The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-06-22
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

S The proper way 10 pronounce Talia-
Missouri, should be Iddresseds.as "Mr.
DO jee." 1
The fund which has been collected as
a testimonial to Capt Webb, who swan
across the English Channel, amounts to
about $4,000.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris' infant son
died on the second anniversary of her mar
riage. aged ten months. The mother is
not yet twenty.one years of age, and very
young to know the anguish Of such loss.
"A large number of letters have been
received by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, purport-
ing to be communications from her nus
band in the spirit world, and recommend
ing to her favor, for pecuniary aid, GER
tain persons named.
The Salt Lake correspondent of a San
Francisco paper says it is settled that after
the new temple is dedicated at St. George,
Brigham Young, Jr., will be officially
proclaimed as the President of the Church
of Jesus Christ Of Latter. Day Saints, and
successor to Brigham I. The plan is then
for the Saints to take up their line of
march for New Mexico.
G0.
Weston's greatest walk is 100 miles in
twenty four hours, while three amateur
Englishmen on the London track
Vaughan, Grassland and Hause-have
made respectively 113, 116 and 100 miles
in the same time. We throw up the
sponge; but Weston was one of our Slow
est walkers.-N. Y. Graphic.
"A baseball player named Miller,
formerly catcher of the St. Louis club,
died in Philadelphia, recently. In his
last moments he was delirious, and fan
cied he was at his place In the ball field,
facing his old pitcher. Bradley. His last
words were: 1.-TWO out, Brad-steady,
now-he wants high ball-steady, Brad
there, knew it: that settles it,
The wife of Ole Bull sailed from New
York, recently, to join her husband at his
home in Norway. While Mr.. Bull has
been making his musical tour through
Europe and Egypt, Mrs. Bull has been
residing with her parents in this country,
and spending her leisure time in translat-
ing Norwegian novel, which will soon
be published III Chicago. They expect to
return to this country in the autumn.
Ex-senator Sprague, of Rhode Island,
is said to be the hardest workingman of
the large force employed in repairing the
damage done at Baltic by the great flood
of March last He is the first man on the
ground in the morning and the last to
leave at night. The whole work there is
under his supervision. He is frequently
to be seen as late as ten o'clock at night
coming from up the river, where he has
been laboring all day, with large force
of men. driving logs down the stream.
-Four of Daniel Drew's grandchildren
have petitioned the Probate Court to have
him removed from his position as Trustee
of their property. By the provisions of
their fathers will they we've to receive
half Of their portions at the age of twenty
one years and the balance at the age OF
thirty.onc years. Mr.. Drew has been act
ing as Trustee, therefore, for long time,
and it is thought most of the property has
been swallowed UP in his speculations.
His present condition of health is very
precarious, and it is believed he cannot
live through the summer.
OF the late Mr.. Bloss's curious man.
uscript the Cincinnati Enquirer says
The peculiarity OF his chirography,
which was so often commented upon, was
supposed to arise from some peculiar de-
feet of the brain. Although he knew
well enough what the characters ought to
be, he lacked the ability to transmit to
the muscles and nerves of his hand the
conception of his mind. He held the pen
by the extreme end. His writing was
simply a species Of hierogiyphics, but he
made his characters always alike, and one
could, by close study, in time learn to de-
cipher them. Many persons supposed
that his bad manuscript was caused by
chorea scriptoruna or Scrivener's palsy, but
this was not the case. His chirography
was something wonderful in its illegibil-
ity, and there is scarcely printing
office in the country where there isn't a
sample of "Bloss' hung up somewhere to
try the compositors.