Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-12
Persons and Things.

The members of the missionary
colony which Bishop Taylor, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. is estab-
fishing in Africa, sailed recently from
New York on the steamer CITY of Mon
treal. The colony numbers fifty-three
persons in all, thirteen of whom are
children. They took with them
$4,000 yards of cotton cloth, rifles,
ammunition, axes and tools of all kinds.
a printing press and 5000 Bibles. The
scenes about the vessel and pier lust
before starting were animated, and at
times pathetic. DIR. Mary r. Myers,
who was in the cabin an hour before the
steamer sailed, was handed telegram,
which she read while her eyes filled
with tears, and with a faltering voice
she said: II must not turn back now. =
The telegram was from Woodstock, CT. /.
and announced the death of her father
AT O'Clock the steamer was ready to
sail The colonists sang sold Hun
dred, while hasty good -byes were said
on all sides. Then the gang plank was
removed and the vessel moved out into
the stream.
1t was Castelar, who wrote thus adj
mirably of General Gordon: 81 com
pare him, though you may greatly
marvel, to the first Jesuit missionaries
and. among them, 10 those who first
went to India and China The mis-
sionary and the explorer are marvel
ously united in the Pasha and the Bril-
ton, as they were united in them. He
resembles them in their incomprehensi-
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worldliness and ascetieism, their ex-
traordinary blending of prophetic senti-
ments with mathematical calculations,
their enormous individual sacrifice, and
their keen eve to commercial advant-
ages. A pure morality, positive
theology, a practical mind. are three of
his great qualities, and no one can
read the history of Gordon without
drawing parallels between him and the
early Jesuits. ?
Mark Twain says that he used 10 be y
neighbor Of Bret Harte in San Francisco,
when Harte was editing weekly Jour
nal and acting as secretary of the u. s.
Mint, and Twain was reporter on a
daily The popular hit of The Heath
EN- Chinee," nearly ruined Harte in his
own estimation; for his ambition was
TO make fame in writing the kind of
prose sketches which have since gained
so much appreciation, and he feared
that people would insist upon always
regarding him as merely writer of
funny rhymes.
A movement has been started to
keep Francis Murphy in Pittsburg as
the minister OF u "church of Gospel
temperance. A fluid of $1,000 has
already been raised in its support.
Dnring his late campaign OF eight
weeks in that city, Mr.. Murphy OBJ
tanned IL. 900 signatures to the temper
ance pledge.
Miss Hon King Eng. daughter of a
prominent Christian Chinaman at Foo
Chow, whose family was the second one
in the Empire to embrace Christianity,
has been lately admitted to the Ohio
Wesleyan College. She is seventeen,
and intends to study medicine and
practice in China.
DR.. Settlements house in Athens,
called by him u cottage, is large
square marble mansion crowned with
groups of marble statues. The interior
has spacious and lofty rooms richly
frescoed and full of his antiquities.
Jenny Lind is one of the faculty of
the College of Music at Albert Hall,
London, and does not allow the position
to become sinecure, being the most
devoted teacher imaginable, and the
idol of the scholars.
The London Standard declares that
the opinion steadily grows that Nath-
aniel Hawthorne was the most consider
aole literary parsonage that America
has yet produced.
Two handsome flags made from ma
tive material have been presented to
the State of Pennsylvania by the
Women's Silk Culture Association.
List denies angrily the report that he
is growing blind. He has just been
granted "A pension of some fifteen hun
dred dollars year
Music was Tourgeneff's mental re-
creators he would remain silent for
hours in its SPELL and sometimes write
under its influence.
The health of Chief-Justice Waite is
improved. He rides cut, and is TO
start this week for Florida