It has been offered at a low figure, not
ovr ss.uuu.
MEN AM) WOMEN.
The fact that Mr. aud. Mrs. Ira Ward
of New llaveu, Couu., have recently
bra d the 75th anniversary of their
wedding calls to mind that they have
had ten children, and that they now
count 17 grandchildren aud I*4 great
grandchildren to eh; er them in their
ripe old age.
Mrs. McKee will be presiding lady
of the white house until the expiration
of the president's term.
Capt. llline, whose death has just, been
reported from Russia, commanded “the
terrible battery” which made suck
havoc at Sebastopol, Tolstoi has immor
talized this battery in his work ou the
operations in that siege.
Dr. J. C. Hepburn and wife are in
Sau Francisco after .‘>d years mission- ,
ary work in Japan. Mrs. H< pbum was
the first while woman to enter that
Country. j
Hr. McCormick, foreign commissioner
of the world’s Columbian exposition in
London, has resigned his post, owing
to the ill-health of his wife, with whom
he has In ou obliged to remain on the
continent during this fall.
Con, Butler must pay the C. F.
J' wett Publishing company $2,500 with
two years’ interest added for breach of
Ids contract to let the company publish
his book. Judge Holmes so and chics in
an opinion just filed iu the office of the
clerk of the Suffolk county. Mass., su
preme judicial court.
Charles Dickens’ old homo et 20 U el
liugton street, strand, in London, will
soon be a thing of the past, as it is to
be remodeled for business purposes. It
was there that the novelist lived while
he edited All the Yar ’Round and
Household Words, and where he wrote
many of his novels.
