The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-16
Personal and Literary.

Mill left grist of only $4,000.
The late DR.. Nelaton, of Paris, left
property valued at 100000 francs.
George Francis Train has an income
Of $4,000 yearly, from rents alone.
-Ex-G Governor J. D. Cox, of Ohio, has
been elected President of the Toledo, Wa
bash s. Western Railway.
DIR. Won Maier, who has been Grand
Rabbi of the Jews in Nuremberg for the
last forty years, died recently At Stuttgart.
Dickens works have been decided too
immoral for general reading by the man
ayers of the Vermont State School Lii
brary.
William Cullen Bryant, now nearly
eighty years old and enjoying healthy
old age, is said to be contemplating voy-
age around the world, and will start on
the journey the present fall or next spring.
Thomas Powers James, the Brattle.
boro, VT, medium and interpreter of
Dickens, who has been in retirement to
complete his sequel to Edwin brood, has
returned to Brattleboro, having finished
his work. He claims to have been offered
$4,000 for the book.
"A Massachusetts, paper says that Caleb
Cushing, when he was appointed Judge,
read sixty volumes of Massachusetts, re-
ports in nineteen days, and that his aver
age study and labor for years has been
seventeen hours q day, and wants to know
why he doesn't take advantage of the ten
hour law?
Colonel Charles J. Biddle, one of the
proprietsrs of the Age newspaper, Of Phil
adelphia, died few days ago after long
illness. He served in the Mexican war
as Major, and as Colonel of the Pennsyl-
vania Reserve Regiment In the Rebellion.
He also represented the Second Pennsyl-
vania District in Congress.
Secretary Belknap has engaged James
Parton, the historian, to arrange for the
publication Of the original manuscript
papers of Washington, which recently
came into the possession of the War De-
partment. Among the papers is the orig
inal order book used by General Wash
ington when he was in command Of the
army in the field.
DIR. Otto Obermier, an eminent physi-
clan of Berlin, died, short time since, of
cholera, contracted during series of ex.
periments with the excreta Of cholera pa
tients. He Is reported to have intention
ally inoculated himself with the infected
fluids in order to study the modes of con-
tagion, and even on his death-bed persist
ed in making microscopic examinations
of his own blood.
M. de Porquet, whose name has been
widely known for half century in con-
nection with French and other scholastic
works, died recently in London at the age
of ~. He was the son of Capt Fenwich,
an English officer, and was born in Paris.
When he began to teach languages in
England he adopted his mothers name,
De Porquet. During the last fifty years
he wrote and published upward of seventy
works.
A New York correspondent of the
Troy Times thus recalls Motley's first lit.
eraTy effort and failure: II we'll remem-
Der the time when Motley came to this
city poor and ambitious author, with
catch. penny novel under his arm, looking
for . publisher. The Harpers got the
book out and the writer Of this had the
pleasure of selling It behind the counter
Of Broadway bookstore. It was called
: Iorton's Hope and like many other
hopes, proved q severe disappointment.
Such was Motley's beginning in 1882"