New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-09
PERNONAL.
The Rev Phillips Brooks of Boston has been

The Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston has been
elected President OF Kenyon College ONO ana the rus
tees have voted to offer him salary OF $1,000 year
Mr.. Richard OGOrman of this city Is to be
the orator at the OConnc Centennial Celebration OF the
Celtic Association al Auburn ~ Y, on August o. Inc
Hon Francis Herman will be present at the exercises
Mrs. Arthur Arnold has nearly completed a
translation of Castelas Life of Byron which will aI
pear soon She translated the authors Old Rome
and New Italy which published two years ago.
Caspeauxs famous group, " La Danse, which
occupies conspicuous place before the new opera
House at Paris said to be suffering great injury from
tine sooy atmosphere Of the CITY, dn9 SCULPTURE Is
b. the rain on the foul surface.
Prince Gortschakof is proficient in the
French language which he learned under the instruction
Of a Professor named Marat. brother OF the notorious
Marat " the first Republic The Professor inEn M i
name in bad odor he called himself de B0udry
In addition to the gift of $4,000 to Will
hams College the will OF the late Orrn sage of Ware
Mass makes the following public requests To the Ameri-
can Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions 10000
to the American Home Missionary society and american
Missionary Association 5000 each to the Consregl-
tonl society IN bn1ra S do 10 oi tbe East Con
gatOnal society at Ware for parsonage rJUoo 10 he
Wn ~ Normal Institute and Mount IIoyoke Young
Ladies' seminary, $1,000 EACH
The Dowager Queen of Sweden has been
experimenting excavations at Pompe with very bril-
liant results. A chamber opened IN whch number
Of womens ornaments Were found, including a gold
bracelet a pair OF silver earrings. n few coins. ana
various objects which had probably belonged to the
toilet such as small glass uabaster ana Other vases
Near them Law the bronze lock- hasps. ana Setng or
casket in which they had prof. lblT been deposited In
another chamber bcstcad round similar 70 the one
now in the National Museum at Naples, which excited SO
much attention the time Of its discovery; ana in the
same apartment bronze vases were recovered IN a
very perfect condition.
Prof ID. c. Gilman, President of the Johns
Hopkins University Baltimore, sailed from this port on
Wednesday for Europe He Will remain abroad two
months during which he will visit the institutions OF
learning in Great Britain and the Continent Upon
his return the Board of Trustees OF the Hopkins Uni
yersity will devote itself 10 the task OF eecng faculty
for the proposed university and the members OF me
Board will understood. be largely governed by e
recommendations Prof. Gilman. The Board mas pui-
chased a building adjoining the Baltimore City College
and IL proposed begin the studies in tnat building IN
September $40 This will give tine Board sufficient
time 10 elect s faculty and decide upon the grade % the
snyersity ~ well as adopt plan for the university
building at Clifton
ALBANY, July S.-GOv. Tilden is not expected
here for a week yet His health is improving.
MONTREAL, July S.-MOnsgnOr R0ncettl, the
Papal Abegate and suite and the Count and Countess
dc la IsocLefoucald OF Paris are in this city