Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-17

laCure IN MS possession. The size OF
the bullet and the spoor We're coinci-
dences only; but there is one mystery
which will never be cleared up. Was
tho miniature that of Sylvester's wife?
Personal Gossip.
Prof. LOOMS, OF Yale, states that
with two exceptions the month OF Feb
ruary, this year, was the coolest Feb.
ruary in that section for 100 years.
Parson Newman's successor in the
Madison Avenue Church, New York,
Rev. w. f. Price, is only 28, but
weighs $50 pounds.
A Maryland man has twenty-five
of his daughters living with him. II
he could give out the impression that
it is a female seminary, and that all
the young ladies are kept under lock
and key, he might work off some of his
surplus stock on some enthusiastic
but misguided young man. No young
man likes to visit a place which hash t
enough front gate facilities to go
around unless there is q necessity for a
little cover the garden wall' perform
ance.
A colored clergyman who had been
put on trial before a jury in Darien,
Ga., for some offence: was brought in
not guilty, the other day. The de.
PENDANT said: "Read that again"
"Not guilty., was repeated. With a
spring he bounded into the air, giving
vent to religious calculations. The
cOlored women who crowded the court
room, set up a hallelujah chorus, in
which the preacher joined, and the
Judge had to sit still and let then!
have it out.
A recent traveller in a Corsican
village says he saw troop Of young
girls carrying on their heads jars con
tanning five or six gallons Of water
Before them marched their male rela
tives bearing flaming torches to light
the burden bearers on their way.
Hon. James Oliver, of the New York
assembly, has been before the public
through an encounter with a Broad
way flower girl. The pleasant feature
of the engagement is the fact that she
struck out from the shoulder, and
landed the aspiring statesman into q
congenial gutter.
A surprised man is J. B. Ham, who
went to the New Orleans exposition tC
care for Names interests. He writes
to the lewiston Journal that rum
shops are plenty and teetotalars III
the minority, but in the whole Sin
months of his residence there he had
not seen six drunken men within
the city's corporate limits. Mr.
Ham, who is a prohibitionist, does
not attempt to explain this singular
fact. He says: ut may be in the
quantity or the quality of the bever
age drunk, and it may be in the eli
mate" But he leaves the solution o.
the problem to a longer-headed philos
opher.
Sergeant Lewis Loffman, the oldest
veteran of the United States army
died at Niagara Falls recently. He
eighty-eight years old, and some wears
ago was retired on salary Of ESQ pei
month. He fought at Waterloo under
Napoleon and carried q medal present
ed to him by that Emperor for gallant
conduct upon the field.
OF one of the navy chaplains thu
Christian Advocate relates that he has
!. been on leave now for something more
than two years. For the past si1
months he has regularly supplied g
pulpit in a certain church, and has re
Gently accepted q call from that church
for one year. He makes no secret O.
his distaste for work in the navy, an6
has often said that he only wishes tc
keep along for eight or nine years more
when he hopes to be retired, and to be
able, in the mean time, to draw his
pay without thu liability to be called
on duty. According to his own &C
count he has not been at sea for foul
years, and has been on leave most O.
the time. He is a robust man, in thu
enjoyment of excellent health. ! HI
draws 81, 900 year, and does moth
ing for it, while he is paid $4,000 $500
for preaching. ..,-.. T.
John Esten Cooke Of Virginia ha!
made a searching investigation Of thu
Pocahontas matter, and heis satisfied
from all the evidence to be had, that
Smith was captured by a party of In
dams in 1907 and carried to the In
diancapital on Y ork River, where Pow
haitian ordered him to be slain. Poca
hOntas interfered to save him. Sht
took Smith S head in her arms, SO that
it was impossible to beat out his brains
without hitting her. Powhatan con
sented to spare the prisoner, ane
treated him kindly Afterward Smith
released some Indian prisoners, stat
ing that it was for the sake of Poca
hontas. He told his friends in James
town that 2 ocahontas had saved his
life. In g. letter to Queen Anne he salf
that he would be guilty Of the dead
" poisono ingratitIde II he forgot
the goodness Of Pocahontas. In sew
eral letters he gave to this girl credi,
for his rescue from death. It was OF
this. account that Pocahontas wa:
flat teringl received at the Engllsl
court After her marriage to Rolf
she was bap lied. and lived tsciylll,,
and lovingly with her husb band s.
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