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Ujw ^uMlcaticnsi. 
Gen. Joe Hooker will spend the winter at 
the Hut Sprlng6 of Virginia. 
Gen. B. V. Butler has purchased a gold 
mine near Fredericksburg, Va. 
Joe Jefferson has given $500 toward the 
monument to Washington Irving. 
Miss Bookman, the Illinois giantess, who 
died recently, weighed 412 pounds. 
Tun Prince of Wales had got as far as Egypt, 
on his tour to Indlu, at last accounts. 
Libut.-Gek. Suliudan has returned from 
his trip to the Pacific coast In improved health. 
Mr. Edwin Booth appeared at the 5tb Ave. 
Theater In New York, on the 25th ult., In Ham¬ 
let. 
A statue of Robert Burns, by Mr. Ewing of 
Glasgow, Scotland, will soon be erected in that 
city. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson is announced to 
lecture tu Chicago, the admission fee Is to be 
10 cents. 
The Hon. Alex. H. Stephens Is still in a feeble 
and exhausted condition and unable to receive 
company. 
T. T. Crittenden, Ex-Congressman of Mis¬ 
souri, Is candidate for the clerkship of the 
next House. 
The remains of Guibord are to be buried in 
Montreal en the 18th inst., the 111th anniversary 
of his death. 
G/,ic Bull bus been giving concerts in Stock¬ 
holm, recently. Ho is about to make a faiewdl 
tour of Europe. 
The Catholics of Loudon are preparing an 
imposing demonstration of welcome for Car¬ 
dinal McCloskey. 
Secretary Robeson's wtt'o lost a camel'*- 
hair shawl, valued at $1,000, while visiting in 
Baltimore, lately. 
Con. John B. Lewis, the author of the 
“ Harp of u Thousand Strings,” died in Rankin 
Co., Miss., recently. 
Messrs. Moody and Sankey commenced 
their revival services In Brooklyn on the 24th 
ull., with a congregation or C,000. 
Prof. Proctor began his series of astronom¬ 
ical lectures In Boston, recently, with his old 
lecture on the Transit* of Venus. 
The Rev. Cyrus D. Foss, D. D„ was Inaugu¬ 
rated as President of Wesleyan University, in 
Middletown, Conn., on the 2Uth ult. 
Mr. George Vandenhoif is giving a new 
entertainment at the lyccutns of tire oouotry, 
called ** Reminiscences of the Stage.” 
A statue to Judah Quincy, the second 
Mayor ot Boston, and for many years President 
of Harvard University, is proposed. 
The Medical Director of the United States 
Ntvy, Daniel Egbert, died in Phlludelphla on 
the 21th Inst., In the 77th year of his age. 
The Mayor of Omaha, Nob., has seut u barrel 
of choice Nebraska apples as a present to Mrs. 
SartorU, the daughter of President Grant. 
Gen. Butler lias leased one of his Cape Ann 
gruuite houses on Capitol Hill to Senate)-Jones 
of Nevada, during his proscut seualoriai term. 
At Oweuaboro, Ky., recently, Prof. Atchison, 
an aeronaut, fell to the e trth from a bight ol 
several hundred feet. His recovery is doubtful. 
Prof. Wit. Everett of Harvard College has 
been nominated for the Massachusetts House 
of Representatives by thn Republicans of Cam¬ 
bridge. 
Senator Morrill of Vermont has presented 
a buet of Charles Summer, by Preston Powers, 
to the Park Gallery of Art at Burlington, in 
that State. 
McDonald & Co. of Wooster, Ohio, manu¬ 
facturers of agricultural implements, have 
made an assignment. Their liabilities are 
stated at $500,000. 
Henry Stewart, whose employment was 
feeding animals In French’s Circus, had his 
hands torn to eh reds by a iion in Chicago, and 
died Irom the Injury. 
Fortune Snow of A frioan descent, at Milan, 
Ga., iaaaid to be one hundred and twenty-six 
years old. lie was one of Marion’* men during 
the Revolutionary War. 
Joseph Schmidt and Charles Joet,merchants 
of Philadelphia, among others, have been made 
the victims of a huge swindle by Frederick 
Feottc, who gave them worthless notes for 
$100,000 worth of goods. 
Dr. David Creul, probably the only surviv¬ 
ing member of the jury which tried Aaron 
Burr for treason, is at present a resident of 
Cblllicothe, Ohio, and enjoys egcellent health, 
though over 00 years old. 
A trapeze performer named Orzalo, in mak¬ 
ing a flying leap at the National Theater, Cin¬ 
cinnati, on the 25th ult., missed, the bur and fell 
to the stage, a distance of twenty feet, injuring 
himself severely, if not fatally. 
Tn« Hon. R-. T. Davis, eldest son of the late 
Senator Garrett Davis, and one of the most 
prominent members of the Bourbon Co., Ken¬ 
tucky bar, was found dead In his bed, recently. 
Death Is supposed to have been caused by au 
overdose of chloral. 
The Hon. Henry C. Murphy of Brooklyn, ex- 
Senator, and President of »fae Board of Bridge 
Directors, while entering a car in Brooklyn on 
the 2d ult., was knocked down and run over by 
a wagon. His collar bone was broken and he 
was otherwise iajured. 
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