The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-10-05
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

"A woman dentist in Philadelphia
Is reported to have practice OF SILL
300 year.
Letters of administration of the
personal estate Of the late Dean Of
Jersey, Mrs. Langtry's father, showed
the value to be f5.
Moody, the evangelist, is fifty-one,
and his mother is still living at an
extremely advanced age. They reside
at Mortified, Mass.
One of the most loving couples in
England is Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone
They have similar tastes and in all
matters they have worked together as
one.
The wife of a Buffalo physician
has recently been adjudged insane be-
cause of a strange mania for fans. She
was accustomed, when out shopping,
to purchase every fan she saw, regard
less of cost, and accumulated mag
nificent collection.
The richest man in all Iowa is said
to be Edwin Manning, who lives in the
town of Keosauqua, near Keokuk. He
has many millions, and his interests
include all sorts of enterprises be-
tween the two great rivers and the
Missouri and Minnesota lines.
The female editor of a temperance
paper. at Effngham, Ill, publishes ev-
| cry month a list of the men seen drunk
in the streets of the town. A citizen
whose name appeared in the list denied
/ that he was drunk and sued the
woman, who was fined five dollars by
a Justice. She appealed.
The summer cottage and winter
| house are possessions of innumerable
Americans; to these have been lately
i added the between-the-seasOns house.
A New York millionaire has recently
/ bought some land for the purpose OF
establishing a resort which he can en-
joy during the stormy months Of March
and April
Thomas r. Butler, who recently
died in England in his ninety-first year,
before the time of railroads conducted
the bullion wagons between Dover and
london. His books show that oven
twenty millions of specie had been I'M
der his care. The last consignment o.
which he had charge was two and
half tons of silver en- route from Lon
don to the East Indies.
The remains of Jonathan Trum-
bull, the first s'war Governor of Con
necticut and the Brother Jonathan
of the revolution, rest in a grass-cov
cred and neglected tomb at Lebanon
the citizens of which town are nov
taking the preliminary steps toward
the erection of a suitable memorial tt
his memory. 1t is proposed to dedi
cate the monument in 1890, on the day
that marks the one hundred and fifth
anniversary of the death of Governor
Trumbull
"A correspondent, writing from tn
indian Territory, says that the widow
of General Sheridan has Cherokee
, blood in her veins. According t.
this writer her father, General Rucker
hen Lieutenant Rucker, while sta
toned at Fort Gibson, Cherokee Ma
tion,o married Miss Coody, who's
mother was a daughter of a sister Q
the Cherokee chief, John Ross, VIII
ruled over the Nation for a period c
forty o years. The establishment c
! this Cheroeee right by blood, which
j required of all CherOkees who hav
= severed their connection with the Na
ton beyond year, would entitle Mrs
+ Sheridan to one eighteen-thOusandt
e undivided share in $4,000, 900 acres {
I land, and like share in 100000
. of funds held in trust by the Unite
e States, on which an annual interest {
e $4,000 is paid to the Cherokees.