The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-13
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

MIR. Swindler is the suggestive name
of the principal contractor for the great
canal in Colorado.
Charles O'Concr was cheerful and
bright on Christmas Day. He ate two
hearty meals, listened to the reading of
the daily papers and received the con-
CALCULATIONS of a number of friends.
The report that ex-senator Nye was
recovering his health and mental facul-
ties proves, unhappily, to have been in
correct. He was removed from the asy-
lum after his recovery was pronounced
hopeless.
George L. Fox, the comedian, is con-
fined in the Mclean Insane Asylum near
Boston. lie is pronounced incurably in
sane by the examining physicians of that
institution. He has wife and one child,
a daughter seven years of age, who are
left almost entirely destitute
"A New York paper says Commodore
Vanderbilt is hearty, and, in addition to
giving his personal attention to the three
great railroad companies of which he is
President, takes a daily drive through
Central Park, holding the reins himself,
and he will be eighty-two next May.
Mrs. Hannah Slower, of Bowdoinham,
heroine of the centennial year. She was
born on the Fourth of July, 1916, at
nearly the same hour when the great bell
was ringing out the news Of the Declare
ton from the old hall in Philadelphia.
She is in good health, and hopes to cele-
brate the Tooth anniversary of the nations
birthday ID July next.
Henry Porter, VINO was the color
haaror nf tho Nipofoortn J11;pD;a
ment during the civil war, and one of the
inconspicuous but heroic characters of
the great conflict, died on the 10Th Of last
October at Rugby, England. He was
taken prisoner before Atlanta by the
forces OF Gen. Hood, but concealed his
cOlors about his person, and, after pro-
longed confinement at Andersonville, re-
turned them to his regiment. His suffer-
ings during his Imprisonment shattered
his constitution, and finally led to his
death.-N. Y. Post.
Mature, in announcing with express
sions of regret the proposed resignation
by Prof. Max Muller Of the chair Of Com
parativc Philology Of Oxford University,
gives the following as his reasons: $ He
begins to feel the need of rest, and wishes
to be able to devote all his attention to the
ancient language and literature of India.
lie has just finished, he says, the work of
his life, the "Editio Princeps" of the text
and commentary of the Oldest of the
sacred books of the Brahmans, the oldest
of the Ayran world. 1t was this which
first brought him to England in 1916, and
it was in order to be able to stav in En-
gland that he accepted the duties of pro-
tessor"
king Louis of Bavaria has passion
for having play performed before him
as he sits alone in the auditorium. On
one Of these solitary occasions he sat out
Schiller's "Jeanne dare" which lasted
from six O'Clock in the evening till mid
night. The performance so inspired him
that he journeyed to Rheims to visit the Ca
thedral where the Kings of France were
crowned. On his return he commissioned
Herr Dominique Quaglio, decorative
painter to the court of Bavaria, to go to
the ancient city and take the necessary
sketches to paint the cathedral, so as to
produce a scene for the stage exact in
every detail. This magnificent decora-
ton has now made its appearance, and the
King enjoys it alone.