New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-08-26
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Ex-senator Schurz was at last accounts in
switzerland.
Ex-senator John p. Stockton will soon re-
sumo the practice of the law at Trenton where he will
reside.
Prof Perry of Williams College sailed for
homo on Saturday last Prot Gibson OF the same col
iege expects to remain abroad another year
Secretary Belknap is receiving cordial well
come from the citizens OF Montana he being the first
Cabinet officer vino has paid visit to that Territory.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman has taken up her rcsi-
dence Highland Park the lake shore north OF chi
cago during the tour OF the General 10 the racine sop@
The Hon. John Jay will address the Society
of Agriculture Horticulture OF Westchester County
at their annual Fair, at White Plains, ON Thursday,
Sept 9.
Bishop Nicely Of Maine proposes to build an
Ppseopal church at Bar Harbor 1t will be supplied by
elergymen visiting the island during the summer
months
The Hon. ]. Russell Jones, late United States
Minister Belgium, gays that, while his salary was
IS 900 year. 1t never him loss than $4,000 year
to live in Brussels.
Prof. DeGomme has resigned his professor
ship at Seton Hall College South Orange and sailed
for Europe being succeeded by the Rev. NJ j. Brennan
who ordained at Rome last May
Monsgneur Dupanloup who, it is rumored,
will be created cardinal rises at O'Clock Summer
and Winter He frugal INDUCES in wine, aud is
gwen TO boundess charity. Inc Character OF oI'nop
Myrel in "Ies Miserabes" 1t is said nts him without
wrinkle
A bust of the late Gen. George E. Pickett
by tho sculptor Valentine Of Richmond. Va Is nearly
completed and is said TO he work of great merit The
same artist has finished bust OF Gen William Ma
hone for number Of hs old soldiers, BY whom it will be
placed In tho Virginia State Library.
Mr.. GOttlieb +. Burkhardt. benevolent gem
t,eman OF Boston, purchased the once famous Brook
Farm few years ago, and has since added to some ad
Ioning property He has donated the whole to the
Germsl Lutheran Church. to be used partly as an Or
pLan Is home and parity as cemetery.
NJ analogy
House of Commons for tie Of unpaIiamenary Ian
gusgc recalls a similar incident u the life Of Lord North
1t related OF him that III one OF the debates on the
American war In 1852, he violently attacked by u
member Of the House who called him the "scourge OF
an. countrv ybereupop losing his temper for once, he
was retortnr that he had used from that quarter
" Language unciyil brutal he might say so nso-
ient~" when he was stopped short and ordered to
MAKE an apology not only the House bat to the menu
Der personally. His loriship replied that he was ready
10 ask pardon Of the House, but Of the member new
After tlmult OF over three hours however. he had TO
submit powerful he was. to even this humiliation
The members of the Geographical Congress
during their stay in Paris made trip through the
famous sewers Of that city The trip i. an interesting
one and unattended with the disagreeable trials which
naturally suggest Themselves The are lighted
with Oil lamps and bear the of the corresponding
streets above white and blue enameled letters so that
he ransnen always know where they are The yoyago Is
divided parts by rai and the other by wafer
Half of the distance made in little railway cars
beautifully polished and lit up with oil lamps and globes
drain which you ride and wiicb are drawn by men
on either side The other half ia made in barges also
elegantly lighted and towed by Tho most trying
feature Of the voyage the want of air but beyond ts
there nothing that the ordinary tourist OF both sexes
cannot support without the aid OF counteactnS rene
dies The trip lasts about half an hour ana IL sisht 10
b. seen by all foreigners.
OF the late Mr.. William Bayle Bernard The
London Acadeny has this aprrecative notice; " Those
who have laughed at The Nervous Man. The
Mummy The Boarding School, His Last Legs
and many other OF Bayle Bcrnard's betterknown
farces will feel they have not heretofore felt some
thing OF thankfuncss to who has afforded them such
pleasant recreation amid the stern realities OF everyday
life. His Keen sense OF humOr, geniality and warm
hearedness made him most agreeable companion ana
HE industry and Intelligence were sucn that ha1 ne
labOred from the FIRST moro AMBITIOUS sphere ne
might well have achieved high literary reputation lie
especially fortunate IN the delineation OF Irish pccu
lsrities Marino Faliero' adapted and modified rom
Lord Byron and CasEiir DelayiRnc, and version OF
Goethe's Faust among the latest OF Mr. BcrIlard's
writings for the stage aud eyace both taste and power
In the higher order of dramatic literature Last year he
published Biography OF samuel Lover, which. how
ever meager the materials at his disposal could not but
do credit TO tie head and heart OF its author"