New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-11-04
PERSONAL.
intelligence.

Gen. Sheridan is going bufftlO hunting on
the plains with divers Ausirians OF most mountainous
President William orion has been seriously
m for TWO weeks With Inflammation Of tie liver lie is
now slowly recovering.
Mr.. Tennyson wrote to Mr.. OsgOOd not long
ago that lie Lad nearly completed poem, and MI Oa-
good is expecting prooi-sheets by the next Lai.
r. II. Ranney, an atheist, was buried i'll Bos-
ton the other day peculiar services Mr. Abbott oil
The IndeT read selections from the Thoughts oil Ah'o
minus"
There is good deal of common sense about
Englshmen. The British POstmaster-G Is sending
the eminent electrician. Mr. W. II. Preece. TO TINS co-
try inspect and report upon inc technical ana Sc'e
tihc Arrangement of our telegraph lines.
Mr.. A. II. Stephens walked three or four miles
the otner day. He longer uses morphine aud mas
sound natural sleep White getting well lie has been
writing for one OF tho cycop&daS Dos?hf5 oi prom
Mr.. Matthew Arnold and Mr.. FrOude some
what resemble each other, both having c,rlOusy long
and harsh and he ugcst and largest mouths IN All
the universe ~ mouths But they nave louS ant pow
Election.
When Lord Dufferin went to a ball at
Reykayk he knew Icelandic and hazarded TO the
young ladies some .te complimentary observation m
that language lend Itself readily to the gaantres OF tie
ballroom"
Behold another talkcT in the field. 1t Is Miss
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, who is going to lecture YeIal
times upon Representative Modern Fiction, before
the College OF Liberal Arts OF Boston University George
Eliot will be dissected in four lectures Representative
modern tcuOn is a large subject.
Mr. Bayard Taylor says he entertains high
regard for the successful gaphst, but cannot md
language sufficiently harsh condemn the wOnid-be
funny writer's whose fun consists in making light OF
the suferiugs Of Others. The practice Of rdlculng
mOthers-in-iaW 10 condemns a bad And tina;
people Win him was shown by the applause that
met this sentence IN Boston the other night
,1.oYl Of
Carolina is said to bo a woman of great beauty and
charm When herfather, Attorney General Ingerso Of
Maine died 1t was necessary that his daughter Alice
should help her mother; 80 they went 10 Washington,
and Mr. IngersolPs OLD tHcnG' senator fess' Old,
tanned treasury post for her. society cared hothhg
for the fact that she worked the modest ANA beautiful
gr was invited everywhere and went AWAY lEe oven
Aerediths heroine. IN the simple muslin dress, which
was the best she could afford.
1t is only in the fair, the feryId Southland that
they 10 through such beautcOus performances a. are
thus related by The Charleston h0rs: Miss Della
Battery representing the state Of Georgia, then came
forward and said: General, please accept this floral
Offering IRON the representative Of Georgia TO our next
ta Ics sm fn GSs io 9t T
kiss upon the brow Of the little South CalOlni n, and
said. taking both OF the hti girls by the hands; thank
you, little ladies, for THESE beautiful flowers. Make II
your highest aim to sGw up aud be az noble and true as
Mr.. Martin Farquhar Upper entered the
greenroOm OF the Philadelphia Academy Of Music on
Thursday evening" and found reporter OF The Phiadc
pAid Tunes Willing away the moments with deeply
bossed and thcky gded volume OF "PrOyerbial Phi
losophy" GOOD evening" said Mr. Upper. removing
his overcoat and giving bis snowy necke little pull
coed evening. Newspaper man, ehf Glad 10 SEQ you
See here now YOU Tell truth about me. Don't you Do
led astray by what these other newspapers have been
saying FELL the truta and shame the devil But
stretching upward several inches ana shaking ms lore
finger Wanngy under the reporters nose, II o" care
anything YOU. Pm free man, and I'm not aliu OF
any body" "Arc there more newspaper men hcIci
continued Topper. Being assured tLat thcre were,
he drew himself baeE and exclaimed Tel them 10 DO
Such at least tue go5slping PHILADELPHIA account,
which II will be perfectly safe 70 take WIN gram OF
two OF allowance.
Mr. Carlyle, says the London correspondent
Of The Hartford C0UyGn receives his visitors in the
little house where he has dwel since coming to
London. No. Cheyuerow, Chelsea, near the famous
hospital founded By Nell Gwynne, and not far from
where Sir Thomas More liyed-Henry Wills great Cham
eeor The street old and dngy ana unatractiye, but
1t is close 10 the Thames and 10 a magnificent bridge,
and TO charming from every side. Mr.. Car
yle's house Is small plain and unpretenous the out
SIDE but full Of manifold charm within. The Afternoon
sun streams In through three small windows IN the draw
ingroom. the patriarch sitting a capacOus
chair In front Of the fireplace and glowing fire. for
London IL la fog and tue day Is cool Ihece book
shelves either side OF the fireplace On the shelves Is
AoOmpete set OF Ruskins works, EmersOns aud some
others OF our Americans holding d conspicuous rank
among them Carlyle Is now very feeble through age,
but his memory "a still marvellous, aud the TOW VI his