New-York tribune., 1872-07-05
PERSONAL.

1t is intimated that Rosa Donheur cOntem-
plates making visit to America
Prince Alfred has become a member of tho
orchestra Of the Cvil Service Musical Society.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is mentioned as
intending to pass the Summer at Hampton Beach
A marble bust of the Prince of Wales is TO
be placed in the Town Hall OF Truro in Wales
Madame Arabella Goddard goes to Newport
next week. and will give q couple OF concerts there.
Nile. Therese Meissonicr, daughter Of the
artist. lately marred. at Nice, Capt Mecquct.
Sir Edward Thornton. tho British Minister,
aud lis family, ct Newburyport Mass, for tho SUM
mer.
Mrs. Stowe, il is announced in n current
item, will give public readings in HeSHaycn. next
Autumn.
DR.. Ebenezer Alden Of Randolph. Mass, age
a. claims to be tho oldest singer OF the Jubilee chorus
at Boston -----
Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. IIall-namcs well known
IN modern magazine tcraturo-haye been quite i'll with
bronchitis. 1ss.-
Miss S. A. Brock has not gone to Europe,
lately stated, but remains in Now-YoIk, and works
with her pen.
Thalbergs widow has subscribed literally TO
the fund the relief of the sufferers by the Late erup
uOn of Vcsuvius.
Mr.. Appleton, an American resident of Swiiz-
crland has been appointed Professor OF French law at
the University of Bcrnc.
Earl Stanhope has been elected member OF
the Paris Academy Of Moral and Political Sciences.
cecdng the late Mr. Grotc
Henry n. Hudson, the well known Shake
spcarean scholar and critic will address tic literary
cieties of Middlebury College.
Louis Napoleon purposes to spend the month
of July at Krankenhei Bavaria,-tho Bayarian Gov
ernment making no objection.
The sons of the late Isaac Platt Of The
Pougheepsie Edgis have bought that journal from the
estate, and will continue its publication
Now that DIR. Livingstone has been found,
says Euery Saturday, could not arrangement bc
made 10 prevent him from getting lost again
The Queen of England spoke of the death
OF Dr. Norman Mcleod late the editor OF Good Words,
as " an irretrevable public and private lose"
NJ Saville, whose horse won the grand prize
at the recent Paris races has given 10000 francs to be
distributed among destitute persons In that city.
Among the numerous birds of passage that
have flown over seas this Summer is Mr. Larry Bardon,
many years the dOOrkeeper at Walacks Theater
Miss Babcock, the daughter of the pastor OF
Warren-st chapel Boston, delivered her first
that place-she also having become miniSter-last
Sunday.
Senator Sprague lately offered to Brown
University ten acres Of valuable land in Providence,
r. L. for a college site, if the University will agree
TO occupy it,
A Boston paper remarks that the participa-
ton of hr Henry Clews and his associates, from New
York In the late Jubilee Ball. added much TO the success
OF tho OCCASION,
Paragraphs about Lord Lytton are once
more rife. is very old; eats great deal of opium
is very deaf; wheezes and drawls in his talk and looks
like an elegant fragile automatOn
1t has been suggested that the women of
America, who have benefited by tho sewingmachne.
should contribute toward the erection OF monument in
Central Park, 10 the late Elias Howe, lr.
Senator Frelinghuysen has been kind enough
70 state the students Of Princeton College that he
does not sympathize with Darwin in his peculiar views.
This, for Darwin, is distressing intelligence.
Mention is made, in fashionable gossip, Of
recent call by the Prince Of Wales Mrs Johnston at
Paris This lady, when Miss Harriet Tane Presided az
the White House,-Bucbanan being President
Prof. Romeyn, the geOlOgist on a late ex-
ploring trip in the Lake Superior country found man
who had been lost in the woods since May SO and had
given up to die. He could hardly speak OF move
Mr.. Writ Skies and his wife (Aliss Olive
Iogan) have returned NewYork after long tour OF
the South and West Two OF Mrs. Skies have died
within the past year-Mrs George Wood, known to the
stage Eliza Logan, and Miss Grace Logan
A late Long Branch item informs an admir-
ing public that Gen. Grants turnout presented to him
by Tom Murphy and others, excited considerable atten
tion" His other turnout 10 be presented to him next
Fall by the Liberal Republicans and Others will excite
more.
A rogue. who has been masquerading under
various Names took that Of Bancroft and "pamed him
self off," several years ago, Madame Muhlbach, the
novelist the American HISTORIAN, saying that lie IN
tended TO be married 10 Mile. Meyerbeer. Hence Var-
GUS idle smalltalk about famous parsonage.
Under the head of "merit rewarded" The
london Era says: "The Hon. Judge Dowlng, who
shortly visits England, in 1850 common policeman
in New-York Now he is Judge of the Special Sessions
there and one the most popular and hOnOred men III
the United states. AS detective, he was IA times Sc
yerely wounded"
The 81. Louis Times records the death in that
city, on the 2sth u OF sae Roberts, coored at the age
OF O7 years. says she for many years the chief
house servant In the family of President Madison This
Is long stop the neurology OF presidentia service
Hitherto these aged and remarkable coIoieu pereOnS
have all been servants OF Gen washington
Among the American officers who, two years
ago. entered the service of the Khedve was Col Van
derbilt Allen, OF Mr. ID. b. Allen, and grandson
OF Commodore Vanderbilt. On his recent retirement
from the Egyptian service he received from the hheuve
Of the Meddie rst It is believed, which has been
bestowed on an American otieer'
Thomas Crabbe, Rear Admiral in the United
States Navy with which he had been connected over Cd
died at his residence Princeton, n j. last Sat
rdav ace a. He was horn I'm Maryland in 1885, and af
terward removed to Pennsylvania from which sate ne
entered the Naval @ ~ m lax had charge Of various
foreign sauadrOns In 1862 he was made Commodore,
and in 1866 Rear Admiral.
The story of a Toledo blade is told as fol-
lows in Toledo paper "Gen Joseph W. Brown, for
erv of Toledo and of Cleveland has received the
sword won by his brother Gen. Jacob Brown, at the
hattie of Saokett's IarbOr, In 1873. Immediately aier
tbe battle Gen Brown took OF his sword ana presented
10 Capt Samuel McNitt, In compliment 10 me bravery
of the CAPTAIN and his men in the desperate enSate
ment Capt McNt, at his death eft the sword LOT the
rst ION who should receive commission IN the military
service who proved to be Samuel who In 1870 thllhDg
the sword should he with the family OF us
bearer forwarded IL TO Gen. Joseph W. Brown. Inc
sword Is an old-fashoned one, having leaher seaD.
berd brass mounted ordinary military sword OF that
dar ior general officer IL made In England, ana
nIocured by Gen Jacob Brown before the war OF s2 W
Montreal It is the intention OF Gen. Brown 10 present
10 fha Higfplpal
York"
DEATH OF AN EDITOR.
CISCINNA1I, July 4.-Wm. Smith, editor OF