New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-16
PERSONAL.
a season..

Gen. Garfield has purchased a farm in Lake
County, Ohio Oh which he intends to reside.
Gen. Babcock has entered on his duties in
Baltimore as head of the Engineer Department OF the
Fifth Lighthouse District.
Mr.. Rusllin says that having reached 53
years, he cannot look with the old enjoyment at the
setting sum- 1t seems to sink down so fast
NJ. Couture, q Canadian, has been appointed
coir-maser OF the Church of Saint Clotde which has
one Of the most arstocratic congregations IN Paris
MILE de MOntpensier, at present the great
Malenosele" the Bourbons, il to be married at the
end Of April to the exceedingly young King of Spain
Only one member of Secretary ThompsOn's
famlv-his son Henry ThompsOn-is with him i'll Wash
ngton The others will go there in the Autumn. The
sccreary's youngest child is charming daughter 20
years old.
Jung BahadOOr, who died the other day,
was one of the "Naypaulesc ambassadors" whose visit
to En- gland Thackersy celebrated in one OF his brshtes'
most rocRng ballads is told Of this gentleman that
e 40 admired one of the stawart British regiments that
he expressed wish to buy and take 1t home with HIM:
The name of Meissonier is not on the list
of the Jury for the Salon this year. and 1t Is whispered
that the reason Of this exclusion lies his dignity and
reserve: he is not "hail-fellowwemnt" with every
body who lives in the QUARTER Latin and deals with bis
oilnan Meissonier is now % years old, and still pants
with the conscientious care OF II beginner.
Samuel Rogers once told Dean Stanley that
when he was boy he remembered being present at Sir
Joshua Reynods last lecture and at the end of the lee
re he saw Mr. Burke go up to Sir Joshua and Oh that
solemn occasion quote the lines from Paradise Lost
"The Angel ended and in Adams ear
SO charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking"
When Madame Adelina Patti appeared in court
the other day she taken with her husband INTO the
private room the President in order that the usual
statutory attempt at reconciliation should be MADE Du
all representations failing the jude issued an order
hand nd nd nj
her IN the mean time to reside with her sister Madame
strakosch The same decree gives Madame Patti leave,
during the suit to sing at Paris, Vienna London and
cities where she mas ENGAGEMENTS maano RAUL
has lett for Vienna, where she Is engaged 10 sing
The March number of The Westminster Papers,
an ENGLISH monthly devoted whist and chess, contains
portrat OF Mrs J. w. Gilbert Hartford Conn., of whom
the editor says The lady whose portrait we have taken
the liberty OF placing in our gallery this MONTH mas
achieved o wide distinction in the world OF chess
Against some OF the strongest players OF the Uhlted
States and Cauada Mrs Gilbert has displayed powers of
i,,soination resource, and tactical knowledge OF the
game that have placed her among me most eminent
amateurs tine, ana that nave been hty recOSLed
in title conferred upon hcr Ny hcr counIiym iHc
Queen of Chess
Senator Roscoe Conkling is praised by Mrs.
Cemmer who gently says that whatever his yanities.
foes or hates lie has reserved capacity for Iargeness
If mind She adds BY largeness mean the power to
rise above his anmosities interests, and prefer
to u comprehensive view W JuugihehI Vi queo-
tion on its own merits to Consciousness OF public
necessity and a desire for the general good that out
weighs his own preiudces and his ambition This
is nigh praise but he has earned IT, even from one against
whom he cherishes resentment for printed words. IL
cost this man something dear 10 defend the daWning
Administration and To identity hmscI Win H."
In the house opposite Charles Summers lived
for years colonel In the regular army native OF
South Carolina. Said this day: My window
commanded Mr. Summers doorway. have seen him go
out of that door hundreds of times at IL o'clock up
10 the Senate, and him shut it in 18557-s,
said TO myself Will that euter that doorway
again For knew, SOutherner was that II fanatic
or drunkard had taken his life as he passed TO the Senate
or returned he would have been sheltered by ten States
and mmortalized as hero and knew there nine
chances OF that II might happen ny hour" The
cOored coachmen avoided hl so s not To run the risk
OF having him killed IN their carriages
Froude once asked Charles Kingsley to come
to him in Ireland where there better fishing in
snowdona North Wales, the region which Kingsley and
Hughes had been thinking Of visiting for sport Kingsley
sent Froudes letter to Hughes with postscript OF which
"Oh Mr.. Froude how wise and good.
To point out this glory
They re no great snakes, those Snowdon lakes,
Ana all their Founders myth and story.
Blow snOwdon what's Lake Gwynant TO Killarney.
$50 Thomas Hughes Sir, IL you choose
I'll tell GU where we think Of going;
To 'swate and far DER cliff and scar
Blow SHOVE don there's a hundred lakes 70 try in
fresh caught salmon daily, frying. frying. frying"
b. Loyson, late Pere Hyacinthe, is concerned
in lawsuit In Paris with the heirs OF Comte de
M0ntalembert NJ Loyson had been charged with the
publication OF NJ de MontaemOerts works, and had re-
ceyed from him number OF manuscripts, among others
an essay Spain and Liberty" This last lad never