New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-07-16
PERSONAL.

PERSON1L.
Gen. Mcclellan goes to Maine to spend his
Summer vacation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson will soon erect a
monument over the grave Of his father william Emerson
in the old White church cemetery at Center uto VI
Ex-Attorney- General Taft has been spending
two weeks around Worcester. Mass, visiting friends. He
returned to OHIO last Friday.
Ex-Gov. Seymour has become deeply inter-
ested in his tie coming centennial Of the bat
Saratoga and expects to make il one OF the finest
efforts OF his life.
The Rev. DR.. A. l.. Stone of San Francisco
arrived in Boston last week visit to the Of his
former abors He preached his old pulpit yesterday
forenoon.
Mr.. John B. Cough, Congressman Blair, and
probably Mr. Beecher To be the attractions at the
meeting of the New Hampshire Temperance Association
at Lake WinnioiseOgce, september Il
Mr.. Sankey's watch, which was stolen from
bis house ut Cohasset Mass July L. has been found IN
Providence.
The Centennial address of Ex-GOv.J j. l.. Cham
berain Of Maine has been published in special edition.
with some original maps illustrating the early history OF
tic country comprised IN that state
OF the old English AbOitiOnists with whom
william Lloyd Garrison identified forty years ago.
only remain to greet him on his present visit to
Englanl-EImuni Surge and Stafford Allen
Archbishop Bayley of Baltimore writes from
ychy France that his health is improving, though bis
strength returns but slowly Bishop Gibbons Of Rich.
ond will assume his duties Coadiutor Bishop OF Bal
| tnore early in thr Fail
professor Wardell Phillips" is the way The
London Times referred Wendell Phillips recently. But
TIN, Is no worse than the way some OF Mr. Phllss own
conntrymen get his name mixed up. Once leaving
town where ectured the evening before he heard
= man IN the train seated behind hi correcting another
by saying: no. It is not that man who lectured TINS IS
lr. Oliver wendell Philips
Mr.. Conway. in his letter to The Cincinnati
1 ,iobb osh .n,
widely circulated the effect that former secretary
of Carlyes holding important biographical papers and
Frederick Martins to write Caryles life" This
is not true Mr. Carlyle has, indeed recently had TO pre-
vent some publication concerning him, but am in pc"
siton TO affirm the intelligence nave already intmated
nt m the papers and facts concerning Mr. Carlyle have
b, n intrllsed unreseryedly TO MI Anthony froude,
VINO authorized to write the important DioG-
| raphy.
Owen Brown one of the sons of John
Brown whose soul il marching on lives alone the
Island OF Gibraltar in PutnBay visitor 10 his retreat
describes him a man near the middle night, WITH
ony sandy beard sLrcaked VITA thcads Of silver hr
dark for one of ty-two, bushy eyebrows from under
vbrh Looked owes rs pleasant as a wOmans W IN look
all over hun old Ossawatomie, whom he, of all the
| SIMS IA said most to resemble. lie has never mar
ried and when il suggested that he had re-
manned single because he had been too busy to MARY
he replied: Hardly; there are men VINO TX thelr alice
tons one, and losing that one remain single ever
after"
Emperor OF Russia, Of very quick temper, ana
ON one occasion stng by absurd conreemps into
q tremendous outburst OF passion on Elster morning
ON that day it is the custom for the Car to forth from
his palace and embracing the first man whom he meets
who is almost invariably the senne at the palace gate,
ne exclaims: Christ is rsen" to which the reply Is:
He Is risen indeed uttered with great manifestations
of low So on this particular morning fOab sailed the
Car kissed the sentinel both cheeks. according t.
custom and uttered the nvariable exclamation Christ
is risen - $50 IS SAID" answered the soldier IN
| thorouyhly stolid way. The man was MOhammedan
from one of the Tartar provinces OF the Empire The
wrath 0f the Car was unbOunded and since that day
the orthodoxy the sentinel who Is to guard the palace
Easter Sunday Is always very carouly ascertahed DC
fOrehand
OF Jack RUSSELL well known in the West
OF England the sporting parSon the following char
accrisc anecdote is told: "Whon the late Bishop OF
Exeter Dr. Phipotts, holding visitation in North
Devon he asked Jack Russell II he could have a talk
| with him, and the answer was Cera nly my lord
Therenpon the Bishop referred to his friends celebrity
a sman aud went on OF course hunting is in itself
very innocent. But you master of hounds. and no
doubt when you put out YOU may be tempted to use
strong Language. That would not be becoming in
yonr position and your mni>tratOns would not carry
The same weight they ought to do II that Is all,
lord, you need not trouble YOURSELF replied jack Tor
nv parishiones ride such bad cattle that always
couple OF cds ahead OF them and they hear what
/ say"
Referring to Gen. Grants pOst-prandial
speeches, The L0ndOn Mayfair says There is nothing
Ike English enthusiasm for bringing out Here is
Gen Grant for Daring the contest that re-
suited IN his election he was known the Dumb Can
didatc' and throughout his Presidency. true To his
character, he the Silent President His longest
speech was about six lines He naugurated the biggest
thing in creation. the Philadelphia Exhibition in four
lines Yet he touches the free soil Of England
than his tongue is loosed and he make couple Of
speeches eyenng-one, II IA true, Of his usual
sixne pattern but the other, twenty or twenty-lis
Ines deep. oh that Gen. Grant would return kind
ness TO him 10y teaching some of politicians how
the torrent OF their e.oquence lie could confer
| greater benefit upon U.s."
OF the late Prof. Tenney of Williams College
former pupil to The Trov Times that He never
failed interest pupil IN his studies. and whether IL
was reefs OF the Pacific the colossal glaciers
tho Arctic seas he threw around his subject atmos
phero OF fascination which Interesting