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Show PERSONAL. St. Louis is said to be fighting Jay Gould with a narrow-guaye railroad, with which it threatens to penetrate Colorado. Widow Windlowof Roanoke, Ind., has two broken riba and many bruises the result of flirting with au energetic ener-getic woman's husband. Tom Thumb got angry becauio a staring crowd followed him into a .Carson barbershop, and ho offered to fight any one of them, Mr. Mont fort of Potsolag creek, ! Neb., recently attacked a tilty pound beaver, when tho animal fought for his life, but had to succumb finally. Hon. George N. Crawford, recontly returned to Omaha from & trip to , Deadwoed, thinks the mineral wealth of the Black Hills to be practically inexhaustible. "Designs for a colossal equestrian statue of General Robert Lee are advertised for in tho London journals. I The statue is to be erected on the Capilol square in Richmond, Va. Kelly, onft of tho doomed Molly Maguires, sent for Mrs. James, whose husband he had murdered, and begged her forgiveness, whereat she in turn bogged the privilege of banging bang-ing bim. Mr. Godey, the originator and publisher pub-lisher for nearly half a century of Godey's Lady's Book, will retire from its proprietorship with the August number. It ia the oldest monthly in America. Texas, tbiuts that she is haunted by j Poe'e spirit. She was reading his "Raven" a few daja go, when she waa disturbed by a "rapping as of some one gentle tapping" on the headboard of her bed. Captain Boyton recently had a narrow escape while descending the Rhone. At Tarascou the peasants, taking him to be a seal or some sort of marine monster, got out their fowling pieces and opened a lively fusillade upon him, oorapelliBg him to hoiat his colora. Mr. Edmund Yates says that Mr. Bennett of the New York Herald has moro than once recently threatened that, aa soon as England haB her hands full with Russia, America will go in and wipe out old scores. But we suppose this war will not occur until. Utah has been demolished by Com-j miasioner Slillsom Frank L. Glover, aged 17, 131 West Thirty fifth street, New York, reads Btory papers; deaires to be a hero, nirate. hithwavman or tiomo- thing; buys pistol and prays for a row; finds none; plays desperado in the kitchen with unloaded revolver; points it at Lizzie McCann, servant girl; pulls trigger; pistol shoots; unloaded un-loaded pistol in boy'd bands always do; Lizzie shot in the breast; is taken to hospital; boy to police court. Of Senator Hendricks an Indiana man said to bis face at the New York banquet: " GentlemeD, this man, Governor Hendrcks, never took a glass of whisky nor smoked a cigar in his life. He has nevpr lost his temper, tem-per, and never kept late hours. He has nobody but his wite in this world to distract his attention, and is two years scant of sixty. He baa a competence com-petence for life, and ia the bead of the bar in the state, and he never made an enemy, except by his mer its." |