The herald., 1897-02-14
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Governor Turney of Tennessee pardoned
$40 convicts during his term of office.
Miss Anne Whitney, the sculptor, has
given twelve acres of land on the Andros-
.coggin river. Maine, to the Appalachian
club.
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the young negro
writer of verse, who lives in Dayton, O., is
to have popular readings in England dur
ing the coming summer.
A female highwayman described as "of
herculean proportions and of extraordin-
ary bravado." is holding the roads between
Brussels and Antwerp and attacking soli-
tary houses.
The talk about starving people In Chi
cago has excited the ire of the city papers
and they protest that nobody Is starving
there and nobody need go hungry If he is
not too proud to let his condition be known.
Miss Frances e. Willard has had me-
mortal tablet placed in the old church at
Horsmonden, Kent, England. In honor Of
her ancestor, Simon Willard who founded,
in 1885, the town of Concord. Mass.
zola has recently declared that Max
Nordau, the author of Degeneration 10
nothing more than literary dustman"
who has swept into his basket all the alb.
surdities and lies which are floating abou.
concerning prominent men.
John Mauck, a pioneer of Washington,
who cast his first vote for Jackson. died
on the day before Christmas at Oakdale.
in that state, at the age of 90, and left di-
rections that his body be wrapped in
had been the usual way in his early life.
George Merediths books do not in the
least suggest his own personality. He Is
a very lucid, pointed and witty talker. In
height he is about feet of slender. grace
full figure. and has a gentle, blue-eyed face.
with pointed beard and gray hair parted in
the MIDDLE and falling in a fringe over his
forehead.
Miss Edith I. Brown of Boston, whose
picture, Sabrina, exhibited in last years
salon, was recently reproduced in the pages
of Harper's Bazaar. is a singularly gifted
young American woman, OF whom those
familiar with her progress expect great
things. She is still in the early 2Os and her
present attainment is the more remarka-
BILE because for years she has struggled
against severe physical disabilities which
for a long time precluded all idea of aca-
demic study.
The city of Savannah. Ga, has just pass
ed through an extremely bitter municipal
campaign. 1t has ended in the triumph of
the Liberals over the Citizens by small
majority, and next Monday the Hon. Peter
W. Meldrim will assume the office of may
or. he having defeated Herman Myers, the
present incumbent by 223 votes. All the
twelve candidates for aldermen on the
| mayors ticket vert down with him. and
| the new board will have none of the old
! to caution and instruct them
The legislature of Georgia refused to
make an appropria tion for an exhibit from
| that state to the Tennessee exposition next
summer, but Mrs. Joseph Thompson, who
was preSldent Oh the woman DOarQ at the
| Atlanta exposition in 1895. and carried that
| department through successfully, has
| started a movement to obtain recon-
| consideration of the vote at the specia,
| session to be held shortly. She has raised
| $1,000, will ask the legislature to appropriate
$1,000 and thinks she can then raise $1,000
more.
| The twelfth annual banquet of the gov
ernors of the several states of the union
! is to be given by the Marquette club of
| Chicago on Friday evening, Feb. 18th.
| Among the toasts to be responded to are
Municipal Reform by Governor Pingree of
Michigan; The New Old Dominion, by Gov
| ernor Atkinson of West Virginia; Iowa,
| They Said 1t Was Doubtful, by Governor
| Drake of Iowa; The Duty of Citizenship,
| by Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania.
ana The Farmer in Politics by. Governor
| Mount Of Indiana y