, 1872-12-10
PERSONAL.

James T. Magic, @. the Canton Register, is not
a candidate for SECRETARY of the Illinois Senate.
Governor Baldwin, Of Michigan, has s2-
pointed J: D: Evan, Of Tawss 1ss;aaa sgamP Land
John Boyd, of low, is candida:ofor Door
keeper of the United 6tltes House Of Repreaen-
tat1ves.
Colonel c. Y. Lowrie. of Montana, Iowa..
has resigned as Register in Bankruptcy
Al. Swain did not get tae Pension Agency at.
DeBMoines, after all, e1-4ieutenant Governor
Cue being the appointee.
Henry A. Newman, d Nebraska City, has
taken office at Omaha as Collector OF Internal
Revenue.
Bishop Merrill, of the Methodist Church,
and family, have arrived in st. Paul to take up
their permanent residence.
Henry J. Raymond died June IS, 1869 James
Gordon Bennett died June l, 1879; Ho1Sca
Greeley died Nov. %, 1872.
R. n. Cu1lom, Of Washington, Tezewell
| County, father OF the Hon. Shelby u. Cnllom, OF
Springfield, died at his home on Wednesday,
aged II years.
bury, Of Franklin, Ct., died two or three days
1T is q great comfort to know that Judge
| Ward Hunt cast his first Tote for General jack
| son.
Lucille Western is IL, and gives notice that
the doctor enjons her to desist, for awhile, from
professional labor.
Miss Olive Seward Rlsley, the adopted
daughter and travelling companion Of " H.
| Seward, is expected to pass soma tune IN wash
ington this winter.
Amos Myers, formerly member Of Con-
gress from Pennsylvania, hes lately bean or
dained to the Baptist ministry.
The widow OF the late General George T.
Thomas has gone, in company with her SISTER,
Miss Kellogg, to Europe She Will winter IN
| Florence
l. Foz V,.v3- o1,n1.f ha
will be accompanied by Captains Wharton and
Mitchell, and Lieutenant Ward, Of his personal
staff.
twentJ-th1ee gold rings, Was lately thrown from
his stage and killed, near Angelos. His eldest
| son ia Cashier in the London and San francisco
Bank, San Francisco, while another is Wells,
Farge agent In sanP P1o ofs Sheldon Prof.
Brooke, and Prof. Brown, have received notice
| that their appointments to the chairs Tiled by
them in Griswold College, Iowa, have been re-
yoked, to take effect On the 28th OF January.
1sT3-the collegiate department having been sus-
pended.
-TIton says: ave have no sympathy With
fataIis1n, and yet 20 are free to Say that aaf-
Greeley's destiny WAS on him, and he could nos
escape it. There we're inward causes that Gna"-
! ed their way outward to this effect. He had pre-
monitions Of it not only few weeks but many
months ago. During some Idle hours in BROOK
lyn early in the campaign, he sald to us VIII 9.
Voice Of sudden aadness, and tone Of unwo ated
pathos, 7 have but one great ambition and tEat
is, not the Presidency, but death Later IN the
| summer (or perhaps early il the 1an), when
| some friends were talking with him at merry
supper-table, when one Of US 1ai1y asked, How
be enjoyed Being praised ~ one political party,
and damned by the other 2 he simply answered
that Nothing would GRITTY ain 80 much as to
receive from some celestial messenger IN au-
thoritatiYe assurance that he must die the next
morning. About the middle cf October, IN a
Sunday evening conversation vit,1 him, the same
:! premonitory meditations On ie2.h and lnl11ez-
! tality broke foEth from his lips, About three
weeks ago Mr. Greeley said @ as (cIasping our
hand and holding it for the last tine), Ny dear
fried, for thirty days and nigaes I have not
slept; shall mover sleep again I pray tor
/ death.'n