New-York tribune., 1878-03-19
PERSONAL.

The widow of ROssini is seriously Ill at Paris.
Congressman Willitts, the hero of the South
ern mail claim defeat. is described tall, dark
bearded man with strong, candid, modest face and
frank and serious He is native OF this state,
hut has spent the greater part OF his life in Michigan
He once a law student In the office Oh senator
Christancy.
The late E. L. DavenpOrt's parents abhor.
red theatres; the dramatic taste first appeared in
him when at the school of John Z. Lowell In Newayen.
writer in LppincoHs Maqa-ac says that Mr.. Loyells
still living, the age Of ninety Mr. Davenport always
sent old gentleman tickets whenever he payedin New
Haven and January 1877, Mr. Lowell occupied front
seat and cried all through tue play OF Daniel Druce
an incident that deeply touched his old pupil Mr. Da:
venpOrts answer to direct question as 10 the secret oI
dramatic success was rhis: Work, hard, GRINDING
work! You must have a dramatic taste, ana tnen-
uork."
Alexander Dumas. the younger, lives in
magnificent house, in Paris, crowded from groundioor
10 roof with objects of art He Is fond Of pictures and
is the intimate friend Of NJ Meissoner. He has hand
some fortune and is very generous to needy authors
He writes slowly and painstaEngly on blue, highly.
glazed paper with quill pen, the scream" Of tho
latter on the surface Of the former being particularly
soothing TO his On his desk lies an object which
he Is look upon in some sort talisman that
brings him good fortune-it is east OF hand. large
fingersEthe hand OF ms father Dumass wife Is q
Russian lady, and they have two daushters, Miles
Colette and Jranniue, VINO are SAID 10 DC cnarmlng
witty. and intellectual
The anecdOte of G. P. r. James and the man.
ner composing the series OF stories called The Bride
of Landcck" in Harpers Magazine. suggested by Mr.
James Harper has reminded old correspondent OF
THE TRIBUNE OF a similar series in the Same monthly
under the general title OF The First Record OF Corporal
Punishment" They written by Alfred II. Guern.
sew at that time editor of the Magazine and chiefly
stories which Mr. Harper and his friends used to tell in
the editorial rooms whenever they could induce tine
Doctor" Guernsey TO listen TO their rambling anec-
does The Doctor contributed the thread on which he
anecdotes strung in admirable disorder The fun OF
the sketch lies in the fact that the suggestion OF story.
about the first record of corporea punishment leans 10
the telling GI and sa ad & H and II the sketches con-
cude without any record whatever OF any corporal pun
lshmcDt.
MIS-. Jefferson Davis is described as being
at present very stout. very Intelligent, and very
amiablelooking Her face Is round, she has q
large and expressive mouth, and black hair streaked
with gray. She is kindhcarted and is said by corre
spondent OF The Times Of Chicago tor be much liked in
Memphis, especially by young people. Mr. Davis ~
very thiu and looks old and broken Their eldest
daughter. gentle and graceful young woman, Is mar
ried and lives in Memphis. They have two other
children one girl OF sixteen school IN Germany
whittier Mrs Davis took last Summer. and the other
young man now in sicmphis, Jefferson Davis. tr. Hc
twenty-five years OF age He has her large not
handsome Iace, and Is an awkward, l0quacous good
natured sort of overgrown boy The Davis family IS
COZ rayely poor now, ana Mrs. Dayis frequently
alluies 10 our poverty " In ajocuar way
Hew Anslie, venerable Scottish poet who
once enjoyed the privilege of kissing tho widow Of his
brother bard Robert Burns, died at Louisville, Ky
the IL tn inst and was buried Wednesday last He
was born in Ayrshire in 1892, and for several
found employment III the Registry House. Edinburgh
Sccts duties as Clerk OF Sessions called for frequent
visits to the Registry HOUSE. and it came about that
Ainsle was made acquainted with Sir Walter, Henry
Mackenzie and other literary masnates Of that city, In
tho year 1922 he visited his native county, the fruit
which was q volume entitled A Pilgrimage to the Land
OF Burns" This year he set sail for the New World
and for year resided with Robert Owens community az
New Harmony, Ind. In 1857, collection OF Anslies
songs ballads and poems was published IN this city.
One OF his lyrics, "The Inglesde said to have been
translated aud sung nearly oil the tongues OF Europe
Ainslics appears in General Wilson's Poets ana
Poetry OF Scotland" and that lie Is gone Thomas
Carlyle becomes the senior among living Scottish nge
He will be eighty -four in December next In cary o
Aiusie passed nearly year at kniel House, as tne
amanuensis or Professor DuGald Stewart whose & iass
work he prepared for the press Pamcrston was then
residing there ms pupil The young men had dspulei
ending ia battle, aud the future Premier OF EhAan"
received q sound thrashlng.
FORTRESS MONROE, March 1S.-Congress'
men r. p Bland, George c. Cabel and John Goode arc
here ou a short visit
ROME, March 1S.-The Irish Order of Fran
cscans gave grand banquet to Cardinal McClosSey W
day. Many notable persons were present