Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-18
NUMBER II.

NUMBER II.
Personal.
PEHE HYAClNTHE is seeking q new
dwelling place in Germany.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE recently read
one of his new fairy stories to the con-
victs in the Massachusetts States
prison.
The Czar's nephew, who was arrested
in st. Petersburg for theft of diamonds,
is the oldest son Of the Grand Duke of
Constantine.
SPEAKING of Gen. Buffers illness. a
Washington scribe says: Eighteen
hours Of laborious sin each day and six
hours of troubled sleep demands for
feit." :
TIE Marquis do Noailles, the French
Minister to Rome, is very much liked
in Rome. His eyes, however, are weak.
and he is forced to lead a very retired
life.
Hon. SCHUYLER CoLFAx spoke in nine
states last month, and complains that
private life is to him buster than public
position. He is to speak at three col
lege commencements, and has declined
invitations from twenty others.
CHARLES w. HAvEMEYEn, son of
Mayor Havemeyer, was married at New
London, recently, to daughter of Col.
+. Boomis, of that city. Some fifteen
hundred invitations were issued for the
wedding, which was q grand and mag
niticent affair in every respect.
The Hon. David A. Ward, who died
recently ut Concord, N. H., was last
year President of the Senate of New
Hampshire, and had been for ten years
q prominent member of the Republican
Committee of that state. He had held
public offices of trust and honor, and
was partner in an old and extensive
firm in the hardware trade.
HANNIBAL HAML1N has been in public
Office without cessation for thirty
years.
IT is thought that the ex-Empress
Eugenie will gradually begin to emerge
from her self-imposed etraite at Chisel-
hurst, where as yet she seldom stirs
out, except to cross the common to the
chapel which holds her husbands re-
mains. Her Majesty looked quite her
self again when she went to London re-
Gently.
Mrs. FAIR has supplied herself with
some new revolvers and things, and in
tends to demand an apology from every
body who has intimated anything de-
rogatory to her character. So If there
should be marked falling of in the
next census, or no census at all to speak
of, General Walker needn't be surprised.
TIMOTHY WHEELER, the Waterbury
Center man who has such strange no.
tions about food and drink, took his
first glass of water few days ago, after
260 days of abstinence.
G. H. CANDER, the chief engineer of
the Illinois Central Railroad, Iowa Di-
vision, has resigned his Office, owing to
his ill health, and will retrrn to Low
ell, Mass, in hopes of recuperation.
KATE FIELD made her first appear
ance on the stage recently at the
Boston Theatre, for the benefit of Hen
~ McGlennen, the business manager.
She recited Hoods poem, 1.-THE Bridge
of Sighs.'
DIR. BARNAs SEARS, agent of the Pea
body Educational Fund, is credited with
saying that the passage of the Civil
Rights bill in it's present form will
break up the Peabody schools through
u the Southern States.
Ton TAYLOR receives sc, 900 annually
for editing Punch. @~-~'
BAYARD TAYLOR is coming back to
America this summer.
ROBERT SHORR0CK, an Omaha printer,
has fallen heir to q fortune of $2O0, 600.
CARL Rosa, it is rumored, will visit
America this summer.
IT is reported that Kate Field will
enter the dramatic profession.
DAVID S1NroN, of Cincinnati, has pre-
sented the Union Bethel of that city
with an endowment of 100000.
CHANFRAu, the actor, is endeavoring
to raise fund for the prosecution Of
clergymen who assail the private char
acter of the ladies of the stage.
THE Hon. F. F. Low, late Minister
to China, has accepted the presidency
of the Anglo California Bank of San
Francisco.
The first lady doctor of Holland has
Just passed her examination. The can
didate was Miss Jacobs, and she has
obtained her diploma at Groningen.
The Gar, on his return from Eng
land, will reach the continent at Ostend
and pay visit to the King Of the Bel
gians at Brussels.
A BELGIAN journal states that the
marriage of the Princess Louis with
Prince Ferdinand of Saxony, will take
place at the end of August next.
Mr.. A. MINOR GR1swoLD (the "Fat
Contributor'' has purchased the Office
of the Cincinnati Saturday Night, q
weekly paper, and has assumed its ed
itorship.
PRoF. LoNGFEL1Ow entertained the
Hampton Singers during their recent
visit to Boston, and accompanied them
to the grave of Senator Sumner at Mount
Auburn, where they sang several ap-
propriate songs.
Rev. DIR. HENRY W. BELLOWS is en-
gagged to be married to Miss Annie Pea
body, of Boston. She is daughter OF
his former friend and classmate, DIR.
Ephraim Peabody, and is thirty-eight
years old, while he verges close ON to
three-score and ten. He spentthe win.
ter in the South for his health, and has
recovered.
Memoranda for the Marines.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin Of
fers the following excellent suggestions
for young men about going to sea
The ship will teach you q lesson Of
politeness-you will notice she never
enters foreign or home port except
with bows first.
Don't inquire the whereabouts of the
horses for the captains gig, lest you be
met with rowers of laughter.
The ships cook is the modern galley
slave.
No matter how fine the ship may be
called by others, the captain will decide
the ships course.
Do not expect anything extraordinary
in the hatch-way because NIL the sails
have been set.
Do not consider the captain man oi
contracted views because you find the
chief compass of his observations to be