The morning news., 1889-05-19
PERSONAL.

The Belgian musician, Divide Musin, and the
| Canadian tenor. Whitney Mockrdge, are TO be-
come American citizens.
ANNIE PIxLEY, Mrs. Robert Fuford, is lying
seriously Ill at the Westminster hotel in New
York. She TOOK cold in Chicago which has
since developed into inflammation of the lungs
Sic has been compelled TO cancel her pro
fessonal engagements in Montreal and New
York.
New HAVEN has queer organization known
as the Secret Union" 1t il composed of
young women, each Of whom has to take an oath
to be married inside of a year, There were
originally twelve members, six of whom
have already elopsd or made clsndestine mar
riages.
Horace KELLEY Of Ottumwa. who has been
nominated by the republicans OF the Fourth
congressional district of Kansas to succeed
Congressman Ryan the newmnister to Mexico
has served in both branches of the state legisla-
tdTe, has beeu director of the state penitenti-
ary aad for y number of years was collector OF
internal revenue. MIR. Kelley is a veteran of the
war and farmer.
STEPHEN NKoIYo, nephew of the king OF the
Free State Of the Congo is student at the
Wayand Seminary in Washington. He was
converted by missionaries, came to this country
and is translating the bible into the Congo
tongue. His translation will o9 printed as soon
as he finishes it, This is the first time that any
one has ever attemped TO translate the bible
from the English to the CONGO language, and
Nkoyo is PROBABLY one of the youngest men
who ever undertook work OF similar charac
ter He is very enthusiastic over hss iabors, and
Saws he hopes that 1t may achieve much good in
far away Africa.
JEFFERSON DAVIS wrote ten years ago his
recollections OF old Gen Harney, who has just
died and whom he knew in 1929. He was
then" said Davis, physically tue finest man /
ever saw. Tall straight, muscular. broad
chested and gGuntwaisted, he was one of the
class which Trelawney describes as nature S
uob.emen, against whom the pla 9ne in the east
never made an attack. Had be lived in the time
Of Homer he would have robbsd Achilles Of his
sobriquet Of swiftfOoten, for he would run
faster than a white man, farther than an Indian,
and IN both showed that man was organized to
be master Of the beast. 10 elucidate the last
clause of the preceding paragraph requires the
recital OF an anecdote Capt Harney carefully
attended TO his company's garden, which
on the frontier was necessary for
the comfort as well as the health
OF the men. The beds had been carefully
spaded and ropod. when one Of the numerous
dogs, half grown mongre hound came walk
ing across the carefully prepared ground, and
the captain, stormrng at him IN tones aud Ian
guage not suited TO the pulpit, frightened the
dog SO that instead Of going out by the walk he
The captain started in full run after the dog.
which had to jump on the fence aud then or il
fatal disparity to the dogi-tor the captain
cleared the fence at a bound which brought
him n jump nearer to tho dog. and then he be
gan an even run up the long slope wnich led TO
the Tort before reaching which Harvey mas
tered the dog and Rover suffered In proport on
70 the length OF the chase Captain Harney
was also bold horse man, fond of the chase,
a good boltman and skilled IN the use VI a spear
as fisherman. Neither drinking nor gaming,
be was clear Of th, Sc rocks and shoals OF life in
a frontier garrison, aud is no doubt indebted 10
this abstinence for much Of the yigor he has
possessed 10 his present advanced age