New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-03
PkRSOYAL.

Mrs. Sherman, it is now stated, Is not to re-
ceve the Pope the Golden Rose" but handsome
gold medal.
! Field-Marshal Wraneel is yisibly fading out
OF e he has become much pr0stratrd since the ceebra
ton Of the S0th anniversary OF Ills entry INTO the army
! There is report that Secretary Thompson
Is writing another H. relation to the Roman Cath
Ole Church. and that Parson Newman IL helping him.
Miss Susan b. Anthony ia going to spend tho
Summer Rochester, and in the Autumn intends to
Colorado In favor OF the pending Woman Suffrage
| project.
"Vene p. Armstrong and Robert p. Hunt:
hOnored aud loved upon earth for deeds that home
/ in Heaven" This Ia the Inscription which Mira Sallie
war; Hunt, once Louisville belle has placed over the
graves of her husbands.
| Speaker Randall has recently adopted the
| Quaker garb the broad-brmmed hat straight-cut
clothes, and plain collar give him very clerical look
He has rented for the simmer farm adjoining tho
grounds OF the Penn College for Qnakers."
| Gen. Toombs says that his appearance in the
Georgia Constitutional Convention will be the last official
act OF bis life, and he hopes IL the mcmora-
bio He is very much interested in the question:
dcspses the Ottomans and wants Russians TO con-
quer.
His Excellency the Chinese Ambassador in
London with his sule 10 a recent entertainment
and delighted their and his friends with celes
tal SONGS 1t is Intimaed that the music attracted all
the cats In tho neghbOrnoi d-bu this is probably slight
cx"sgeratior.
Mrs. Kate Sprague who is now at EdgewO0d'
August. she speaks German. French and Italian per
ecy. says admrng correspondent; and preparing
volume OF Sketches Made Abroad which sue will HIS
tlo WIN pen ana ink drawings. She Is said To De more
beautiful tnan
Mr.. Bayard Taylor has rented for the sum
cottage at the Green Brer White Sulphur Springs,
Warrington, going her Rhode island homo IN
in West Virginia. Mir. Jsrvs McEntee will visit him
there, and the two will iii great part Of their days
with sketching Each has provided ponderous stock
OF pencils and fair paper and Mr. Mcntee will bring
his easel next fall stl mote beautiful poems than those
he has already painted while Mr. Tiy 'ors sketches will
DC generously dsstr. buted hmoDg his friends.
The excellent Emperor of Brazil was walking
out one morn ng about live o'cock-s thing he often
dJcs-whon. to ais amaz imont and pleasure he met
young Brazilian gentleman u whose late hours he had
heard almost too much. Graspng his young frlcnd with
boin hands, he heart ly Congratulated him upon she
reform indicated by mis- eaJ walk The young man, c1-
coed ngy embarrassed, FASTENED to escape from bis
kindly sovereign ho wal. in fart, going home 10 BED
utter long night OF car'is AT his ciuD
One of Webster's stories Peter Harvey used
often TO repeat thus: wrbster Jeremiah Mason
driving the circuit together in tho atters chase IL was
on Sunday: ttsy thought they would make call on the
shakers; this was Enfield. Friend Dyer told Mr..
Mason we cannot admit the ON the Sabbath ts'ason
used earnest emphasis in his speech a. that early da
TIE cooquy failing get tom in, Mason angrlly said,
but iuigng thy size and Thy profanity take thee
To be jeremiah Mason"
Dir. Conway says that among the eminent
authorities la London. the only he has ever heard
sycaA with admiration q, Motl y - 'istoraD are
Carlyle and Froude. Caiye especially, while suggest
Ing taat Motley might have condensed little his story OF
tho Netherlands, has bedn wont these many years to
dwell on Mr. shlstdres, and rehearse some OF their
heroic epsoues his Own eloquent way But where
really great able 81 bod tLer Judgment thus
high above al transient differences OF opinion, smaller
mCn Sc not ny Ia That.
A former Confederate officer, who saw the
President and his wife on'the Fall River boat il ported
in rhe Boston Herald speaking thus about Mrs Hayes
There are airs about her she's gifted with good,
sound, straightforward common sease. It's my impress
sion that Mrs Hayes has had and is have pow
erul Influence in this Admin sratiOn. She's got charac-
ter lots OF it, and it's bound to be ielt Whore Mrs.
Hayes known I'll wager Sbe carries siiOnS ibnueuee
fol good"
Walt Whtman's mother was the daughter of
AZ old KuickerbOcker fanny and was noted III ber youth
as a daring horsewoman His father was a largo quiet
man. with great love FOR children aud animals. Wien
young Walt years old he had the honor OF AlsS
from Lafayette Tao first writing OF his which was pub
ished vac short sketch called Death In the School
Room" which appeared IN The Democratic RerIe,o. II
was story Of a ch.ds death under the lash OF brutal
teacher, and much cop"d u - T.Ineu tnt NJ
Lincsn. looking out from the Wh'to iotss w"
saw the poet pass ng. ard turning to some one mar MN
SAID IN hls quaint w..y "wcl, lie looks Ike man'
OF Tweed and Judge Stoughton the New
York correspondent Of The Cincinnati Commercial tells
this wicked story watch Is old the lips OF MANKIND
but not in the spapsIs: Is W. Stoughton, who Ia
scarcely Mentioned IN any list OF Tweeds counsel,
il said by Tweed himself TO have had 100000 from h,
and that he tells rather good story He saws that
stougnton mad obtained the named from him before
his trial on aGd just day two before the
called, Stougnton wrote him noe asking for
$4,000 more, to which reply sent The day NJ
toe trial Tweed found him sitting i'll the courtroom,
some distance behind his own lawyers Said he "Arc
you going to take part In the case to-day, Mr..
stoughon :" soughton replied, IN his most magnificent
n annec "Mr. Tweed, wrote you note yester iay-O
which have had-nO answer. am going To- sicp-lntO
tho library hercand shall wall there for answer"
And then Tweed adds. with wicked twinkle OF those
vainous old And II he isn't the biggest liar IN
the universe, he Is there yet"