The Dickinson press., 1883-06-23
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. Grant IN an interview said: I think
the courts are constituted. to try cases, and a
jury. was obtained to try that case. Iii this
particular case the prisoners We're tried by
the newspapers in advance and they no
doubt influenced public judgment without
the testimony being heard. They made
their W testimony i'll the beginning. Now
that the testimony has all been in and weeks
have been spent in expounding the law and
the evidence in the case, | don't see but
what the public is bound to accept the
judgment rendered.
Bishop Spalding~ oorroborates the state
nent that the archbishops of the United
States has been commanded to assemble at
plenary council to be held in America.
The business Of the council will only per-
tain to the offices Of this country, and not
involve Irish affairs. 1t is three months
since Bishop Spalding left Rome, and that
was the pontitical intention at the time of
his departure.
Norman L.. Munro, the publisher, has
sued James Gordon Bennett for $40, 600
damages done by the appearance of person.
ais in the Herald signed Sadie" Bennett
has been warned not to publish the writing
and had promised not to do 50. The re
suit of the publication has been the alien,
alton of Mrs. Munru's affection. the break
ing up OF Munro's home, n the general
injury of his t%usiness.
1t is reported that Senator Tabor, in ig-
norance Of the elaborate routine by which
alone money can be legally paid out of the
United States treasury, recently drew dir
ectly on Secretary Folger for $65, 900, the
price of land which he sold to the govern-
ment for the new postoffice and custom
house at Denver, and deposited the draft
with a Colorado bank for collection.
Frank Herman, son of the New York ex-
senator, who was with Gen. Sherman's son
at Georgetown college, and, like him, chose
to enter the Catholic priesthood, has, after
four years study, decided that The priest
hood, is not his vocation, and has given it
up and returned to Utica.
Prescott Bros. & Co., the largest and old
est hardware dealers of Fort Wayne, Ind,
have made an assignment in favor of George
H. Wilson for the benefit of preferred cred
itors representing claims to the amount of
$4,000. Liabilities, 800, 200; assets 800, 900.
In literary matters it is announced that
Mr.. Froude, the historian. is preparing a
study OF Martin Luther. Macmillan an
nounces Arthur Hardy's novel, But Yet a
Woman; Richard Grant Whites edition of
Shakespeare will appear here next month.
Capt. Winfield S. Edgerly, Seventh caval-
ry, who recently secured his captaincy by
the appointment of Capt. NJ. v. Sheridan to
be assistant adj utant general, has been
granted twenty days leave of absence from
the recruiting station at Cincinnati.
William II. Vanderbilt recently drove
Maud S and Aldine over the track of the
G~entlemen's Driving park in 2:154, lower
ing the record of 2:163 made by Frank
Works team, Edward and Swivelle1, al
Morrisania, n. Y, July 10, 1882.
Zebina Eastman, who died in Chicago on
the 18th, was one of the Owen Lovejoy
sort of anti-slsvery leaders i'll Illinois, and
Lovejoy's death brought him out in the
slavery question. He published numerous
papers.
Annie Crandell of New Baltimore, M. Y.
caught a summer boarder last summer who
promised to marry her, but in January he
married another. The jury gave Annie
$4,000.
Eastern papers say ex-senator Patterson
Of New Hampshire is mentioned in conuec
ton with the presidency ofthe Uniyersit,
of Minnesota.
Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston preached
in st. Paul's church, London, on Sund.,
last, the lord mayors and other dignita,je,
attending.