The Sun. — 1868-11-18 (London, England)

OXFORDSHIRE.—HenIey, North, and Cartwright. WORCESTERSHIRE (WEST).—Knight End Dowdeewell.  Reno and Andrews, the express robbers, have at last been brought back from Canada to Indiana for trial, though they narrowly escaped drowning at Detroit by the running down of the tug boat on which they were by a propeller. General Wurtemburg, an Austrian officer, has visited Fortress Monroe, where he was received with military honours.  A man to ask favours of—General Grant.—Judy. Measures are in progress in Montreal for the erection of a memorial to the late Bishop Fullford. The postal treaty between North Germany and Italy was signed last Tuesday. The progress of American Art, it is stated, will be the subject of a report from the United States Commissioner of Education.  It is proposed to erect a grand monument in Washington, commemorative of the chief actors in the late War.  Ducks and geese are more abundant in all the sloughs and rice lakes of tho Mississippi than was ever known before, owing to the large crop of wild rice.  Moses Kitteridge, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, has founded, by a donation of $l,OOO, a "Kitteridge Scholarship" in Dartmouth College. Ex-Congressman Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, had just arrived home from Europe. General M'Clellau has lately been in Philadelphia, the guest of his brother, Dr. J. H. B. M'Clellan. Albert S. Bickmore of Cambridge has been elected to the Professorship of Natural History in Madison University, New York. Professor Bickmore has recently returned from a three years tour through the Indian archipelago, large portions of China, Japan, and Eastern Russia, making collections in zoology, geology, &c. He was for four years an assistant of Professor Agassiz. Captain John G. Mitchell, commander of United States steamer S iginaio, who was recently murdered in San Francisco, belonged to Nantucket, where his family lived.  J. H. Appleton, of Portland, Maine, has been elected Professor of Chemistry at Brown University. We hear that Mrs. Lucy Osgood has just died in Maine, aged 100 years and some months, leaving 73 of her direct descendants.  Andrew Tracy, of Woodstock, a prominent member of the Vermont bar, and once a good deal in public life, died, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at the age of 72. Mr. Warner, of the Hartford Courant, is spend.. ing the fall and early winter mouths in Munich, Germany, studying art and literature, and will go into Italy for the rest of the cold season, and come norih and home some time next summer. His health is improving under his rest and recreation, Governor Geary, of Pennsylvania, and Fenton, of New York, have designated November 26th as a day of T hanskgiviul.T. General Fitz Henry Warren, of lowa, United States Minister to Guatemala, had just arrived at New York by the steamer from the Isthmus in time to vote for General Grant. Cyrus \V. Field will also be in time. Indeed, we believe, his main object in crossing the Atlantic was to cast his vote for Grant and his friend Schuyler Colfax. Charles Lane, of Stratham, New Hampshire, has given $5OO towards founding a scholarship in Andover Theological Seminary. His son graduated this year and died a fortnight afterwards. This money was intended as his outfit. Deacon Alvah Kimball, a prominent citizen of Nashua, died in a prayer meeting, Sunday night, Oct. 25, at the ago of 61. Horace Greeley's salary on the New York 7 ribune is said to be $7,000 a year. Dr. Rufus Bicknell, a well-known Philadelphian, died on Sunday, Oct. 25, aged 61. Brigham Young, it is said, is going to retire to private life with the prophets (profits) $3,000,000. The Presidency of Harvard College has been offered to Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, the college preacher, and ha has not yet sent his final decision. Governor Brownlow intends to resign his office about the Ist of February next. On March 4he becomes United States Senator from Tennessee.