New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-22
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Senator Christiancy's health is so
poor that he is unable to perform any
mental labor, and cannot even answer
his correspondents.-N. r. Eveni,ag
Post.
I'm regard to the profits of Senator
Jones from his stock in the Sierra Ne.
vada Mine, it is said that before the re-.
cent rise he held $500 shares and sold
out for S20S u share, giving him ST.
LOG, 400.
In the year 1854 Horace w. Tabor
was q stonc-cutter at Augusta, Me.
Now he is Lieutenant Governor-elect of
Colorado, whittier he went in 1859 to
engage in mining, and is reported to
be worths$3, O00, 900.
Mr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
the son Of the poet is spoken of as a
probable successor of Judge Lowell, of
The Massachusetts District Court, should
the latter, as has been intimated, be
made United States Circuit Judge.
John Welsh, the United States
Minister to England, has called the at
tention of Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts,,
to the fact that collegiate honors arc
offered for sale lin London purporting
to come from the New England Univcr-
sity, of Boston.
Typographical errors, says an En-
glish contemporary, it is well known,
will creep into the most carefully print
ed works, butwe were surprised to find
it stated in the official list OF awards
made to British exhibitors at the Paris
Exhibition that it was s issued by order
Of His Royal Highness the Prince Of
Males.'' .-s
MIR. Wick, the florist, says that eel
cry will bear TO- or 12tteg. OF frost,
or down TOGO Or % deg. Fab, without
injury, hut that more than that VII;
IL high officer Of Massachusetts,
conversapt with "a fairs a. the Concord
Prison, says that Jesse Po1ceroy. the
boy-murderer, ISL losing his mind and
failing in health. He says also that re-
markable tales have been told Of Ponce
roy S, mental -acuteness and thirst for
knowledge, but the truth is that the
boy murderer is shallow Drained though
cunning. IN. 4 -Eve,ainJ Post. SIS
Tie female. correspondent Cat
Washington OF. the Cincinnati Com
,eeyctal has q grievance against Repre-
sentative Charles Foster. ShesWrites!
!" Mr.. Foster has an honest facs, but
his breeding needs ll1endin& sOrely.
Any man Who passes me with nudge
of his head, without so much as lifting
his 4and to his .hat never after returns
tn nv, = rp0nf1ar,o
withdrawing his services on the Mill
tary .Committee. =
The placing of . medallion me
mortal of tho late Dr-H0race Bushnell
in the Park congregational Church at
Hartford, Conn, brings to the mind Of
q correspondent of the Spring fieldsRe-
publican the. following stories about the
dead preacher: e AT. the council called
Ito dismiss the Rev. G. N Wines (since
tsgone over to the EpiscQpa lians) from
the pastorate Of our Fourth Church, al
which DR.. Bushnell was . delegate, In
giving his reasons Why a severance Of
relations was desirable, Mr.. Wines
gave long statement Of the pros and
cons of the difficulties in the church.
When he had closed DIR. Bushnell broke
out, Why do you leave? I supposed
I had answered that question: said Mr..
Wines, with equal abrnptncss. Is il
because you don't wish to stay. any
longer?' said Bushnell. Yes, sir.
Then. why didn't you say SOP retorted
Bushnell, in manner that led Mr..
Wines and the whole council to burs,
Into a laugh which restored good feel
Ing all round. On another occasion,
while the doctor was an invalid, he wa
driving with a friend III the suburbs a
the city, when an immense Shanghni
rooster sprang upon q. fence by the
roadside and crOWcd Justify. GAZING
at him An instant the doe or CALCULATED,
after one Of his coughing Its; Don'i
you think the Creator must have had !,
Isstrcak % I'm in him when he ere atct,
that fellow q -
q fellow walked into Is house 8
Eureka, New and elling for the lad
OF the mansion unb lied . centiped
and tarantula, slet1arlE ding that Y
would maxi them q p I,
& s.. .he ,t isnils :!
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