enthusiastic He was met at the depot by
depltatiOn Of prominent citizens and was &C
rompanled along the streets by procession of
carriages. In the evening be was serena.iei
by singing societies. and the next day deputa-
tons from various local organizations VISITED
him and presented him with an address Mr.
Willard is now back in New York.
Julia Jackson, the only child Of ST ,newalp
Jackson, is here, writes an Otd Pom; corres-
pendent of the Louisville Courier Journal
and adds: 'She Is slight blue eyed girl
with fair hair dark eyebrows and long lashes
which give strength aid c}aracttr IL her mo-
bile changing face. She il cute an aronl-
pished young lady, rwln,s AXE fish, shoots
ihc IL IiltE'AN G!lH flN ) Ike j h6nUuckN Etll
in her gray, confederate Uniform, trimmed
with Zig brass buttons, 1t IS very pretty 10
see tn, Difference PAD the wi low and only
child of their !os5 leader by nj the soarhc-u
men and women who may chance to met
them. Mrs. Jackson Is modest little la.
with charming manners and sweet voice "
According to scve'aI CORES pondents tler, ID
q remarkable beauty at Ioug Branch ITar
name is Gloria Cespedes and she is the >la,l,;-
ter Of Gen. Cespedes, who was killed four's7zn
years ago in the Cuban revolution. She is de-
scrihed as beautiful specimen o. the pure
Spanish type. Her face while characte r,s5tc
OF her nationality, is more regular and delicate
in its features than is usual among her couo-
trywomen. Her hair is jet, her eyes large and
lustrously soft. her complexion rich end clear
and her expression bright and amsbe Sail
more remarkable than her perfection Of head
is her faultlessness of figure, combining state
Illness and grace in both carriage and pose.
Whenever she appears among the dancers % q
hotel parlor Or the loungers veranda
there is nothing else to be looked a.. She -
young, not being Yet out Of her grill cod, and
hardly conscious of The admiration she axcites-