New-York tribune., 1876-07-26
WATERNG-PLACE NOTES.

The front blinds are down in Fifth-ave.
The Ulster County mountains swarm with
camping parties.
Phantom parties and morning germans are
lyorIte entertainments at Long Branch.
The post-ollice is the most attractive place
~ villages where there boarders from the city.
For chronic Yheumatism-plunge in the surf,
Nc down in hole dug sand and De covered up
for half an hour, and then take a second plunge.
A subscription ball for the benefit OF the
Custer monument fund win be given On the evening Of
Aug at the Grecnbgier White sulphur Springs west
Virginia
There are loud complaints of bad servants
fIoIn those keeping house III the country ScaTcciy
night but BidGy with her bundle has to be met ~ !hc
boat train aud very kel! sue vii be Grlyen 70 IS
station the following morning "serFah'9d!-sii RACES
In its worst form IN country homes.
The principal attraction at Cornwall in past
years has been dewilJ Wllis's summer home with the
glen scenery The present propr,etor mas FORBIDDEN
visitors 70 pass oyet his slIu m % it t fvr nc Mace
IL now practically closed.
Among the recent arrivals at Saratoga are the
Hon Miles Beach OF Ncw-York the tIon. Matthew Hale
OF Albany cxGov. Aiken of Charleston Canal Commits
sioaer Adiu Tlay the Hon A. j. Waldo "t Port Henry,
the Hou. Dwight Townsend OF staten Island, Gov IcG
OF Boston ei tt?rney General Pratt OF Syracuse and
the Hon Chester ". Chapin Oi slringhcld.
Among the members OF the Town and
Country Cu5 al Newport Prof Agassz OF Cambridge,
Mrs Julia Ward Howe and George ". Wales OF Boston,
Prof william Rogers and Prof j. 7 Cooke, Mrs John W
Biselow Of New-iorS Miss mooGo3' Ig TIn; T Uso'
HigsinsUn. They meet once week. between ana
,. NJ
In small cottage in the interior of Martha's
VINEYARD lives Nancy Luce, with no companions but
cow and !cw hens The has been afflicted with
mild form Of insanity. which spends itself IN passionate
devotion toward her and hens, each OF which has Us
naae She subsss on te poGeGds CDGd % rcn the the
E.uffs and Camp Ground. In INC dOo!yHId are the
graves of three four Of her beloved hoAs, over when
snc has had erected clceaut nl.e hHDs' .ipp9lIidS"f
engraved with the namc and virtues or tne deceased
lhe COW occupies neat chamber adjoining her own.
The guests at the Warm Sprngs--a favOrite
saumer haunt for Eichmond-arc old acquaintance,
and the soei.l machinery is well oiled. Every one is
willing TO do his best to entertain nclgbOr and every
one has an casy-going, pleasant summer successful
series Of tabeaus recently ARRANGED Wlth very niue
on assignments AID costumes were appointed ana ne
following programme was carried on. MOIn". GoOses
tonIelcsp "Sacri!lcc OF Iphccnia" " Dick Swlyelcr
20 thC H,rc,i0n@ssn Imca d Iammcrmoor" Ju-
dith and HolOierncs' scene after Watteau," ana
Group OF staiGGry.
Fx-Treasmer John . New is at Rockhridge
Alum Spring Va, and a newspaper correspondent has
been pecpug idtO his back yard I've noticed the eH-
Treasurer employed in front Of his cottage swinging his
little child in one those ghtfuiy dzzy arrangements
consisting of two ropes and pine board with slmters
I'm H. dedicated bFOkce uOnes in infancy and nausea in
advanced age. The picture Was sIatiiyinS one, We
af H,unt Vernon. IL il great change 10 leave the
money.bacs Of Uncle ssm, his bovy OF blonde-haied
daugEters every " them Cinderella waiting Tor
tbc 6arous 10 come along and the champagne cocktails
of iiIe Od Colony Club, and substitute for THIS pro
grsnlIne spiccd with variety attention TO his own
Offspring. and drinking alpnl water
A correspondent of The Boston Times has
been fishing on Mount Kearsarge He is an amateur, al
though he does confess it. AS soon as the current
has swung the line around you feel the tecgraphc signal
Of bite which always tngcs the urhest nerves OF the
body and makes you forget for the momcnt your winged
friends with sharp bites, and up through the toamng
water comes a fish. his cTeau-cOl0red sides gieannS
hriohtly in the dark room, IL were, formed by the
rock sides the canopy OF the trees oyerreacng the
pool flashes through the air and overhead 10 the
bonE above There rustic among the leaves ana the
next instant having wrigged himself on the hook he
sfrikes tbe edge OF the stream You suddenly tun snd
yonr classes tumble of into the brook your feet slip