The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-10-18
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PEOPLE AND EVEN

ADram and Irving Garfield are Will
Jams freshmen. Irving is captain of
his class football team.
Stepniak, the Russian agItator, has in
press in London new novel, called the
"The Career of a NihIlIst|
Professor C.. V. Riley has been made
a CheValier of the Legion of Honor by
the french Government, in recognition
| Of his researches in economic entomo-
logly.
Miss MiIla f. Upper, graduate of
| Cornell, who has accepted cali TO the
passionate of the Unitarian Church at La
Porte, is the only woman pastor in
Indiana.
| A special naval board, now in exist
| ence, will, it is said, recommend the
appropriation of $l0,000,000 for extern
sion and improvement of the Brooklyn
| NAVY Yard
The Journal, of Sioux CITY, says that
| in consequence of the reaction and re-
form due to public indignation and
horror after the Haddock murder, there
is not now a saloon in that place.
The trustees of the Duchess of MARI
borough vice Mrs. Hamerslev, the
wealthy late New Yorker. have been
| ordered to sell all her choice New York
property. Costly are the uses OF eftete
nobility.
The Rev. DR.. Mcleod, pastor for
| several years of the Presbyterian Church
in indianapolis which President
Harrison attended, has accepted IA call
to the First Congregational Church, at
Albany, n. y.
Seth Low, ex-mayor OF Brooklyn,
| born in 1850, and Columbia graduate,
| has been elected President oil Columbia
College to succeed the late President
Barnard. He is promising man in
every wav.
Following upon the heels of the
Baltimore lady accusing Mrs. Burnett
of plagiarism in Little Lord Faunt-
lerov," comes Vera Zarovitch, assert
ing in the Cincinnati COMMERCIAL that
she contributed to that paper in 1880
serial called "MizOra; \ Tale Of Civiliza
tion," and that Edward Bellamy pira-
tically adabted said tale in his Look
ing Backward"
Two of the most remarkable scientific
men of the century, Thomas A. Edison,
the wel-known electrician of MEMO
| Park, and William Crookes, the great
London chemist and discovered of radl-
ant matter are theosophists. Mr..
| Edison is member of the Aryan
| Theosophical Society of Chicago, and
| Professor Crookes Is Vice President of
the London Theosophical Lodge.
William II. B. Gusts, the noted
| Virginian, who fought the secession
proposition at the time it WAS before
the convention in his Slate, died last
Monday. He held to the Union until
the war actually began, when he cast
his fortunes with the Confederacy. He
| belonged to the celebrated GUSTS family.
Soon after the war he was elected TO
| Congress, but was not allowed to take
his seat.
The Rev. Talmadge's pulpit will be
| filled in his absence IN the Holly Land
by the Rev. Byron Sutherland, d. d., of
Washington; the Rev. Moses HOge, ID.
| Moody, the Rev. DR.. Griffis, OF Boston,;
| Chancellor Sims, of Syracuse University;
the Rev. DR.. Beale, of Johnstown, Fa,
an eve witness of the recent disaster;
| the Rev. DIR. MIlburn, Chaplain of Con-
gress, and the Rev. DR.. Deems, of New
York.
Mr.. George Meredith, the eminent
English novelist, has written poem on
| English country life, which is soon to
appear III the Universal ReiieT. Mr..
| Meredith, says the literary editor of the
New York Mail and Express. has been
irving to be poet for upward of forty
years, but SO lar without success. He
has written two or three remarkable
| lyrics, "Love in the Valley" being one,
but rather, it would seem, from accid-
ent than design. Most of his late verse
is unintellIgible.