Morris tribune., 1881-01-06
Personal Intelligence.

The late Judge Peleg Sprague, of Boston,
left an estate valued at $194, ,983.58.
Robert Toombs of Georgia has given a
thousand acres of Texas land to aid in
founding university in that state.
Mrs Nathaniel White of Concord, n. H.,
has given $4,000 to the Centennial Home
for tie aged in that city.
Joseph Cook has been lecturing to i'm
mense audiences in the city of Edinburgh.
He has been received with very cordial
greetings in all the cities of Great Britain
where he has appeared.
Or. Samuel Cox, of London has complet-
ed a new translation, with a commentary, of
the Book of Job, which the critics are prais-
ing very highly, contending that it is far
superior to the common Bible version of
that dramatic poem.
George Otto Treveleyan, the biographer
of Fox and Macaulay,. the nephew of the
latter and the coming man among the liter
ary politicians of England, has just been
appointed in the admiralty to the Office held
by Samuel Pepys two centuries ago.
Thomas C. Wales, Boston merchant,
who died there last week, failed in 1887, and
settled with his creditors at so cents on the
dollar. In 1859 after some years of pros
perity, he paid the remaining so per cent.
of their principal to his creditors, and in
1866 he paid the interest of twenty two
years on that principal.
Wednesday morning last the marriage Of
Mr.. Francis G.. Tibbits, of Philadelphia,
| and Mrs. Eliza Y. Martin, widow of the
late James B. Martin, of Milwaukee, was
| solemnized at the family residence in that
city, the Right Rev. Bishop Welles, ofici-
| ating.
Some idea may be gathered of the i'm
| mense operations of Jay Gould, when it is
stated that in addition to his other schemes
he controls nearly 1900 miles of railroad,
built or being built. But there are still two
or three railroads in the country which he
does not run.
Mr.. Eugene Hales father has just died
at his home in Maine, from the effects of an
injury received in drawing logs. Mr.. Hale
was farmer, and far from wealthy. He
was always careful that his children should
go to school, and in bad storms would take
little Eugene and his brothers and sisters
to the old red school house with oxen and
| sled.
Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of Maine,
when in New York recently, paid visit to
the wife of Colonel Charles J. Murphy,
who, when he was dangerously wounded
during the war, nursed him back 20 life in
her husbands tent. Mrs. Murphy is now
on her death-bed, at her husbands resi-
dence in Brooklyn.
1t is told of Representative Orth of Indi-
ana that he is of German descent and is
very proud of his ability to speak the Ger
man Language. When he became United
States Minister at Vienna he thought il
would be o delicate compliment to the EN-
\ peror to deliver his address on his presen-
4 tation at court in German. When the Gay
4 of his presentation arrived he was ready
. with his address, and delivered it with wha,
he thought was great success. A short time
\ afterward a well -knewn American who was
in Vienna was presented to the Emperor
The Emperor spoke in very complimentary
terms of Mr.. Orth, and then asked: "What
4 was the dialect in which Mr.. Orth delivered
his address? know, of course, that it was
j not English, and 1 thought that detected
4 some faint traces of the Teutonic tongue
in some of the words"