New-York tribune., 1876-10-11
PERSONAL.

Gov. Hayes has been gathering collection
OF historical books relating to Vermont
The Rev. Henry NJ. Field and Miss Dwight
are to be married at stockbrdge next month.
The Athens of America, the home of the
Arts the abode the and things is to be emil
vened all Winter by that beaming parsonage Mr Ole
Bull
This witticism, ascribed to Robert COllyer,
concerning the plant applicable to other things
ms always just going taste like oysters, but it never
does"
The Rev. w. II. II. Murray modestly proposes
to DO for the Adirondack region what Mr. Bret Hare has
done for California. He has gone into these woods for
seven years and proposes no" TO write series oi stores
or legends connected with then
The Connecticut authorities have made a
formal contract with Rogers the sculptor for statue to
De placed atop beautiful state House at Hart
ford ana have agreed To him az SO much per foot or
the gure How beautiful Is TINS exhibition OF artistic
progress!
When Charles Dickens was in this country
the last time and witty American. IN the course
Of a long talk confessed hearty admiration for the
.Tae of Two Cities" asserting that II was. in hs opn-
Dickens, frankly, " think 80, too
That George Eliot "has funny fondness
To- drowning her heroes and heroncs" Is the profound
obsery alton OF The Boston Courier There IS poor Maggie.
and here /, Grlndcourt and Romola and Tito barely
escaped their fate And Mlrah-happily literature did
not lose too that " piece of tender air"
Mr. Charles Francis Adams is not at present
IN as serene and lofty state OF mind as his friends could
wish lie has written TO the city Clerk Of Taunton,
Mass 10 complain Of municipal discouftesy shown in
aver DE made many alterations IN the proof that
they could not do the work sooner.
Charles Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant, while
ecrug in an English town the other night were inter
runtcd by persons in the audience. Mr.. Bradlaugh
utmard at the next man doing IL should be put out,
wlrrruuon "a local tradcsman dared hun" Down came
Bradlaugh from the platform and the subsequent pro
cccdugs painfully interesting TO the local trades
man.
When 80 or 100 Centennial visitors accumu-
late in the antc-room at the White House they are per
mitted 10 20 in a body to the President. He has
always received his countless callers without complaint
nut since hs latest rrtun 10 Washington hc Is said 10
wear a more good-humored air aud the shake OF his
hand is uoFs cordial. lie receives MS business ana
tii, calls between those OF the Centennial visitors,
VINO are admitted every 10 or . minutes.
Miss Alcott is said to have drawn her father
m The sketch called "Tran-ccndenta Wild Oats" where
n .hc termed the ransccndentasts Of whom her father
has been one " the foremost lights "nspircd upacs
Abel LamD was the pseudonyh Tor a. bronson al3ott
all Of which having been put IN print every bod{ Duai
nrss Miss Alcott's book is called Rose In Bloom
and I, a sequel 10 Eight Cousins, the heroine OF which
ha, become "a charming young lAdy.
Mr.. T. b. Aldrch does not live in POnla-
frog as THE TRIBUNE recently stated. but in Ponkapos
The Boston Courier makes the correction, and adds
.. II il the Indian name of the township OF Canton
ltbn whose bounds the village in question lles and
according o the Rev Elias Mason was orlglhay spe.d
PuukapOas A. regards the hShlns We are lneilheu 10
think the information lmiartcd hy our coicupOIaIy 10
b, correct for POnkpOg Pond and the tributary stream
which flows through POnkaOS village uStu 10 oe pehl
fully stool okcd with fish"
4 Boston correspondent of The Chicago
Tribune in describing reception recently given by Mrs
sargent in honor OF Mr. aud Mrs. George Smaley, says
Among the apprecatlye Things said Of and about him
lately there s none better than the cordial remark that
the autocrat made to Mrs Sargent during the 'recep
the very best not the best war correspondents mat
the world had ever known, rms was given with evident
heartnc-s. and is Iinly high praise from man Ike
Holmes who may be rccaOned as an expert Judge III such
writing"
The King of Fiji is mad. 1t appears that he
has pleased by the conduct of the British missona
rcs he admircs TIE pictures IN the tracts, and thinks
that the best missionary society that OF the London
Mission" lie has accordingly desired to send 70 send to
DR. 4lulleus the head ot hs mission some slight token
OF IN, appreciation. lie has requested the Governor OF
Fji kindly forward tO good Dr MullcnS seven young
women wives. ana the incomprchensiDle refusal ot
the Governor has 80 ncensed his majesty so riated ms
delicate sueeepublitles hht none oil MS SUBJECTS are
safe within ten yards Of the royal club
Among the latest arrivals from Europe is
Herr Herm mn Lnde formerly an actor at the theater in
Darmstadt, Germany, but now, as he calls himself,
Rccitator" He is a dramatic reader Of Shakespeare
and l. able 10 repeat entire plays, such "Corpanus"
and Julius Casar." from memory changing his voice
and manner OF delivery with each character introduced
This combination of memory und dramatic personation
Germany. and be now comes To this country to exhibit
his talent before the many associations Of his country
men which to be found in all our large cities.
Mr. joaquin Miller tells curious California
story which recalls that OF the cattle in ares Gabriel
Conroy." He describes an emigrant train passing
the prairie and meeting herd Of buffalo at full speed
and moved by one Of the apparently insane impulses
which sometimes seize these animals In IN instant the
immense herd had paSsed-there was no wagon, there
men, oxen, horses lett; even their bodies were
Obtcrated. The one survivor was a woman, who was
carried out OF the horrible struggle on the back OF one OF
the hcrd-how she never knew aer first consciousness
that she stood in safety upon little hiock and the
wmrlwind had gone by.
1t is. said that the medical men of Edinburgh,
while clever aud orgina-Dr John Brown being
ccllen specmen-haye always been irritable and sens
tive people. Not long ago one member OF the faculty
went about with leg simply because he could not
brook allowing its being operated by the only
able and willing to DO This as bad as the
quary who LETT collection OF coins 10 his native city,
aud added special clause in the deed Of beques 10 the
effect that c,rtan rival numsmatis whose honesty he
had long doubted but did not dare 10 question openly
should all times have free access to them ON the spe