New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-04-17
PERSONAL.

>,.a.,, co,o,t wife Of the Prussian Min
.ter has resided it is said for 30 years IN drt
and. strange TO say, thinks u ONO "
OF cities. 49,, -. Al,
Mory KiIlgore. after being graduated at the
- -, rhor was recently admitted TO the
bar OF Michigan, ana II .Io 49,
yer the state has yet Know"
- sam Houston. has become copious con.
". a. The southern press, with the intention OF
,osEine writing her profession
London letter says that when David
chambers residing in that city, heard Of the death Of
n ,rotber Robert the famous Edinburgh publisher, his
iS ,sas 80 great that he burst boOd-yessel and in
80 than half an hour corpse.
The anticipated change in the management
OF The Atlantic Monthly is authenticity announced.
,ames TclnOr Fields will retire from the edOrshp Of
ne magazine the ls of July, and be succeeded 10y W.
ID. HowellS, AT present assistant editor
The Boston theological journals are Boosting
having lately increased the salary Of the Rev. DR..
orrmer Of the shawmutaye. CHURCH to 5000 year
fashionable clergyman in New-Iork would hardly
now how to sNbsist on such slender income
The high-bOrn DANES of Madrid have made
70 poor young Queen Maria very unhappy by refusing
% recognize her existence She may be their superior
Officially they say but socially no woman can ne ter
The Rev. c. A. Bartol explains concerning
, widelyquoted remark his Father Taylor;
WAS not Theodore Parker but Ralph Waldo Emerson,
whom Taylor said To me he goes To hell IL VIII
ayS The remark itself. You will see, also mis-
u0ted ~ to lose some of its force
The late Alexander Dumas is reputed to he
ne author or rather to have assumed the authorship of
OF less than 900 or 1000 sketches, plays histories,
biographies and novels many of which, however he ana
little more than read in the most hurried manner During
the hight OF his popularity he earned by his own ana Vi
carous literary labor $4,000 10 $4,000 year.
1t was rashly suggested In one OF our maya
Ines some time ago, that it would be delightful thing
so have Tennyson come over here and read his own
poetry-but poets not always their best inter
prefers. TcnnysOns voice is exceedingly grun, ana ms
theory of reading poetry 20 deliver 1t WIN very GreaI
slOwnesS and emphasis. syllable by syllable as scan
ming that ones ina gnatiOn inevitably outstrps the
tardy reader and the process becomes very annoying
Capt. Samuel Barker, who always claimed
to be that fired the rst from Charleston al
the and Stripes floating Sumter is reported
20 have died recently TampicO, Mexico. He had con
stantly asserted that the venerable Ruffn. who de
strOyed himself rather than live under the restored
Union, fired the second instead Of the hrst gun AT h
country flag AS Barker bore the reputation Of an IN
temperate and unIrncpled adventurer his claim TO th
distinguished dishODOr is entitled to much consideration
There is something very charming III The
frankness aud gentleness with which religious sectare
sometimes speak of one another. Thus, for example
The Tablet, d Catholic paper, describes Henry Ware
eecher Booth Of the pulpit, the Burton Of tn
sanctuary and the Dan Rice of Plymouth Church." ant
then adds In short, Mr. Beecher is sometimes Yer!
vulgar positively low" IL is well Tor the politicians tina
Shey before them such examples OF Christian can
courtesy TO shame them out of their dcOuteOu
aud.denuuCidtVTy habits.