The Morning herald., 1877-12-07
HERALD NOTES.

MIR. +. ID. Palmer, the distipgulshe
sculptor, who Is at present living in Alban,
is cutting an ideal bust of Napoleon. H
is doing this without making previously an
model in clay.
| D. Z. Locke petroleum V. Nssby) for
merly of the Toledo Blade, has become tn
publisher Of the New York Evening Mail
Major j. N. Bundy, it is said, will still con
troll the editorial department of the paper
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett says that he think.
of publishing an appeal to the members Of
his profession urging them to combine In
advancing the plan of Edwin Forrest in the
endowment of the Actors Home"
Mrs. General Sherman appears to feel
very deeply on the subject of dancing. She
has written another letter to the author of
The Dance of DEATH" In which ehe
praises his action in writing that book, and
condemns emphatically the amusement.
Fine rubies have been discovered south
west of Gunnison, Utah.
Patti has promised to sing during the In
ternational Fair at Milan, 1879.
The total rentals Of Brighton for the half
year ending Sept. 2sth were s., ,260, 900.
A new iron bridge over the Douro, near
Oporto, Portugal, spans the river with .
single arch of 526 feet.
A hole six by eight inches was large
enough to let ten year old boy out of the
Jail in Westborosgh, Mass.
Eight clergymen in Chattanooga have de-
nounced the custom of obtaining money for
churches by means Of lotteries.
Atramp, after receiving a meal from a |
widow, in Newmarket Junction, N. H.,
asked for money, and being refused, shot
her.
A tract OF 100, 900 acres In Calhoun coun- |
ty, Ala, has zen purchased by the Chicago
Colonization and Agricultural Industry
Company.
The French nation has taken to geo.
graphical contests, which resemble the !
spelling bees recently the rage in this
country and England.
There is q strong Catholic movement
against dancing in Baltimore. Many young
women who are church members are drop.
ping the amusement from their party en-
yagements. J
The New York Evening Post makes q
great fuss over President Hayes message. |
1t reads him lecture for using the word
such" as an advecb, and "numerous
n the ssnce of "nany." And yet the
President has been taken in some quarters
or one Of them dem literary fellers!"
Mrs. Hayes is reported as saying that she
las lost all taste for the theatre, as she bas
ived so many years In place where there
re few public amusements. |:
Bishop Gilbert Haven is credited with
aging kind and admlring .hines of the |
preacher, Mrs. Van Colt.
An Ottawa, Ont, press dispatch s.vsy
Lord Duffern will not leave Canada until
lext autumn. The Duke of Manchester ia
mentioned as his probable successor. VI
Mile. Dora Schumacher, who made b.r1
pPearance as pianist at the 500 vh conce-
4 the Liverpool Philharmonic Society
laying schumann's Concerto in A m,nor
nd selecttoa from Chopin, is e-oecsed
oou to visit The United Sta,e,. She studied|
t Leips'g and made her debut at tn. %, |
'andhaus concerts. The Liverpool Court ..
peaks highly of her playing.
lne ke,' Mr.: capel' au English cl, ,rx,-(
ian, who has just been appotu ed " o.sof u.s.,
t. Johns, Hereford, is mau to BE- n,,,os
'hen the Chepter made him q Mir or~sN
OF the Cathedral, the vicars-ct o..,
scced because he could not siop, Non. ~,
oa,ns+ y, 49, NA 40 'e'D G protested
'h"' De 10 preach-