The Worthington advance., 1882-09-21
Personal.

A granite memorial to Elihu Burritt
the "learned blacksmith" bearing the
simple inscription, Friend of Peace and
Philanthropist," has been set up In New
Britain Cemetery, Connecticut.
1t is proposed to erect an equestrian
statue Of General and ex-President
William Henry Harrison, the hero OF
Mppecanoe, at one end of the gates OF
Circle Park, Indianapolis.
Professor Bell claims to have perfect.
ed the induction balance, which was. un.
successfully used in an attempt to locate
the bullet with which President Garfield
was shot. 1t was tried the other day on
an old soldier who had carried bullet
in his body since the war, and located
the ball instantly.
The will of the late Rev. DR.. George
Muserove beoueathes s30.000 to Prince
ton college, $l2, 600 to the Presbyterian
hospital Of Philadelphia, and 81 100 to
the Theological seminary of Princeton.
James Field obtained 4 promise from
Jenny McHenry and her parents, in
Philadelphia, that she. would become
his wife when she was l6, her age at that
time being II, but on her 10th birthday
Field committed suicide instead Of mar
rying, for the girl refused to keep IT,,
agreement.
The Rev. Joseph Cook has had pleas
ant and profitable lecturing tour in lis.
tralia. On his way thither from Japan,
however, he met with serious mishap,
ta1Sv h 4 k.1
storm with such violence that some OF
were torn asunder, and considerable sur
glcal treatment was necessary. lie soon
recovered completely, and at last &C.
counts was in excellent health.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps as she was
walking on the beach one day was asked
if she were not afraid of the terrific storm
that was raging. She replied: "No; l
prefer the voice Of God to that of sum-
mer bOarder.
Ex-Governor Aiken, Of South Caro-.
lima, who, when he sat in Congress thir-
ty years ago, used to be pointed out as
the largest Shareholder in America, is
spending the season at Saratoga. He
was colleague and personal friend of
joshua II. Glddings.
Sir Bernard Burke, British antigua.
rian, declares that "there is not now
living a single descendant in the male
line of C:lauccr, Shakspcre, Spenser,
Milton, Cowley, Butler, Dryden, Pope,
Cowper, Goldsmith, Byron or Moore
not one of Sir Philip Sidney. nor, [ b..
lieye, of Sir Walter Raleigh; not ono OF
Drake, Cromwell, Hampden, Monk
Marlborough. Peterborough or Nelson;
not one Of Bolingbroke, Walpo,c, Chat
ham, Pitt, Fox, Burke, Gratt,n or Can
ming; not one Of Bacon, Locke, Newton
or Davy; not one Of Hume, Gib)on or
Macaulay; not one of Hogarth, Sir JOSH
Ill Reynolds or Sir Thomas Lawrence;
not one of David Garrick, John Kemble
or Edmund kean."
Madame dc Remusat, granddaughter
of General Lafayette, and widow of the
French acado:nician and statesman who
was THEIRS friend and NIiniste Of For
eiPn Affairs, has just died 1T the age
offs.
Lord Carlingford, who was Chichester
Fortescue, was long Chief Secretary for
Ireland, is going to marry Lady Scott,
who has already had two husbands,
while Lord Carlingfortl's former wife had
four
Concerning the death OF his wife, Fred
erick Douglass recently wrote to a friend
in the West: "The main pillar in my
house has fallen. Four and forty years
have passed away since our union.
Life cannot hold much for me, now that
she has gone. Still feel that the lesson
taught by this death, as by all such, is
silence, resignation, humility and hope.
We are all strangers and sojourners.''