, 1872-11-19

PERSONAL.

EEHSONAL.
General Jones II. Withers has retired from the
Mobile Tribune.
Judge Tabor, Second Auditor Of the Treas
ury, is visiting his home in Iowa.
-Rumor says chat Mrs. James A.. Oates and
Titus, her manager, will be married at St. Louis
shortly.
-Avinza Hayward 4tthe San Francisco million
aire, Is about to visit South America Tor the
benefit Of his health.
DIR. Peyton King, long distinguished citl-
zen of Alabama, died a few days ago at Meridian,
~. P. Farley, of Dubuque, has been appoint
ed ed receiver Of the Southern Minnesota hau-
The Rev. J. Brinton Smith, recently poison.
ed in North Carolina, was at one time PASTOR ot
the st. James Episcopal Church III fhl1aael-
phia. .... -,
sail from Boston. 30th, to enter upon his duties
as Consul Of the United States in Liverpool.
George F. Smith, formerly of the Jackson
vile chs Journal, has merged his paper, tho
Humboldt (kan) Southeast In the Lawrence
Democratic Standard. =,
-Tlygses Mercur will resign his seat in Con-
press on the first day Of the session, to take his
Seat On the Supreme Bench Of Pennsylvania.
Caleb B. Wright, of Hilkcsbarre, and Charles
r. Bucka1ew, of bloomsbury, take seats in the
Pennsylvania T Constitutional Convention, vice
Rhone and Freeze, resigned.
-Goyeruor Baker and T. A. Hendricks will
change places on Jan. l. Mr. Hendricks becomes
Governor of Indiana, and Baker takes Hendricks
place in his law firm.
Gilbert Munger writes, Nov. 7, that he is
with Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, and says !:
ave work from sunrise to sunset, muf1led up to
our elbows in furs, for the weather ia intensely
cold, and re are camping in the snoW sketching
snow storms and snow effects
"A. Il. Reese, General Superintendent Of the
Detroit, Lansing d Lake Michigan Railroad,
has been appointed to the same position on the
Detroit j. Bay City Railroad, still retaining his
connection with the former road.
Cornelius Dewitt, a well-moWn character
OF Holland City, Mich. died there the other day.
aged SO. He had been soldier in the French
armies for eighteen years, and had participated
in more than 100 battles, including Waterloo
and those Of the French Army in Agisrs. He
WAS married at the age Of 81, and came to Michi-
gun in 1847.
The late Professor James Hadley, Of Yale,
was the son Of DR.. James Hadley, who for many
colleges Of Fairfield and Geneva, and WAS born
in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. T, on March
80, 1891. In 1843 he became the Assistant Pro-
fessor of Greek in Yale College, and in 1851 was
elevated to the full professorship as successor
to President Woolsey, who had held the chair up
to that time. Professor Hadley was the author
Of several valuable textbooks on the branches
coming within his department.
john P. Jones, the San Francisco operatorin
mines and politics, who has purchased for him
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1849, in the bark Eureka
which vessel made the voyage from that city,
ria the st. Lawrence and around Cape Horn, to
San Francisco. He is now considered one OF the
wea1thiest, if not the yealthiest, of men On the
Pacific Coast-his possessions having been es-
timated as high as 100000 600. On the Stock
Exchange OF San francisco be occupies precise
" the same position that Commodore Vanderbilt
does on Wall street.
"A story comes from Newark, N. J., that VIM.
Hawkins, aged 81 years, Of the wealthy jewelry
manufacturing firm of Carter, Hawkins 8 Dodd,
eloped last weok with Miss Matte Lynch, a
young lady Of considerable musical talent, who
for two or three years has been very popular
with Newark audiences. Ar. Hawkins had been
regular in his attentions to Miss Lynch for some
time, but her parents we're unwilling that she
should marry, as they believed she had bril-
liant musical career before her. She is, not
withstanding her marriage, about to enter into
an agreement to sing in opera this winter with
the Seguins.