The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-06
Personal and Literary.

Santa Anna has sunk from opulence
to poverty, and is dragging out miser-
able old age.
The Grand Lodge of Kentucky Ma
sons have elected Thomas J. Picket, of
Paducah, Grand Master.
Lucy Larcom, the poetess, teaches
English literature and composition at
Bradford Academy, Mass.
-Disraeli is reported to be engaged on
new novel, in which socialism and CON-
munism will be discussed.
-Santata and Big Tree, the Kiowa
chiefs, have been released, guarantees
having been given for their good be-
havior.
-Ex-Secretary of the Interior Brown
ing has accepted the Presidency of the
new medical college just organized at
Quincy, Illinois.
Fannie Walker, a Memphis unfor-
tunate, gave $50 to the suffering poor of
that city, and shortly afterward took the
yellow fever and died.
Rev. F. S. De Hass, former pastor of
Trinity Methodist Church, Cincinnati, has
been appointed by the President as United
States Consul at Jerusalem.
"A Bloomington Ull) painter named
Holmes, has started for Ireland to secure a
fortune of 100000 left to him, consisting
| of Turkish and Egyptian bonds, with
two years. accumulated interest in gold.
| The heirs of General Lewis Cass will
in few days present to Phillips Exeter
Academy portrait of the General, on
canvas, 3Gx47 inches, painted by Healy
from life. General Cass was once pupil
at the Academy.
The Fairchild family has corner on
the President business. One is President
of the Michigan Agricultural College,
another is President of Oberlin College,
while third brother is President of
Berea, o., College.
The managers of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Colchester, En-
gland, have decided that Mark Twain's
books are immoral, and unfit to be read
by Christian young men, and have ban
| ished them from their library.
MIR. P. n. Watson, the successor of Jay
Gould and James Fisk, Jr., has received
banquet at the hands of the Lord Mayor
of London. In his speech, Mr.. Watson
said that Erie employed 6,0O0 men, and
earned $16OOO,OO0 year.
of Miss Matte Stevenson, volunteer
nurse from Towanda, ILL.,, who fell vic.
tim to the Memphis epidemic, the Mem:
phis appeal says: 1--WE may raise, and
rate her heroism, but in our hearts, from
now henceforth, she will be with every
one of us next to the dearest and nearest
on earth. Let the shaft be raised, and let
| it be the highest, the tallest, the most con-
spicuous in our beautiful city of the dead,
and let the name Matte Stevenson be
craven deep and deep down where it will
remain to defy the corrosions of time and
tell how she laid down her life for the
poor of Memphis"
Alexander Agassiz, son o. the great
naturalist, has apparently inherited good
deal of his fathers ability, having Just
won the Walker prize of the Boston soci-
ETY. of natural history for his investiga-
lions in the embryology, geographical dis
tribution and natural history Of the echino-
derms. This prize can be awarded but
once in five years, for the most important
investigation in natural history during
that period, the results of which have been
published in the United States at least one
year previous to the award. The council
of the society may award $500, or, if the
Investigations are deemed of extraordi.
nary merit, $1,000; and in this case the
larger sum was unanimously voted.
Religious and Educational.
He that loseth his conscience has
nothing left that is worth keeping.
The University of Boston has opened
q school of oratory-the first in the
country.
The Southern Methodist Episcopal
Church reports Al Sunday-schools In
South Carolina, with $4,000 scholars.
"A benevolent individual in ST. Paul
has insured his. life for $4,000, payable to
the Young Mems Christian Association,
of that city.
"A new Presbytery has been formed in
Minnesota, embracing the counties of
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