, 1877-12-07
PERSONAL.

Abort Bierstadt is now At work on yiew
on Kern River, Colorado.
The late Gen. Forrest, at his own request,
Was buried In biz Confederate Uniform.
Tho Haspers paid AIr. Longfellow at tho
zate Of $40 limo for bis poem Of ''Ketomas."
Frank Leslie has written book callod
IA Pleasure Trip from New York to San Fran
cIsco.''
Senator Sargent, Of California, WAS curl
outly oppoasd to IN investigation OF the Huron
disaster.
Bret Harte has dissolved his connection
with the Washington Capital, aud returned to
Now Jasxcy.
Judge Larremore, Of New York, haa do
claea wedding presents given 10 tho bride, aad
not to tho BRIDE snd bridegroom Jointly.
Tho Presidents msssage coutains 10, 600
words. Il wax tclegraphed from Washington tv
Philadelphia aud other points In forty five minutes.
Mr. Moody will begin series Of .nosslugs
in the uoston Tabernacle about tho 1st Of March.
lie d!hsd In TINT city Hatueday with Mr. Aipbeus
Harry.
A number Of editors concur In saying that
Springfield Il better known the seat OF thu pub.
licHliun OF the Ksputileun than In any othes cun.
nsctou.
The Gloucester n,ackerel Asl,cries have
been disastrous failures TIL. year, and thste II \
great deal Ut dttsrsas In consequence. Many men
l!aye not cleared $50 from their sanmer and fall
wofk aud otheEs, who entered tho hustuess With
sonls capital. hare rrturac4 impoverished. This
will he news to the Halifax Commission.
Tho Dostan 15anscsipt says; "No amount
Of reasoning can convince aoms meu that Clar1es
Francis AdsMs didn't wrfta 'Lredle YAwcob
Strauss. and The Quincy statesman u rakIng in
SONS very tandsonls eomplla,ents m thu yessati'-
ity which euablsa him 10 drop from profound dis.
qatsittons on great national qacstiops into Du1eh
diasect poetry Ut s1,ost noticc. Ths latest sxprex
A!on Of admiration u from uayasd TssloE, who In
Frcsut lecture said: slsha1l hsrsaftsf refer to
tbs Charles y. Adams period OF Teutonie llters-
70 when ws shall tJy and realtza the subtle
thoughtfu1uess eommlnglsd with lender Rrace and
volatile hulnos ot Que whoss sscutchsoa IL su.-
ba1onsd On tho psoudest roll Ut Massachusetts
ssatexmanahlp.' Thls 1auat ba rathsr dl4coufa8.
iny IL VT. Charles Follsa Adams. but hs will hare
tu stand It."
Tho article on Richard II, Damn In tho
New York 7riauas va4 written unqus.tionably by
Nj. George Ripley. h{s bsoshcf*in.iaw. Nr. kfo'
ley was Unitarian clergyman In Boston a. ths
tlhs hc bseanle cunnecsed with ths family. Or.
Ckauulng, Vt the SANS denomination. wAs cousin
Of tbs DAMS. But tbs latter are 1ltza. Church
Eplscopa'ians. Ono ol R. II. nanas daushtsfsts u
member Of the Nonsu Catholic Church. aud X.
II. Dana, IT,, II lt&alnx tasu4ber Of the copgre-
K4ttou q the Church @f the Advent. which haA
boJ .cholr In susptees to sid in IT.
scrycs4. aud burn. caalies. Tho elder Dana
IL feeble, ~ might bs expected Of = man ovsElo
years OF axs. Nothing new ssems 70 have come
from hs poo for half century, and h. has not led
= life that promises to bs rich in ms,uoirs LonS'
fellow and Whittier ara writing ~ much after ths
aHs OF ~ At any pssi0 Of their lsc&, Apparently
Damn, laileck, and sprngus did nothing altar thsJ
bad achieved thsir reputation. Thelr works arr
scaresjy accessible. thsnk Sprsgus's poeua s*fs
found to b. out OF pslut wlen ha uiad txo years
sxo- don't remeuabef evsu u have seen copJ Vt
HalIcck'n poems. An edition Of ME. Daua's writings
wa tsausd " : New York house twenty-a'c *
thirty years sgo, but no e0paeA u Is ca sSv u
found In kha toQkstqses,