New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-27
PERSONAL.

Speaker Randall Is expected to visit Pitts
field, Mass, next month
The late Isaac Friedlander of San Francisco,
left property worth about $4,000.
Ex-Governor ClaAin, of Massachusetts,, owns
large estate Hamilton Comfy, in this state He Is
residing there now.
Madame Nilsson has gone TO Paris for
months sojOurn for the benefit OF health She is
booked FOR u provincial tour In England during the
Autumn.
The Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, son of the
Rev. DIR. Leonard Bacon, of New-HaVen, has been
called to the Tastorato Of the Park Congregational
Church, OF Norwch, Conn.
Some envious fisherman at Alexandria Bay
writes WATERFOWL paper that "ex-Lieutenant Gov
ernor Tom Aiyorl the bass fisherman of the ST. Law
renee, soeaed has novel way Of killing fab He has
a glass globe full OF mnnOws. which are confined by
wire gauze and sunk by anchor tho bottom on
bass grounds his bait coIoealmg the hook il Is
lowered in the vicinity, aud he thus rbs the river with
no escape for any fish, no matter what size, from two
The death of Abby II. Smith recalls a sim
gular fact In connection with this family the fatal re-
Of the period OF Years. IN the deaths of
the sisters Thus Laurila Aleroyla died In 1887, and
s64 occurred the death OF the next one Cyrnthia
saoretia Seven years later 1871 came the death Of
Hancy a. and the two survivors accustomed to say
that IN 1873 OF them would probably die-and the
event. oddly enough has proved tho truth Of the rule
Four OF the i've sisters have died nj times
each by an interval OF seven years
Robert Burns's nieces, Agnes and Isabella,
reside near Ayr, Scotland They i've" says tourist
IN little low stone cottage with tbatched roof.
Everything indicates lack OF this worlds goods yet is
and artistic. with flowers and pictures all about
the They entertained with talks about their
uncle. and showed us letters which have never
heen published and with true Scotch hospitality offered
us some cake or their own make-Liade Of Australian
flour which they had had IN the house two years aud
three kinds of wineOne Of their make, made from
grapes grown In their own little yard"
The model for the statue of Theirs selected
by the Jury of sculpture for the Universal Exhibition
represents him in standing attitude dressed in ordl.
costume. but without his spectaeles The pedestal
Is PLAN, bearing only its four sides the names and
of the four departments that subscribed 10 the
erection OF the monumentbut the principal facade Is
the inscription A. NJ. THEIRS LiDerator OF the Coun-
ryp aud beneath Is scupturvd alegorical figure OF
History, who engraves the Words History OF the RovO
uton IL Ia announced that the monument wiz be IN
augurated on September next
Mr.. Durant of Boston, who endowed Welles-
10y College, had all his property swallowed up by the
Tappan defacation Much anxiety fot lest his mis-
fortune should prove disastrous 70 the institution lie
makes this statement in Boston paper; Wellesley
College 10 now doug exoellently WE'LL Indeed Il Ia ON
paying basis, and IL able to take care Of itself am
happy 10 SAY, II may DO that this disaster which mas
come upon me Through Mr. Tsppaas transactions vii