New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-17
PERSONAL.

Sir Garnet Wolseley, who commanded the re-
cent expedition against the Ahantees, received with
great enthusiasm his arrival at Port Natal Last month
President Eliot, not satisfied with intro
ducing military exercises at Harvard, has headed petit
ton for similar innovation i'll the Cambridge High
School.
The only gold medal of President Washing
ton Of 1870 in existence in this country exhb
tied at the last meeting of the Massachusetts, Historical
Society.
Prof. C. P. Langley of the Allegheny OBJ
servatory given complimentary dinner at Pitts
burgh by large number OF prominent citizens on Fri
day evening as recognition OF his eminent services to
science.
Mrs Julia Ward Howe figures rather sadly
as punster In her last letter in The Womdns Journal
She eulogzes Maria Mitchell as one "who processes
ASTRONOMY, but practices charity No glitterinS Saturn
particular she a." The italics are Mrs. Howe's own
Ex-GOv. r. G. Powers of Mississippi is not
overw helmngy impressed with tho probity of the
age juryman. H. foreman OF the Grand Jury OF
Noxubee County recently, and after finding an unusually
large number OF true bills for larceny the jury adjourned
After they had gOne Mr. Powers examined his pockets
and found that OF them had relieved him OF purse
containing 40.
TOpsfeld, Maine, is very appropriately the
homo OF the talest In NcwEngland. He is six feet
eight inches high, and his name is Charles H. Holmes
He was many years Representative and Senator in
Congress during the Adninistraton OF rresdsns Mad
member OF the firm OF John Holmes, James MaJison
Felix Grundy, and the Devil"
The late James Root Of Hartford left over
$4,000 in public requests to charitable institutions. OF
this amount S25 900 given in trust to the Connect
cut Home Mission Society for the OF poor and de-
cayed ministers and their families OF the Congregational
order having charge settlement, the annual in
terest only be used and distributed in sums not ex
cecdng $500 year to one minister or family.
The next Centennial Celebration in Boston,
after that of Bunker Ill., will DO July 3, the anniyer
sary of Washington's taking the command OF the army
The committee appointed to decide upon the matter
port that opinion II should be more local in its
scopc and intellectual in it's aim than was the case vi
Lexington and Concord or than will be at Bunker Hill"
The Intellectual part Of that opinion Is not calculated
to excite the most amiable feelings.
DIR. Elliott Coues and Mr.. j. A. Allen are
engaged upon treatise the Rodentia of the world,
which will be published under the auspices OF the United
States Geological Survey and deposited in the Smith
sonian Institution. Dr. COueS has contributed important
papers MICE during the past year to the Proceedings
the Philadelphia Academy OF Scicnces ana Mr. Allen
able studies of squirrels rabbits and beavers nearly
ready for publication The treatise will be an important
addition To the excellent works on our fauna and hora
which Prof Hayden IL rapidly publishing, ana Tor which
he is receiving the thanks of all naturalists
ROME, May 16.-Cardinal Cullen has arrived
here from Dublin.
WASHINGTON, May 16.-GOv. Thayer of
Wyoming Territory is in Washington.
VIENNA, May 16.-Mr. GOdlove S. Orth, the
new American Minister, has reached here
WASHINGTON, May 16.-Jesse D. Bright ex-