The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-08-27
PERSONAL,

Johh bright mas been compelled
by i'll health to iutormit speech max
ing.
About. tho novelist, is Of German
origin, his fathers name having
been Abhuber.
Newmans Hall salary is IS, 900
900 poupds), not $4,000 as has
been stated.
There is a rumor that Jamaica
Eyre is to be the next Governor Of
the Dominion Of Canada.
Corporal Peakc, who won the rife
match at Wimbledon, England, was
made i'll by the strain upon his
nerves. .. t.....
The n, o. Picayune says JEFF. Dn-
Wis may represent the house with
which he Is TO be connected 10 Liv-
erpool, in New Orleans.
Mrs. Charles, the nuthorcsS Of the
b" Schouberg Gotta Family" etc, has
been recently afflicted 10 the death
OF her husband.
General Halpine's successor as
Registrar of New York, 2. II. Jones,
gives tho salary to Mrs. Halpino.
DR.. vermilye, of New York. eu-
Joys the distinction Of being the
woalthiest Clergyman in the United
States.
Carlyle has boen elected President
Of the Edinburgh Philosophical As.
sociatiou in place Of the latO Lord
Brougham.
An English tax commissioner sued
newspaper writer for calling him =
donkey. The jury decided that he
was, aud that it was no libel.
Park Goodwin, of New York, went
swimming in the Avon, but was com
PEELED to hide three times from boat
ing parties Of ladies.
The widow Of Calderon de Ia Barca,
formerly aud for long period Min.
lister of Spain to this country, is now
in the United States, . .
Lioge. in Belgium, which claims
to have been the birth. place Of Char
lemnguo, inaugurated statue Of that
Emperor on the 18th Of July.
Fuug aud Teh, two Of the Chinese
Embassy, speak American as freely
as a native, Fung adds to his other
merits that of being a tectotalcr.
Rev. Theodore l., Cuyler denies
ever having had his photograph ts-
ken, for sale, with hands aud face
uplifted in an attitude of prayer.
+ j. j. Summerboll, Of Des Moines,
Iowa, is going to Dayton, Ohio, as
editor of the Herald aud Gospel OF
Liberty" the organs Of the christians.
Mr.. Abuer Huntly, of Cuba, N. Y,
is one hundred aud one years old.
He is hale and hearty, being engaged
iu breaking = three year old colt.
Mr.. McGreggor, of MAripOsa. on
the defeat Of Fremont, in '56, vowed
he would not wear . hat until his
candidate was elected President, and
he has kept his veW.
Gov. Hilaud Hall, Of Bennington,
has in press a work entitled 1" The
Early History Of Vermont" to end
with the admission Of the State into
the Union in 1891.
Wsagen, the German srt-criiic,
aud professor of art history at Berlin
for twenty-five years, died tho other
day at Copenhagen aged 20 years.
Augustin Iturbide, brother Of the
Prince Iturbide, who was adopted
by tho Emperor Ma1imilian, now
keeps beer shop iu the suburbs Of
Paris. ....
Ralph Waldo Emerson says, he
mover expects to leave the country
again, as he has not time TO travel,
and nothing is to be gained abroad
that cannot be had at home.
Hon. Edward McPherson, Clerk
of the United States House Of Rep
rosentatives, long ago, with the full
consent Of Mr.. Stevens, begau the
biography Of the great cOmmOner.
A hebrew merchant, Jubal Apa-
tow, recently deceased at Wilma,
Prussia, used to supply three hund-
red families with bread at half price.
Twenty thousand people attended his
funeral. t..
Mr.. VIM. Elsmorc, who is about
eighty two years ofagt, trapped seven
bears in township No. 18, Washing
ton county, Maine, between January
/ and July 10, of the present year.
Henry W. shaw {" Josh Biflings')
is about publishing u collection of
letters from Henry Clay to his faith
er, Henry Shaw, of Lanesboro, who
was Mr.. Clay's chief political mana.
ger in New England.
The Other day, Ed ward Williams,
of Scranton, Pa, swan niae miles in
l50 minutes, or two hours and half.
This beats Leander'a feat In the
HellesPont, as wellas Byron'a imitA-
ton thereof. it, r
The Duke. de Sesa, q member Of
the royal family has been caught
playing the confidence game upon
storckeepers, and been relieved ofaIl
power over his property, his own
wife being apPOinIOd his curator. g
The gravo ofLOla MOhtcl atGrsen
wood Cemetery was recently defaeed
by some person unkuown, part of the
mound being dug away. The tomb
bears the simple inscription a" Eliza
Gilbert, died January II, 1861; aged
forty two.
Swinburne is about 10 shed the
lus,er Of his oounteuancd upon the
people of this eontiOeht, aud will
make . special point ofpaying a yis-
it to Walt Whitman ho is sald TO
be prey to morbid melancholy, and
his physician has oriered him to