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Gen. Buhnruie Is In Louisville. 
Ua i.i'ii Waldo Emerson has gently glided 
Into his 72d year. 
A son of General Sherman is among the 
matriculants of Yale. 
THE last of Gou, Grant’s original stafl' has re¬ 
cently died in Washington - Gen. Hll'yer. 
11 ret Haute's last story, “John Oakhurst," 
is said to have been written in a single night. 
Ether Lindsey, aged 70, of Rockland, Me., 
was drowned on Saturday by the overturning 
of Ids skiff. 
Gi n. Center's golden curls have been sacri¬ 
ficed to the Black Hills expedition. The In¬ 
dians mourn. 
So ear f lic Indications are that Mr. Gaston 
will be the Democratic choice for Governor of 
Massachusetts. 
f-r Is expected that Colonel Robert. Tyler will 
receive the office of Chancellorjof the Georgia 
State University. 
Lieutenant Neat, of Ross County has been 
nominated to Congress by the Democrats of 
the Fifth Ohio District. 
Uncle J ake Nohi.es, aged one hundred and 
t en years, recently married Sarah Peoples, aged 
eighty-five, at Hot Springs, Ark. 
A PAH AGRA Hi! to the effect that Mrs. Abby 
Sage Richardson |« soon to be married to a 
citizen of Chicago Is authoritatively denied. 
Congressman Henry I*. Pierce of Boston 
says he doesn’t wish to run us t>ie Republican 
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, but 
ho does want to go back, to Congress. 
TuERK was a rumor in circulation t hat Mr. 
Wilson had resigned, or was on the eve of re¬ 
signing, the Vice-Presidency on ivyount of ill 
health, hut the rumor is contradicted by au¬ 
thority. . 
Senator Senior/, who has been suffering 
from malarial fever and exhaustion caused by 
overwork for more than a month, has In great 
measure recovered his health, and, after a few 
weeks of rest, at Narragansctt Pier, R. I., will 
go to St. Louis. 
Tint HON. James M. Quinby, a prominent 
resident of Newark, N. J., widely known 
throughout, the South, died of paralysis on 
Monday night, aged sixty-nine years. He had 
been Mayor of the city and State Senator, and 
had held other positions of honor and trust. 
Prop. Watson of the University of Michi¬ 
gan, accompanied by other astronomers, left 
Omaha, Neb., for the West on Thursday last, 
on their way to stations in China and Japan, 
where they will observe the transit of Venus. 
Four car-loads of astronomical instruments 
preceded them. 
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