The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The old law Office Of Thaddeus
Stevens, in Lancaster, is now used as q
barber.shop, . change from Blackstone to
milestone, and from Chitty to chatty.
The Rev. Edward L. Sears, LII. D.,
the editor of the Inte,natsona! Revseo,
who recently died in New York, was
Dublin University. One of his last wish
es was that his death should be announced
by cable to the press in ireland.
The Chicago Alliance, Of which Prof.
Swing is editor in chief, has just been
making some important changes. F. B.
Mcclure, the managing editor, has re-
tired, and is succeeded by II. J.. Ensign.
Washington GLADDEN. and Arthur Swazey
are also announced as writers.
John Taylor Johnston, whose recent
misfortunes in New Jersey Central deter
mined him to dispose of his fine picture
gallery at auction, inherited fortune of
81, OOO, 900 from his father. He bought
New Jersey Central when it was above
par, and still holds about million dollars
face value, while the marketable has
declined tothirty- -four.
Mrs. Helen Hunt jackson, in her
home at Colorado Springs, is said to carry
out her favorite notion Of symphony in
colors. The corners of her parlor are
decorated with huge Chinese fans, brill
liant with colors; the folding doors be-
tween the back and front parlors have
been removed, and their place supplied by
Indian blankets, gorgeous with yellow,
purple, red, blue and green. In her bed
room, the furniture IS jet black, orna-
mented with lines of vivid scarlet.
The new Speaker of the House, Ran.
dali, is native of Philadelphia, and is
now in the prime of his powers. He was
carefully educated, and was trained in
commercial life to q thorough knowledge
of practical finance. After serving for
four years in the city government of Phil.
adelphia and for two in the Senate of
Pennsylvania, he was sent to Congress in
1862 as member from the First District
of Pennsylvania. In the Thirty-ninth
Congress, having been reelected, he
served on the Committees on Banking
and Currency and on Expenditures in the
State Department. lie has been continu-
ously reelected ever since, and is there
fore one of the Oldest members of the
present House in point of actual service.
"A Hartford humorist-may it have
been Mark Twain !-heard a good and
new story which was said to be original
with man in Vermont. The Hartford
humorist, being a professional writer,
though he could make something of the
material suggested, and consequently
wrote to Vermont, asking the original
author to jot down the incidents as exact
ly as he could remember them. A check
for fifty dollars was inclosed, "as sort
of copyright payment" and the Vermont.
er was specially enjoined not 10 give the
story wider publicity than that which it
already enjoyed. In q few days there
came to Hartford q marked copy of q
Vermont newspaper with letter stating
that the person addressed there was not
accustomed to the use of the pen, and had
been Obliged to call the village editor to
his assistance. The latter had been very
glad to get the story and haa printed it
gratuitously, and was quite willing that it
should be copied. The Vermont man
was very thankful for the fifty dollars.