The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-22
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The salary Of the Rev. DIR. Talmage
has been increased from 81 600 to $l2,-
600 a year.
Stanley, the heroic African explorer. |
is to deliver a hundred lectures in the
large provincial towns Of England.
The only son, aged 21, Of Jefferson
Davis, ex President of the Southern
Confederacy, died of yellow fever at
Memphis.
Theodore Tilton who has Just returned
from Europe, left his daughters, Alice
and Florence, to finish their studies ia
Germany, the enc being devoted 70
painting and the other to music.
Garibaldi, will, perhaps be man Of
comfortable fortune, after ell. de has
sold to q company the privilege OF
quarrying granite on the island Of Ca
prera, to pave the streets of Rome.
Patience Albro is a lady living in
Foster, r. l., at the comfortable age Of
I02. She is said % remember we'll Mon
sieur the Marquis de La Fayette march
ing through the village with his regi-
ment.
Judge Nathan Clifford, although
ssventy-six years old, took no vacation
during the past summer, and had out
one day of rest-the Fourth of July
which happened to be his golden wed.
ding-day.
Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks, of st. Johns
bury, has received from the king OF
Siam q very iiattering letter acknowl-
edging the receipt of set Of the world
famed scales. The scales are to be ex-
hibited in the Siamese museum.
Mr.. james E. Murdoch has accepted
the Lecturship on Shakespeare Ia the
College Of Rhetoric and 0ratory At
Philadelphia, and il is also said that .
position in the new Cincinnati College
Of Music is to be offered to him.
Mr.. William Lloyd Garrison saw on
Monday the sixtieth anniversary OF his
apprenticeship to the trade of printing.
He celebrated the day by setting IN
type from memory one Of his own
poems. He was entertained ct dinner
by the New England Franklin Club.
Mr.. Gilbert De La Matyr, the new
Congressman from Indiana. has been .
Methodist preacher for twenty-nine
years. he Is said TO be q man terribly
IN earnest. His lower jaw closes like
9 wise and seems TO open sparingiy fol
bass voice that gets lower instead oi
higher when he reaches the climax.
The late Mr.. Bard illustrated curl
ously the facility with which one type
Of an American man becomes Jack
of-au Trades" He was first druggist
then q dentist, then Methodist minis
ter, then State Superintendent Of Ed
ucation, then journalist, then 3 Con
F-l
toEiAl Governor, then q postmaster, ans
then State printer, closing this varies
and industrious career with journal
ism.
II Is told of Daniel Webster that b
was fishing one day when meditatinl
his Bunker Hill speech. As he pulle,
mp tautog of phenomenal weight an,
corresponding age he imagined It to b
an old soldier Of the Revolution, AM
holding il up before him dangling d
the hook he apostrophized it thus
Venerable mani Thou hast come dow
to as from q former generation. w
welcome thee TO the light and glory c
this auspicious day"
While few English Prime Minister
have been very rich, some have bee
conspicuously impecunious. Pitt neye
married, and declared that he couldn
afford It, and Canning and Disrae
were bolstered up by wealthy wivei
The late Lord Derby and Sir Robel
Peel are the only instances of yer
wealthy Prime Ministers, though LoE
Melbourne was very we'll OF. LoF
PalmeFston only became so, late i
life, through rise in mineral propert.
His wife, too, succeeded to her brothl
Lord Melbourne's estates.