New-York tribune., 1878-04-30
PERSONAL.

Colonel T. w. HigginsOn sails for Europe
to-day.
Mrs. Katharine Chase Sprague is going abroad
| during the Summer.
The Hon. Demas Barnes has just been mar
| ried in St. Louis TO Miss Baksley. of shat city.
Mrs. Livermore has just sailed for Europe
where she proposes TO collect material for lectures
Mr. James Gordon Bennett will soon build
hol.e on the cliff site at Newport, purchased by him
| for $4,000.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor has, with wise gen
ercsy, built and furnished readlngroom ia Newport
! exclusively for poor people
Miss Cameron. the eldest daughter of the
Senator Young lady OF twentyone, Ia described as
| ,or.r businesa manager. She personally attends to
all the financial details gard TO the MANAGEMENT Of
farm she owns in right, and has done 80 for
several years
One of Miss Anna f. Dickinson's brothers.
the Rev Edwin Diohln5oudied at Plston on Saturday
Inst before his death he begged to have sing
IN him and Miss Emma Abbott, who had just arrived in
the town. was summoned and chcered his last moments
| by her voice.
| Flviuo bits of talk by MOdeska as reported
by The Inter of Chicago 81 do hate dinner par
ties" - do not lind the in this country good" 1"
| tbink Sarah Beruhardt cOntempates tour in this
| country" "PoIand II makes my heart beat to speak
the namel 1t is my fatlerland, ana 80 long to 70
| there"
NJ
in New-Jersey, IN private letter, TO friend In New
Haven .'This is now National case and much OF Its
propress and success depends upon myself and my
friends and the public have done nOby am not even
depressed. but feel good deal like fellow
would during the war, being in Castle Thun.
der or some other like place. l would not give
bu of 81, cents will fight the battle Of my life
for the good II will do Others land not faer until hui
man liberty and constitutional laws are respected
stedwelPs return Il a Of great Joy TO me-
| 4 hpN II answered
OF them besides writing over 200 pages oil legal docu
mentS."
A quaint anecd0te of the artist Turner is
told by n correspondent Ot The London Times. The
dark dipgy old house." he says, Gin Queen Annest,
where Turner lived Is familiar to most of IA. knocked
nj the door which opened by all old woman, whose
head was enyeOpcd in dense mass OF flannel and
linen. Turner at home. | was ushered into
small room on the right OF the hall After little
| nervous suspense the door opened small man ap
ncared with grayish hair, beeng eyebrows, and such
pair Of small, keen, eyes as had never seen be
fore and never shall see again lie had dirty apron
reaching nearly to his chm, sleeves Of the same dirty
white on his arms and trowe In his right hand his
hand, and face well smcared with brck-dust This was
tha GREAT Turner. He exclaimed as he entered What
40 YOU want Don't yOu see Iye'gOt brlcklaylng job
in 6and = After some little talk he said i suppose
Won wi. TO the gallery He kindly took me into IT,
and told me to come whenever felt inclined but he
said Mind and don't give her any thing -aluding to
the old woman who let me ln.'
The report that Mario, the singer, was now,
as an old man. very poor not correct NJ P6river Of
tie Paris Figaro in Rome during the month OF jan
uary last and then Mario, whom he describes "a n
fine old man. with long white beard whose seventy odd
wears have in no way cssencd his gayey and viyacity
His conversation still sparkes with w.t. and is crowded
with "reminiscences OF Paris London ST. Petersburg and
Naples the scenes OF his greatest trumphs In Rome
he is general favorite aud everybody seeks TO get him
into chat and listen to his anecdotes OF his celebrated
contemporaries To I'LL up his leisure time and amuse
himself he has become an antiquary and has all the
curious information which old Rome suggests a the tips
OF his fingers. II any asks about me-. he said TO
NJ PfriyIer on parting "you can tell them that you
have left Mario the ruins OF Rome my old ancestor
Nlarius was the ruins of Carthage lie Is, IN
fact proprietor of very good house In the Corso ana
at the time OF hc funeral OF the late king when some
one proposed him TO let the eleven windows OF his
facade at the price of 00Of each he refused and said
he preferred seeing them occupied by his friends.