St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1893-12-02


Lyman q Downs. after boine Z
wandoror over the face Of the earth fos
about forty yeara. has returned 70 hil
home 1t Merrimac. Mas&, and has q
deposit still to his credit IN the Amss'
bury savings bank.
-Attorney-G General Olney Il IN en-
thusiastic tennis player and has con-
structed Q court near his residence In
Washington On fair afternoons he in
dulges in the sport. In which he shown
great proficiency and expertnesA
Mr.. Chsuncey Warner. IN elderly
farmer Of Camhgidge, VI, has promised
to present TO the town. of Sturbridge.
Mass, 90. 600 in recognition and appre-
citation Of the care the town has taken
of his deaf-mute cousin. This is . prac-
tical manifestation Of gratitude that is
not rs common ~ the occasion for IL
Mrs Cyrus w. Field. Jr., whose
husband is consul In Brunswick, Ger
many, has become q partner n . New
York millinery house. She has taken
this step in order to help pay the obli-
cations Of her husband, who lost heav-
lily by the failure q the business firm
with which he We eonnscted several
years ago
DIR. william Elliott, of New Haven.
KY, is % years old. baton the occasion
Of . dance at his house few evenings
ago he took up his yiolin and played
the music for the first qaadrille. Then
he resigned his place to the profession
al musicians, and for the rest Of the
evening entertained the non-dancing
guests with his conversation.
Judge George Shea, Of Brattleboro.
VI, knew Edgar Allen Poe, personally,
and in the '40s frequently heard him
read his own poems, and especially
1.-THE Raven" His reading he des-
cribes rs leaving on the mind . very
different impression from that which
il does in print It was . weird, rap
furious invocation, ~ TO an actual pres
ence. IL
Miss Loisette Bonaparte is the
grestgranddaughter of Daniel Web
ster, and the great grandniece OF
Napoleon Bonaparte. Her father WIS
Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte.
grandson Of Jerome Bonaparte, Who
married Elizabeth Patterson, and her
mother was the granddaughter of
Daniel Webster. her MAIDEN name.
Caroline Appleton Ii,
Abraham Lincoln Is said to have .
living counterpart - far - personal
appearance II concerned in an alder
man Of the little city Of Brewer. Me-,
Samuel E Stone, who Is by trade not
exactly q rail splitter-hc being . car
penter. He wears his whiskers in
much the same style as did President
Lincoln, aud has the same, or nearly
the same, characteristics of face and
figure. t>rs F.rs
Judge Joseph Perry Bradbury. Of
the Ohio supreme court, who has been
renominated by the republicans, has
led most adventurous life. It is said
of him that he has worked rs q farm
hand, been an Indian trader, ferryman.
fought Mormons, starved and frozen
on the plains, belonged to . battery of
heavy artillery, spent three years with
ont sleeping in . bed or eating At .
table, mined for gold. sailed from Cali
fornia to New York, studied law.
served in the late war, and to-day
stands at the head of the Ohio judici-
airy. r-.H
Among the employees dismissed
from the pension bureau recently was
n. NJ. Husband. . greatgrandson of
Robert Morris, the financier of the
revolution, who diminished his own
means. to keep up the patriot, 0ule. 1t
has been said that but for Robert Nor
ris the continental army must have
been disbanded in 1850. Robert Morris
granddaughter, Mary Morris Husband,
was . volunteer nurse in the hospitals
during the war. and was named by the
soldiers Mother Husband" Among
those who served at the front while
she was nursing the wounded was her
son, n. NJ. Husband, recently dis
charged from . clerlsship in the PEN
sion bureau. Mrs Morris has been
largely dependent on the son who has
been discharged.