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PEBSONAL ITEMS. 
The widow ot James Fisk. Jr., boards at South 
Deerfield, Mass, with a couple who tfere formerly 
her cook and coachman. She has a handsome 
competence. 
A “ Meeker Testimonial Fund” has been started 
In Denver, with the purpose oC erecting a monu¬ 
ment to the heroic services of the late N. C. 
Meeker, the murdered Indian agent. 
Mrs. Charlotte Letcher, the widow of cx-Gov- 
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on the 29th of October, from a dose of arsenic 
which she took by mistake, supposing It to be 
burnt alum, she was eighty-seven years old. 
Geueral J. W. Whitfield died In I.avaca, Texas, a 
Tew days ago. Itad his death occurred twenty 
years ago It would have caused a national sensa¬ 
tion, for he was the recognized leader of the 
Southern party In Kansas during the trouble that 
led up to the war. 
General Fltzhugh Lee made himself very un¬ 
popular with the Repudlators In Virginia The 
other night a crowd of the Kepudlatorsat Falmouth 
made an eitlgy of him and rode It around on a rail. 
They were about to bum the figure when some 
more sober-minded men Interferred. 
Young Seward placed a pistol at his head, In the 
presence of the girt who had rejected his suit, at 
Houstln, Minn., and said he was going to commit 
suicide. lie couuted, “One, two—and she 
covered her eyes with her hands. “ Look at me,” 
he said; she obeyed; *• three!" and Into his brain 
went the fatal bullet. 
Bride and bridesmaids were ready, the church 
was lighted and the clergyman stood walling, In 
Galveston, tast NVeduesday, but no bridegroom ap¬ 
peared. August Ilummorder, a German youth, 
had dressed for the ceremony, and then, In sheer 
■despair at the thought of facing the matrimonial 
music, had shot himself through the head. 
Signor Dario Mazzel, stenographer to the Italian 
Senate, has Invented a machine which claims to 
reproduce a speech in the ordinary printed char¬ 
acters as rapidly as it is spoken, a word of several 
syllables being recorded by a single t-ouoh of the 1 
keys. There is hope for the deaf In modern Inven¬ 
tiveness. Few need the aid of inventive genius 
more. 
Miss Nora Grilling, of Logansport, lud., waa to 
have been married on Tuesday evening to Mr. 
Lute J. Smith. The guests had assembled and 
the minister was waiting to perforin the ceremony 
when a messenger handed the would-be groom an 
incoherent letter from Miss Grilling, which was 
soon followed by the news that she hud eloped 
with a young lawyer. 
General Hooker is said to have left a handsome 
fortune, which wlU probably go to bis sisters, Mrs. 
Bratnard and Mrs. Wood, of Watertown, New 
York. Among his effects Is a large picture of the 
battle of I-ooLout Mountain, for which he paid 
$25,ooo. He had prepared a book on the battle of 
Chancellorsvlile, which is now in the publisher’s 
hands, and was about to begin a book on the 
famous engagement on Lookout Mountain. 
Kev. Dr. Umlltigton, the well-known Congrega¬ 
tional clergyman of Brooklyn, Is slowly dying of 
cancer. The whole lower part of his face Is now 
covered with a cancerous growth, and the poison 
of the disease has eaten through the lower Jaw¬ 
bone. A council or physlcluus was recently held 
to consider the feasibility or removing the lower 
jaw-bone to arrest the disease; but as tbe cancer 
had doubtless poisoned Ids blood, so that Its re¬ 
appearance was but a question of time, it was de¬ 
termined not to add to the patient’s agony and to 
the mutilation of his face. 
At the test October meeting at New Market tbe 
Duchess of Montrose hada thoroughbred Alderuey 
cow conveyed there to give milk during tbe race 
week. On bring Informed of Its safe arrival, she 
sent word lo Alec Taylor, her husband tbe Duke's 
trainer, to have the cow milked at once; but 
neither Taylor nor Ills head lad was au fait at the 
business. Thereupon the Duchess, who was in the 
midst of her toilet, slipped on a peignoir, and 
going out to the loose horse box In which the cow 
was lodged, performed the operation with the 
skill or the most, experienced milkmaid. 
By all accounts Marshal and Gov. Mauteuffel's 
first Impressions of Mete cannot have been very 
agreeable. On Hie day of his formal entry, the 
streets were almost, deserted. The few persons out 
of doors turned their backs on the procession and 
st udied the shop-windows. The silence was broken 
only by an occasional cry of “Vive la France I” 
At tils hotel, the Marshal found a great pile of let¬ 
ters, that were anything but pleasant reading, lie 
Invited the municipal authorities to dinner; only 
one man, a banker, presented himself. No wonder 
the Marshal lost his temper, tapped his sword, and 
warned the Mete, officials that he would not toler¬ 
ate any intriguing with the foreigner against Ger¬ 
many. 
The audlplioue 1s a newly-invented fan-shaped 
device by which the deaf can hear, by placing the 
end of It against the teeth when tire vibrations 
of tbe air caused by the human voice or any other 
sound, Impinge on the sensitive “drum” of the 
contrivance, anil convey ihe sounds distinctly 
through the auditory nerves. U. s. Khodes, tliu 
inventor, saj B that the first man to use the fan¬ 
shaped Instrument was,Joseph Medlll, the veteran 
editor of the Chicago Tribune. “ I warned him 
that my patents were not yet complete,” said Mr. 
Khodes, “ aud enjoined upon him not to tell any¬ 
body what It was for. lie said he wouldn’t. Ho 
carried It to OaUornla and back, using it as a tin 
and lending it to anybody who wished to take It, 
for tiobody would suspect It had any use except to 
agitate the air. lie attended the Kdltorial con¬ 
vention with It, merely holding It ‘accidentally’ 
against his upper teeth when anybody was speak¬ 
ing.” 
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