New-York tribune., 1871-11-30
MUSICAL NOTES.
RI RNONdL.

The son Of the great novelist has dropped
tic ir. :rrm hl- and is now Charles Dickens.
Divinity and journalism are continually
Craving iLc i.s lha. JON them more firmly together
Bishop Huntington has, II j. announced. taken III" cli-
to,IIl control NJ Inc G"spri Messenger weekly pub
l-lsd hcuc, forth a syracuse
Miss Bci>cy Williams, who died the other
Gy in htr SD year. cherished tie memory Of her great
sfor. and in her will leaves farm Ia the city OF
!rgyirncc win tie rrovi;o t'i monument mrrrrtcd
Ia l.o-c. W'lai>. which shall cost not less than SOD
Tn" Able List, who has recent, purchased
handsome mansion in l., sth, with the intention of re-
siding permanently. still smartS keenly under the
noitHilng rcnemhiahct of lio N"h"" E"IIS l." S'p
dLGn. !hp !rrfoImanc" Of one oi las most brilliant coE-
latin.
The visit Of Mr.. Elliot, the colorcd member
from South Car lima. to Wahin@on restaurant so dis
turh Young gentleman sitting at the next table that
with much indg gnant comment. he arose and withdrew
employ '"i in the Treasury Department. from which on
representation of the case. he at once dismissed
Miss Lydia :. Hall is of the right tal.
Some years ago the Lady made missionary trip to the
ChO aws, and lived FOR years mih>tering 70 them and
civ2ing the kansa, border rulllns. In time she was
driven from her prrGmptH Homestead ana T. now A.
chf duties of her place in the absence oi her chef
Gen. Rosser furnished, in his warlikc days,
food for considerable newspaper comment hut nothing
that rebounds much to his credit az this When the
ended instead Of remaining in the South anh nu:s
ing his hate. he struck nOrthward and begun. for
o better work TO chOp wood on tue Lake Superior Rail
grrcr of division Of the line.
Gen. Sickles was married on Tuesday last to
Dona Carolina dc CrcaGh (Which you will please pro-
IoiHcc with two syllabes). young and accomplished
Aod,Irsiau beauty daughter OF prominent official "t
hiss Laura ockes. aud accoDpanled her IN the Geeras
brilliant and distinguished company, r,prcsentng the
icadiDg families III Spanish society
Mr. Fields of Boston rather turned the
nle on "a would-be Joker one OCCASION The anthor
Of an mproviscd rhyme asked Mr. Fields quite gravcy.
AT "a dinner Iparty where in southey certain not
very brilliant lines could he found. "The lines
could only have been written ny south'y,' said
Mr. Fields" about that carly period OF his cxi-f.
cnce when he was having the measles ami cutting
his teeth the close Of his Me- when h,s BRAIN
bad sottcned and he had fallen INTO inioc! Inr ntiI
cation belongs to the measles r"rod pnt the expression
clearly betrays the dioiic one"
John James Piatt, clever Western poet,
whose appearance in the East was in the poems 'y
two friends Uhe other friend hcing William d. H"weis
row Of The ANdncl. i'll old times hoy associate oi
Geo d. Prentice in The LOniSrc journal. He has been
writing pleasant "reminiscences of Mr. Prentice for
Thf Cincinnati Commt,cid wherein he tells th- fraC-
ncnt Of Pr-nticcana AT his own expense: Zone hot
morning August 1860 was sitting at his table, "hrn
lie came In. and putting his bead down upon IT. AZ he
would sometimes do when pot feeling well, seemed
asleep Presently however he lifted his forrhead looked
very gravcy and called TO Col Wallace one of his
chief assistants Them hut since dead who sat in the front
roou 'Col WallaccCol. Wallace! hc said IN his lccu-
Ur treble voice Col. Wallace did hear hun, and I.
.iug the open window hctwcen. cell" hiu The
old (1icl. "A wcEkuOwn Philalc pIia tdor dn' = par
oi John W. Forney with glasses down upon
his no.c and leaned through tie window. 'C"i.
Wal 'ac, why j. our young frlond-hcrc like mint
juep T. The Colonel who sometimes made happy pun,
gave some pleasant answer No. that not IT,. san Mr
Pr ucr ana added. ., hang IL don't like to tell you
why - IS like mint jnicp; it might hurt -|s ic".-
.ur-' tOt him Thought the young fellows feelings
~ at soo'ncd by the mint jucp t,e rhaps. alter
wand. and begged lin by all means to tell Col Whlla'r
V va
tell IL 1ut don't like tot i, bccauao he Is green
HUjU.''