New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-18
PERSONAL.

Madame Theirs, since her husbands burial,
goes every day to visit his grave between and
o'clock She spends there quiet quarter OF hour.
Poor DIR. SchweiDfurth. His African travel
has made him sensitive the rigor of his native
climate. that he is Obliged to return to the tropics and
thus practically becomes an exile from the country
which he onUrs.
1t is reported that Mr.. Moody is discouraged
In regard 10 tho unsatisfactory results OF his last
Summers work in Norhield, his own home. He said
recently It like pounding rock, but he meant
keep on pounding.
Governor Prescott, aroused by the statement
that New Hampshire mad no boulder large as those
OF Vermont and Massachusetts. has been hunting them
through his Site, and has found In Nottingham 90
feet long. 40 wide and 80 teet high II is sand woh
6.OoO tons and ia surrounded by other, almost large
e Governor IL supposed to be exceedingly bappy aud
trump ant.
General Grant writes that he had determined
TO retire To private life from the LIST OF October because
he has found tie labor of accepting the opIy Of bis
English friends great upon his health lie will
visit the Mediterranean OF the vessels Of the Euro
peau squadron and spend me I'm the waters Of
IT. y He does not cxleci to return 10 the United states
until December OF next year
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont saws, in Harper,
year married. her father FOR her
morning and pointing to her old place at the end Of
the library table, said: 4" I want you - resume your
place there you too young to fr.tter away your
life without some useful pursuit" So back she went
obedently to her mornings of work and reading, and
TRANSACTIONS. Her father made her Ma companion and
friend from the time almost that she could begin 10
understand.
The Rev. DR.. John POisal, the new Chap
lam OF the House, once a shoemaker IN West Vlr'
ginia studied theology while working on bis bench
is an old circuit rider. and it said Congress
man J. r. Tucker from skepticism by eloquent
sermon preached several years DE- POisa has
remarkable memory-is said, indeed. 10 know the Bible
and Methodist hymn book almost by heaIt-aud The
good old man needs all This memory, FOR he Is almost
tIrely blind IL told Of him that he is sensitive
concerning hls defective sgI', aud las done wonderful
thin In the way OF memOr eng to conceal H.
DR.. George Ebers, the famous Psychologist.
who's unremitng studies and journeys or research have
brought upon bin paral af elton OF tne lower limbs
has been passing at the baths ~ Wdbad. IN
the Black Forest. His archaeological novel, Uarda' tthe
ancient Egyptian name OF the rosl, written TO oegue
his time during the enforced suspension OF his studies
has already reached a fourth edition IN Gle many IL
treats Of life at Thrbs under RameSos the Ora IN the
fourteenth century before Christ. and is wonder- e.
soraion OF the manners and If that day re-
cent letter from DIR. EDers o. friend IN TINS ety. an
noluces that engaged In writing story OF inc
fourth century OF ora the scene 81 which II nd 10
the Sinitc peninsula also, that the second Volume OF
his CRED! work. Egypt and the BOOKS OF Moses /"
ready for publication.
OMAHA, Ncb., Oct 17,-General Sherman,
with Generals Poe aud Bacon of his tf passed through
here to-day They went East via 81. Louis and Cicin'
matt Southern Railway.