New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-12
PERSONAL.

There ia a report that Mr.. II. +. Durant.
tbe founder Of tho wellesley College for women. Intends
to build a preparatory school near the college.
General Lew Walace's picture OF the dead
prisoner of Andesonyille is being exhibited a. craW
fordsyile Mr. Maurice Thompson, of that town. verse
maker is mentioned as the possible representative OF
the county in the Legislature.
Senator Lamar is picturesQuely described as
looking like a sick lion His tawny-yel.ow mar Is 'oas
and thick and grows shaggiy about bis large hea no
does not sit upright in his Senatorial char' pu' mar
crouchcs rs II IN great suffering. But ms eyes arc
bright with energy and perception, auu MS '0he"0
| ready. - :.
Ex-Governor Washbun, of Wisconsin, IL
said TO have been geyed by the states reuSa ~ A0
cent his Edgewood estate for the establishment OF
rs industrial school so the Senate has concluded 10
fake the house and use IL charitable Institution rs
object 10 be agreed upon hereafter by the Lsis''"'
and the donor. -,
Good luck has come to genial old Sam Ward.
Keene the California specuator, grateful 10 Nun Tor per
sonal Kindness i said TO have settled on him gJoVo
for fe he proceeds then TO revert TO heene' ianS'
Tbis sul staniIal addition 10 the income from me MOI
c,atc axe, the King Of the Lobby comfortable for ts
rest of his days. co snlnes good deco III h'ueH'
world. -.
Baron Kurd Won Schlozer, the German Min-
iter IL reported by The Washington Post a. expressing
himself highly delighted with Mr. Bayafd Taylor APP
pontmcnt In common with all Germans. lac WAS deeply
impressed with Mr. Taylors accurate kno"ieds" oil 'ns
German language aud scholarship and said his presence
In Berlin would be hated with real appreciation ana III
his judgment become very popular there not only VIZ
the authorities his diplomatic reallohS Dn' Win 'H'
people. 49, ,
The first cause il the will of the late Larz
Anderson OF Cincinnati, is this First desirinsto eA
press however inadeduately my gratitude to HIM 10
whom owe a long aud prosperous me- ana 10 'eS.y
my undoubtng faith in the Christian religion ahdlo
commend its consolation TO all who know mo- ahi
whom my example authority can III any way III
auencev MI Anderson leaves 10 his wife, Mrs Catner-
inc LOngwOrb Anderson, his entire estate 10 DC "'
posed OF al her sole VIII ana pleasure
Mrs Lydia NJ. Roosevelt, the first woman
vino ever descended the Ohio and Mississippi in steam
boat died recently at skaneatoles the dangh-
fer of Benjamin III. Lairobe, of Maryland. Inc
tourney made Ill the steamboat new
Orleans which was planned and built 10y Der
husband " j. Roosevelt, n merchant OK TINS eV'
In September ISL. Mr. Roosevelt, accompanied W
his wife, undertook the voyage 10 New-Oreans inc
efforts Of united friends were unavang TO dsulde her
from the perious undertaking which they regarded 10
utter folly, II notabsoute madness. There were cap
tain an engineer pilot six hands two female servants
a man waiter, u cook and an immense Newiouhr
land dog named Tiger. Thus equipped, the New
Orleans began the voyage which may be saa
to hayo changed the destiny OF the "es'.
The people OF Ptsburg lined the banks OF the Mohon
gahea 10 witness the departure. Sometimes the Indians
attempted TO approach the steamboat with apparently
hostile intentions and occasion gave hot chase,
had the advantage OF endurance. They caeo
the steamboat " Peneore," fire canoe" and they
supposed il have affinity with the comet that BAD Iro
duced the earthquake or that year Like all roinan1
this ended III marriage the captain falling I'D io,o
with the maid they we're married on ARRIVAL al N"''"oA
The kindly autocrat, DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. has been writing pleasant letter TO Master
Holmes Dunlap an eight-year old Tcnnesseean. whose
parents admired tie Doctor that they gave their son
his name. The little fellow pretty, childish let
ter to the autocrat. adding this postscript: " l. s-y
little sister said to mamma. AS Buddy writing 10
poet think shall write to Shakespeare" And thus
DR.. Holmes answered: "My Dear Little Namesake:h
have many letters that cannot do more than answer
yours III very few words. l am glad that YOU 80 "
school, aud have already learned 90 write and do Sums
in arithmetic and find places on the maps suppose
you know where Boston is where live II is prety
large city, but what do you think this forenoon
out of the window OF my library II flock OF WI"
ducks in the Charles River. swimming about just ~
- at home az IL they tame ducks IN pond We
have had very great snow-storm. Yesterday saws
boy not much bigger suppose thn you are. standhs
on the top OF a snowdrif and hi, head was as high IS
the lantern the top OF the tall POST where
placed. am sorry that cannot do everything .,"
every good little boy wants me TO- am sorry .n
you letter BE good and industrious and obeIen s
then will DO credit to the name your father mas s
Office where Shakespeare Is now. Your Hiehu' o"''
Wendell Holmes"
The manner in which the new Pope took DIS
name Of Leo" is thus described: MOnsignor Ls'ssn'
prO-Secretary of State during the Conclaye had aeao
risen TO dispatch Tosi captain OF the Conoe
with the official announcement to the Marshal ff"
Chig that the Concaye would be opened ut D. n' ao
that the Marshal would DO the first admittedt to KISS VIZ
sacred foot when it occurred to him that the uhe
which the Pope was to DO prociainea was uaIi
known. by what name" he asked "aoes !o"H AS