New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-19
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Il 1T is related that Prot. Simon New
comb, of the Naval Observatory at
Washington, attended wedding re-
Gently with a friend. After the cere-
mony he advanced with the others to
pay his respects to the bride and groom.
Approaching, he solemnly shook hands
with each, but said not a word. As he
turned away, his friend, surprised, said,
why didn't you say something to the
bride?' The solemn professor, who is
nothing if not scientific, answered:
"Why, I didn't think that l had any
new facts to i,npart.''
The late Bayard Taylor, in q letter
recently printed in the Wilmington
(Del.) Commercial, thus refers to his
name: 8 l was named by my parents
simply tBayard,' after James A. Bay
ard, the grandfather of your Senator.
As boy of sixteen or seventeen, /
sometimes attached d. (neyer James,
to my name, foolishly thinking it would
look better. When my first volume of
poems came out, Rufus Griswold, my
first literary friend, put James Bayard
Tay lor' on the :itle page, and the small
private edition was printed before !
coui,i correct it. The matter was an
annoyance to me then, and has been
ever since. felt bound to retain the
d.. however, until was twenty-one,
and became legally responsible for my
signature. Then I dropped it instant
~, and have never since used anything
else than my original and only true
uanc.'
When Morton and Hu!,n, the con-
victed railroad officers in Philadelphia,
arrived at the prison where they arc to
undergo their ten years. confinement
they were first clad in the prison garb.
Then they were blindfolded by bags
thrown over their heads, and were
walked up and down the various cor
ridors several times, in order that they
might be confused as to the situation
OF the cells to which they were con-
signed. When they were finally brought
to their places of confinement the bags
were removed.
Here's souvenir of Abraham
Lincoln. 1t is true copy of a letter
on file among the archives of the Chi
cago & Alton Road at the Superin-
tcndcnt's Office. 1t is modest request
for the renewal of a season pass on the
Alton Road:
{. srR!Scf.ELn: Feb. 10. lS5s.-R: P; MORGAN
tow i've broke it usin' on it. l wish you would
take It and mend it. case shall want to borrow
TN: slt"'nn: AGti9f on this as precedent
take it and send me q new one. case shall want
"" " wy 80 - ~ 1 A. LIN lincoln.
There is a quarrel between Gems.
Stanley and Hazen which, it is said,
is likely to attract much attention.
When Gen. Hazen was selected as the
representative of the army to observe
the military operations during the late
Turco-Russian War, Gen. Stanley tried
to prevent his appointment, and filed
charges against him with the Secretary
of War, alleging offenses committed
during long series of years. These
charges did not prevent Gen. Hazen's
appointment, and Gen. Stanley wrote
to him, saying: II now give YOU fair
warning that am fully informed upon
your disgraceful conduct at Shiloh and
your shameful exit from your COM
mand at Fort Buford, and, when the
proper occasion offers, will use the in
formation to stop your career of I'M
posture" The charges with this let
ter were, it is alleged by Gen. Hazen's
friends, sent broadcast through Eu
rope. and especially to every prominent
military officer with whom he would
naturally come in contact. Upon his
return to this country, he took legal ad-
vice, and has decided to ask for a trial
of himself under the charges. 1t is un.
.derstood that the. President will grant
the request. 7. Evening Post.