JAN. 8 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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PERSONAL ITEMS. 
Jttlscellaneimu. fmplemtiitt »ni IttartiiKty. amplemetits ami ghuMang. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson D.wla will go to Europe. 
Lord Beaconsfleld'a "Endymlon” is said to have 
paid him about titty cents a word. 
Mrs. Je 3 sle Fremont has organized classes In 
history among the grown up sons and daughters 
of the poor settlers In Arizona. 
Mr. James C. Flood, ot San Francisco, is said to 
have had transactions to the amount ot $300,000,000 
in the stock exchange during the last live years. 
The sale ot season tickets tor the Bernhardt en¬ 
gagement closed at Chicago aggregated $T,000. 
This Is the heaviest sale ot the kind ever made 
there. 
The President has ordered a court-martial to 
convene at West Point, on January 18, for the 
trial ot Cadet Whittaker, the court having been 
ordered at the request of the accused. 
Brig -Gen. Randolph B. Marcy, Inspector-Gen¬ 
eral, and Col. John G. Barnard, of the Corps of 
Engineers, were recently placed on the retired list 
by the President, their retirement to date from 
Jan. 2. 
Mr. A. 8. Logan, a lineal descendant of the cel¬ 
ebrated Indian chief of the Six Nations of that 
name, so well known to Juvenile orators, has 
been appointed by Secretary Schurz to a position 
In the Interior Department. 
The remains of Lieutenant Irving, of Sir John 
Franklin’s Arctic Expedition, brought to New 
York by Lieutenant Schwatka, and which arrived 
at Glasgow on the 25th Instant, on the steamer 
Circassian, are to be burled at Edinburgh. 
General Robert Toombs and Senator Brown 
were on the point of lighting a duel a few years 
ago. The challenge was sent and accepted, but 
fortunately the affair was compromised. It Is 
aald that Mr. BrowD practiced savagely In anti¬ 
cipation of the Banculnary event. 
Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, the leading and most 
celebrated Unlversallst clergyman In the country, 
died at New York City, on the 29th, aged slxty-slx 
yeara. The funeral services were very Imposing; 
Dr. Colyer, Dr. Armltage and Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher making eulogistic addresses. 
non. A. L. Akerman, died at his home in Car- 
tersvllle, Ga., on the Slst Inst, after a week’s 
sickness from Inflammatory rheumatism. He 
was born In New Hampshire and, after graduat¬ 
ing at Dartmouth College, went to Georgia and 
practiced law. He was a Unionist during the 
war, took part In tbe Reconstruction Convention 
of 1S67, and tn 1ST0 was appointed Attorney Gen¬ 
eral ot the United States by President Grant. He 
was succeeded by Mr. Williams. 
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