The Morning herald., 1875-12-17
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT.
,;szt will winter in Rome.

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ment at New Orleans on December s.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin is said to
com template visit to America next sum-
mer.
President MacMahon has given 500 to
the Franco-American memorial statue
fund.
Ex.United States Senator w. M. Stew
art, Of Nevada, is practising law in San
| Francisco.
Bishop Haven is now syonomous with
Putin Bay as a resort for Republican po-
litical preachers.
Mrs. Ann Coogan, native of ireland,
died in Jersey City last week at the adj
vanced age Of l0l.
Queen Victoria personally conducts a
Sunday school for the children connected
with Windsor Castle.
Gen. 10. Hawley's Hartford Courant
thing mot probable"
Mr.. J. Carroll Brent, of Washington,
possessed lock of hair Of the unfortunate
Mary, Queen of Scots.
Carl Schurz has collected some exceed
ingly rare engravings. Like the late
Charles Summer, he has taste that way.
The late Mary Diamond, jewel Of the
first water, left to religious and charitable
institutions in Philadelphia more than $780,
900.
Nineteen counties, one State capital,
and four hundred towns in the United
States are named after General Richard
Montgomery.
Mr.. Hepworth Dixon's new book on
America, called the "White Conquest" is
said to have fal len fiat on the English
reading public
A performance for the benefit of the
widow and children Of the late George
BelmoIe will be given at Drury Lane
Theatre, London.
Hon. Ferdinand G. Latrobe, the Mayor
of Baltimore, Nd, is about to marry
wealthy young lady of the same city, by
name Miss Early.
B. D. Allen Of Worcester, has been ap.
pointed Professor Of Harmony and Musical
Theory, Literature and Criticism in the
Boston University.
The King of Siam has joined tho royal
list of authors, with small cyclopadia on
Siam statistice of literature, politics, geo.
graphy, and history.
Cardinal Rauscher, Prince Archbishop
of Vienna, died recently. He was one Of
the ablest Cardinals. and had been spoken
of as the successor of Plus TX.
Mgr. Ridel. Bishop of Corea, accompa-
MED by Able Blanc, have left China Tor
Corea, disguised as mendicants, having
resolved to risk their lives for the sake Ct
religion.
The French have adopted another Eng
lish word into their vocabulary "Ska-
ting-rink" is now to be seen used in the
Paris newspapers side by side with "meet-
ing" Comfortable" "club" and 'home.''
Russia is, tits said, going to abolish the
passport system, and the Minister of FL
nance has already declared his readiness
to dispense with the 100000 of roubles
which the passport fees annually bring
into the imperial exchequer.
The funeral of Carpeaux, the artist, in
his native place Of Valenciennes, was an
impressive spectacle. On the principal
streets throug n which the procession passed
all of the houses were draped in the ma
t::nal flag bound in Grape.
Mrs. Schnevly, of Pennsylvania, is 103
years old, and remembers seeing Washing
ton in 1890, looking at ground for pation-
al capitol, and seeing in 1871 a snow sto, N
which was so deep that people rode over
houses. Isn't that little tall riding?
Rev. J. J. Ransom, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, Recently appoint
ed missionary by the Tennessee Confer
ence to Brazil, sailed from Baltimore Mon
day in the bark Templar for Rio Janeiro
The reverend gentleman was accompanied
on board by number Of clergymen and a
delegation of ladies from the city churches.
Mr.. Joseph II. Richards, brother-in
law of Theodore Tilton, who was once the
publisher of The IdeDendent, and has been
connected with other publishing enter.
!, prises, is to begin in January the issue Of
a new monthly about the size and shape Of
The Nation, to be called The american Age
; 1t may be inferred from his prospectus
that the Bible and School questions ars
). likely to be prominent features in it.
When the Atlantic telegraph was frs
q laid, the announcement was confidently
. made that it was to be forever bond o
:. peace between the two continents. But
the telegraph is made an emissary of wa
e in peaceful city, what may not happel
| hotwoo,, tu.p countries rfro1 %orot l,or
G Two telegraph operators in separate Hart
v ford offices quarelled over the wires unit
!. one challenged the other to meet him hal
. way and fight. They met and had it gu
:. in 6stcuffs,
s. A Russian journal announces that be
n lief in the approaching end of the worl
J. has seized on the Cossacks Of the Dor
st Many, especially aged people, are givin
,r up worldly affairs, wearing shroud, an
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