The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-12-27
Personal.


JoAduIN MtLLER is wintering in Spain.
ANNA Dickinson is going to take a
husband.
JOE JEFFERSON may never return to
the stage. H4
Miss fENNis c. CLAfhIN is out of the
Colonelcy of her New York regiment.
GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAs is said TO
be the coming Governor of New Jersey.
THE Rev. C. X. Fisher, of Hartford,
Conn.,, has officiated at 1902 marriages.
GEN. LESS college is overcrowded
with applications, sand-is we'll off fnan-
cially.
IT was Chief Justice Chase who wro.e
the closing paragraph Of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation. >.
A NEw JERSEY Catholic priest has IN.
sured his life for $lS0,000, the benefit TO
accrue to the Church.
A MONUMENT to Daniel OConnell is to
be erected in st. Louis by the Knights
of st. Patrick at a cost of $25,0OO.
HokAfio SErMotR has consented to
preside at the National Prison Reform
Congress, to be held at Baltimore, Jan.
81.
HENRY j. RAYMOND died June Is,
1869; James Gordon Bennett died June
|, 1872, Horace Greeley died November
%, 1872.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS can walk
only with the aid of crutches and
servant, and does not leave Lis house
except on pleasant dsys.
A WIsceNsIS Congressman is taken to
task by the press of that S ate for send
ing out under his frank over FIVE hun.
dred wedding cards foy relative.
MATHEW and John Guy vassar, the
two sons of the man who founded Vas.
sar College, have decided to establish a
100000 hospital in Poughkeepsie.
Miss CuARLorrE CusnxAN commences
three weeks engagement at McVick.
er's Theater, Chicago, Dec. 23-her first
appearance on the stage for many years.
OF Fred. Grant the Missouri Democrat
says: "Hs is nelooking officer,
taller somewhat than his father, but in
feature discloiing the unmistakab!e
of the President
A WARNING to literary men aga inst
over-work IL afforded in the remarkable
statement of Mr.. Greeley to Rev. Mr..
Talmage, ten days before his nomination
at Cincinnati, "that he had not had
sound sleep in kteen years"
MAJ. Jo.IrH SrsAou., of Wooster,
together few days since to see how
they were getting on. The Major is
ninety nine, his wife ninety.four, and
the united ages of their SIX children.
including an adopted daughter, 4G5
years.
IT is remarked of Massachusetts,
Congressman, of somewhat advanced
years, who is announced as about to be
that's his nose in its downward
course nearly touches his mouth, while
his chin turns up gracefully to meet the
nose, until, SIS Qailp says. lie can't eat
green corn from the ear because the
kernels would 60 up his nose instead of
in at his mouth"
WILLIAM EDWARDS, Of Jay, VT, having
lived alone in the world for 95 years, IT, Q
other day married lady OF 10 Mr..
Edwards has quite d remar kabie tory.
He was one of Welling,on's soldiers,
snd was wotfnded twice at Waterloo,
yet he is very hearty and apparently
well. Mr.. Edwards has been an invet
crate smoker for almost 50 years. His
grandfather was l04 when he died, and
bis great grandfather was l04, but he
regards his father a. having been cut off
in his youth, as he died when only 81
years old. Mr.. Edwards intends to
make trip to London next summer to
claim bounty due to British soldiers
over 81 years old, which, wish the ae-
crued interest, will amount TO nearly
IS 600 now.