New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-30
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PERSONAL.

II Is said that Mr.. Whittier will hereafter
live In Danvers ou,o5
Senator Mcdonald. of Indiana, it is reported,
"a about t, marry a wldow-a lady who Is o'eiN ." ~"
Treasury Department -. -, 1900
OF Mrs HAYES, The Richmond O'spotcR seems
20 take pleasure IN n0hng tina she Is relale' I"
~ m" m ,st respectable families IN Richmond
N;,,ister Moves has taken up his residence
o. psrs IN the splendid apartments in the Avenue
Josephine formerly occupied by the Duke de hon'peh
sier L..
NJ, Julion Hawthorne has young daughter,
q new conner, whose name approaches as nearly Is
posslle that Of George Eliots latest heroine she IS
Miss Gwen ioen Hawthorne.
Edwin Adams, among many talents, had the
one for writing pretty little poems. ey were siHlio
and graceful and chiefly TO he remembered as one Tue
evidences OF n sweet aud manly nature
Miss Mary G. HOrsford, the daughter oi the
KINDLY Harvard professor who "a almost as well knowh
in New-York as In Cambridge has Just been marI" "
Nj Il. Il. Curtis, the son o. the late JudSe Gurus,
King Luis of Portugal. who has Just pun
ushed A Portuguese translation of Hamlet - ~"
preparing translation OF the td have been very
successful on"
Mr. Lonefellow especially beauties his me
old age ny one among many noble hablts OF hS haT
he speais no words Of dsparagement HIS thouEhs are
- "a bar,,orle ones and the sunshine he puts into
I,s daly fe reflects back upon himself to maze MN
stu more loved and veneratcd
The death OF the " Austrian Wohah MaIlo
Aponette was remembered this year in The perform
anoe Of a solemn every hour, from seven O'Clock
tin noon. on the eighty fourth anniversary OF her
taltr on" The first was performed the spot IN Ine
cIgpc IN the Rue DAMON, where the unhappy Q"ooH
body Law for twenty-one years
OF General Grants visit to Strattoio-oh-
Avon Mr. NJ d. CONWAY reports, that II did moi nearby
please the Fnesnmen vino so cordially and eh'""'''i
cay received him. The General appeared To ,''e p"'
very uto interest tho shskespcaTian rehcs; Slt
showed not the east persona f GoruisN'''' MIN
on The contrary. seemed much pA'Asc~'
Victor HucOs History of Crime" does
altogether delight the Radicals Of France, 1t 10 ro-
mored 1t is with fear and trembling that the hhiu
among chem have read It, The other day Monsieur
Hugo met one Of these serious souls who rnshec up 10
him ard demanded why he bad betrayeS them 80 :.
trayec yOu How = " lom fsVo sho"h no" easy q" 10
70 make these eoupS dttdt!"
Mr.. A. IL. Stephens is assuredly loyal Amer
,cau lie said the other day: 81 would father ne
hanged in the United than live IN any other coh
t~y" Ho has never crossed the ocean, and now freiS
Nat Is TOO late re expresses much personal regard
for President Grant. speaking Of him as man With
out ,,o and lamenting the destruction which p0it-
career wrought upOn otherwise symmetrical char
sctc~ Mr. stephens said 10 BE- thor0pgn oOuscVa-
tive IN all the lines OF human thonght
A fellow-student of the distinguished Boston
e,ergnen Cook aud Murray, says that when hey were
I'm Yale together they both stood low in scholarship
H,ua, graduating about the middle Of his class. and
Cook occupying about the same relative position az long
"a ne remained in the college They were both good de
baters Murray carrying his determination to speaS on
every occasion 90 such q degree thdt he frequently
"bored his classmates They were both good writers
and frequently competed for prizes. Murray was the
more finished speaker Cook the more foroi'e. They
were both long-windei. and neither methOdca in the
Arrangement Of a subject. Murray played upon the sur
fa,o and Cook often got lost in graphing with the kernel
OF question. Neither had an adequate ldta OF main
ptd4 lpi
called upoa to demonstrate ne simplest Imposition o.
after q VAN attempt at Demonstration"
II will be pleasant to note Mr.. w. W. St0ry's
proD.iscd presence ia this city. No American deserves
moro grateful Acknowledgements from his country fol
manly life ana noble work Of hand and brain than does
Nj. story. lie is man OF rich gifts, OF va
ri.d talents Most Of lis oouDtrymen who
read a. ALL know that he holds the high
es. rank sculptor, that he writes pure ana
alarming English prose and delightful But they
orc probably not that he is gouc lawyer, ana
once published legal work, which is still in use
that be - an accomplished musician, playing
mon several instruments with excellent taste (;
that he has true capacity for painting
that II he had pursued It diligently he would
have been rs great painter scuptor that he IS the
only foreigner known 20 write good Italian verse; and
tha he speaks and writes three o. to9r isngages WIN
but Otherwise he shows hussf 10 be in bis prime of
physical and intellectual vigor
Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes is writing a
monograph on tho late Mr. John LothrOp Motley. Tie
manual work of hs-as OF everything else ne writes
for pubhcauonis done with broad gold pen, 6xedinto
q GULL haudle. The doctor says he has used this
pen Tor twenty years. Keeping steel pen Tor writing
leters and tnst Of thing" He writes only In the
morning, and gives about three hours day
20 literary work. He docs not care to write
ioneer than that and is said 70 dislike
very much what is called contract work"
He seldom reads BOW what Is not Immediately useful TO
HIM aud Is deyOureT OF novels. lie told writer for
TAs Boston Herald the other day how MS chief
works happened 10 be written. Elsie Venner"
was written with purpose, but most Of his
idea which. to him n happy moment. or the
Arunhc lac applied 10 write something for il.
Thought was little ont o. fashion, and did not much
fancy the job. sat down, however, and wrote MIN
Der and that number well received that wrote
away until had finished The series. did no; write my
novels sOr the market, Dut 10 develop come llea Of
nine the Poet at the Breakfast Table has u great
MANY IDEAS OF niue also"
LONDON. Oct. 29.--lt is reported that the
marriage OF King Alfonso. OF Spain. to Princess Ser-
cees daughter Of the Duke dc Mortpenser, has been
fixed tOr tie Z3O OF January next