New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-10
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
The 500 Lords OF England have an
average income OF $500, 600 each, and
their gross income is about S75,OOO,-
600.
The youngest Mayor in the United
States, Mayor Aaron, OF Van Buren,,
Ark, twenty one years OF age, recently
quarreled about woman with man
named Taylor, and shot him to death.
Mayor Hardy, OF Lincoln, Neb., has
incurred the enmity OF the liquor men
by his radical stand on the temper
ance question. The other day coffin
was left at his door as a warning. He
promptly sold it for $13, and turned
the money into the tt easurv OF the 10.
cal temperance society,
Mr.. Larkin Leonard, Gold Mine
Township, N. c., always lived in one
place, wore a pair OF shoes thirteen
years, used the same plow-lines nine
teen years, never saw railroad or
bought pound OF meat, flour or corn,
OF snapped horses, Or was out of hon
ey, and had good teeth and read with
out spectacles up to the day OF his re-
cent death at the age Of over eighty
one.
General Schencll grows old. 81 saw
him recently" says one writing from
Washington; che seemed a thick, griz-
lied, grlmlawed old man OF seventy.
Schenck was always pioturesquely I'M
couth even in his prime His hay-col-
ored hair, as wlry as a Scotch terriers;
his small, half-closed, deep-set eyes
! and dubious nose made him an I'M
couth figure at best. He is only a rem
lnlscence now, and the fire OF youth
has gone out OF the once sturdy
frame. Old age has added seams and
wrinkles to his homely features, and
given him no grace to compensate for
them"
The most striking feature of the
Magazine OF American History for Oc-
tober is General Grants autograph
letter in facsimile. covering SIX pages.
1t was written in 1888, on the death
OF Alexander II. Stephens, and is now
published for the first time 1t was
addressed to Rev Henry Whitney
Cleveland, formerly a colonel in the
confederate service, who contributes,
with the letter, an intensely interest
ingpaper on General Grants Military
Abilities" arguing that the south I'M
derrated General Grant from the first,
and that both thenorth and thesouth
underrate his genelalship even now.
AT Middlesborough, Eng, the other
day, DR.. stratfern appeared as wit
ness at Petty Sessions, but declined
to take an oath on the ground that
it was q very serious thing to kiss q
book which was handled by all kinds
Of people" After some argument,
the doctor offered, by way Of com
promise, to kiss the book if clean
sheet Of paper were placed over the
cover. The bench declined to accede
to this or to allow the doctor to make
an affirmation, andeventually he con-
sented, under protest, to run the
risk of catching disease"
A Georgia couple were married "un-
der fire." as it were, the other day.
While W. II. Willis, substantial
young farmer of Pike county, was
stealing Miss Jones from her home for
the purpose OF marrying her he was
discovered by the lady's brothers.
The clipping couple succeeding in reach
ing a waiting carriage, but they were
no sooner on their way than they
were pursued by volleys OF buckshot
from the enraged young men Several
of the shot perforated the lady's bon
net. The lovers succeeded In reaching
a clergyman and being married just
before the pursuers burst in.
A correspondent of Boston news
paper says that Mr.. Nast's wife is the
original OF Columbia, thu tall, beauti-
full woman with the classic face who
has been so prominent in the allegor-
ical pictures during and since the war
These pictures gave Mast his national
fame In beauty Of conception and
| execution they have never been excell-
ed, and are chapters OF the history OF
the Nations mind-photographed
moods, as it were. Columbia, let it be
noticed, is altogether a different figure
from the Goddess OF Liberty. She is
/ Nast's special creation in the world OF
art.