The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-04-11
PERSONAL AND IMPgRsoNAL.

Moody Currier, the new Governor
of New Hampshire, is nearly eighty
years of age.
Sonora Luz Bonales, who died in
Oaxaco, Mexico, lately, lived one hun
dred and eleven years to day.
George Winfield Scott Hancock
Garfield Pattison Yerks is an unfortu-
nate infant in an interior county of
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Post.
Michael H. Simpson, one of Bos-
toms greatest millionaires, died in this
city recently. His fortune is estimated
at twelve million dollars, and was
made out of amachine for taking burrs
out of wool.-BOSt0n Journal.
--Hiland Hall, who was member
of the Twenty-second Congress and of
subsequent Congresses up to and in
Guiding the Twenty-eighth and was
also Governor of Massachusetts,, is
another one of the coolest ex-Con-
gressmen. He was born in 1895, and
resides at Springfield, Mass.-Boston
Globe.
Eli Perkins was given reception
recently worthy of his reputation at
Yankton, Oak. He was advertised to
lecture in the opera-house, but when he
reached the hall, though brilliantly
lighted, not soul was to be seen, nor
did anyone come in during the half
hour the committee spent in expressing
its surprise to the great fabricator.
Then they took him over to Market
Hall, where a packed house greeted
him with laugh. Chicago Times.
Co,otar of
says he owes debt of gratitude to
newspaper reporters who invented a
story about him when running for Gov
ernor of that State several years ago.
He was a bachelor, and some of the
people were opposing him on that
ground, when Baltimore reporter
wrote up story of his intended mar
rage to lady of that city, giving her
name. He afterward met the lady and
she is now his wife, Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The death is announced of Hon.
j. r. Swan, of Columbus, o., aged
eighty-two. He had been conspicu-
ously identified with the bar and the
Judiciary of Ohio for many years, hav-
ing been Judge of the State Supreme
Court. He was the author of Swan
Treatise, which has gone beyond the
tenth edition; and was also author of
the "Guide for Executors and Admins
traitors" "Swan's Revised Statutes, +"
and several other works ON law. IN
Y. Times.
Mary G. Caldwell, who has offered
three hundred thousand dollars for a
Catholic University in New York, is
very young and very rich, the grand
daughter of the Caldwell who intro
duced gas into many Southern cities,
and the daughter of William Shakes
peare Caldwell, who was known at
Newport for his entertainment of the
Catholic clergy at his villa there. Miss
Caldwell made her offer several times
through Bishop Spaulding before ii
was finally accepted at the Plenary
Council in Baltimore.-N. Y. Post.
Ferdinand Schumacher, of Akron,
o., is known as ''the Oatmeal King
He is a German, and came to this
country thirty years ago. He settled
in Akron, o., where he is to-day one
of the leading and wealthiest men Of
the place, Twenty years ago he was
as poor as a church mouse. In little
wooden shanty, on the outskirts of the
town, he prepared the first American
oat meal in an iron kettle. He made
it satisfactory to himself, and obtaining
small hand car, peddled it about towr
gratis, asking the people to give it {
trial.-CleUetded Herald.