New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens is again very i'll,
and suffering much.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and her youngest
daughter are about to make trip to Europe.
| Sir James Paget has succeeded the late Sir
william FERGUSON SergeantSurgeOn to Queen Victoria
The Rev. Charles +. Deems was recently in
Aug1,sta Ga and received q hearty welcome from the
| people
Mr. Joaquin Miller is going to lecture in
Philadelphia in April. His subject Is TO DO Literary
| London
Prince Milan of Servia has sent the gold
| cross OF Takova and medal to Lieut. Salisbury an
EnglIshman who served volunteer in the late war
The Earl of CathneSs is of a mechanical
turn OF mind. He has invented tape loom, steam
carriage to ordinary roads, and gravnatihe
compass, which is said to be the steadiest kno"n'
The Pope is reported to be at present re-
markably well. He wants the Gcumenical Council to
reassemble at Rome; but the cardinals object TO the
council being held in city garrsoned by Italians
DR.. Schliemann, it is reported, has sold his
forthcoming book Mr. Murray for $4,000 The exca-
vations continued Mykcna by the Greek Government
resulted lately in the finding OF some additional rings OF
massive gold and OF great value
Only four foreign princes not relgning SOW
eregns are knights the British Order of the Garter
Thase are the Grown Prince OF Germany and his son
Prince William Prince Louis of Hesse and Prince Chris
tan OF Schlcswig Iiosteln
Monsieur Offenbach has brought an action
for libel against Paris Journal the Secie for reporting
that on his way home from America, on board the
Canada be scandazcd the table and the captain by
cutting servations against France NJ Arbel Senator
who returned from the Philadc phia Exhibition with NJ
Oenbach admits the authorship Of the Steele anecdotes
and Is prepared to substantiate their tIut1.
Mrs. Frances Elizabeth Hogan, who has
been praccin. medicine in England for several years
has Just passed successful examination in Dublin and
| tItc ic,I IcCn
Queens College Of Ply scans in Ireland which OF cOurs'
scIrc for her official recognition in the United King
dom. by a singular coincidence, on the same day DE-
George HoggaD the husband OF Mira Hogan was at
tending AT tae reading OF their joint paper ION Lynn
liatcs OF Mu ces" at the meeting VI the Royal society
Miss ~ J. IlolbrOOk, whose flower panels
were among the at the Exhibition OF the WOmens
Art Association, has turned her hand to sculpture she
has Just completed bust IN marble of William cullen
Bryant is threc-quar,cr SIZE in order the better TO
Jpt il 10 the ordinary prOr or library. The face ana
head are modelled with great care and the SHOWS OF r
Dryout's 50 winters conceang the lower half OF the
acc increase the vigorous character Of the upper alf
ME sz selected or Tie bust Is fortunate however;
il has he appearance Of very suia head lle-siZ'
MIR. Hepworth Dixon, who may be gently de-
scrbed As an uncOmmonly silly person. has just printed
his FIST novel; called DIANA Lady Lyle 1t is the story
OF II young Vrgnian lady named Randolph VINO marres
SIR Leonard Lyle, English baronet, and suffers per
secutons arising of her having concealed nom her
Inn .haui
and origin 1t concludes in the ordinary way by the dis
coycy of complete series of legal papers, wnich nave
been stolen and withheld BY melodramac ruiiian for
purposes OF ex;ortion. Mr.. DixoD's hero rs tall and
tawny;" his heroine has bold blue eyes, ana she
toses her tawny curlS :" and has an arch expression
limiting at reserves OF rogucry" The young lady some
times mopcs in her misery" sometimes iees tuil OF
fight :, sometimes beats her brow, but her BRAIN,
Sc: and she remember many pet ana hout.
When she makes speech we are told that WIN one
of her white arm she pourS OUT pttuesI,t ,
DISCOURSE and again. her ons"r'dtiols are his o,'
fierce and oamins" and We hear OF the vtnon o. th"se
verbal cuts" The story has been dramailzeti DIV Mr.
Dixon himself and is to be brought out ON the stage
The most Conspicuous of the unofficial for
ccp agents IN Paris is, says correspondent OF Ihe Bos
ton Gazette the Princess Troubcskoi She has been III
the company OF all the celebrated people OF the day
statesmen poets noyelsts, painters scup'Ors, soldiers
travellers scientific men, singers. payers-o0King upon
them all with curiosity and no sympathy OF re-
srct is able TO compliment so as to crafty van
itv has plenty OF nacnt small talk and has that mag
nrsm which title and wealth exert all the world over
Her social position gives hei access everywhere sic
plcascs 10 20. She ii chiefly ID at end all the ST.
ungs of the Senate Chamber OF Deputies, gong To
whichever house may have the most important proceed
ins and never failing to attend one Of them She uses
her social position to attend all receptions ANA balls
and other entertainments gwen by Marshal de Mh'-
Mahon aud BY the Ministers she nrrseii holT' Se
NJ. Gambctta, tie AraGos, NJ, wilson; NJ robert
and Senators all parties literary men, ana newspaper
wrIteIS.
LoSpON, March Especial dispatches from
Paris say that Marshal Canrcbcrt and Nj HOuh'r are
seriously I'll.
| OTTAWA, March 5.-An offer Of knighthoOd
has becn made To the Hon George Brown and The Hon
| MIR Muc.cnzic and declined by both.
LONDON, March 5.-Thc Rev. Josiah Henson,
tbc original OF Mrs stoves Uhcc Tom was received
6y tns queen ana the royal fanny at Windsor Castle to-
day