Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1879 — PERSONAL GOSSIP. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Wilkie Collins is coming to visit America this season. Washington (Pa.) College is Senator Blaine’s Alma Mater. Asa Packer left a will so drawn up that it can’t be contested. . Ben Butler owns 20,000 acres of land in Polk county, Wis. Vice President Wheeler has no living relative nearer than a cousin. Senator Hill’s smelting works in Colorado jire paying $1,000,000 a year. Senator Williams, of Kentucky, was educated at Oxford (Ohio) College. John Brown’s revolver has been presented to the Kansas Historical Society. Senator McMillan, of Minnesota graduated from DuQuesne (Pa.) College. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, is a graduate of Chapel Hill (Mo.) College. The English Sir Garnet Wolseley has started for the garnet fields of strife in Africa. Ex-Senator Sargent, of California, is feeble, and has gone to Oregon for his health. The Republican nominee for next Governor of Ohio, Hon. Charles Foster, is 51 years old. Gambetta dwells in a magnificent house, keeps the finest horses and best cooks in Paris. Transylvania (Ky.) University has two graduates in the Senate—Beck, of Kentucky, and Vest, of Missouri. The African fever has kept young Napoleon ou his bunk ever since he went down to intimidate the Zulus. Jenny Lind for a long time cherished the hope of seeing her own artistic glory revived in the person of her child, but she has given up the idea. Henry Seligman, the eminent New York banker, began life by working for the late Asa Packer for 50 cents a day. Three poets have been selected for centennial honors in Great Britain— Shakspeare for England, Burns for Scotland, and Moore for Ireland. Senator Hampton is described as being yet unused to doing without his amputated limb, and as standing erect with great difficulty. He is an agreeable public speaker, having a pleasant voice and distinct enunciation. An exchange directs attention to the fact that a number of original Abolitionists of even greater age than William Lloyd Garrison, who was 75 when he died, survive him. Dr. William H. Furness, of Philadelphia, is now in his 78th year; Lucretia Mott in her 87th; Calvin E. Stowe, 77; Lydia Maria Childs, over 77; Ralph Waldo Emerson, just 76. Besides these, there are Dr. Cheever, Oliver Johnson, Wendell Phillips, Samuel May, Henry B. Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Drs. Chapin and Bellows, Parker Pilsbury, and Stephen Foster, all pretty well advanced in years.