West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-26
PERSONAL

NJ. pE LrssErs viii leave Paris FOR Pann-
ma i'm March.
IuE Rev. Mr.. Spurgeon recently preached
ms 2'oooth sermoE in London
THE King OF Spain is seventeen months
old and gets $l,O00,0Oj year
MAJoRGENERAL ALFRED H. TrRpy.
United states Army, is said to bo hopclessly
CLTMENCEAu, the French politicnl leader.
York
.JouN WANAMtNEn, OF Philadelphia, car.
lles 100000 life insurance and Chauncey
Dc'ov $5OO,OO.
TrE Marquis of Lorne has determined uron
a literary lie, and has a serial ready for an
English magazine
REV. I. DEWITT TALMAGE succeeds Mr..
h,erher as chap ain OF the famous Brooklyn
thirteenth Regiment
BELNA LOCKWOOD has returned to Wash
ingtcl, and IL riding about the avenues OF
that city ON tricycc. She Is coming North
on lecture tour
MRS. JAMES q. BLAME. JR, is AN onlhusi.
astic amateur photographer. and il particu-
larry successful with and fond OF photo
graphing flowers.
SEn NSTtAN =. Marble, who by the recent
death of Governor Bolwoll became the Gov
ornor ot Maine, in his enrly lifo worked in the
saw mills aud woods
IROBABLY the oldest practising attorney in
the United states is Sidney Bartlett OF Bos
ton. He was born in Plymouth Mas, in
lGH' und still has lucrative practi O.
Mn WILLIAM RoCKErELLER, tho head OF
the STANDARD OH Company, has had a very
narrow escape from being killed 10y a pet
Duck deer at his country residence in Conpdc
ticut.
NCMnER Of public men have written
chapters for life OF Oliver ~ Morton
which is TO ~ published by his ron, and
among the writers are Senators ingalls, and
Allison.
CYRus FIELD began life ms clerl, in n New
LnB and storo and once worked Tor a. T..
! stewart for the muniliccut salary Of go n
year He left tho dry goods kings employ 10
SOL newspapers
The Congressional Directory i'm its hio-
graphical skotch OF II. +. Finley, Of Ken
tncky says that he began lifo for himself
without an education sufficient TO transact
bu incs', and penncss.n
SAMUEL SPENCER, who has Just been mndc
fr's'dynt OF the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
NJ a sniary Of 5000 "A year. was n rOdman
earn ug n scant salary only few years ago.
ho is rot yet forty years Cd.
GENERAL @0GS G.. 2.. 20; has accepted n
| lot near Los Angeles. California. Ia his let
| Ter oi acknowledgment 10 says he has deli-
| nitc.y dc'iiel 10 settle permanently In that
land OF sunshine nnl howerFn
THE health Of rom Pcdro Emperor OF
/ Brazil, being poor rumors arc rife chat he is
! about 10 ablicnte Ei7 throne in favor of his
! daughter, who mnrrcd Count d l.u, a scion
/ Or ta3 hpu o. Or,elns Of France
/ TuE presence Of Ms Mnry Gwcndolino
] Ca dive ] ai the Madison Avcaue Hotel. Now
/ Io'k, REGAL Tho fact that she Is the young
/ lady Who somc time since gdvc SDO0)O ng n
/ nucleus for "a funl with which TO build o
\ Catholic University at Washington.
| pASiFL DOucHERrY sometimes called "the
/ silver ton ru'd,' used to bo poor boy who
\ went bare zoo ed on the streets Of ph.Iqdoi
| phia eud aston -lt.d bis follows iu the public
/ ,ctoo'S 10y hs quick Intelligence Tie has
/ no" moved To- 5Uw York City O. reside there
/ perm ln.ntly
/ SeStroG ALDRrcU, OF Rho1c ISLAND, wns
n poor farm rs hoy when he went t) PrJvi-
I d"r"o little over score of years agO. ia
/ Fcnrch of something 10 do. lie began life n q
/ % ol"rlt in grcc 'rg nud bv thrift nud crowd
investments Inns amHHsed fortune OF E-O),
/ 600, which was made iu manufacturing
| GEongE w PosrnE known as tho 'cow-
/ boy evangelist" IS said, by au Arkausag
new paper, 90 Lc worth siOO0O which
/ 81 .lds him an income of $3.50 a day. lis
/ fortune was made in cattle aud by lucky in
/ Vcstueuts iu real estate he is Just forty
years OLD and in lis youth was rcputcd % he
I one o.. the most lnwlcss Of the dssperadocs OF
\ tho plains
/ ~ the thrtyoight widows of revolutionary
soldiers now ON iha pension ii-t Nance A.
/ Gre %. of Ncrnil c4 lul. is tIio voun ost
/ rh' was born boz l.ia The revoiufioIlry
I war ended Iu lIfi. a sum.ng that her hus.
I and was twonfy.tuo whom boz was uu strrpd
+ ont. he w0ul lave been hftr six whcn DIS
/ briie was born. m hc had marrici her
4 whom Hlo was ei EHfcou he would have been RI
/ venerable bridegroom oi seventy four.