New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-23
PERSONAL

Colonel T. W. HigginSon is going to Europe
.eatspriu&
Mrs. jefferson Davis has Just returned TO
ihs country leaving her daughters at school in Ger
many.
There are fourteen ex-Governors in the Sen
se and eht the House. besides several Ex-Governor
Of Territories
LADY Thornton viii not brighten Washing
to- h. Winter she does not Intend to return TO THIS
c0uurg A. present.
President Eliot Of Harvard, is 70 lie married
% Mis. Hopriusou on the 50th OF this month The
Wedding viii be quiet one
Charles 7. Manierre son Of the hon. Benia-
min Msnere o c,. W., Elected rT,s,den' Of TIE
NJ. Henri Taiue lives in a house surrounded
nv ,nsyag- 20 Aunocy the Swiss lake Of she same
name Here too. Rousseau once lived and Eugene Sue
also. whle be worked out 'hc plot OF Ihe Wandering
Edward Everctts son. Professor William
-ve-stt f. now reported he the author OF the No
\ ,. novel The Great Match nd Other Aaiohes. %
,, 's5' ,i Ci,s.y ''''' '-' -
Miss Cecilia Cleveland. daug hter OF the late
hin p Cleveland aud niece OF Mr Greeley, has tbs
PC. ~ aonor IN the last Number Of 81 AieAo'as Her
article - roasaut mile ssetch y the Chld-qneen isA
l..la. wife o. Richsrl o. ~ Eagand
Briwcr's posthumOus comedy, The House
o. l.sry" wIich finished. Il Robert Ly toE'- re-
o. by Mr. Coghan ha jnst been brought out succs 81
f,uv M London The chief motive OF the play 10
ADDED .d' tae afh.
Nile. Tieuens's funeral was an affair OF great
eeror,onv Everybody appeared 20 hold tho poor lady
n kindly rcmruhraBcc On the morning Of her burial
t hand % fbe Gronaiier Guards, while relieving the
s-,ard at st james Palace played by Mr.. Godirey's
Ser tne Dead March IN saul a. mark Of respect 70 her
memoir.
When toe late 81. ID. Phillips, of Boston. had
r-nnref hL pans for TIE founding Of The Atlantic ne
invited 10 ~ suprcr the gentlemen who were 70 con
tribute ps0e the first number. In The course OF the
rfs speech which he made 20 them he Is said 20 have
thn Epan,d the part he Intended TO play m the man
seemeui ri the Magazine; I caLIot write poetry as
vel n. NJ Lowell ana NJ Long'eiCg. cannot write
h.ory a. well q. Mt Prescott and Hr. Motley cannot
.t a. good stories Dr Holmes; indeed there j. not
one 20 m gle.js t.-n!fn. Pu VIZ W. 80 s LOO, a =
Ino in &c. But, gentlemen, 1 think know what the
American people want O. read better than any OF YOU
Mr.. JOAQUIN Miller says the "Billy Piper y
~ HE Dantes" II tao picture OF himself aud HE
i', when ~ a boy. ne had run away from home, and
,ft.r escaping from the Indians lived among the miners
All the eopie o. the play. b. declares real lie used
n 20 about among the miners rcctns poetry, and they
soon began 10 call him Billy Piper" from this habit,
which thev designated piping poetry" Mr. Miller says
that be Is writing another play founded on the Baron
g., O. Ncv-York" when he adds. IS the best book he
has ever written although % Is horribly edited" he
had no prooir sdor Il Is ny business 70 write" he
F..d the other day 70 q writer IN The Times.
o. Boston "YOu cans expect fellow TO
write and spell aud do everything" And presently be
said: o. Il hEd oaly had chsuce' as most bows have,
o. getting education. what might no the result have
tc.,,f Nv the WAY Do YOU know Longellowi What a
frg ffui Old gentleman be n; unaffected 80 simple
g. al ia grcatressi what home he has How envy
I,nf WHO have no home how / long FOR a home,
enmo place I can call my own You may TELL
-rur f,eWspaper comrsd~s that they might well az
irwrt 20 take Olympus Of On wheelbarrOw ~ get rd
III mo Z am nos great man. bat ucAn o. be. br-
s,fi have them"