The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-15
PERSONAL.

The Hon. o. P. Morton, Senator from
Indiana, will participate in the Ohio canvass.
SECRETARY Stanton has an ample fortune.
acquired by extensive practice as a lawyer.
Henry H. Haight the Democratic candi
cate for Governor in California is native of
Rochester, N. Y.
Mr.. u. A. Lochrane, prominent Georgia
politician, bought the Atlanta Opera House for
$l4, 800. 'O-
The farm of James M. Mason, near Win
chester, Va, containing "a acres, has been
sold for $l70 per acre.
- Whittier, the poet, is at the Isle of Shoals.
30 alse is Rear-Admiral Smith, of the Bureau
OF Docks and Yards.
Generals Sherman and Harney left st.
Louis on Sunday to Join the other Indian Com
missiOners at Fort Leavenworth.
The Hon. Sidney Clarke, M. c. from Kan
sas, is arranging for canvass of that State
for impartial suffrage.
"A brother of Postmaster General Randall
has bought house and lot in Jacksonville,
Florida, and designs settling there.
General o. o. Howard will deliver the
address before the New England Agricultural
Society during the fair which commences in
Providence, L. l., on the 9th of September.
The Rev, Jesse Guernsey, late editor and
proprietor of the Io'Oa Religious Newsletter, is
to be a staff contributor to the new national
religious paper, the AdUance, forthcoming at
Chicago.
--Galesville University, Wisconsin, has con-
ferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on the
Hon. Demas Barnes, of Brooklyn, in considera-
ton of his high attainments in literature and
political economy
Mr.. Launt Thompson has been engaged
by Committee, representing the Sixth Corps,
to execute life-size statute of General Sedg-
wick. The statue will be placed at West
Point.
1t is reported that among the many whites
and halfbreeds engaged with the Indians in
their atrocities on the plains is one Bent, a
graduate of West Point, who has made him
self conspicuous by his acts of brutality.
While the Hon. A. G.. Brown was speaking
in Kinds county, Miss, man who voted with
him on the secession question, threw stone
at his head, and came near striking him a
blow that would have caused his death.
Mr.. Stoddart Howell, the successor of
Hernandez, the City Treasurer of New Or
leans, removed by General Sheridan, isSa hard
ware merchant of many years standing in
that city, man of eminent ability and in
tegrity and an unfiinching Unionist
Captain Mikes, of the little raft Nonpareil,
which made the voyage across the Atlantic,
has been the lion of the day at Cowes among
the "swells' of the Royal Yacht Club. The
Queen had intimated that she would pay a
visit to the Nonpareil.
Mr.. Elias Howe, Jr., who has been at the
point of death, is convalescent, and has left
New York for Boston. He was suffering from
enlargement of the heart and dropsical dis
order, and had vainly sought relief from ply
sicians in London and Paris.
General A. E. Burnside, Governor of
Rhode Island General w. S. Barry, United
States Army; Ex-Governor and United States
Senator r. Yates, of Illinois; Governor Swami,
of Maryland; and Governor Bullock, of Massa-
chusetts, are at Saratoga
The Rev. Newman Hall, the Congrega-
tional minister in London, is coming to the
United States. During the dark days of our
civil war he labored zealously to remove the
\ popular prejudice in England against the
North and the Union.
Major John J. Williamson, the newly ap-
pointed Chief of Police of New Orleans, was
formerly on General Franklin's staff, and after
wards Ordnance Officer, Department of the
Gulf. He was General Bailey's chief assistant
in building the Golfer dam on Red River,
whereby the iron-clad fleet was saved.
"A despatch from Springfield, Mass, says:
--''Mr. Blake, the detective, who figured in
the detection and arrest of the West Auburn
murderers last winter, has lately been in this
city, and succeeded in swindling one of oul
hotel keepers out of a bill of 500 for board
and other expenses Mr.. Blake is an old
roper-in, and gets his living by his wits"