New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-02-22
PERSONAL.

Prince Albert of Prussia is to be married on
the 18th Of April.
Mr.. Edmund Yates will return to England
on the 18th OF March.
Mr.. Chauncey Rose has given $4,000 to Wa
bash College. Indiana.
Two descendants of GenghiS Khan are Off
GERS IN the Russian army.
Mr. John b. Cough, the temperance lecturer
was born in Kent England, in 1917.
Mr. Charles Linden Of Buffalo will shortly
make a scientific exploration Of Brazil.
Gen. Butler is not alone in the opinion that
"this is a bad year for the righteous"
King Oscar of Norway and Sweden is to be
crowned at stockholm on the 3lst of May.
Mr. A. Il. Stewart, it is stated will open a
dry goods house at Saratoga, this Summer.
Gen. Gilmore is experimenting the i'm
provement Of the harbor OF Charleston, 3. c.
Money sent to Ispahan, Persia, by the wealthy
London Jew, Sir Moses Montedore saved 1000 lives.
Mr. p. S. Gilmore wishes, it Is said, to be
made BandmasterG General of the United States Army.
The oldest printer in Boston who stands
daily at the case is Mr. g. W Bazn aged upward Of So
The Rev. W. f. Smith, formerly of Brook
Ign. n y will start a newspaper at Yokohama Japan
The oldest man in the House of Representa-
rvcs il said to be Alyah Crocker OF Massachusetts,
asod7l.
The Hon. A. C. Wilder, Mayor Of ROches-
ter has presented bust of Seward to the Ahcn9um Of
that city.
Mr.. G. Smith of the British Museum will
visit the East, to make an exploration OF the valley Of
the ngris.
Lady Burdctt Coats supports sewing
school Of POO pupils spitalhelds, aud nighschool in
ShOreditch
There is rumOr ahoat-probably un-
founded-that the poet Browning intends to visit this
country soon.
Miss Annie News has begun the practice of
medicine at Newport, Il. 1. She Is a graduate OF the
Michigan University.
John Albert Bright, son of John Bright,
made his first political speech short time since to The
electors OF ROchdale.
A statement of the pedigree of the leading
families OF Lancashire, England, ills large quarto
volume, lately announced.
The newly appointed Roman Catholic Bishop
of Newark the Rev Dr. NJ a. CJrrgan Is the youngest
Bishop in the United States
The Princess of Wales has, it is said en-
trey recovered from the disease OF the kneejOnt with
which she 50 long afflicted.
Mr. N. p. Langford has made three explOra-
ops Of the Yellowstone REGION and has gathered valua
bic knowledge as to its geysers. etc.
Mr. Joaquin Miller, it is announced, is writ
Ing poem entitled. "By the shutdown Seas which
viii be published IN London next Fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bierstadt are in San
Grand Hotel, by the Twentieth Infantry Band.
1t is suggested that the Republic ought to
buy the compass and chain which Abraham Lincoln used
when he in 1885, ana keep them relics
Louis Napoleon died at 1915 a. m.-the exact
minute when the great clock Of the Tuleries stopped,
after the palace had been fred by the Communist nsur
gents.
The London Tines is consolcd to know that,
with reference to his last roye the late Lord LyttOn
had himself expressed the very highest opinion Of its
merits"
The Row. H. J. Bruce of Ware, Mass, for
merry missionary to India, has presented collection
of 200 native India birds u the city museum at Spring
field, IN that state.
The death is recorded of Mr.. William Drys-
dale known 20 travellers in the West Captain Bill"
who kept a "bachelor hotel" called "The Hole in the
Wall" at Biloxi, Mississippi
KEYS poem of the "Star Spangled Banner y
was originally act up" for The baltimore American
from the authors MS. in 1914, by Samuel Sands, now
editor OF The American Farmer.
The founders of Montgomery, Alabama, were
Andrew Dexter. John Falconer, and John Scott. The
,fontgop1eru state Journal suggests the erection Of
monument commemorative OF them in that city.
The sword of "Mad Anthony Wayne of
Revolutionary fame is preserved at Wilmington, Del,
being the property of Mr.. W. II. NaG II is straight
light blade ina leather scabDard, which Is aud
looks the worse for wear.
W. w. Flye of Camden, Knox County, Me-,
made out Of his flock tof poultry last year $l35 50
cost Of s51 TO- leaving profit OF s5 70 and this he did
Notwithstanding the state pays nothing for Che desrc
t4On Of foxes.
The chief of the Apache Indians is thus de-
scriDed: COChise is about six feet high; shoulders
slightly rounded by age features quite regular head
large and wellproportoned countenance rather sad;
hair long and black, with gray ntermiXed; face
smooth the beard pulled out with pncers as Is the
tom with Indians.
Mr. James Hamilton, an artist in Philadel-
pha who gave OF his pictures TO Dickens, when the
novelist here received set OF the great authors
works inscribed thus: "Gads Hillplace Higham by
Rochester Kent, Monday, twenty -tftl May 1863. To
Mr. James Hamilton, tins set OF my books with thanks
and regards. Charles Dickens"
A bracelet of diamonds with a lOcket con-
tanning portrait of the late Earl Of Mayo was lately
presented the Countess of Mayo. Tie inscription e1
plains the gift Presented Blanche Julia Countess
OF MAYO by 23 Irish ladies' as token OF their admira
deep sympathy with his widow IN her bereavement
The Rondom Freeman says "Mr. Samuel
Williams, the Oldest printer in the country hereabOuts
walked into Office on Monday, spry as Il cricket
and set 900 ems for the Greeley monument He ia "a
years old, and started The bennington Aecs Letter in
1872 and after serving on The Albany ArguS five
hours, which doing well for man Of his age"
The current death list names Edwin Wee
den the English marine artist; f. q. Smith Of Phila
dephia aged 10 years soldier in the of 1912; g. A.
Clark OF Newark, N. j., the weknown cotton-thread
maker, leaving estate valued at SJ,OO1OO0; James
Robinson the once famous English horse Jockey; Capt
Bashaw of Detroit for 80 years mariner Of the great
lakes Edgar Irving Of NewY0rk aud Col. W. L. Dodge
OF Syracuse. nephews OF Washington Irving.
A correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, writing
from Carson, New. gives biographical sketch OF the
newly rejected Senator from that State, j. r. Jones. IL
seems that he has risen from poverty to wealth Is
ex Californian, aud that his election cost somebody
s75oOoo Tho light lasted year, and Is described as
very picturesque and ntcreating; how much tho pie
turesqeuess cost and how much II cost to get the Hon.
lanes w Nye of the track Is not stated Jones h. said
tD be the anti Monopoly canddate;" probably there 10
sOine suDslo s.aIcasul IA the term.