, 1876-01-30

atre here.
| PERSONAL.
The l5ing-in-staso Of Vice~President Wilson,
body in Philadelphi. cost that city $3.50. RI.
liquors?
| Tho subscription in New York for tho b.nss.
| Of the dead ldsh patriot, John Mitchell ,tnon,,
ed to 53,653.52.
| The Springfield Republican says It Is ss n,tnr,,
for Bishop Gilbert Haven to be inaccurate 1. ii.
| for him to breathe.
John Morrisseys maiden speech in ths M
! York Senate the other day is described "a pl,,,
| and aenslble. He would call it square ae,l n,
| sense.
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton saya the Franc.
peasantry are intelligent aud ignorant, Wb,.
| they know they know, and what they don't INV
| they can guess at
4 Baltimore paper praises James Gordon Bsp.
nett's dgure-5Go0,oo0 3 year. plasu, Of
| signing and grief! It blows q man up i'll,
| bladder james Gordon is going 10 BE- married
| The st. Louis Dina Lecture Course, Is sucb
has been abandoned, the managers fndine il
] impossible to give respectable entertainment.
for 10 cents. The prica has accordingly ban
| raised to 20 cents.
The English reviews sharply criticiae Mr Ed.
ward Jenklns' new Temperance tale. Il vi
evidently dispensation OF Providence by which
that man rss namod jenkins No other nans
would have fitted him SO we'll.
Hutchins invites "the e1asperated insect"
Bowman to como on at any time between II and
< h. ~ 7 T,,.;,
side Of oHice~hourB, it is underatood, Hutchina
has no "honor" to maintain; OF, perhaps hs
thinks that, IS it ia his honor as editor which
has been asaailed, it must be officially defended.
The Hon. James Knox, LII. D., Of Knor-
vile. Knox County, ILL.,, has given $1,000 to
Hamilton College to be used for completing ths
MAYNARD Professorship of Law, History, Civil
Polty, and Political Economy. Judge Knox
gave the College $4,000 three years ago {o1 ths
endowment anti increase of the Knox Hall qf
Natural History.
The New York Herald says ga woman cor
respondent, who gets her chicken salad for nosh-
ing in Washington society, writes, in payment
therefor, that Mrs. Bsbcock is very petlta in
stature and attractive in appearance, not through
her pret:iuess Of features, but from her dark
skin and eyessbeioe set on to striking advantage
by her hair, which is soft and gray, like tendria
Of Spanish moss"
A co1ored female revivalist, Amanda Smith, Is
attracting lsrge audiences at Wilmington, Del.
A correspondent writes: "Her e1positons Of the
Bible are plain ana simple, andJet 30 cleAr and
foEclble that all who hear her are moved By
them, while her personal experiences aro such
that they caunot fail of interest and in8truc-
tion." This event marks moral revolution n
Delaware, where the whites have neyar bean too
tractabe to negro teaching.
Frederick H. Bridges, the gentleman con-
cerned in the notorious Canadian elopemant has
returned to his home at Pheni1ville, Pa He IL
said to be the hero OF the hour. 1.-THE majority
OF the male population do not approve his con-
duct, but declare him to be 3 trump, nagerths-
less" His conduct" writes Z correspondents,
ri considered thoroughly English in ita chazao-
terstca-" We should like to know what "ths
majority Of the female population" think about
it.
John Quincy Adams attempted ten times Whsn
he was boy to read Iilson's "Paradiss LOST"
and he gives in his Memoirs Al Interesting ao-
count Of his experiences II WIS mortified.
even to the shedding Of solitary tears, that
could not even conceive what it was that my
father and mother 20 much admired in that book,
aud yet Was ashamed to ask than for an OK
plsnation- smoked tobacco and read Milton u
the same time aud from the same mot1ys-to
find out what was the recondite charm in them
that gave my father SO much pleasure. After
making myself four OK five times aick with smok-
ing, mastered that accomplishment. But I did
not matter Milton. MAS nearly 80 whom frs:
read the Paradise Loet With delight and H.
tonishment."
Tho Mennonites in Nanisoba haye besu aab-
jected to an unnecessary fright In consequence
Of letters from their friends in Russia repre-
senting that the Canadian Government h4a
collapsed, and that Mr.. Love, who promised
them exemption from military service. VAS dead.
It ia supposed that the stories originated with
American railway companies, who wiahed' to
secure the union Of the Meunonites in Manitoba
with their friends in Kansas, It appears that
the news Of the change OF Government in En-
gland, which took place two years age, has 1uSs
reached the benighted Russians in Manitobs.
The nevs travelled from England to Russia, fEor7
Russia to KAneaa. from Kansas back to Russis,
and thence TO Manitoba. The Russians seem to
have no idea tnat q promise made by one En-
ghsh Government will be kept by tho next
Prof. Gardner, Of West Point Who was Judge
Advocate Of the Court Of Inquiry appointed to
investigate the Babcock case, writes = sensible
letter to the New York ReruM concerning ths
The Court Of Inquiry was = sort
u IN "open Grand Jury. whose duty it Vas 70
consider whether General Court Ill srtial should
be convened Tho "hlgh-horse letter to thu