New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-12-06
PERSONAL.

Mr.. c. VI. Walker, the editor of Tile Indian
apolis Journal Is writing the biography Of Senator
Morton
"This makes old Ewing President" Mr..
Forney, Of Alabama, Is reported saying he went
home after the as0n last Thursday. II doesn't make
Union Senators" replied General Garfield with decision,
! sitting next him in the car
! Mr. Edwin Booth has Just celebrated his
birthday by visiting, with his wife, the Mammoth Cave,
and laying there the cornerstone OF q monument TO
Shakespeare May he have many and happy birth
day anniversaries in world he has frightened and
adj rned!
Mr. Conway notes that the name Of the
American Minister to England has pleasant sound in
the OF literary people there because connects his
family with that Of can extraordinary lady-Mrs
Carlyle (pee Welsh. OF whom the world will some day
know mucn that is Of importance"
DR.. j. G.. Holland, it is said, will not write
another novel at present but VIII devote his best hours
TO the writing OF poems with the intention 70 soon
publish a volume He has just finished long poem in
rhyming stanzas called "Thc Purtan's Guest" lt Is
REPORTED 10 be work OF singular imaginative power"
I'm a recent letter, received by a friend in
this civ from Mr. Frank Marshall the author Of the del
icote and charming comedy o." False sham" Just now
current at Wallacks Thcatrc-Occurs this passage
presye Of the nature of that wamheared and popular
gentleman: " In everything that appertans, however
remotely 70 children there should be an atmosphere as
divine as possible. They the only glmpses Of angelic
life which God vOuclsaie5 10 Us heit-HO"eIs iresl
pluckcd from Ms garden
Mr.. Elhu Washbumes abundant hair has
turned gray and he has grown souter but otherwise bis
appcarance has not changed since he first went 10 Francs
as Minister In his interesting lecture on the Siege and
Commune of Paris. be that he first made the ac-
abundance OF Gambetta while the Frenchman was
member OF the Government OF National Defeuce-an
qnaintance which afterwards ripened into firm friend
S.lil is SxfratrJnorG eypcuiive abi,ty hiS
love Of country.
James Watt, the famous English engineer,
dill agzrayatns thing. In one Of the upper stories
o. On old ml.,i0n in the suburbs of Birmingham. he
had h.s Worship and by his will it enjoned that
tie room ard IT, contents should not be- disturbed 20
the room Remains to this day Watt LEFT IL in il
are various cabinets and drawers filed, not only with
the finest examples OF WedgwOod's pidques. bat With
priceless designs and moulds, many Of which are by
Flaxman. who was one OF WedewooFs friends. and
helped essentially IN the models from which Nedgwood
worked. From merely mercantile point Of view,
the value OF these finished aud unfinished works must
be immense.
Senator Lamar wears spectacles, pushed up
at times on his forehead which Is growing somewhat
vr,nked His brown hair originally in thick locks, is
gone where II is parted and the crown. His nous
tachc and goatee gray like G0rdon's. He dresses
plainly sits OF YEARLY and auseroy has his speech be-
fore him and his books piled mp, and finally begins Ho
starts off softly and dcfcrcnally advances with logical
cumulatlvcness and ali yields from WEAKNESS.
Gordon is tho most manufacturing man IN the senate.
lie has heavy under his left reaching down 10
the check ana his figure and temperament are lighters.
long stray lock from his thinning, black BAR relieves
forehead otherwise TOO high. His goatee Is gray us
manners are always studiOusly courteous.
Senator Patterson, it is sharply asserted by
the Washington correspondent OF The Enquirer Of Gin
cinnati had material enough and bottled rage enough to
make dozen speeches without any help, more extra
than the Congressional Library and his own temper
While speau. there was apparent danger OF his back
hone breaking. he drew it inward TO such degree
while he strutcd up and down with the ferocy' but
not the silence OF a tigcra tall, slender man. Win
Aome-colored waving hair. which is his only seal o.
beauty lie has q very pe,ceptlye forehead, ruSSs"
strong hut not refined nose sunken mouth tAai 'ns
httery olt under It's cucirclng ring OF inusthchr' h
dresses " m extreme nicely, with oven lranhS toWaI
vanity-in black with faultess shirt 'front.' gafnsned
with brilants. -
NEw-HAvEN, Conn, Dec. 5.-Frederlck w.
stevens of New and OF the Yale Glass OF 81 mere
,fore generous friend OF the College has recently
~ IN the corporation Of Yale In behalf Of himself ani
IT, stevens the valuable properly on HillhouSe-ave
~ ,bis civ formerly occupied by tle late Mrs Apthorp
~ rcceeds are be ppled % the Improvement OF ITO
ta' .bing force OF the acadcmieal department
TvrrpooI. Dec. 5.-At to-days Town
concu the Mayor announced his intention to meet Mr.
wish the newly appointed American Minister 10 n''''
-, ON his arrival at Liverpool and welcome mn %
p1.,inri He Invited the members OF tAe No~H0" !"
ION him.