, 1872-12-28

Hammond. the revivaist, now in Dubuque,
will next try Denver.
-Theoph. G. Callicott returns to the Albany
Times with partnership interest.
Major Charles J. Stolbrand, formerly OF
Chicago, has been reappointed Superintendent
Of the South Caro1ins PenitentiarV.
-Halstead, OF the Cincinnati Commercial, has
been reported dangerously Ill with brain fever.
He Was simply indlsposed, and has at no time
been in : dangerous or serious condition.
so fur as heard from, West Virginia has but
one .spirant for q position in President Grants
new Cabinet, Colonel T. B. Swan, Of kanawha.
.-Goyernor-elect Hartranft, OF Pennsylvania,
has expressed al intention Of introducing fe-
male clerical labor in the various departments Of
the State Government.
General NJ. s. Quay, editor Of the Beaver
Radical, isto be the new. Secretary of State OF
Pennsylvania, and William 81. Armstrong, OF
Lycoming, will be sppointed Attorney General:
died suddenly, the Esd, at his residence near
Louisville, Ky.,, aged 79. He was for years the
agricultural editor Of the Louisville Journal,
and afterward edited the Western RuraEist.
Nike MeGooe the Pugs WHO % II nss is6s 3s %as
Ann Naughton, is now seeking divorce in St.
Louis Court. he alleges that Mary Ann has
been unfnithful.
The Rev. James N. Stone, formerly . Prot
fba Hobart md Kenyon Colleges, 1 was ordained
Roman Catholic priest, on Sunday, by Archbishop
McCloskey, in New York.
William J. AlcAlpine will return to Austria
in June, to finish the improvements OF the river
Danube, which have been put in his charge. He
is now hnving prepared certain machinery for use
in his work.
Mrs. Li7ermore informs us that the feet Of
the coming woman are on the mountain top, and
that her spirit is Of the mountain air. This is
very nice; but if the coming woman is to be OF
any practical value, she had better come down
from there.
"A rumor comes across the sea that Louis
Napoleon, the ex-Empress Eugeuie and tile for
to our hoBpitable shores early next spring, and
travelling through the length and breadth Of the
continent during the entire summer.
Tho Lord Chief Justice Kenyon once said to
rich friend, asking his opinion as 70 the Proba-
Tith U an9 SPEND b his Fortune NARY, and spend bis
wife's; and then he may be expected to apply
with energy to his profession"
John ]. Pearson, George Bergner, Henry
Gilbert, Daniel Eppley, and A. B. Hamilton have
well as Commissione1s to locate site for Post
OlEoe at Harrisburg, Pa, undor an appropria-
tion Of s200, oo0 made by Congress-,
John II. Barclay, Journal Clerk Of the
celebrated his twenty-hfsh official anniversary,
having first been appointed clerk On the 20tl Of
December, 1847 when Robert G. Winthrop WAS
Speaker, and T. c. Campbell, Of Tennessee,
CleTk OF tho House.
-" Dick" Yates is understood to have the
promise that the President will give him the
Governorship Of one Of the Territories, upon
tenure conditioned upon his strict adherence to
temperance principles and practices.
-Referring to the will Of the late Edwin For
rest, the Philadelphia Age remarks "that no
mention is made in it of Mrs. Forrest, who, ne
believe, was never divorced from her husband,
and may assert her rights as widow. These, in
Pennsylvania, will not materially deninish tue
bequcst Of real estate, for in it the widow has
only a life estate in one-third and that is but q
transient interruption Of bequest to q perma-
nent CHARITY. In the pernonal estate, Mrs. For
rest, unless there has been some obstacle inter
posed by voluntary stipulation, will, We suppose,
have an absolute interest in one-third-"
A historic character in Cincinnati. called
"Matches Mary" died in that city few days
ago, and the Coroner's inquest reyealcd ifes
story worthy Of taking it's place among the mem
cries Of famous miBers and eccenttics. Bslere
was some fifty years old, aud had been known as
match-peddlcr OF very regular habits-of in
temperance. She must either have made money
rapidly OF gotten drunk cleap1y, for she LETT
real estate valued at $4,000 and money and
notes amounting to nearly IS much. OF coures,
she had son in the House of Refuge, aud alto
gether was quite such character as Mr. Dofdn
would have delighted to havo added to the
library he collected to illustrate the meanness OF
riches.