From A Recent Issue Of The Detroit Free

Press we copy the íollowing paragraph,- an extract trom a letter trom W. W. Murphy, Esq., formerly United States Cónsul-General at Frankfort, Garmany, to D. B. Hibbard, Esq., of Detroit : Mrs. Brunuow, daughter of Chanoellor Tappan and wife of Dr. F. Brunnow, formerly of Michigan University and late Astronomer Boyal for Ireland, has iiearly completad the translation ot Scheffel's famous poem, entitled "The Trumpeter of Sackingen," aud which has rsached its fiftieth edition in Germany. Scheffel ia poet lauréate of Baden, and nis works are very popular. He has given his approval to the translation. Dr. Brunnow is reslding at present at Basle, in Switzerland. The tianslation will be published in London and New York. In this connection we are happy to be able to say that recent letters received from Mrs. Brunnow contradict the report of her mother's death. Mrs. B. writes that her mother is in lier usual health, aud they caunot account for the origin of the story of her death.