Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-03-12
AND IMPERsoNsAL.

An Atchison county (Kan) farmer
assistei a woraan financially in gettaog
a divorce " it'll the intention OF marry
ing her himself. But she married tn0
farm hand and the farmer has been IN
formed by a lawyer that he cannot 70
cover his money.
Last year there were twcnty-thfeo
surviving widows OF revolutionary sor
diers. and several of these have since
died The oldest of those now alive
are Nancy Raines, OF Carter Furnace.
Tenn, aged 100, and Ann Maria 1oune'
of Easton, Pa, who is in her 1Olst year.
A c. Courtney, Of Clay county MO-
says his wife has spun more threa":
woven more Yards of cloth. dropped
more corn, piled more hazel brush ana
| burnt it. bound more bundles OF gram.
loaded more wagons with the same.
and sat more babies on board wnno
out at work than any woman now hv-
ing on earth.
| Capt ]. Wall Wilson. of New York
city, is one of the two surviving omcers
of Kaine's pioneer Arctic expedition.
| He lost one toe result OF the priVa'
tions he underwent, aud had an attacH
of scurvv, but suffered no other IN
iuries. He is said to be a well-Pre'
served gentleman, delightin2 In remin-
isences of the expedition.
The progress of death was uniquely
reported by the dying DR.. Riehet TO nus
son. a professor of physiology. and ms
physician. AS his end approached no
; carefully described t, them every per-
: centible sensation. At the moment
when they observed unmistakab'e
sions of immediate dissolution he SUR
prised them by saying: "You see am
, dying"
: A telegram was sent from Chicago
r to St Paul man announcing the deatn
: of his brother. The telegram was
e never received, and the sorrowing sur
r y;vcr therefore sues the Western Union
n Co. for So, 900 damages, ss a salve iof
a his lacerated feelings, because. as ne
e asserts in his COMP amt, he 'was de-
= priyed of the satisfaction and pleasure
e of seeing his said brother and being
!. present at the funeral"
l. Alice Fletcher, whose name Is Sc
- prominently connected with the wor.o
e fair and tie Indian question, is one OF
a the few womel who have met tne reo
l. man on his native heath and liveI ths
life of child of the forest. MIS-
RS Fletcher slept in tepees, ate her dinner
n ont of one dish with the rest OF Int
e, family. dressed in skins and studied
q the Indian problem SO thoroughly un
,g dor these conditions that she solved i
al AND is only waiting for the public Il
t. adopt her solution.
rk One of the charges brought agains
w hi, wife by man in Beaver, Pa, in
ny suit for divorce, was her rude and ur
or iadvlikc way of serving him with IRE
is crGs. On Sunday morning, while sh
ne was preparing breakfast, and he wa
ret setting ready for church, thev ha
some verbal disagreement and she en-
f.c nhasizcd her remarks by throwing
,th dish of fried eggs at him. This trsa
I'VE ment made him hopping mad, and
it'll comments up IN her conduct so angere
.de her tn 1t she avowea her determinatle
zen to bereaf e: let lriIf have them raw
wo the shell
in Two negroes have attained
gle iudgcships in British colonies On
or Joseph Benner Maxwell. is chief juc
of ci,l officer at the Gambia, in Afric
en- and oddly enough he has written
and work upon the negro question in viii
rhe he speaks with apparent horror OF I
: most striking outward peculiarities
his race. and urges as the only meth
ar of elevating the negro OF the tutl
, of nis.egenation with other races i
,ky other negro is Judge Sir W. c. Reev
cot cb:cf Justice of Barbados, in the Br
AXE ;sb West Indies. He presides over I
ere. srnrene court. and there are in the
i to and seven police magistrates OF SUP
itty dinate jurisdiction