New-York tribune., 1877-03-07
PERSONAL.


Jules Claretie, a French author of great
promise, has prepared a new comedy.
Mias has already sold his next Academy
pcture-a andscapefort the comfortable sum 0f sl0ooo
The Earl of Dunraven and Thomas Barring,
the English banker to sail for Liverpool in to-day
steamer.
Verplanck Covln, an Albany civil engineer,
has returned to tnat city with the body Of large
fnther which he shot lately in the Adlrondacks.
NJ. Gambetta, the French Republican leader,
is in good health, and may reasonably expect to live
more than the two years which lately limited
NJ. Tolain and other French Radicals fire.
qucnty address large assembages in Paris on sunday
which is now the favorite day for political harangues in
the gay capital.
The historian Leopold Won Ranke, whose
work on the POpes is the subject of one NJ Macaulas
best ESSAYS, completed last month the ooth year oi Ills
university dOcOratc
Mr.. Frederick May has attained to more fame.
A German newspaper mentions him az fright!u duel
ist wno in Dresden has written his name with his saber
the checks oi many saxon officers"
Two good Partisan portraits: The personal
appearance Of the Due dc Nemours suggests Don
Quixote the great Cahanel is rather handsome man
with full white beard and hair ana cold smile.
The Rev. DR.. BartOl presented his resgna-
ton his congregation Oh Monday the 4oth annVer
sary of his settlement, but the venerable clergy VIII
get in return merely unanimous request that be with
drawn
The Duke de Medina-POmar. the ndiscreet
nobeman who has been printing what he heard in Lon
don drawngrOOms, OF the Countess Of Calthhess
by her first marriage. She is herself sprltual't ana
Spanard by BIRTH
William Harper, of Forest County, Penn,
recently received back $4,000 from an agent who had
absconded with $4,000 twelve years ago Having
yreat South America the agent added
$4,000 for interest
Mrs. Uayes gets from everybody the kindliest
mention Even The Clereidnd Ptdn Dealer says: "Gov
Hayes has modest, esimabe. kindhcarted woman Tor
a wife; lady who will adorn the Whte House INTO
which her husband has been forced by conspiracy of
politicians"
More than one person desires to make the
monument John Eliot that most excellent missionary
10 the Indians One of the designs presented Is more
curious than beautiful 1t ia in the form OF canopy
protecting "a sarcophagis, upon winch resIS Dipie,
uuills. and other emblcnls.
NJ. Gatayes, writer, dandy, and pro-
fcssor OF the harp il dead Madame Recamer was one
of his pupils His home most eccentrically fur
nshed His carpeted with the SKINS OF MS
favoritc horses and the walls ornanened with the
heads his pet dogs, besides choice collection oI po"s'
arrows, &c.
. Miss Rosalie Poe the sister of the poet, who
died III Washington several years ago. once told DOCK
seller of that city, whom she went and asked permis-
sion to acopy of her brothers poems that every
thing belonging to Poe had been taken from her by GER
tain parties for pance, SO or $l2 and after
ward sold at high prices to English publishers
Petroleum V. Nasby reires again from The
Todo Blade retaining weekly edition, however as
separate paper lie has sold The Day Bade Tor S3oooo
to Alexander Reed and II. d. Walbridge. 1t and Ihe
Toledo Commercial to be consolidated ana there Is
report that Samuel X. Reed now OF The C,hcthnah
Gazette and brother Of the prcpa purchaser II W VAO
charge Of the new Journal
1t is reported that at the meeting OF the
Congress Of Orientasts, in Florence this year, the
daughters OF Pros Wassieff and Gottwald distinguished
Russian Orientasts will the official interpreters
for the Russian members OF the congress These gentle
men, who have Chinese, Persian Turkish, and other
Eastern languages at their tongues ends curlOusy
enough don't know Italian.
Prince Radan and his Princess, two Malays,
dark but distinguished pcrsonages are being honized In
Florence The Prince painter to the King OF the Low
Countries aud been educated entirely in Germany
becomng very popular the Court Of Berlin. and he is
now painting several orders for the Emperor OF Ger
many sgnor de Gubernatls the Orientalst says that
Prince Radan Is the original ot DJhamal, III sues wan
dering jew
Since the 1st Of February until the close of
Congress the widow OF President Tyler has attended
every meeting Of the Commission and the joint sessions
OF the two houses. In person, Mrs Tyler Is short
plump wepreseryed brunette and still wears the deep
mourning and widows cap for her husband BY special
all the repeas and reforms postal affairs have LETT this
courtesy unquestoned
Lady Anna GOre-Langton, sister OF the Duke
OF Buclngham Governor o. Madras said the other day
that men in India to great extent ruled by the
women who were very conservative and had great OBJ
lection 10 any Improvement in their customs The lower
class women worked very hard, pulling stone rollers
cutting grass and in helping their husbands in brick
LAYING The natives treated widows very badly; their
and Jewels taken away from them, and they
| were made as miserable rs possible.
This is the sort of story that attends the
steps of Mr. Joaquin Miller he goes bounding
the track OF the Washington correspondence " In En-
gland he would have married the daughter Of peeress
had not cruel practical guardian with his mcr-
cenary questions Of settlements broken up The Lady
Iza vows never marry, and her boudoir Is Miller
gallery filed with portraits OF her poetover. and vol
umes and manuscripts OF his works. which she treasured
highly portrait Of the lady shows tall, beautiful
girl with a dead white complexion dark hair, glorious
ewes and most exquisite band and arm. As IN other
cities the poet is lion here and his presence courted at
every entertainment while his eccentric ways and fine
| conversations impress overy one"
The British Minister and his family are
never-faing subjects OF admiration and adecves to the
ietter-wrers Tho latest mention concerns their quiet