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Joaquin will summer In Boston. 
Walter Scott is now editing a Kentucky news¬ 
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Francis Murphy has recovered his voice, and 
Is again delivering temperance addresses. 
Otto Taxis has gone Into bankruptcy In Cin¬ 
cinnati. Perhaps his Taxis were larger than 
they ought to have been. 
SenuEMAN says IiIb luck turned as soon as he 
began to put out his loft foot llrst. But we have 
found that the right foot Is just as good—for 
tramps. 
There is a report that Secretary Thompson is 
writ ing another t reatise in relation to the Roman 
Catholic church, and that Parson Newman Is 
helping him. 
ritOF. A. OitAnAM Bell of telephonic fame, is to 
be married this week to a daughter of Mr. Gardner 
G. Hubbard. Tho couple will pass their honey¬ 
moon in Europe. 
Ex-Skckktauy Cit anjilkr refuses to talk politics 
to tho San Francisco reporters, but otTers to dis¬ 
course to them all night upon farming, If they 
will listen to him. 
Harriet Prescott Si-okkokd and her husband 
are at the Arkansas Hot Springs, where Richard 
has the gout, and Harriet a now stock for stories 
from a throe months’ tour of tho Houth. 
Senator Morton of Indiana, when a young 
man, was ambitious of becoming an able lawyer. 
Ex-Govenior Hendricks’ early niends say that 
Ills youthful aspirations were for a seat In the 
Ufilted States senate. 
Susan B. Anthony Is dreadfully melancholy 
when she reflects that she cannot oarn anything 
more lu the Woman’s Rights business, and yet a 
young woman In this city can earn $76 a week be¬ 
cause she can kick 7 feet high. 
M. Timers, according to a Conservative French 
paper, has for a month post been slowly growing 
feebler, and has been forbidden to write. On the 
other hand, another Conservative organ declares 
that he la preparing tho pronunclaiuento to be 
issued to the count ry by tho Republicans. 
Secretary Sherman has just finished a new 
dwelling at M&nffiicld, Ohio, which is described a» 
a brick bouse, very comfortable lu appearance 
and surrounded by broad trrounds, with walks 
and drives and flow or beds, well kept under the 
personal superintendence Of Mrs. Sherman. 
All that the late J. S. C. Abbott ever received 
from Napoleon Hi. In reward for his Haltering 
“lives” of the great Napoleon and his nephew 
was a gold medal of some slight pecuniary value. 
This Is on the authority of the Literary World, 
whose editor Is a nephew or the niographer. 
The only 11 vtngdcscendant or General llrrklmer, 
the hero of Orlskauy, who bears hts name, Is 
Warren Herkimer, a former resident or Little 
Falls, who met with reverses at tho lime of the 
failure or the mills there, and removed to .Janes¬ 
ville, Wisconsin. Ho will attend tho celobratlon 
of the battle. 
Elder D. N. Bentley, the pioneer of Methodism 
In Eastern Connecticut, still lives lu Norwich, in 
that .State, at the ago of nlnoty-two years, and Is 
a regular attendant at tho church In which he 
has served for seventy years. 1 n all church mat¬ 
ters lie has kept abreast of the most modern Inno¬ 
vations, wit h the exception or pipe organs, which 
he tenaciously opposes because, as he expresses 
It, “he does not believe lu pumping praises up 
to God.” 
ThU Wacon 1 b 8TRON0, Simple In Construction 
nml Durable. The elrahor and Iron employed In 
Itamanufacture are Selected and Tkntkm before 
Ixdnk Used. We have tlu? most extenslvu works In 
the country, and stdl 
THM HKST WAGON 
for the least money. Upwards of 
1 ID.OOll WAGONS IN USE 
Isonr reoojnnumdntlpn. Full particulars and Illus¬ 
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Gives more (j+fc- A 
Power than any ftf(| T ’ T 
otiior for the - 0V 
same diameter ~ 
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A constant supply of pure water wlil keen yopr stock 
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HAY LOADER. 
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