New-York tribune., 1873-02-03

ter thereof Now Mr.. Schimer is taken IN the same
way-has fallen in love with a sweet young Irish
girl friend Of his sister, The Bishop orders hIIn To
cease all association with the fair lassie, and send
her away from his sisters house. Sehirmer wrote
| to Mr. Hilmar to know what lie should do about IT,
We can easily imagine what advice he got. 90 ne
refused did Schirmer TO do as the Bishop directed
him. and the Bishop has accordingly Withdrawn
his faculties" He, too, will probably marry the
young IRISH girl and go into the Episcopal Churcn'
like his friend Hilmar. Considering the lovely Ill
bernian we do not that the Rev. Mr.. scnlrmer Is
greatly to DO ptied. Our sympathy Is manly WIN
the Bishop who is conscentiOusly trying to do MS
DUTY as he understands it, under such unpropltious
circumstances.
Here is singular story of condolences, The de-
tectives of Boston, in case given to them to WORK
up, wanted man named W. IL. johnson who had
glass eye. They found such person 10 bangor,
Me- and he was the wrong gentleman. 1hey iouno
another W. Fl. johnson in Salem, Mass, also with
glass eve and he too proved to be an innocent man.
They then received telegram from Newburyport'
Mass, stating that w. H. Johnson with glass eye
had been arrested tbere-and he likewise proved 10
be the wrong customer There is fourth W. H.
Johnson with glass eye, somewhere ana the boston
authorities would like to have him. that Is, unless
glass eye.
A fine old fellow Obada Baldwin by name, and
one hundred and one years of age, died at Crown
Point on the 18th inst. He had voted the Demo-
cratic ticket straight through from Jefferson to Bu-
chanan-how he voted after that, we are not IN
formed He was very sparing in the use OF alcohohc
drinks 1t is TO be observed, however, that he had
used tobacco all his life. He celebrated for re-
IL i. Ill uho IN
piled to him. He married three times which proves
that if you wish to live, gentle reader to be one
hundred years old, you must marry three times
at least, wise people frequently reason in that way
He was the father of seventeen children.
The conscientious precaution of clergyman OF
that town. the Rev. James Boydon, is recorded by
The Taunton (Alass.l Gazette. The reverend gentle
man had been exposed to the conagion of the small
pox. Instead of going about, freely minglng with
his unsuspecting fellow-creatures, the Rev. James
Boydon voluntarily shut himself up In his garrett,
and did there isolate himself in strict seclusion for
the space of fourteen days. Naturally concluding
that he was then incapable of injecting anybody he
came out and moved among the sons OF men as
usual. Was the Rev. James BOydon never vac
cinated
A mysterious disappearance of whole family Is
reported from Madison, Wis There lived there
prosperous farmer named Glady, and he is missing
with his wife and two daughters. NeighbOrs, on
going to the house. found the stock nearly starved,
but of the family no trace was to be discovered.
The fact that the farmer kept sum of 81 500 in the
house may have something to do with the matter;
and if so it only affords another instance of the
folly which people commit who, living in isolated
situations, keep considerable quantities of cash by
them.
At Rathdowney, in Ireland, the other day, one
Edward Bowling proclaimed that, being too good
for this world, he would be translated at certain
hour from the public square of that town. Two
thousand people got together to see Mr.. Bowling go
up. He told them that the fiery chariot would soon
arrive to carry him of, but unfortunately the
vehicle did MT come. He waited and waited and at
last was compelled to announce that the ascension
was indefinitely postponed In all other respects the
miracle was a perfect success
most melancholy affair has just occurred at
Richmond, Va. Two "highly respectable" young
ladies have been sent to Jail for days for the
Offense of stealing from a hair-dressers shop "a
quantity of human hair'-ten dollars worth, in
fact. The frightful arrangements for the human
head at present so much in fashion are answerable
for the temptation TO which these two highly
spectacle virgins succumbed. 1t is dreadful state
of things when ladies are thus driven to crime to
obtain the means of making themselves hideous
John Beer Swiss young man, in w-Orleans
hung himself there the other day, being respondent
because he could not obtain employment He had
rich uncle and also wealthy brother in France who
had refused to assist him wherefore he left letter
directing that the rope with which he executed him
self should be cut into two parts and one Of them
sent TO each of his disobligng relatives. He also d
rected that the bill for his funeral expenses should
be sent to his uncle; and think his ve1er-
Dle relative paying it. ,.r
"A2 IA 4 lssy'e~
spicy scandal agitates the commercial circles Of
Portland, Me. Three of the most respectable
merchants of that city have been detected in snug
Cling nutmegs and ardent spirits. The latter were
taken out of bond in Boston, carried about on the
sea awhile, then landed on Long Island and thence
conveyed to Portland. But what could they DOS
sby have wanted of cheap brandy in q city in
which it is penal offense to sell a drop of itf
We have received letter from the Chairman of
the Greeley Monument Committee, stating that the
publication of the name of Mr. William Cullen
Bryant among the signers of their address arose
from an error of the copyist. and was entirely min
tentional.
Mr.. w. A.. Croffut has become the editor of
The Minneapolis iribuns now largest newspaper in
Minnesota.
negro lawyer. Mr.. John F.. Charles, has
been admitted to practice at Atlanta Ga.the first in
that State -
The Grand Master of MasOns in Minnesota ia
the Rev Charles Griswold Methodist Episcopal Minis
ter, at Red Wing '
statuesto the memory of the late Gen.
Thomas will be composed in part OF the brass of dis
csrded cannon. - - VIC
Mrs. Sarah A. 0ran, widow of soldier who