New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-13
PERSONAL.

A cOlOred man acts as newS-gatherer at
Washington for Philadelphia and Kentucky papers.
| Miss Maria Van Ness Roosevelt, daughter OF
the la Judge Roosevelt is about 10 be married to Mr.
Edward Scoyille of Detroit.
Mrs. A. w. Tucker breaches to the Peter
Untarans when she wishes tighten the labors Of
her husband and their pastor and the Peterboro Un
rians seem 10 like IT,
Princess Louise and her sister-in-a Lady
Archibald Campbell reported to sympa.hize with d.
elade the spirualist There Scotch poet who says
Maybe 30, mayOe no."
Ethan Shepley. ex-Chief Justice Of Maine,
recently met with fall and broke OF his hip bOnes
Judge sbepley IL advanced in years and 1t feared that
serious results will follow this accident.
A conscientious pastor of a Congregational
Church in Cambridge the Rev. d. o. Mears, has asked
that his salary be reduced from 800 $1,000 because
| of the prevailing depression in business.
Mr.. George McGoyern of Richmond owns the
first cotton bond issued by the Confederate Government
Ii is fresh and crisp as on August LIST. 1861" aud
once meant TO Southern eyes $4,000.
Lord Neaves, the last survivor of the set
who under Christopher NOrths leadership Black
rood famous. has just died He keen phiolcgist
and known by his Songs and Verses social and
scientific, by an old contributor TO Maya"
Mile. Pauline du Guiny, one of the two sis
tiers with whom Caroline de Bourbon Duchesse dc Ber
took rsuge In 1882 when she had failed in her attempt
to promote rising in the west OF France in favor OF
son. the Due do Bordeaux rs the Comic de ChamDOrd
then called has just died at Nantes IN her goth year
Mr.. ID. ID. Field sits in the House. between
Delegate Fem or Idaho and Representative Stanton Of
Pennsylv ania. Field taken seat. Mr..
stanton gently to Mr. Fem that there was IN
awful sigh, OF brains" between them; and Mr. Fem
sweety answered that lie sorry that the brains
of the party were all in TIE center
Mr. Robert J. Burdette, The burlington Hank
Eye man, has appeared upon the lecture platform Al
though small in stature and lacking in vocal powers he
is said to have retained the undivided attention Of hi,
first audience thu ouehOut the evening. Ills lecture Is
composed OF series of incidents from real lie. and
contains many pathetic aud humorous passages
Miss RhOda BrOughton is snubbed by Tho
Spectator thus otis pity when charming talk
OF things that they don't understand said old song.
truly and the pity all the greater when the thing
question such as they could not well understand.
There are passages in Miss Broughton's novels which
constantly remind OF that delightful French story
the little girl who, IN making her first confession de-
tailed to her sounded spiritual director whole series
OF atroclous crimes, and wound up with the avowal ~
g g"s 80" 'ee's " accuse ''?" cue NO" a'e''a'e Z"
The Hon. Ronald Leslie Melville, brother
of the Earl of Leyen and Melville, and Mr Hugh NO
CuIochs partner, mentioned. when lie visited this
try last year. that OF his ancestors, young British
officer had fallen here during the Revolution and hat
the family had been able to learn where he was
buried An American friend OF Mr.. Melville has Just
found the grave, we'll preserved in the graye at
Puckamn. J. Over It was monument erected s. b,
| father had been kind in Edinburgh
| A Young EnglishwOman in one of the manu-.
featuring shlres in the habit of reading sbakespears
plays to girls from the neighborng factories and
times stops the middle OF scene and asks one OF the
girls she is she comprehends IT. Not long
since she reading from the opening scenes OF Ham
let" and had the passage in which the queen
plores her son to his nightly color off, and keep
always mourning for his father Are you sure" she
asked OF one Of The girls that you quite understand tns
girl his mother thinks that he ought to begin to out
| to teas and such Ike
| Wendell Phillips thinks our public school sys.
TEN is very faulty. At the American Social Science
meeting the other day he said The fact is that many
young people, graduates Of public schools are not
capable doing any work for which any should pay
dollar Thousands CT our public school graduates csn
not write u decent letter at 49, read
newspaper well. The old New-England system. which
made boy work six months BY his fathers side on the
farm or IN the workshop after no had been months At
school, better than the present From suchs
system it possible TO get such q Theodore
Parker Now. the public school hands child to its pa
rents with OF earning It's bread" lie said no
ashamed OF the schools OF Boston when their work
was compared with tho educstIon given to a Canadian
women knew how write better letters could spell
| more correctly than their American prototypes.
When Mr.. j. L. Fields was young class
mate complained to HIN that he IN danger OF being
supplanted i'll the regard OF young person Of the genr
by youth belonging to another school, who was
daily In the habit OF calling the lady and repcatngs
her from memory whole poems of considerable length
| what wouldiyOu do o. sighed the lad Do" said
Master Fields; Il would beat him on his own ground
and at once commit TO memory the whole % Paradise
| Lost book by book. and every time the intruder er
Amelia's house would rush in and tire away II you
give way Idle repning and do nothing that fellow VIII
be rmly seated in your place should not wonder
| IL he at work Thomsons Seasons. for hs
| infamous purpose. Delay longer, but attack jean
| Milton after supper tonight and wiz tue fhl.s'
above all competition" Ezekiel began in good easn,s.
and before the summer he mad uemOllkrd ths
whole OF Paradise Lost" rehearsed II to Amelia anu
| gained the victory
| The three central windows in the chancel
OF the Trinity Church. Boston, TO be drdes'ea
TO the OF Bishop Parker, the Rev d. JOIN >
j. Gardiner, and Bishop Easburn The subject OF the
central will be Chrsts commission 10 the Dsciplos
that the window tho left the baptism OF Chst AMI
that OF the right window che Lords supper For ths
| south transept the central window the gdlgD
eighteen feet high has been designed by oldineI OF
Paris and is the tribute OF Harrison Gray Richie T. mo
memory OF his mother who the daughter OF HAITI
Gray Oaa The subject is TO be "sufcr little cn'
dren me-" rhe central window undernea,s
the gallery viii be tiibuc To tht memory OF tno ~
Miss Abby LOring. who cit 100000 10 various ensr
tics Underneath the gallery the Hon hoDtrI !, WI"
| throp will furnish one 10 the memory OF hs pa,s"as
Most OF tho other windows have been secured for Pa"
| memorials.
! In his lecture OH "The Ministry of Wealth. III
Philadelphia Thursday evening. Mr.. Boecher made We
point that II begin denying ourselves the proper wv
uries will drift back 10 barbarism Hellusu'"e
bis point In this way: Imagine" said he. "a rieh %
| dressed In a suit OF handsome aud costly btOai'o'
OnA of teso boru,it luQ GAYS 10 HIM S how can W.