, 1872-12-02

bucAlns6na1n County. va.
| --President Grants eon Robert, Harvard
Senior, has just been elected class-poet.
-Lleutenant Fred Grant, en- route to his regi-
| mcnt II Texas, will be ionized in New Orleans
Chief Justice Kingman, Of Kansas, has
transferred his legal residence from Atchison to
Topeka.
Colonel Tennie q. Claain he's, it is alleged,
an e1-husband residing in NoblesYi1le Ind.
| "A. J. Drexel, Of Philadelphia has sailed for
Europe to join his family in Paris and be absent
| Hi1 months.
Governor Dix, Of New York, declines to re-
side in the Executive Manson at Albany, but will
| occupy private house.
-Gonoral Hartranft was, On Saturday, re1ie7-
ed Of his duties as Auditor Of Pennsylvania, by
his SUCCESSOR elect.
Theirs has recently "decorated" eight
balloonists for thigh" services during the
French and Prussian war.
Joseph G. Wilson, Congressman elect Of
Oregon, has come East, but doesn't take his
Frank H. Griggs succeeds c. Stewart Ellis
resigned, as President Of the Oitizens' National
Bank, at Davenport, Iowa.
The Rev. N. ". Miner, Of the First Baptist
Gh,Ea GhnEeh in Relvidere Ill., has accepted call to
%. F. Murphy, chief official reporter to the
United States Senate, has got the official report
ing OF tho Pennsylvania Constitutional Con-
vention.
George 7. Bigelow. having declined to serve
fire, Mayor CASTOR has appointed Thomas Rus
William Wilcox, for many years conductor
on the Connecticut Shore Line, his been ap-
pointed Superintendent: in place Of sereuo e.
Scranton, resigned.
Mrs. Tozier, Of Athens. Me-, now 1O7 years
old, must have most wonderful memory, since
she claims to distinctly remember the drowning
OF her father in the Panobscot River one hundred
and four years ago.
-hfisa .7,,tin ~
James Temple, United States Senator OF Hi
nois, 184S-47, was married, at St. Louis, Nov, 27
to Ashley D. Scott, senior member OF the firm
Of Scott, Collins & Co.
The San n. Francisco Board Of Education has
appointed Miss Marian Evans, daughter Of the
late Colonel Albert 8. Evans, teacher, acting
to her father.
His Serene Highness Prince Frederick WILL
INN Of Wittgenstein-Hohenst brother of the
Teigping Prince, has just been sentenced by the
Chief Court OF Criminal Appeal at Arnsberg to
tour weeks imprisonment for M-treating
woman.
President Grant has intimated his intention
OF pardomng General Richard Bowman, now
confined in the Baltimore City Jail, under SEN
tenoe of the United States District Court, for
committing frauds upon the Government while
Deputy Collector Of Customs at Baltimore.
-Ihey tell good story about Colonel David
aon, Adjutant General Of Texas. He received i
bogus despatch from Bell County, indicating his
election to the State Senate Whereupon he |
promptly resigned his Adjutant's Office and his
resignation was promptly accepted. Il he had
it to do again, he would wait for the official re-
turns,
Mark Twain wrote to London paper as fol-
lows: "Sir: With your kind permission, I desire
to say to those societies in London and other
cities Of Great Britain under whose auspices I
homo by cable telegram. T shall spend, With
my family, the greatest part Of next year here,
and may be able to lecture month during the
autumn upon such scientific topics aB know
least about and may consequently feel less tram
The new President Of Mexico, Lerdo de
Tejada, is a comparatively young man. being
but As years Of age. He possesses energy,
courage, eloquence, and is withal man Of con-
siderable educational acquirements. He was
1926 and in that town he began his studies. He
studied Jurisprudence in the City Of Mexico. in
the College OF Yldefonso, where he received his
title Of Advocate, in 1851. Lerdo waa Foreign
BY this United States to save the life Of Ma1inil-
ian.
Joel T. Hart, one OF the greatest sculptma
living, who is now in Florence, Italy, Was many
years ago stone mason IN this county, and
some Of the fencing and chimney-wo1k put up
by him in the Flat Rock neighborhood are stiff |
standing.-Paris Kentuckian.
What Governor Hartranft said, after that |
chat about Post Office matters at the White |
House, was, "Good God, gentlemen, Was it for
his Pennsylvania gave him 1877, 600 majority2"
It Was not the Governor, bnt one O'Neil, who |
made the prediction that Grant would be in
oeaehed within two years.
1t is said that Laura D. Fair will present |
relief bill to the next Legislature to reimburse |
aer for expenses incurred in her defence when |
charged with the murder Of A. P. Crittenden. |
The jury having declared her ''not gully" she |
considers that she has claim upon ''the people |
If the State OF California" for damages. As |
he "lobby" will have to be s'consulted" Oh the |
merits OF the BILL Mrs. Fair proposes course Of
ectures to raise the necessary funds.-San Fran
isco Chronicle.
Colonel Forney, in his "Reco1lections Of
Public Dead Men," takes for his text this week, |
4 Colonel Forney and the Thirty fourth Con-
,ress," and Hays that, after Lincolns election in
1860, Colonel Forney wrote Mr.. Lincoln that
Colonel Forney would be gratihed it Mr.. Hor-
lea Greeley could be made Postmaster Gen.
,ral, whereupon Mr. Lincoln wrote Colonel For
ley that he had selected 1Ir. Seward, OF New
FORK, for the State Department, and deeply re-
yretted he could not oblige Colonel Forney by
appointing another Cabinet officer from New
FORK. These views Mr. Lincoln embodied in a
ettert to Colonel Forney.
LOST AND FOUND.
OST-SATURDAY EVENING, ON THE WEST |