The Morning herald., 1875-08-28
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.

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tour Of inspection Of the marine hospital
in New England and New York.
John b. Cough is SO years Of age. HI
will have new lecture this season entitlet
Blunders," which he is preparing now OF
his farm near Worcester. Massachusetts,.
The nephew Of the founder Of Vassal
College, John Guy vassar, has been con
stant traveller for thirty years. During
that time he has visited almost every in
habitable part of the world f.,.s
A true bill has been found by the grand
jury Of San Francisco against Miller, ALA
Woodruff, the defaulting secretary Of the
Contract and Finance Company Of the
Central Pacific Railroad.
The annual fair Of the Society of Agri.
culture and Horticulture of Westchestel
county, New York, will be held at White
Plains on September 8, when Hon. John
Jay will deliver the address.
The centennial of Bartolomeo Christie.
fori will be celebrated in Florence next
May. And do you know who Bartolomeo
Christofori was? He was the inventor Of
Of the piano forte, so the Florentines claim.
DR.. p. W. Joyce, a jealous Irish anti.
quarry, has published the second series Of
"The Origin and History Of Irish names
of Places" which the ahrday Rsviev pro-
nounces an interesting and intelligent
work. -....... ...... ..,.. ..y-g
Senator Allison reached, Council Bluffs
on the 18th, where he will be joined by
the other members of the commission en-
powered 10 treat with the Indians for the
sale of the Black Hills. They are en- route
for Cheyenne. rr-.-a ..l ....,
Gottleib F. Burkhardt, of Boston, has
presented to the German Lutheran Church
Of that city large quantity Of ground.
Upon portion of it an Orphans Home
is to be erected. The remainder is to be
used as a cemetery.
1t is understood that the marriage of
Mr.. W. II. Gladstone, NJ. r, eldest son of
the Right Hon. w. E. Gladstone, with
the.HN. Gertrude Stuart, youngest daugh-
ter Of Lord Blantyre, will take place the
last week in September.
Mr.. F. w. Palmer, of Chicago, who
was appointed on the Conlmisson to treat
with the Indians for the purchase Of the
Black Hills, telegraphed yesterday, to the
Secretary Of the Interior declining to]
serve on that Commission,
Mr.. Victoria Woodruff has resigned
the presidency Of 'The Universal Asso-
citation Of Spiritualists in America" She
thinks the social structure is about to be
undermined, and that "the time for labor
in any eingle branch of reform is passed."
Judge Wexford, Of Richmond, Virginia,
has been chosen professor Of common and
statute law in the Washington and Lee
Judge Wexford is graduate
Of Princeton College, New Jersey, and
presides at the present time over the Rich
mond Circuit Court.
A cable dispatch announces the death of
The wife of Garibaldi. Garibaldi's real
wife died some years ago, and he then
married another woman, but never lived |
with her. The person whose death is an
nounced was his wife only by sort of
arrangement.
The Board of Trustees Of the Deaf and |
Dumb Asylum Of indianapolis, Indiana,
who for the past two months have been in
the charges against Thomas
Mcintyre and f. G. Valentine, teachers,
IF criminal conduct towards certain pupils
If that institution, have found that the
,harges were untrue and unfounded.
"Herc and There Among the Alps," by
Miss Plunkett, a lively English woman,
avoids the hackneyed routes and the squeez.
ID oranges of travelling literature for the
ess known but equally lovely paths of the
ientelthal, the Engstlen Alp and Mount
ritlis. The book contains much humor
md sound advice to lady pedestrians.
Among the arrivals at the West End
Hotel, Long Branch, yesterday, were Gov
'rnor Hartanft, the Pennsylvania nominee
or the Presidency; Senator Frelinghuy-
zen and family; and William D. Bishop,
President Of the New York and New
Haven Railroad, with his family. |
The London Examiner pays this compli-
nent to William Dwight Whitney,a at Yale