Sires And Sons

SIRES AND SONS.

John N. Jewett has been re-elected president of the Chicago Historical society.

George Vanderbilt is making preparations for a voyage up the Nile in January. He will proceed as far as it is possible to go with safety.

B. W. Harris, judge of probate for Plymouth county, Mass., eighty years of age, is still on the bench. He was a classmate of Senator hoar.

J. W. Lamar, who claimed to be the last surviving schoolmate of Abraham Lincoln, has just died in Buffaloville, Ind., at the age of eighty-five.

General De Wet has undergone at Bloemfontein an operation for one of his fingers, from which he had suffered long. A piece of diseased bone was successfully removed.

Warner Miller, former United States senator from New York, will present to the town of Herkimer a bronze statue of General Nicholas Herkimer, after whom the place is named.

Representative Nehemiah D. Sperry of the Second Connecticut district is the father of the house in point of years, being seventy-five years of age. He is one of the founders of the Republican party and was secretary of the Republican national committee during Lincoln's administration.

Captain Amos A. F. Noyes of Maine is the oldest Grand Army main in the state. He was first appointed a captain in the militia in 1839 and served in the Aroostook war. He enlisted in the civil war in 1861, and at one time, during the illness of the colonel of the regiment (the Thirty-second), he was in command. He is ninety-one years of age.