The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-06-12
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-Bayard Taylor is coming back to Amer
lea this summer.
Mrs. Paralce Haskell, State Librarian
of Tennessee, has in preparation awork TO
be entitled =" Biographical Sketches OF the
Governors Of Tennessee"
The place of John Stuart Mill In the
foreign membership of the French Acad-
envy has been accorded to David A. Wells.
The only other Americans who have had
this honor are DIR. Franklin, Professor
Bache, Count Rumford and Professor
Morse.
MIR. III. M. Stanley has not only put to
rest all qut stion as 10 his having discov-
cred Livingstone. but has received from the
Royal Geographical Society ofEngland the
highest distinction 1t can confer--an Hon
orary Fellowship. Before, he was simply
Mcdalist. The Honorary Fellows en-
brace the royalties and great men of all ma
tons.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au-
gusta (Ga.) Sentinel wrote as follows on
May IL: ." our correspondent to-day saw
an autograph letter from Hon. Alex. ii.
stephens. in which he states that he is
rapidly improving, and that he hopes to re-
gain his wonted health in short time.
Your correspondent noticed that Mr.. Ste
phens wrote a stcadier hand than he had
ever seen from that distinguished Geor-
gian, better known for his statesman
ship, however. than for his faultless pen
manship."
Miss Sherman. the gentle and ainable
daughter of the General, who has come
back TO us from Europe. full of health and
spirits, will be married early in June to
Lieutenant Fitch, who will resign his POI
sition in the navy and enter on the pursuit
of some lucrative business in st. Louis.
The wedding will take place at st. Alloy
sius Church, and the reception at the
house of the General Washington Chron-
icie.
Mr.. IIalstea1 Is no chicken. and there
is nothing verdant abou, his observations.
In personal appearance il may be said that
he Is gifted, his physical charms fairly
emulating the virtues of the good Deacon
Richard Smith. He Is also poet. and has
written much of "A sentimental and roman
tic character for the periodicals of his ma
tive country. His idyl upon 1.-THE
Young Girl, Maria" and that weird epic
beginning:
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Selling peanus by the peck;
Beside hun stood the girl in blue,
Who said she'd take peck or two,
will long live as evidences of a talent for
doned for the unmusical realities of Jour
nalsm.- Courrer-Journat.
Mr.. Thomas Raines, Treasurer of this
State, is lunatic in the asylum at Utica.
and his friends fear that he never will be
restored to his right mind. The Phelps
defalcation in the Treasurer's department
nearly year ago. by which the State will
lose about $500. 900. annoyed Mr.. Raines
very much. and when this was followed by
the recent failure of bank in Rochester.
OF which he was manager, and In which
his entire private fortune and that of his
family was invested, he broke down COM
pletely. Mr.. Raines's insanity is of re-
ligious type. He imagines himself ut
times to be st. Peter or st. Paul. and Is
continually praying and reading or quot
ing from the Bible. One unfortunate re-
suit of his insanity-should he not recover
will be the escape of the detaulter Phelps,
as without the testimony of MIR. Raines il
will be impossible 10 convict him. The
case of Mr.. Raines Is another illustration
OF the effects of a mans undertaking to do
too much. He was of a nervous and ex-
ctable temperament, and the cares of the
State Treasury, together with the manage
ment of his large private business in Roch-
ester, were too much for him.-New York
Sun.