New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-26
PERSONAL.

Don Francis dAssises, father of King Alfonso,
viii be President OF the Spanish Jury at the French
Exhibition next year.
A committee, composed of Victor Hugo,
Louis Blanc and other French writer's has been formed
in France TO obtain subscriptions for statue to George
sand"
The foundation of q monument TO Kari
Frederick Gauss the German mathematician and asron-
omcr will be laid at Brunswick on April 80 the hun
drcdth anniversary Of his birth.
In taking part in the celebration of the first
anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University the ODD
inst Prof James Russell Lowell remarked that it was
also the anniversary of his own birthday He is now IS
years Of age, but time has dealt lightly with him.
The Rev. 5. 5. 0rris, recently elected AssOci-
ate Professor OF Greek in Princeton College sailed for
Athens in the steamer Greece on the oath inst He eX
poets spend the interval until the opening OF the col
fege term next September in studying Modern Creek
A new volume of the poems of William
Winter will be published, in the Of the present
year. by Mcssrs. j. r. Osgood Co. OF Boston This
book will contain many pieces not hitherto collected
together with the most select OF MI winter previously
published pOeca writings.
Chief-Justicc Moses of South Carolina is
completely Frustrated by severe attack OF paralysis
He has no control OF the limbs on Lis left SIDE and even
the muscles of his face affected His mental facu
ties however unimpaircd at the latest accounts
Judge Moses Is ~ years or age.
While sitting in the cloak room of the Senate,
smoking SATURDAY, Senator amln was taken with what
appeared he fantng it, and had 1t not been for Sen
ator Mcmillan, who sat by him, would have fallen into
best that he he taken home After arriving there he
soon recovered aud in the evening was in his usual good
health.
The Vice-GovemOr-G General of the Soudan,
Egypt's new province Central Africa, is Major Prout.
q ycung American. A poor boy OF decided parts,
but without frcnd- he managed after hard struggle to
give himself thorough education, and was graduated III
1869 or 1870 from the University Of Michigan as civil
engineer He afterward settled IN Chicago and at the
time Of the great fire engaged in engineering
work and landscape gardening at the suburb OF
Riverside After the fire he went TO Europe
and offered his services to the Khedve of Egypt engag
ING first in teaching engineering to the young officers Of
the Egyptian army When Col. Gordon now Governor
General OF the Soudan and Lieut-Co Long started, In
1874 on their exploring expedition to the Sondan and
the Lake region OF Central Africa MAJOR trout accohpa
MED them the commander OF one OF me dNsl0hI OF
the expedition. He suffered great hardslpS ana mas
now gained the reward merted by his pluck and energy
Mr. VIM. Leighton, who has just published
n tragedy entitled THE sons Of Goodwin" Is member
Of firm of glass manufacturers in wheeling, W. Va but
belongs 20 family which at time lived in Concord
Mass lie studied at Cambridge and took the degree OF
Bachelor OF Science at the Lawrence Scientific
School When he received the last proofs Of his
work Mr.. Leighton discovered that Mr.. Tenny
son had already used up his entire plot in
Harold" There is something curious" Mr.. Conway
II
and toll OF busy Wheeling deyong himself TO the
old scenes of English history which had fascinated the
laureate In his solitude But II Mr. Leighton his next
attempt should transmutc some OF that carbon 10 dia
mond and set the steam whistles 10 music, ne VIII be
more secure against having his plot anticipated than n
lie ventures to schemannze on these old Darrows when
the English are exploring
Mrs Mary Clemmer went into the Supreme
Court room the other day while the Electoral Commission
was in session. and this is what she says she saw On
raised da in straight row, sit the Justices. Directly
before them, this morning, stood Evarts-siender,
delicate, motionIess, emitting steady stream
OF long-nyoycd, splendid sentences. The Judges
sat intently gazing on this intellectual wonder.
Field took calm contempative view, through his
large glasses Bradley looked out either side OF his very
high nose and neither eye could tell any tales on tho
other Justice Clifford sat in the middle big as Joye but
too Iazy TO launch tlndcrbolt Justice Strong, with
yhit head sharp features, and foxy eyes, fssng
about in his chair as II the argument bore.
Justice Miller leaned back the image OF serenity placid
as "A May morning. Then there was Edmunds. locking
Ike a Jewish lawGivcr; and Frelinghuysen, med
itnng ON his grandfather; and Morton, who has tho
most uconscqucnt nose ever set rs vcstbule to so
grond bead II IL like classic tower with barndoor
entrance At the end sat Bayard, whose lnc, strong
lcld and face honor his grandfather; ana next h.ln
Thurmnn muiCd 20 the Ia cashmere scarf, worn
with neuralgia, ana looking ~ II he had the muups.
At the opposite end sat Henry H. Payne OF ono
clussca looking gentleman; and Josiah g. Abbott OF
Boston, who looks like Hawthorne and James A. Gar
Held whose head and face certainly do NOT lack strength
of outline, whatever else hcy Lacks ana George r. loar
OF Massachusetts. tIim clear cnt, and gray and Eppa
Huuton OF Virginia with Il pug nose unlliuninating
eyes, and high he d."
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Feb. Sir VIM. Grey
will leave this island the 10th OF March for England
SAVANNAH, Ca, Feb. 25.-Ex-Goy. Fenton