SEPT. 2§ 
THE BUBAL 
PERSONAL ITEMS. 
President Hayes lias accepted an election as 
vice-president of the American Bible Society. 
Ex-Governor Fenton, of New York, has declined 
a nomination for Congress from the thirty-third 
district of this State. 
Justice swayne, of the United States Supreme 
Court, according to a Washington dispatch, will 
retire from the bench next winter. 
A Texas clergyman, about to become chaplain 
of a penitentiary, preached a farewell sermon to 
his congregation, who had Ill-treated him, from 
the following text: “ I go to prepare a place for 
you, so that where I am ye may be also.” 
Lord Beaconsfleld, when he was the Disraeli of 
only 22 years, was a remarkable-looking young 
fellow. He had a pale, almost delicate face, Jet 
black hair clustered In curls on a marble brow, 
beneath which flashed strangely brilliant black 
eyes, ills figure was slender and lithe, and he 
wore a dress coat of black velvet, white kid gloves 
with draperies of black silk fringe falling from the 
wrists over his hands, and a waistcoat resplendent 
with gold lace. 
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[Fort Wayne (Ind.) Sentinel.! 
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