The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-21
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
The house in Murfreesboro, Tenn, in
which President Polk was married, is now
used as stable.
The colored poet has arrived. His
name is Isaac Warden, and he is a gradu-
ate of Howard university.
William Lloyd Garrison denounces
regattas, and says he sees no physical or
moral benefit in them.
The wife of Senator Schurz has fallen
heir to large fortune through the death
of a relative in Hamburg.
John Lathrop Motley, the American
historian, has been stricken with apoplexy,
depriving him Of the use of one side.
john" the man who writes up his
tory and geography in a way strictly his
own for the New York Sun, is drummer
for Philadelphia house.
Fanny Hyde, the Brooklyn, N. Y,
murderess now confined in the Raymond
street Jail, in that city, says Kate Stoddard
is not insane, only "a little eccentric, you
know"
-Niebuhr lamented that "the great
multiplication of books gives rise to
danger of still-born learning, as un-
prolific as the double flowers of our
gardens"
Rufus Porter, aged IS, the original
editor Of The Scientific american, is living
at West Birmingham, Conn.,, and is
soliciting shares for flying machine of
his invention.
"A Brattleboro' medium is finishing
Dickens's Edwin brood" The only
novel thing about it is that he declares he
| hoe road tho IF tho fh al
has been published.
| Kate Field is pronounced by the
Woman's Journal to be compound of
Mark Twain" John Hay and Bre,
Harte, with propensity for puns which
is beyond all control.
| 1t is reported that Thomas D. Colt, a
prominent citizen and wealthy paper
maker of Pittsfeld, Mass, and brother
failed for half million dollars.
Howard Glyndon, the poetess and fic
ton writer, is deaf and dumb. Her rea
name is Miss Laura G. Reddon, and she i.
now at Whipple's school at Ledyard
Conn.,, learning the process oflip-reading
AT prize baby show held in Chica
go recently the prizes were awarded a!
follows: First prize, Euphrasia Arbells
Bliff1ns; second prize, Wellington Nelson
Pimple; third prize, Eudosia Orphena
McGraw.
Rev. Fannie W. Roberts, of Kittery
has been authorized by the Governor 81
Maine to marry, other people, that is. She
can't marry herself, Fannie can't. though
some people do seem to be married to
themselves, and real love match it is too
Rev. Julian Young, son of Charles
Mayne Young, the distinguished London
actor, is dead. Mr.. Young was the author
of graceful and very entertaining life Of
his father, with "reminiscences of his early
life.
y. D. Blake, of Rochester, Mimi, has
resigned as Trustee of Hamline Univer
sity, because he considers the final loca.
ton, midway between st. Paul and Min
neapolis, dishonorable to the Trustees
and reproach to the church.
The Troy Times reads lecture to
those who abuse Bret Harte for not being
funny all the time: "a fellow must have
time to recuperate, no matter how witty
he may be; he can't keep on scintilatine
all the time, without cxhausting his
fuel"
Miss Mary C. Putnam, daughter OF
the late George p. Putnam, the we'll
known publisher, and called the best ed
ucated woman physician in this country
has made a partnership with leading
German doctor in New York-both pro
fessional and personal.
1t seems that we are to have one visi
tor this summer who will be very wei
come, and whose coming we shall look
forward to with interest. Joe Arch, the
eloquent English laborer, has announced
his determination to come to this country
on a tour of observation.
There is story of Judge Griel
which everybody delights in, how he SCI
aside the unjust verdict of jury agains
an unpopular man with this remark
ENTER the verdict, Mr.. Clerk; enter
also, set aside by the court want it t.
be understood that it takes thirteen mer
to steal mans farm in this courtv'
General Myers, Chief of the Signal
Corps of the army, had decided not tC
detail any employees of the Signal Service
to accompany Professor Wise in his Eu
ropcan balloon voyage. Over twenty vol
uuteer applications had been received
This action on his part is taken on &C.
count of the extreme peril incident to
such trip.
New men are always coming on
Robert Kerr, a young man of Irish ex
traction, after learning the mason's trade
educated himself, and recently graduated
at Dartmouth. His merits having come
to the knowledge of Mr.. Reid, editor OF
the New York Tribune (who delivered the
Grafton at the late Commencement of that
college( Mr.. r. offered him q place on
the editorial staff OF the Tribune, and ere
long he will be, as they phrase it in news
paper circles, "slinging BREWER" il, in
deed, he is not already doing SO.
| ReligiOuS and Educational.
-COlored children are not vet admitted
to the public schools of Washington.
Benjamin E. Bates, Of Boston, has
/ u q d.