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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
PEKSOHAL ITEMS. 
Governor Drew, or Florida, Is worth half a mil¬ 
lion dollars. 
The Emperor William Is six feet In hlght and 
Prince Albert, his nephew, measures six feet six 
Inches. 
The Duke of Sutherland, who Is a thorough 
practical engineer, drove the locomotive attached 
to the tram which conveyed the Prince and Prin¬ 
cess of Wales around the royal agricultural show. 
M. Moissonler, the best living French painter, 
several years ago began a portrait of tho late 
Prince Imperial, which the events of 1870 prevented 
him from finishing. He now intends to complete 
it and send It to the Empress. 
Ansley Gray Is a member of tho Dakota Legisla¬ 
ture and writes “ Hon." before Ills name. A few 
days ago he was put behind the bars in Bismarck 
for handling bogus checks, which reduces the crop 
of statesmen by one. 
Slmmonds shot two bullets Into Paddock’s body, 
at Greenfield, O. Paddock seemed resentful, for 
before dying he knocked Slmmonds down and 
pounded him with stones, Injuring him so badly 
that he may not recover. 
Consignor Manning, nephew of Cardinal Man¬ 
ning and one of the Papal chamberlains, Is dead. 
He w as about 45 years old. a convert to Catholicity, 
like his undo, and educated for the priesthood at 
Ushaw College, Durham, the chief Roman Catholic 
college In Great Britain. 
Prince Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, the second 
son of the eldest brother of the great Napoleon, Is 
said to be preferred at Chlselhurst as head of the 
houso to Prince Jerome Napoleon. Prince Charles 
is 40 years old and lias the true Bonaparte race. 
He holds the position of president of the council 
general at Corsica, where he Is very popular. 
Grace Oreenwood says of Charles Keade, whom 
she has recently been visiting: “I found him a 
grave, fine-looking man, of middle hlght, with 
iron-gray hair and beard, and large, dark eyes 
of remarkable beauty. In manner he Is rather 
cold, but courteous, and he avowed a special kind¬ 
ly feeling toward our country saying * I am always 
at home to Americans.’ 
Mrs. Fltzhugli. the relict of nenry Fitzlnigh, and 
a grand-niece of George Washington, has taken 
up her residence In Charleston, west Virginia. She 
will be ninety years of age In November, but re¬ 
tains her mental faculties and is In sound bodily 
health. She remembers Washington, for he often 
visited the house of her father, Judge Nicholas 
Fitzbugh, In Alexandria, near which Mount Ver¬ 
non lies. 
Two Texan legislators had a fisticuff In the 
nouse of Representatives at Austin, on Friday of 
last week. Ashbel Smith, Democrat, of Harris and 
Bob Taylor, Republican, of Fannin, both octogena¬ 
rians, were quarreling, when the former approach¬ 
ed Taylor and kicked him. There w r as a wild up¬ 
roar, when Smith hallooed to Speaker Cochrane: 
“ I was only Illustrating the Governor’s position of 
‘ Pay as you go.’ ” 
Master Isaac Bell, Jr., the young nephew of 
James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, 
is about a fortnight old. The day after the young 
gentleman’s advent Ills uncle called to see him, 
and laid on his cradle loo United states bonds of 
$ 1,000 each a3 a christening gift, or rather a gift of 
"Joyous arrival,’’ according to the old mediaeval 
custom at the accession of a Icing, oh, for more 
uncles of that sort I We’d almost become children 
again to own such a one. 
There comes a gleam of hope. Alexander 
McLear, a deacon of the Brooklyn Tabernacle, 
when asked to buy some of the Tabernacle bonds, 
the other day, replied that he did not think the 
bonds were worth the price suggested, as it seemed 
doubtful, very doubtful—res, he said very—wheth¬ 
er.the Rev. Dr. De Witt Talmage would ever 
return from Europe to Ms charge. The clerical 
gymnast now draws as huge audiences and nearly 
as much money In England as Sarah Bernhardt, 
the French actress, but the actress attracts chiefly 
men and the preacher, women. 
Of General Grant and wife in their poverty- 
stricken days Of 1661, a picturesque little story Is 
told. Ho had gone from Galena to Springfield to 
get a Captaincy In a regiment then being organized, 
and in his absence Mrs. Grant wear, to one of the 
Galena shops and asked for a barrel of flour on 
credit, as she had no money, lier request was re¬ 
fused, when a byst ander, who was also a merchant, 
approached and tola her she could have anything 
sho wished from his store. This kindness In time 
of need was never forgot ton by Grant-, and after 
he became President he bestowed substantial 
favors upon tills good-hearted and patriotic gro¬ 
wer. 
Judge Shock presides over the summit County, 
Colorado court now m session at Breckcnridge. 
Last Monday one Charles Jones arose from tils 
seat in the court room and proceeded to reprimand 
the Judge for some ruling. The Judge ordered 
the arrest of Jones, but the latter escaped from 
the room. Later in the day Jones re-entered the 
court room, walked towards the bench and level¬ 
ed a Sharp’s carbine at the Judge’s head. The 
Judge grabbed the stock oi the gun and pushed 
It aside Just m time to stive his life, for the charge 
went crashing—not to the jury, as charges in 
court generally do—but over Judge Shock’s head 
and made a large rent in the wall. Jones was 
pinioned by the jury and locked up. 
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