New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-14
PERSONAL.

The Esterhazys are still selling their worldly
goods at prices which would make beggars princes They
must enjoy a splendid poverty.
Four gentlemen-A. +. Clough of Warren,
n H., P. B. Cogswen of The Concord Monitor CORE
spondent OF The Boston Journal and Prof Hnntngton-
Mount Washington the sth inst The journey
was far less fstguing than they anticipated.
Holmes and Lowell should hide their dimin-
ished heads The Ssc Orleans Times having pronounced
them only pheasant patterers" 1t treats Bret IIarte
There's nothing like umpire TO settle things
The Boston Post lately printed this erratum
In our report yesterday, Of the address at Horticul
tural Hail. Col Higgnson was made to call MI Murray
ferred to him as promising young clergyman.
President Angel of the University of Yer
mont has accepted the Presidency OF the University OF
Michigan but will enter upon the duties OF the new
pOst until the lat OF August, at the close OF tue os
college year His salary Will be S5o per ahhun Win
house rent
John Bright received an autograph letter
from Queen Victoria expressing her regret at receiving
his resignation a. a member Of the Cabinet, eondong
hope that she may him guest at one Of the
royal palaces
The Rev. w. II. Lord of Montpelier, Vt. (son
OF the late President Lord OF Dartmouth has declined
call to Hartford with offer OF 5000 salary choosing
IN say where he is for 1900 The common sneer that
ministers always esteem offer Of higher salary as
Powder call 10 ehange then residence u'e'
Dion BoucicauIt has awakened the wrath of
the knights Of the sawdust by speaking rreverenty oil
the circus An unpreudced manager" retorts tha' no
one can determine whether play or player Is really
Good or had: hut that anybody knows how flying leap
or backed act il performed ana that
in the arena almost invariably rewarded with broken
neck.
In one OF the London churches-St Martins
in-the Field-are buried side by side Nell Gwynn JACK
Sheppard George Farquhar, and we think earsh sd
don, Few things could more clearly iustra.e ahe
burglar and the fashionable playwright shouIu sieeP
their last sleep IN the same Ded
THE TRIBUNE having given currency 10 the
story that Andrew Jackson Davis has rehounced his be
lief in spirit intercourse and gone back on medumship
and sprtualsm in general It Is only simple Justice 70
say that he has authorLed re Wdye w. |1 t tr"nciy
10 contradict the story He has only come yt s.Ionsiy
against the abuses Of mediumshfp and the errors OF
doctrine adopted by many sPintuallSts'
The American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions says The Boston Journal, viii within
the next few months send Missionaries, follows
The Rev. G. ". Wood D. D.. and Mrs. Wood OF hew-forK
mission at Constantinope; Miss julia A. Sherman. In
Nieomeds The last is now Germany studying the Des
oouesses Houses with reference to their adoption TO her
field; miss Dwight TO Central and Miss Williams TO
Western Turkey; the Rev. o. II. Guliek and wife to
Japan; the Rev. L. ID. Chaplin and wife to North China
These sail the present month In March Ar Teele eX
pects 10 sail for smyrna and at later date. Miss Nye
now completing her medical studies Tor
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aud Miss Emily Fairbanks Ito become MR. 81
the Rev b. g. snow and wife with Mr. Whitney and Miss
Bailey ito become Mrs. W., the Rev. A 5turees ana
Mr. { H. 3 DOane. for Micronesia. Misses shesrman
Sye Dwight and Williams go out under the auspices O
ne Womaf's Hoard OF the a. nye-Mr. Smith, Mr and
Mrs Guick and Misses Dwight aud Fairbanks-are
children OF missionaries, making the number OF mission
ary children of the American BOard who have taken up
the work OF their parents, So
'Van,n the Washington correspondent OF
The Springfield Republican, says ITO tell he truth
I doubt II the House would have given lite hall
70 Mrs. Woodruff, IL no rule had stood in the way
she does not stand very well in this community
Publishing a weekly paper which runs her own name up
the mast head for the Presidency which 30 denoancee
certain before Congress that many people &C
eu.e il OF being in the blackma business advocating
from time 20 time in her paper !he overthrow OF mar
rage publishing articles which seem 70 an At TIE over
throw OF the Bible, IL Is not singular that MIS- VICTORIA
woodruff should not be popular IN or out OF Gongess
or Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker he says; EVERYBODY
sdmires her and her She never oyersteps the
line OF strict proprey whether on the platform or on
Ale ia modest and sensible and she has done more 10
commend the doctrines OF the female sunragists
than dozen Of her associates The only wonder now
abe can associate with the WOodhus and Clanns met
her the other in the Speakers room and was STRUCK
nv her look anxiety and One could see that IN
her heart she is hungry for that beautiful nome OF her
in Hartford and that this life she Ia leading here 10
terrible sacrifice to her"