News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
PERSONAL.

Secretary Tracy is suffering from the In
fiuenZa.
Sir John Macdonald, Canada's veteran
Premier, celebrated his 10th birthday Jan. IL.
The King of Spain continues to improve,
and the Queen Regent has been enabled 10
secure some rest.
Mr. Charles Brock, for fifty years Treasurer
of the town of Milton, celebrated his 93rd
birthday Jan. II.
The Inauguration of Governor Mckinney
of Virginia, was witnessed by two grand
daughters of Patrick Henry.
A London dispatch says Lord Dudley has
sold to Cornelius Vanderbilt Turner's famous
picture, ''On the Great Canal, Venice" for
100000.
Hon. Frank c. Churchill of Lebanon, a
member of the Executive Council of New
Hampshire. is confined to the house by Sc
we're attack of influenza.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett has passed through
very successfully two operations for his
throat troubles, and will soon leave with his
family for the south of France.
The Shah has conferred the highest Persian
order upon his Minister of the Interior, Amin
Els Sultan, who is in favor of cordial agree
ment between Persia and England.
Osgood Plummer of Worcester, Mass, has
just shot 1000-pound moose in Northern
Maine. The antlers are said to be one of the
finest pair ever captured in the State.
Thomas Cook, the founder of the great
tourist bureau, is dying at his seat in Leices-
tershire, Eng. He has long since given up
any active part in the management, the head
of his business now being his son John.
Prince and princess Hartzfeldt will live in
New York city in the great house which Mr..
G. 2. Huntington is to build on Fifth avenue.
1t was stipulated b. Miss Huntington that
she should live with her parents, and the
new house is being constructed accordingly.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman of Bloomingdale, ILL.,.
has an interesting relic in the shape of a
scrapboOk that former y belonged to the late
Jefferson Davis. 1t was taken from Mr..
Davis's library in Mississippi during the war
by a soldier and given to Mrs. Sherman's
brother, Col. Henry Pierson, of q New
Hampshire regiment, now deceased. The
scrapDoOk contains many pages of writing in
Mr.. Davis's hand, together with large col
lection of newspaper clippings.
NJ. Vandal, who was Postmaster General
in France under the Second Empire, and
who used to run the 'EBlack Cabinet" in
which peoples letters were opened and read,
died the other day. One of his tasks under
the Empire was to unseal and read the cor
respondence to and from all the political
eXies living in London, Brussels ane other
cities adjacent to Paris. NJ. Nandal might as
well have died twenty years ago, for after
the advent of the republic he was never no.
ticed in public life or in general society.
A few weeks ago the Jewish Messenger
issued a circular letter asking for brief yet
adequate answer to the question, "What is
it to be a ewE' Among the replies was the
following from the poet Whittier: 81 do not
know what it is to be a jew, but 1 know
VIII It it is to be Chris ian who has no quar-
rel with others about their creed, and
can love, respect and honor dew
who honestly believes in the faith
of his fathers, and who obeys the two grea.
commandments, Glove to God and love to
man."
Professor Bischoff, the organist of a Con-
gregational church in Washington, has been
blind from his childhood. All the new music
that comes out is read to him by his secretary,
one reading being sufficient to fix an ordi-
nary piece of music in his mind, although an
intricate composition sometimes requires
several readings. He also finds the graphic
phone use ul in committing music to memory
or in composing, for he does considerable
original work. The professor has been for
many years a successful teacher of both vocal
and instrumental music.