New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-25
PERSONAL.

Ex-senator FentOn will preside at pubic
meeting to be held at jamestown. N. " on Decoration
| Day.
The Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon has begun
series Of lectures Ecclesiastical Law Deiore 'ne
! senior class OF the Yale Law SCHOOL
| Mr.. Henry w. Longfellow has rented cot
tage in Bryn Maur Montgomery County. Penn, ana VIII
pass the Summer there with his FAMILY
Gen. Montgomery's sword, worn when he
fell at the battle OF Quebec, has been placed In the
library OF the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington
| Va.
The Rev. A. NJ. Randolph of Baltimore has
been elected the chair OF Church History ana canon
Law in the Protestant Episcopal Seminary at Aexan
dria, Va.
Mr.. George Cruikshank is a well preserved
octogenaran He IS "a years OF age, and is still able 10
attend public dinners and make speeches, though ne
never drinks anything Dut water
Two members of the staff of Gen. Jackson.
who were present at the battle OF Neworieans now re-
aide ut Carroton Ky. They Major Thomas Butter,
81 years old and Gen. VIM. .. Butler 80 years Old
The celebration of the centenary OF the
deaths Of yoltaire and Rousseau is being warmly dls
cussed by the papers OF Paris rome suvoCsau6 """0
others donounce it as an irreiSious demonstration
Dr. Schliemann writes that he has just OBJ
tanned new rman for two years for Troy and was 10
proceed there on May to build some frame houses 50
to be able to continue the EXCAVATIONS py 'no ~i'
inst.
Charles Dudley Warner and wife. who are
at present in London will sail from Liverpool for New
York June %. Samson Low & Co.. the London publish
ers ia press Mr. Warmers Latest work. when WI" NC
Issued soon
JOAQUIN Miller has accepted an invitation to
deliver a poem at the Dartmouth College Commence
mont Ex-Gov Chamberlain OF Maine has been invited
to deliver Grafton before the United Literary soce
ties on the same OCCASION
The wife of Ole Bull sailed from New-YOrk
recently TO Join her husband at his home In Norway
HAL aen In his through
Europe and Egypt Mrs Bull has been residing with her
parents this country. and spending her lelsare time IN
tTaDsatiDg Norwegian novel when VIII s1on w pD
shed In Chicago Tney expect to return 10 TINS country
In the Autumn.
President Robinson of Brown University, In
a sermon preached in the First Unitarian Church OF
Providence recently argued that religion Ike the phys
cal world had its epOchs and revolutions ana that TUE
present movement, though blOOdess u deeper dn
significant than any preceding one; s mat th Chris
tan religion more firmly established III inc WORTH 'na
The monument to be erected by Mr. James
Lick the California phlanthrOpist, In FfedercKsOurg,
Lebanon County, Penn will be executed by Mr. Charles
Reed OF Canada IL will be composed OF Scotch granite
and will be ornamented with nine statues 81 OF Wnlch
will DC life size. and will embrace Contnental s1iuer
Hope Fh and Religion. etc. and the top 10 De c5pped
by the Goddess Of Liberty, holding In her hand the
American flag. Mr.. Lick has appropriated s2ooooior
the monument.
Mr.. Gladstone continues his alternating labors
with the pen and the fortnight ago he completed
a paper on Modern Religious Thought which VIII APP
pear The Contemporary Rere'o for June after which
he act 10 work and down beech tree the trdnk OF
which measured thirteen feet In circumference. This
task he pishcd IN less than six hours ana accord
ing the opinion OF professional woodcqtLers IN 4
thoroughly wOrkmanlike manner Inc trunk cohtalheu
over 200 cubic feet and weighed nearly nine tons.
News has been received in England from
Col Gordon on the Upper Nile down the 10Th OF Feb
ruary He had then just returned from ,the frontiers
Of Kaba Rega's kingdom-Bakers old enemy Tho chief
took To flight the approach OF Gordons small force,
and tho TuglIsb officer was able t. plant garrison
Urondogan and at Magungo taking formal possession
OF both akes-the Victoria aud tue Abert-n Tue nahc
and two sailing vessels afoat Albert Syanzl, but he
would be unable embark himself as he intended 10 de-
scend the Nile to Cairo IN the Autumn.
Ernst Won Bandel, the aged sculptor, to whose
unfaggug exertons the erection of the Hermann monu
ment in the Teutoburg forest Is due, is going to Italy
During his stay Southern Germany he received many
proofs Of public sympathy and recognition AT present
he resides near the Lake OF Geneva, whence he VIII
go Carrara, whore number OF parity hnShed parity
unfinished work. oi his are preserved. lie means 10
bring them back TO Germany, in order to collect them IN
museum. together with some OF the sculptures OF ms
son Heinrich Won Blnde who died in England The
aged patriotic has entered his 18th year. but OF
remarsaGs bodily ana cH b yasH d He us is
occupied also with writing his memoirs
Dean Stanley sent the following letter to the
Lower House OF Couyocation England in reply
address of sympathy with him In his late bereavement
Accept for yourself and for those kind friends in the
Lower House Of Couyocaon who have signed the touch
ing address that | have just received. my heartfelt
thanks You and they know well and appreciated truly
the grace and the JOY which has left this house for
ever but which will, trust, also forever be associated
with t i'm the memory of the last twelve years That
such light may have shone upon it In vain is my
humble hope and consolation once more thanking You
nave ever experienced at your hands which
expression OF sympathy is but the crownng example.
remain yours very faithfully