The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-15
Personal and Literary.

clOSed amounted TO $322, 4J2.
Personal and Literary.
-Agassiz was twice married. His sec.
ond wife was Miss Lizzie Cary.
Anthony Trollope thinks novels are
the sermons of the present day.
Anna Dickinson is said by Phila-
delphia paper to be terribly in earn
est"
1t is reported that Mrs. Laura D.
Fair has married a lawyer in San Fran
cisco.
John Observation-Disclosures is one
OF the names in the Philadelphia Direc-
tory.
Seth Green intends to keep at work
right along until every lake and river is
stocked with fish. ~
Captain Fry, of the Vlrginius, it is
stated, was medium" and firm be
lever in spiritualism.
joaquin Miller, half calf" is the
latest announcement of London pub
Usher. Another libel suit in prospect.
Tweed, it is stated, will write an
autobiography while in prison, telling all
he knows about buying up Legislatures.
Mrs. Secretary Fish has pale, regu
lar face, framed in with snow white hair
and dresses always in neutral tints, or in
black.
Julia Ward Howe, who is a matron
of many years experience, atfirms that
no woman can be brilliant after mar.
riage.
Richard Edwards, President of the
State Normal School of Illinois, has de-
cided to become Congregationalist min.
lister.
Jim Nye, ex-Congressman, struck
out with his right few days ago, and a
gambler at the other end of his arm went
to grass.
DR. Mary Walker has not yet aban-
doned her efforts to obtain q pension
Impaired vision is what's the matter with
the doctor.
The Siamese Twins have made money
enough to enable them to settle down and
live at ease, and they won't lie exhibited
any more.
| The late Governor Yates left family
consisting of wife and three children.
The oldest son is about 25 years of age,
and tho youngest II or ~.
WAR" said John Stuart Mill, "is an
ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of nation.
al feeling that thinks nothing worth wal
is worse"
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is
said to have been advised by his physi-
| clan to give up close attention to his
duties on penalty of becoming a perma-
nent invalid.
Mrs Nancy Moore, of Wakefield.
Mass, celebrated her 1O3d birthday on
| Christmas. She has been blind for some
years, but her intellectual faculties are
unimpaired.
~ stand before you a convicted
criminal" [Applause.] 1t is thus that
Miss Susan B. Anthony begins her
speeches., while a CLEAN of triumph il
Eliminates her primeval eye.
The late Professor Agassiz was never
| injured by the bite Of q snake, or the
poison of any venomous reptile, herb OF
| tlower-a fact attributed to the courage
and impunity with which the naturalist
moved among them in their wild state.
Boss Tweed does not wear the
regular Penitentiary uniform. The New
York Herald says HE has had q special
suit made Of material different from any
worn in the institution, because there is
no special uniform for misdemeanor pris.
| Oners.'
MIR. William Moss, of Monroe county,
is said to be the oldest man in Indiana
He was born May 10, 1859, and is conse.
quently more than ia years old, and is
yet a hearty old man, walking nearly a
mile recently to get his mail and
bitters. He has a son living in the same
neighborhood who is Is years old.
The Rev. Mr.. Venable, who officiated
at the marriage of Secretary of Wal
Belknap and Mrs. Bower, received $50 in
gold for his services three brand-new
pieces, bearing the date of 1879, besides
his expenses to and returning from
Harrodsburg. Mr.. V. oflciated at the
first marriage of the bride about eight
years since.
Gen. Oliver O. Howard, who has beer
president of Howard University at Wash
ington since it started, has resigned, and
Professor John M. Langston, Of Ohio
colored. has been appointed provisional
president. Langston started in life as q
barber in Chillicothe, Ohio, worked his
way through college, and then through q
course of legal studies.
| The Brooklyn IN. W Union says
! Negotiations are pending for the pur.
chase Of the Independent, Of which Henry
G. Bowen is editor and proprietor, by the
owners of the Christian at Work, of which
the Rev. DR.. Talmage is editor. The
price asked is said to be $780, 900, and
the price offered $780, 0O0,-a sufficient
margin for bargaining. Should the trans
fer be made the two papers will be con
solidated under the name of the Indepen.
DENT" .-.......
Miscellaneous. ~r-4..
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