The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

General Lorenzo Thomas has been visiting the
South on a tour of inspection of the national cemeteries
that part of the country.—Mr. George W. Childs, of the
Philadelphia Ledger, gave a banquet, Tan. 11, in honour of
H. W. Longfellow, which was attended by a large number
of Americans, artists, and eminent persons now in Rome.
David Dudley Field has succeeded WEN= Cullon Bryant
as President of the New York Fur Trade League.—MoseS
it. Grinnell, the New York papers say, will be appointed
c:+liector of that port hy Gen. Graut.—The hand samest man
iu Congress are sai,l tube Gen. Logan and Samuel J. Raud.ll.
Captain Kenny, U.S.A., has committed suicide at Sitka.
John Dixon, ex-clerk in the Oriental Bank of Melbourne,
Australia, was arrested in San Francisco for forgerY•
13111 s of exchange amounting to $85,000 were found upon
him Commissioner Rollins returned to Washington Jan. 8.
Wendell Phillip-, when a youth, according to the New
York Sun, wanted to income a chemist, but his mother
interfered.—ll. Clay Dalian], the messenger from the
electoral college of Maryland, deposited the vote of the
State with Mr. Wade, the President of the Senate, Jan. 8.
The Indianapolis Journal says :—" Mrs. Matthews, the
mother of the Vice-President elect, has been for several
weeks stopping with her friends in this city. Like tb°
mothers of nearly all our great men, she is a noble
' woman, of great intellectual power. Mr Colfax owes much
of his success to his mother, and he fully appreciates it.
She is a remarkably hale and happy old lady, and rejoicos
lin a quiet way over the success of her son. Her only (13-
sire for his advancement seems to be that he may be'
placed in a position to do more good.
The Girard House, at the corner of West Broad-
way and Chambers'-street, Philadelphia, has been sold for
$150,000. The purchaser was Juhn P. Huggins, of Love"
jay's Hotel. The edifice was built by the late Jame°
Boorman, and measured 75 by 160. The price is consi-
dered remarkably low.

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Mr. James Fisk, jun., has bought out Mr. Bate-
man, and Ins taken over the management of the Opera'
Boufft; Company. The price paid was $60,000, which in-
cludes the wardrobes of thirteen operas. The Nem Yor'
Herald gives this schedule of the property and effects of
the Erie Railway Company :—Erie railroad, main line, siN:
old branch roads, one city railroad, two steamboat lines,
one lice of freight barges, ono ferry, one opera house, one
French opera company, one ballet company, lot of old
wardrobe, and twelve 13. w suits.". This may be good
" clkaff," but it gives very little idea of what the value i 4
of the property sneered at. One of the best of A►norican
railways, the Pennsylvania Central, might be described
much in the same way, minus the ventures in thet.tres.

Accommodation has been secured at the Mount
Vernon Rotel, Baltimore, from the 22d inst., for,Comm°;
dore Farragut, Governors Clifford, Fish, Graham, An"
Aiken, Bishop Mel!value, Messrs. Ewarts, 'Wintliron
Soars, Wetmore, Bradford, Russell, and M'Allister, wb°
will accompany General Grant. Those gentlemen aro
trustees of the Peabody educational fund.

Mrs. Eliza H. Walker, of Aburndale, and Mrs.
Sarah E. Ely, of New York, have been appointed to assist
the secretaries of the American board in looking after the
int Tests of the children of missionaries sent to America.
LADVERTISEMENT.I-11olloway's Ointment and rills.--
Lives —.flow happy would those sufferers be whosJ
whole system is in danger of breaking down through th°
daily drain of discharges from ulcerations and skin dis:
eases if they only knew tbat a day rarely passes without
new cases of cure being brought to the knowledge of tie
discoverer of these peerless remedies. For ulcers, sore,'
burns, bad legs, skin diseases, and similar maladies, the
insufficiency of ordinary applications is admitted by all,
but none thus afflicted have been disappointed iu their e.'
pectations when a fair trial has been given to Hollowa)?
ointment and pills. The pain and swelling attending the
class of ailments will diminish daily under the cooling an
soothing unguent.