Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1873-01-04
Personal.

JOAQUIN MILLER Is Wlnterlng In Spain
ANNA Dickinson is going to take
husband.
JOE JEFFERSON may never return tt
the stage.
Miss Jennie e. CLAFLIN is out of the
Colonelcy of her New York regiment.
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN is said te
be the coming Governor of New Jersey
The Rev. c. X. Fisher, of Hartford
Conn.,, has otiiciated at 1902 marriages
GEN. LEES college is overcrowded
with applications, and is well off finan.
cially.
II was Chief Justice Chase who wro!e
the closing paragraph of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation.
A New JERSEY Catholic priest has IN
sured his life for $ls0,00O, the benefit to
accrue to the Church.
A MONUMENT to Daniel O'Connell is to
be erected in st. Louis by the Knights
of st. Patrick at a cost of $4,000.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR has consented to
preside at the National Prison reform
Congress, to be held at Baltimore, Jan.
81.
HENRY j. RAYMOND died June Is,
1869; James Gordon Bennett died June
|, 1872; Horace Greeley died November
%, 1872.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS can walk
only with the aid of crutches and q
servant, and does not leave his house
except on pleasant d~ys.
A WISCONSIN Congressman is taken to
task by the press of that Safe for send
ing out under his frank over five hun.
died wedding cards foy relative.
MATTHEW and John Guy vaesar, the
two sons of the man who founded Vas
sar College, have decided to establish q
100000 hospital in Poughkeepsie.
MISS CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN commences
three weeks engagement at McVick-
ers Theater, Chicago, Dec. 23-her first
appearance on the stage for many years.
Or Fred. Grant the Missouri Democrat
says: "He is d fine looking officer,
taller somewhat than his father, but in
feature disclo.ing the unmistakable
lineaments of the President
A WARNING to literary men against
overwork ls afforded in the remarkable
statement of Mr.. Greeley to Rev. Mr..
Talmage, ten days before his nomination
at Cincinnati, "that he had not had
sound sleep in fifteen years."
MAJ. JosEpu SpRAcu1, of Wooster,
Ohio ,b1ol b;s l,ttlo bou, o,,J ,x;clr
together q few days since to see how
they were getting on. The Major is
ninety nine, his wife ninety-four, and
the united ages of their six children,
including an adopted daughter, 465
years.
IT is remarked of a Massachusetts,
Congressman, of somewhat advanced
years, who is announced as about to be
married, that "his nose in its downward
course nearly touches his mouth, while
his chin turns up gracefully to meet the
nose, until, as Quilp says, 'he can't eat
green corn from the ear because the
kernels would 60 up his nose instead of
in at his MOUTH"
WILLIAM EDWARDS, OF Jay, VT, having
lived alone in the world for 95 years, the
other day married a lady OF 70 Mr..
Edwards has quite /. remarkable history.
He was one of Wellington's soldiers,
and was wounded twice at Waterloo,
yet he is very hearty and apparently
we'll. Mr.. Edwards has been an invet
crate smoker for almost 80 years. Hi;
grandfather was l04 when he died, and
his great grandfather was lO4, but he
regards his father as having been cut off
in his youth, as he died when only 81
years old. Mr.. Edwards intends to
make trip to London next summer to
claim bounty due to British soldiers
over 81 years old, which, with the ac-
crued interest, will amount to nearly
$1,000 now.