New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-10
PERSONAL.

DOr6 has completed series of Illustrations
of Colerdge's Ancient Mariner"
Mrs. Polly Jerome, New-London's oldest
nhabitant"is % years old aud has - descendants.
The Hon. David A. Wells will preside at the
approaching annual meeting Of the American SOCIAL
Science Association ia Boston.
Mark Twain has been so haraSsed by the
"holsecnr poetry" which started in THE IRIDuNt AMI
had long with variations In tho press OF the country
that ne has written an article about At IN the forthcoming
Atlantic
Mr. Henry Irving, the London actor, has sued
the publishers OF the comic paper Fun for libel because
Of article describing his representations az degoa,
Kiug, since they had "cauOnIzed the cutthioat -hd
";Isstssiuated the assassin"
Prof. Swing was offered the editorship OF
The Idependent week. The Chicago Tribune has good
authority for saying bat though the tempt
Jug his grIents with the church were such mat
lac could not think oI accepting.
President Seelye has made public statement
Of tine financial condition Of the now female college at
Sorthampton Mass. Tho trustees have thus far made
the income derived from the 1857 46S gift OF Miss Sophia
smith and the $4,000 contributed by Northampton
cover the buildings aud current expenses 80 tlat inc
original total OF SIl2.I6s remains snbst naly intact;
and they now estimate their productive funds ANA iea
estan AT rJ21,OOJ
Mr. Charles Dudley Warner says of the Ger
mans: They gross feeders; OF course You do not
expect In travelling. to the best specimens OF ma
lions breeding but the German reputation for boorish-
ness "a universal Notwithstanding the acknowledged i'm
movement IN anucrs which more raNe ana Intercourse
with polished nations have produo since the war
mans handling their knives III the most dangerous
fashion"
lanes Blanchard, the precocious little repro
bate who has been personatins Charley Rosa NJ st.
Albon. received A grand ovation when lie reached ms
home I'm Milford Oh Friday. correspondent OF The
Surngfcld Republican thus describes 1t The streets
crowded and his weeping mother elspe tno ' 49,.
liar her bosom, ana prom ca not To mp mn mn iic
dropped tear or two himself but, on me NhOlc Wls
comfortably happy especially as his 81 hlOahs Aeope''
Mr. Rugs wants 10 adopt hlln.'
Mr. Bronson Alc0tt read paper in Bos-
ton last eek on Personal Purity in which he SAID he
coud conceive of life that would lead down TO that OF
the ape incompetence aud IT'D attendant evils, and Vice
IN various forms, lead downward To condition htte II
any better than that OF the ape Thus could be seen te
effect Of vice on the countenauce. Impure literature was
.applng the life OF young men In oden times nohers
made practice OF reading books before tlty we're pun
int the hands Of their children 1t was not SAFE To alV"
the young to read all that was p1t IN 1ae
the attainment OF personal piity 10 PA't's -
which was religion. Parents, IN requiring obedience OF
their children, should do SO ~ example ana klness
Oftcnmes thu parent needed puhiS imehl AZ MUCK IS
tine child
Walter Burlingame, n younger son of tie
late Minister Burngame, reported wounded by the
dynamite explosion at Bremerhayen, and afterwards his
mama appeared on the list OF killed Both reports
entirely erroneous although 1t is trae that he dd receive
severe Injuries by accident occurring ABOUT the same
lime He intended sail the Mosel Shortly before
the explosion however, he was making an excursion To
Detmod when the horses he driving took fright as
passing tram, and throw the carriage down AL eDank
ment He taken TO Bremen MS soon as possible Tor
treatment Meantime the dynamite explosion had oc-
CURED and those collecting the names hhdng ms name
on the passenger list OF the Mose, aud nndlnK Nun also
Wounded naturally placed him In the list OF the dynamite
victims. out OF danger although his complete
recovery may yet require some months His mothef ana
sister sailed In the Celtic Saturday ~ join hin
LUCKNOW, Jan. 8.-While the Prince OF Wales
nig-z
day Lord Darlington met with accident by which his
cullsr bone was broken.