The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-04-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Daniel Drew says Vanderbilt is worth
nearer 800, DOC, 900 than $40, 000, 900.
7 Mr.. Bennett's marriage with Miss
May has, according to the Washington
Chronicle, been postponed for q year. =.
John E. Owens keeps ON acting, he
says, not because he cares for money, but
because he wants to see show much of
the derned stuff" he can "scrape to.
gether."
Joaquin Miller is no longer in higl,
favor among the literary people of En-.
gland. The reaction has set in, and he is
now receiving blame as undiscriminatine
and profuse as the praise formerly Law.
ished upon him.-Chieago Tribune.
Prof. Tice, of St. Louis, desires tc
have it known that his weather forecasts
are comprehensive" and are not in.
tended to apply to any particular locality
on the earth's surface. They ought to be
coming true at the antipodes about now
Williams College is TO be represented
at the Centennial by a set, in uniform
binding, of all the books recently written
by members of the Faculty and others
closely connected with the college. Dr.
Durfee, the statistician, is of course in
cluded..
= The Boston Coroner's jury, which in
vestigated the death of the late DR.. Has
kins, brought in this cautiously worded
verdict: We, the jury, find that the de-
ceased came to his death by accident, OF
otherwise, and that he might have died by
suicide" ~ d.
Judge Henry Hilton, one of A. T.
Stewards partners and his principal legal
adviser, was asked the other day by a re.
porter to give an approximate estimate OF
the wealth of the deceased. He replied,
with the customary caution of "the
house,: ~ will only say that. he was
worth over a million dollars"
Earl Duferin, according to an Otta-
wa telegram, desired to attend the Centen.
| NAL, and wished Mr.. Mackenzie to in.
clude an item. of $75 900, for State visit,
in the estimates; but the Premier declined
to do this on account OF the depressed
condition OF business in the Dominion
and the necessity for economy in the ad
ministration of the Government, and So
for want Of the simple little item of 49,.
600, the Earl will not come over and visit
us this year.
On certain occasion, before the poet
Sake had emigrated from Vermont, gen
tleman was quoting an opinion of the
Governor of that State on some political
question as if it we're conclusive. "Pshaw,
who cares for the Governor" said the tall
poet. "a Governor is no great affair."
once came within one of being Governor
myself" "What!" exclaimed the other
who knew that SAKE was defeated by an
immense majority, "what do you mean
by one?" "The candidate for the other
party" was the answer.
DR.. Anagnos, who has Just been ap-
pointed TO the position so long held by
the late DR.. Howe in the Blind Asylum
at South Boston, is Greek, from Epirus,
whom DR.. Howe met in Athens, in 1867,
when he went out to aid the Cretans, and
liked him SO we'll as to invite him to
America. In due time he won the heart
Of Miss Howe, and then began to devote
his extraordinary practical ability to the
teaching of the blind and the management
of the asylum, for which he has shown
great capacity.
Mrs. Benjamin F. Butler, whose
death was announced several days ago,
was daughter of DR.. Israel Hildreth, of
Lowell. While on visit to Brooklyn in
hcr girlhood she became eramored OF the
stage, and, after proper tuition, she made
debut at the old Park Theater, Aug. TO-
1897. She played several seasons in the
South and West, closing with star en-.
gagement in Louisville in 1912, after
which she retired from the stage and mar
ried Gen. Butler. She was about fifty.
five years of age, and she leaves three
children. Her disease was cancer.