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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1373, 26 February 1912, Page 7

' Eer. Joseph Hopkins Twichell, the pastor of "Mark Twain," and ouo of his most intimate friends, has announced his intention of retiring from the active ministry in July next. He will then have completed the seventy-fourth year of his ago, and the forty-seventh year of his pastorate of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut. Beforo going to.Hartford Mr. Twichell had served as an army chaplain throughout the Civil War. He is the author of a life of John Winthrop and of a volume entitled "Some Old Puritan Love Letters," containing tho correspondence of , John and Margaret 'Winthrop. It was upon Mr. Titichell that the humorist perpetrated one of his most historic joke?. That was a fine sermon of yours this morning, pastor, said Mark, but I have every word of it in a took at home. The minister, arfuisl at the sngßPstion of plagiarism, protested that that was iin possible. An hour later he received from Murk Twain a copy of the Imperial Dictionary. Mr. "\V. M. Halley, well known in sporting'' circles, and formerly of the Marquis of Xormanby Hotel, Cartertou, ha« taken over the Clarendon Hotel, PβN merston Xorth—the fine three-storied iirick' building situated in the midst of the business portion of the town, The Clarendon Hotel is especially fitted up for Iho convenience of the travelling public. It is artistically and comfortably furnished, possesses handsome suite l ; of rooms Miil bedrooms and the fact that the table is under the special supervision of .Mrs. Ilalli'y is •'< (,'iiariiiilCM! a* to tin , manner in H-liii'li that iniportniil part uf lintel management-will I* maintained. Dalgel.v and Co.. lid., nil/ hold n ,-lm:k salt! at Levin on March 1. Further particulars will lie found mi iiunllii-r pujji- of this issue. Durijis Ihe prevalaiicc of u ilcii-c Inj; nl Burrbii-on-Treiit, n Midland Railway Mgiialmini mimed I-'rank Tin-kfi' stepped from In*' box- on tn (lik ni';Uil~ nntl wn? knocked down by nu enninc. Ue was instantlv killed.