The Portland daily press., 1894-02-09
PEERS ONAL AND PECULIAR.

Capt. Daniel Pratt Mannix, who died
at the Marine Barracks in Washington
the other day, was the officer who guard
ed the consplrators and the body OF
Booth at the time of the assassination of
President Lincoln.
Kingman. Kan, is a town that sets a
pattern to all its prairie neighbors.
Kingmanians who let their hens scratch
up the garden next door incur penalty
of SIS and twenty-five days in Jail. Every
evening at s o'clock the town marshal
rings the town bell; lads and lasses
found in the streets after the hour and
without satisfactory explanation of
their presence there run the risk of
arrest and fine.
The first month of 1892 cost the owners
and insurers of com bustip bic property in
this country and Canada $12, 564, 800. The
first month of 1898 cost them 1855,
400. This year the bills for the January
fires foot up-according to the tables of
the New York Journal of Commerce
$40, 56s, 400. In other words the month
just past was less destructive in this re-
spect by S., $780, 900 than the January of
1888, and by 81, 1896, 800 than the January
of 1892.
Ex-senator Morton S. Wilkinson. who
died a few days ago at his home at Man
kato, Mimi, was personal friend OF
Abraham Lincoln. He gained world
wide reputation by being successful in the
expulsion from the Senate of Jesse Bright
of Indiana, referring charges of disloyal-
ty to the government against him. Dur
ing the Greeley campaign he became a
Democrat.
Captain Pierce Thompson, of South
portain this State, made his first voyage
when he was ten years old, commanded
his vessel at Is, and is still following
the sea at IA. His son sails with him as
mate. Capt. Thompson is devout
Methodist, and has prayers on ship
vice on Sunday. He was never wrecked,
never lost man, and laughs at the idea
of turning landlubber and retiring from
seafaring life.
One of the peculiar scenes in railroad
travel.was witnessed at Maryland sta
ton a short time ago. The arrival of a
freight train brought a box car from
Iowa, which. upon being opened, was
found to contain a team of horses, TO
cows. some hogs, lot of household
goods and four passengers, consisting OF
a man, his wife, and two children.
This strange collection had come togeth-
er all the way from the West, and were
bound for farm short distance from
Laurel. The man said that there was no
sale for the stock and other things in
Iowa, SO he chartered the car and
brought the whole outfit through at an
expense of $175.
Rev. DR.. Cyrus Hamlin, who comes to
Portland occasionally and who now at
the age of eighty-two is living in the
pretty village of Lexington, Mass, has
not only long life of great usefulness
in the far East to look back upon, but
much comfort in his chidrens' present
work. One daughter is wife of President
Wash burn, of Roberts College, Constan-
tinople; another married Professor An
derson of the same college; third is the
wife of Rev Luclus Lee now at the head
of the theological seminary at Maras,
Turkey, and before she married had
taught for many years at Scurtari and
Marash Two younger daughters are
teachers: Mary at Hampton Institute,
Virginia; Alice at Abbott Academy, An
dover. One son is professor of architec-
ture at Colubmia College, another, the
youngest child, is graduate of Boston
University, and taking post graduate
course at Columbia.