New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-22
PERSONAL

Governor Robinson has gone to Lake George
for a brief soiourn.
President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Unlver-
atty, has been willing the summer away at Amherst,
Mass.
Governor Wade Hampton was quite i'll last
week the symptoms indicating typhoid fever He Is
now out OF danger.
General John A. Dix has beaten his sword
into ploughshare to purpose as bis fine crop OF
wheat oats and corn on his farm at West Hampton Long
Island, proves.
Professor jerks of Brown University, has
succeeded preserving by the taxidemist's art the
huge warus captured In Bafu's Bay. ana presented
the college by the class OF 1873.
President Eliot, OF Harvard College, will
leave his Summer quarters Bar Harbor. Me-, this
week and return to Cambridge to prepare for the
opening OF the new collegiate year
Prince Bismarck is becoming quite coTpu-
lent when weighed recently at Klssingen he tipped
the at two hundred and forty pounds The former
graceiuness Of his movements conspicuous when he
was Pussian Minister In 81. Petersburg and Paris has
given way 70 pOrty unwieldmess.
Senator Blaine's accident resulted in bruises
his right hip and In the larger muscles OF his back.
They very painful. but involve permanent injury
The which frightened his horses OF moro than
ordinary severity. The hail fell in great quantities and
the sky was nearly Ms dark as night
Prince Napoleon had a narrow escape while
attending an agricultural exhibition III sweden IN
company with the King he examining machin-
cry and had approached close 10 engine. which UNI
pectedly In motion. aud parts Of the engine
caught the clothes OF the Prince who would undOubT-
eddy have drawn into the wheels IL the King bad
not with great presence OF mind instantly himself
stopped the engine. As II the Prince had his clothes
torn TO pieces
Mr.. Edwin Seguin, the opera singer, had a
narrow escape from drowning the other daY Sea Grit
He bathing, and being an expert swimmer, ventred
out considerable distance from tho Shore friend
campaigning him. Suddenly they overwhelmed 10y
great wave, and when 1t receded the undertow
strong that ME- Segun found himself helpless. He had
thrown himself upon his back hoping thus ride the
bIlow, but his strength unequal TO the task. He
promptly rescued by those on shore out when taken
out of the water insenslDe. BY the and OF pbYs
can restored 10 consciousness and Is now
none the worse for MS adventure.
Lord Acton, according TO a curious rumOr
floating about in English circles will succeed 20 the
post OF Principal Librarian and Secretary OF the British
Museum He is peer OF the realm, liberal Roman
Catholic and connected by birth and marriage with
several German ana Italian noble families His uncle
Cardinal hs motner-by her second marriage the first
wife OF the present Lord Granville-wss the only
daughter and heress OF the late Duke Of Daberg and
his grandfather Sir John Francis Acton was Comman-
dern-C hef and Prime Minister at Naples He himself
married daughter OF the Bayarian Count Arco-Val6e
The salary Is $4,000 year. but the facilities Tor literary
culture which the position offers Will doubtless form the
chief attraction for his Lordship should the rumor
prove correct
Judge Keogh, who was mentioned in Tues
days foreign dispatches having become insane, is the
Judge who tried the celebrated election at Galway
In 1872 by which The priests candidate was unseated
on the ground OF priests having threat
ened TO excoumunicate all who should vote against
their candidate land fortytvO priests and two bishops
suspended ro the exercise OF the franchise Tor
seven years The indignation thus stirred up against
Judge Keogh who is Roman Catholewa most intense.
When he returned TO his homo in Dublin, be had eon-
stany shadoWing him several prominent detectives
Il was expected that he would be assassInated Cardinal
Cullen Was reported TO have denounced him from tho
altar, About the same time an attempt was maze to
blow ND the newly finished Albert memorial In the PhG-