Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-20

also made movements in musical instruments Among his enterprises at this period were the building of theatre in Bergen and an effort to establish national schools of itera- ture and art in his native country. In some of the dramas performed at his theatre were political sentiments introduced by him which led to police intervention. In 1852 he WAS drawn into lawsuits which had been necessitated by his collisions with the police on the subject of these political allusions. These Allegations cost him large sums of mony, and once more he turned his eyes to the United States as to the fruitful treasury whence his dissipated fortune might be recruited. His second visit to this country was undertaken in 1852. Not long after his arrival here he bought an extensive tract of land in uncultivated Potter county, Pa, comprising 120,o00 acres Mir Bull propos- eS to lay the foundations on this land of 8 colony composed of his own countrymen, and for this purpose the land was divided up in small farms and sold att nominal prlce-to settlers. large number of Swedish fami- lies settled here, and in honor of MT. Bull the township was called Oleana. The settlement never passed, however, beyond the condition of an experiment, and after while the en- deavor to establish colony here was aban- doned and the settlers moved away. MT. Bulls concerts were resumed with brilliant success in most of the chief cities of the Un- ion, but he met with losses, when, in 1864, ne LOOK u IedSS OI Iu6 ACdu6ulJ LII III this city and attempted the undertaking of managing the Italian opera here. The his tory of countless experiments of this kind has shown that complete success in such an enterprise is exceptional, and MT. Bulls exp eriments as manager proved only d1sas- trous to him. After this failure Mir. Bull re- turned to Europe He was absent for many years, but during his two visits he had form ed strong attachment to this country and our people. In 1869 he returned to the United States and in 1870 he married an American lady, Miss Thorp, of Wisconsin, who as 8 child had been kissed by him long before at concert given by him during one of his previous tours through the Union. Shortly after his marriage MT. Bull sailed with his wife for Europe, where they took up their residence in the violinist's Norway home. Since that time much of his life had been passed in this country, his residence here having been much home to him as that in Norway. His second marriage did not prove happy one, owing to tincompati- biIity of temper" and resulted, we believe, in separation On the 9th of Febuary last his seventieth birthday celebrated at Cambridge, Mass. where he had for some time made his residence, by party of very distinguished guests
 Mir Bulls style as violinist has been hk- ened to that of Paganini, whom, it is said, he took for a model in the beginning, and whose eccentricities he often initiated. But this fact cannot lessen his merits as an artist, for to resemble Paganini would suffice of it. self to assure his claim to the title. He pos sessed little of the sympathetic in his art, ,and succeeded better by astonishing the nearer than by appealing to his heart. Apparently with no more definite purpose than to please himself in his accomplishment and to draw from it a livelihood, he created no circle of art followers, and has left no writingsfto keep alive his reputation after death.