New-York tribune., 1876-08-25
PERSONAL.
painters.

Joseph Pitman, the last survivor of Napocon's
p,,ush .iirr> Ut 81 rcena, laeIy died. lie was 3d.
Garibaldi considers the Slavonian cause that
Of civilization. and says 80 in flaming letter to the
savonian youth.
King John of Abyssinia claims to be de-
scended from lady who amazed by the genius
OF solOmon-the Queen of sheba
Signor BaItolom has completed the cast of
the Liberty" with which the French are TO adorn New
York harbor She l. handsome woman, exquisitely
draped and crowned with II star
The American artist, Henry Bacon, meditates
the establishment Of school OF art for his country
women in Paris. His picture Of Ben. Franklin In The
Paris salon this year Is praised by NJ d. Conway in Ih
| Cincinnati COmWSTcidI
List has probably more good nature than
he Is given credit for. lie lately played composition
by an American musician named o. r. Boise, and the
way calculated to make ones hair defy hairoii."
Miss Kate Field tells The Cincinnati Com
mereal in good set terms that Miss Emma APbott'S
operate debut failure; that Miss Abbott since
and that her husband has offered 10 refund all moneys
given to his wife before their marriage.
The Col. Field, Attorney-General of Louis
iana who died recently In NcwOrcans, is the man
VINO. when struggling TO get seat in Congress IN 1864
made attack upon Judge Kelley with knife IN the
office OF WIZARDS Hotel In the rencounter, Kelley was
slightly wounded, and Field was killcd-politicaly.
The death of Mr.. j. o. Pettibone of Sims
Yale in 1905 without single living representative. Mr.
Petibone was 50 years Old Longevity TO be the
rule at simsbury. Mr.. Emo 1.-THE owner OF the Fifth
Avenue ocD has long since retired from active life, and
In the Summer spends his weleaned in the fam
lily mansion at Simsbury; but his venerable mother,
now over 90, still regards him only ono OF the
boys In the OF CRANKY. then part OF Smsbury,
Gov nayess great survived captivity
by the Indians and sale by them as slave TO French
priest In Canada worked out his liberty and returned to
Simsbury with strength enough still left 10 achieve
comfortable competence and outhye the PsaInists
limit,
Mr.. S. s. Cox good -naturedy undertook re-
porters the other day. and Congressman well
reporters will be interested in noticing the way he did it,
This specimen OF his sye "Your reporter left here
this morning and desired to telegraph you
ing the obsequcs OF the lsmented statesman whose
body has just gone from this peaceful Virginia Valley
into the beautiful Ohio Valley, whose people justly
preferred and honored him. This spot is remote from
the whrl and swirl OF active American life. Just
now there are 500 OF the gentest-mannercd
and most sympathethio people ever met
passing their time In quiet and rest, and from
among these Mr. Kerrs spirit passed away and his body
is write, already nearing the railroad at Goshen and
will soon be its way to Washington and thence TO
New-Albany. Almost In mass the kind people Of this
place met at the features Of the dead with
idle curiosity but 10 honor with sincere respect him who
had often champoned their rights and interests In the
Federal Legislature. rode with the escort To tho brow
OF the mountain and there bade them farewell, and
sad by its mournful music, the shadows creeping
the amphitheater Of the mountain and all but the
memory OF these last melancholy days departed with
the light"
| PARIS, Aug. 24.-The report Of the death of
NJ. de Tocqueyille is contradlcted.