The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Personal.
THERE is talk of Seward statue in
Central Park.

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THERE is talk of Seward statue in
Central Park.
Mr.. STANLEY sailed from England for
America on the 9th of November.
Mr.. BRET HARTE is represented TO be
in no way fanatical in his fondness for
labor.
BARNUM, the Snowman, has 5000 cat
tie on his stock rancho of 5000 acres,
near Pueblo, Cal.
FANNY FERN was the senior female
writer i'll the country. Mrs. Stowe now
takes her place.
MARY CLEMMER AMEs thinks the love
OF pin.money is the most fruitful source
of matrimonial unhappiness.
"a HISTORY of the Declension and
Prospective Fall of the Great Republic
of the United States " is about to be
Published by an Indiana lady.
LEMoINE, in his life of Eugene Sue,
says that Sue used to attend every cx.
eeution in Paris, and, with an opera
glass, watch the face of the criminal.
NILSSON writes that she intends to
build an elegant residence on her Hi
nois estate for summer residence, and
will live in New York In the winter.
Miss ANNIE KELLEY, of Waterford,
Ireland, enters the lists of claimants to
the authorship of " Beautiful Snow"
and is championed in her claim by the
Boston PILOT.
CANADA mourns the untimely death
of Ann Campbell, a dairymaid, aged
l3l, who was "a pretty girl milking her
COW" when the first of Georges Wash.
ington's colored nurses was born.
A MICHIGAN Indian was promptly
escorted to the happy hunting. grounds
by can of nitro glycerine, which he
endeavored to open with his little
Ratchet.
SENATOR SPRAGUE, of Rhode Island,
has recently presented full suits of
clothing 70 the officers and crew of the
revenue cutter Moccasin, who gave
theirs to the survivors of the Metis.
Mrs. CRIrrESDEN, widow of Laura
Fairs victim, is at present keeping
boarding. house in San Francisco in
order to support her family who are in
poor circumstances financially.
Mr.. d. r. LOCKE, of Toledo (Petro-
leum V. Nasby), has started forty.
eight page magazine, called LockeS Dol.
Tar Monthly, of which he is the editor,
and Messrs. Jones & Locke the pub.
fishers.
IT is now said TO be doubtful whether
Mr.. Sumner returns to take his seat in
the United States Senate at this session.
His most intimate friends in Washing
ton say he will not sail for home this
month, as has been stated.
The Paris Henmckian says: "Joel Z.
Hart, one of the greatest sculptors liv-
ing, who is now in Florence, Italy, was
many years ago stone-mason In this
county, and some of the fencing and
chimney work put up by him in the
Flat Rock neighborhood arc still stand
ing"
MRs. SANDS is a bright little widow
who lives near Oil City, Pa, and has
made comfortable fortune in specu-
lation in Gil lands. Representing her.
self as poor woman, as she was, with a |
family to support, she induced New
York company owning lands near her
residence to sell her POO acres for -, 800, |
paying a small sum down. She imme- J
diately resold a part interest for so, 600, |
put down with the proceeds what has
proved one of the most successful oil |
wells in the oil territory, and now asks
for the property a round half million |
dollars.
FANNY FERN was a woman of remark.
able spirit. She endured her long suf. |
fering with great fortitude. When her |
right hand was disabled by rheumatism,
she insisted upon writing her Ledger
articles with her left hand, and she con.
tinued to perform this task almost to
the day Of her death. 1t is said Mr..
Bonner has paid her $4,000 for her
writings. She was very fond of chill.
dren, and they delighted in her. In
domestic life she was fastidiously neat,
and could not write if her table or room
was in the least out of order. Though |
very egotistic in her writings, she dis.
liked to appear before the world in pub.
lie. She used TO be seen nearly every |
afternoon, about four o'clock, walking
on Broadway, or in the vicinity of
Union Square, with her husband She
usually spent the summer in New En-
gland, each year in some new retreat,
but for the last two summers she resided
in cottage at Newport. Mast and
81 Doesticks" were both related to her.