New-York tribune., 1876-05-06
doubtless be ono Of the most interesting features a
the evenings entertainment.
PERSONAL.

President Chadbourne of Williams College
will be Decoration Day orator in North Adams, Mass.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that the father
OF Mr. Lawrence Barrett is journeyman tailor in that
city.
The Hon. Horatio King and wife, who have
been in Europe the year past sail for home to-day the
BOthnia from Liverpool
Mr.. Alma Tadema, the painter, it is expected.
will shortly return to London, bringing with HIM many
important results OF his heightened stay in Rome.
Representative B. H. Wilson of West Vir.
rina who has been seriously Ill at Washington has 40
far that he will be able TO return home
Mr.. Beecher will lecture every evening next
week. The places to be included in his tour Wash
ngton, Baltimore and the larger cities Of Pennsylvania
NJ. Xavier Eyma, the author of number Of
romsnces in French relating chiefly to the manners Of
America and the Indians, died In France recently at the
age OF CO.
MIR. William Winter has accepted an invita-
ton to wre and deliver the poem before the Society Of
the Army Of tho Potomac at the Academy OF Music
Philadelphia, June u.
The speeches made at the obsequies of the
poet Freigrath to be published and sod and the
proceeds will be paid over to committee which Is To
erect monument over his grave.
Mr.. Holman Hunt is industriously pursuing
his work in Palestine. With Jerusalem as his head
quarters makes painting expeditions to various points
Of interest In the surrounding country His health cK
ceent.
Mr.. Philo Remington of lion, N. Y, is said
to have offered give 100000 to Syracuse University
free it from debt the expenditures Of the institution
hereafter allowed To exceed the income
Offenbach, the popular French composer, ar.
rived yesterday morning and In the afternoon spent some
time at the HippOdrOme examining the preparations
making there for his series OF concerts In the evening
he screnadcd at his hotel, anu Tonight NC IL 10 De the
guest OF the Lotos Club.
Mr.. Walt Whitman contributes an article to
late number OF The London Examiner on The Future
OF the United States" which concludes folows "Ts
real history OF the United States-startng from that
great conynsve struggle for unity trlumpbantly
Guided and South victorious after al-is only to he
written the Of hundreds perhaps thousand
years"
Marvin II. BOvee of Wisconsin, for so many
years connected with the antcapita punishment cause
OF our country open public Of Connecti
cut during tho ensuing week. having IN view the total
abolition OF the death penalty before the Legislature,
which Is now In session. shall nave aourned s aDos
Mr. Bove opening speech OF the canvass VIII he de-
livcred at Ltched on Friday evening, the I'm INST
Mr.. Edmond Scherer, French writer, gives
the following unique criticism Of Milton's Paradise
LOST in recent work "Paradise Lost Is false, gro
tesaue tiresome poem not reader in hundred can
90 without smiling through tho ninth and tenth BOOKS or
without yawnng through the eleventh and twelfth IL
docs not hold together 1t is pyramid balancing on s
point-the most frighfu OF problems resolved oy lne
most puerle And yet, nevertheless, Paradse
Lost, is immortal 1t lives in virtue of some episodes
which will remain for ever famous. In oppositohto 70
Dante, whom must read altogether " we Wish reay
possess his beauties, must read Milton only In frag
But these fragments are part OF the poetic par
moDy OF the human race
LAWRENCE, Kan, May 4.-GOv. Cheney, ex-
Cows Straw Smith, and Stevens and party. all of New
Hampshire passed through here yesterday on their way
to Colorado and the mountains.