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PERSONAL.

Personal.
Hon. 4. W. Tenney, who has becn nomi-
I mated for United States Attorney for the
: Eastern District o sINew York, is native Of
Dalton. y. H., and graduate OF Dartmouth
College of the class of 1859. He was 4
7 classplate of Col Yeazey of Rutland.
Judge Poland is credited with the mot
that Cakes Ames can prove anything with
an aiibi GALLEY by. John b. Alley is
very different type of man from Ames.
: He is diminutiy and a cripple, but not less
shrewd than his vigorous colleague. Like
Ames. Alley has a convenient and reversible
mei ~, and knows how to barb the darts
VIII he shoots at friends. He is quiet,
unobtrusiye, Uriah ueep sort of man, of
sixty-iive or thereabouts. without courage,
but delt at intrigue He is an ex-Congress-
man from Massachusetts, and is associated
with Ames in the triangular fight over the
assets Of the bankrupt Union Pacific, in
which AlcComb. Duraut, and the Lake
Shore Horace Clark party are engaged.
Hon. H. II. Starkweatlaer, of Norwich, has
been unanimously nominated for a fourth
term Representative in Congress by the
Republicans of the Third Congressional
District of Connecticut.
Thurlow Weeds 'Recollections Of Horace
Greeley" are publ ished in the March number
Of the Galauy, which is just out. 1t Is an
article Of great interest The peculiar and
very intimate relations which these two
great politicians held toward each other in
vests with an unusual charm all that Mr.
Weed, the only surviving partner oithe old
political firm Of Seward, Weed and Greeley,
has to say about the junior partner The
article contains several letters of Mr..
Greeley never before published
The Whitehall TINES says that C. II.
Baker, son Of |. Y. Baker. President Of the
New York a Canads railroad, has gone to
Montreal to take charge Of the coal inter
ests Of the Delaware i Hudson Canal Com
pany in the Provinces
II ; Shattuck. late conductor OH the
Northern railroad, has purchased the hotel
near the depot at s.. John4bury
The President remarked. the other day,
that he had been DESTROYS of making visit
to the South from the time of his first in
auguration. bat that Congress having al
ways been in session in the spring, the OPP
portunity had not Yet been afforded
The ;atement-which inadvertently erept
into our coiumn>-that the wife of ex-
Senator Henderson. of Missouri. was a
daughter ofthe late Senator Footr, Of this
State. Is. Of course, incorrect. The Ia
meuted Senator had bat one daughter. who
died in early childhood
John G. eastman who once spent some
months in this place. selling maps and
house numbers turns ap in Pitt.deld, y
/ H.. where he is running q weekly new~pa-
per called Tle Sur The Springfield Re-
/ publican says he originally halls from Pitts
1 field. Mas and will lr remembered there
for his poe;ieal illusions and bis persistent
/ bat vain attempts to ps5cure West
Poin, cadet-hip, having interviewed Presi-
dent johnson q, one time on the latter
subject
Daniel Pratt, G. 4. r.. Is ou bis way To
/ Washington TO memsrialize Congress on the
ground of the outrageous sacrifices be has
made
Mr. Henry Wells. who has been admitted .
as a partner into tie large and thriving .
business house ofWeu- Richardson Go. /
of this city, /. an e-timahle Young man. of I.
I good business capacity, and therefore fully /
deserves such promotion
Eugene =. Conaut, only son OF the late F.
/ G. W Conant. of b random, and hrother-in-
law of Hon. T. f. Woodbridge, died in
New York city on unday la~, in the l-th
/ year of bis age.
james Brook Friends are much alarmed
/ for his health, and fear speedy uniavorabe
results lie tainted in the corridor of the
capitol Wednesday, and was for some time
unable % De carried home.
From au obituary in the Oglcn-bare
Journal, we learn this t the late DR.. Socrate-
. y sherman, of that city, wa born in Barre,
in this state, in l70l His family were of
the hardy yeomanry of the Green Mountain
State, who practiced and cultivated the
sterling qualities of frugality. indu .try and
honest economy, and to whom none other
than the education to be obtained 10 the
common school wa~ possible He wa.- the
eldest son of the family, and participant ii in
the labors of the farm until twenty yeai Of
age. when be entered the oa.ce of Dr. Van
Scklen. then of Barre. as student Of
medicine, supporting himself by teaching
school winters, until he graduated and re-
ceived his diploma Mt Caet.cton Medical Col
lage, in 1924.
The professional career OF Dr. Sher-
man, which opened iayorably. was arrested
by the war Of the rebellion. in which,
against the circumstances of his friends, he
persisted in volunteering As a surgeon in
the army. Early in Is6l he was commits
toned as surgeon Of the Saith y. y. Nolun-
1 te ers, a regiment raised within his Congress
sio nal district. To the relief of the suffer
/ ing diseases AID wounds Of his comrades
/ in an. rs he devoted himself. and became so
| eonspl eEous for his skill and zeal in the
service that. on the expiration of the term
/ of enliS, -ulent of RS regiment, he was re
/ tanned in the service and made the Medical
/ Director ID the Depa rtment of Western Nir-
/ ginia. whe ye he rema med until the close OF
! the war. In this servi. % he contracted the
| disease which terminate Il his life, but this
/ he never regretted. bell ewing that 1t was
/ his duty to serve his coun 'ry IN her need NJ
/ whatever sacrifice 10 himse r.
senator Pomeroy has rgaged Caleb
( Gushing as his counsel.
Ex-Mayor Kalbdeisch. of B. 'cokiyn, died
Wednesday afternoon, after long ana
painful illness. lie represented Il city IN
Congress, few years since.
The Rev. }. D. Fulton. the t Toe uent
Baptist preacher of fremont Tempt =, I'os-
tor, delivers MS lecture on Stanton at
Brattleboro. next week Thursday. and ihas
been invited to deliver the same lecture, AZ
Washington during Inauguration week
The President has nominated r. G. Pet Ii
bone to be postmaster at Ogdensburg, Vi ce
Dr. Sherman, deceased. Mr.. Pettibone W Is
postmaster previous to Dr. Sherman. amt
was his deputy in the Office.
Says Washington letter There is not
a yestige of the former man left in Chief
Justice Chase His most intimate friends
do not recognize him. From the handsome.
smooth-faced, portly man. he has become
tall, heavy, thin man, with a yellow
beard his mind is clear, but his voice is
| ,raoL and rho thin linc ,,,;,o- Crou,