General News.
A remarkable biography of Mr Edmund O'DonoTan, the Daily News war correspondent who is said to have perished in the Soudan disasted, appears in the United Ireland, written "by one who knew him." From this it appears that Mr O'Donovan at one time was a member of the Fenian organisation, and spent sis months in Limerick Goal. On his release he was engaged in organising the Fenian ranks, travelling as secretary through the Irish provinces, and baffling the vigilance of the police. He afterwards proceeded to France, and in the foreign legion was engaged in the defence of Orleans. He was taken prisoner and marched on foot to , Bavaria, where the daughter of the governor of the goal fell in love with him. .Eventually he escaped, and was afterwards met in France, with the portrait of the prison governor's daughter in his worn out surtout, and a franc and a half in his waist coat pocket. He returned to Dublin, and floon afterwards proceeded to the Carli«t war as special correspondent of the Freeman's Journal. After an extraordinary series,.of adventures he next x figured inj the Kusso»Turkish war as the Daily News correspondent. His subsequent journey to Merv and later events Jw of his life are \|ell known.
Thirty-four years ago a poor young man named "Pat" Milmoleft Ireland to seek bi* fortune in America. To-day this same * individual, who now rejoices in the name bf Don Patricio Milmo, is one of the nabobs of Mexico, and computes his Wealth dt 15,000,000d01. The once poor Irish lad is now making a tour of the United States.
Good Wqbes—Fbom Good Authority.— * * * We confess that we are perfectly imaxed at the run of your Hop Bitters.. We nerer bjid anything like it, and never heard of the Hie. The writer (Benton) has been selling drugs here nearly thirty years, and has teen the rise of Bostptter's Vinegar, and all other bitters and patent medicines, but never did any of them, in their best daye, begin to bare the, run that Hop Bitters have. * * We can't get enough of them. We are out of them ball the time. * * Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., August 22, '78, from Bektow, Mtbbb and Co., Wholesale Druggists, Cleveland, O. Be sure and see
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 17 March 1884, Page 3
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380General News. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4740, 17 March 1884, Page 3
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