The Morning herald., 1875-09-07
PERSONAL AND PERTINENT

IPERsONAL AND PERTINENT.
Launt Thompson, the sculptor, will
spend the winter in the cities Of Rome and
Florence.
r. Holland Duell, of New York, has
been appointed Commissioner Of Patents,
vice Thatcher, resigned.
| Jefferson Davis will speak at the Fulton
l(Mo.) fair on Wednesday, and the associa-
ton expectstwenty thousand people to hear
him. ,.tg
The widow of the late Rev. DR.. Charles
Collins succeeds her husband in the Presi-
dency of the State Female College at Mem
phis. Tenn.
Ex-Governor Wells, the new United
States Attorney for the District of Colum-
bia, took the hat Of Office and entered upon
his duties on Saturday last.
Theodore Tilton commences his lecture
tour in Port Jervis on Wednesday, Sep
tember Is, after which he will lecture in
Middletown, Newburg, Poughkeepsie and
Kingston. -a,
Out of one thousand applications for
pardons, Governor Tilden has granted
sixty-nine. One of the latest applications
is for the pardon of Edward s. Stokes.
The petition has just been sent to the Gov
ernor. .r0.
A burglar entered the house of Lieut.
Fitch, Gen. Sherman's son-in-law, at St.
Louis, a few nights ago, lured by the hope
of capturing the celebrated diamonds pre-
sented to Mrs. Fitch by the Khedive. He
was met and repelled by the intrepid
housekeeper, Mrs. OGrady.
General Sherman, in letter promising
to be present at soldiers reunion in
Rockville, Indiana, says: II prefer that
you should make no display about me, but
let me reach you easy. can find my way
there, probably, alone, and am sure that we
can put in the time pleasantly enough"
Richard M. Blackford died at Newport
on the Sd. He was resident of New
York, and lawyer by profession. In 1925
or 1926 he was appointed counsel and f.
nancial agent of the Bank of England in
this country, and subsequently was ap-
pointed to the same position in regard to
the Bank of the United States. He also
served several terms in the Legislature of
New York.
Won Bandel, the sculptor of the Her
mann monument, has been granted pen
sion of 1000 marks by Emperor William,
half of the amount to be enjoyed by his
wife in case she outlives him. There is
some discussion of the propriety of a fur
ther grant to the artist by the Reichstag,
inasmuch as considerable portion of his
own property has been swallowed up in
the work, and his eyesight has suffered
material injury.
Hans Christian Anderson by will leaves
the bulk of his property to the Collin
family, in gratitude for the aid Mr.. Collin
gave him in early life. He also makes
bequests for the benefit of the school and
workmen's library of Odensee, his native
town. He directs that his correspondence
which was very large, shall be placed in
the hands of M. Billie, who was formerly
an editor, and of NJ. Bogh,a literary young
man with whom he read oyer the letters,
and who knows his wishes in regard to
them.
A long dispatch from Washington in
yesterdays papers relates the sad history
of Mr.. Calver c. Snifin, " assistant private
Secretary to the President" who "handed
his wife into Fifth avenue stage" on
Wednesday, and did not see her again till
the next night, when he found her "at her
aunt's house in Brooklyn" while he had
been looking for her at his brothers house.
Nobody was hurt, but the agony of the
anxious husband has never been equaled
since John Gilpin's wife dined at Edmon-
ton while he dined at Ware.
Col. NJ. Richard Muckle, of the Public
Ledger, lately sent handsome cane, made
of wood taken from Independence Hall, to
Prince Won Bismarck, and has received in
acknowledgment an autograph letter, Of
which the following is translation
VARzIN, July 4, 1875.-Colonel NJ.
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