New-York tribune., 1878-12-19
PERSONAL.

If Wade Hampton lives to take his seat In
the Senate South Carolina will be represented IN ha'
body ny two crpples Senator Butler having loS Ies
an a cavalry charge during the reheIilon'
Mr.. W. O. Curtis, of LenOx, Mass, has dls-
covered an old pair Of androns brought from England
II 1864. After having tlem cleaned ana Fcp'lleu "'
vii present them 10 General John A. DIX
Mr.. GIadstone's siXty-ninth birthday occurs
nm tbe 0th inst and few Of his admirers are thinking
shout contributing shilling each ana prtsehtn@ hn .
with an axe as symbol OF his u>efu ana vigorous
Jonathan Jennings, the first Governor OF
,od,ano and for long time the sole Representative in
Cnrrcss from that state has not even headstone TO
mark his grave. lie is buried in CharleSto"D' CiarA
County, Indiana ,.,,
Pere Hyacinthe has settled down in little
house in the suburbs of Paris, and VIII support himself
nv irving religious lectures il the Government permits
him Some @. his English admirers offered to build mm
chanel and to provide the FUNDS to start newspaper
with. but ne declined b0th'
Thomas CARLYLE was eighty-tive years ola
on the 9TH inst He received numerous presents ana
many of HIS friends called to pay personally Their con
grauatons The he did not sce owing 10 ms
advanced age and the damp unpleasant weather OF lhe
day However it is SAID on the best authority ihat
son TO hope that he will yet see many blihdaJs'
The many newspaper and other friends ol
Consul Catlin viii be glad to learn that hs lie III IL
Rochelle a happy and fruitful one Trend VINO las
inst left him. reports that his novel is samost finished
He ting lhe ldSI CIH!lltlN' tlN ''' n" ''N ''
d" like judge aid an eXecutiouer. have got tAen
ali out OF a terrible dilemma into my OWN court where
am making the calendar. award an Impartial lushcs
and execute the sentences promptly When asked H.
Mr. Hugh Hastings in MS novel, he salt 9eciuevN :
INo could no, tell where 10 put hiul-WheJder among
the good or bad
1t will be hard to get Tale men to believe
that Professor Thacher is getting old Always strong
mind and body. always quick IN sympathy ana "e'u ue
seemed TO connect the centuries. No sooner had The
IN Professor
intent on the Roman Forum, than he was brought I"
grief Ivy finding he had equally good one Tor Inc
COLLEGE campus And so strong this impression o'
ms perpetual youth that graduate OF - Is as sur a.
va he sote OF - that his erand-ous will get their
Latin at the same spring. But the stAtute OF HHlta
tions does I1n against him. lie al least claims For th
other day he looked down ou thousand young men
in the pretty chapel that his efforts mad ne 30 H1cn
years to-day since gave my first Latin instruction III
Yale College"
Owners of Herr August WilheTj's auto
graph will look critically at their albums after reading
ms remarks to Chicago reporter get on the aver
age between sixty and seventy requests day ior INV
Autograph Some Of the letters so very kind ana
attcriug that it like rudenrss 20 neglect iLem
II would cousume much Of my time II always an
swered them myself sometimes mI friends are good
enough 10 help Indeed gentleman IN New-fork
wrote nearly 90 autographs for and also verses 10
ladies albums. People are not very modest III IAflI
quests. Oi"n letter comes lEclGsiDg SIX cares NIu
6e reGnest that will fill them out. II is ycIy great
nonsense 10 me and do pity these auto2taph-hubtrrs
for their lack You see II the name was accom-
,,1nied NV n sentiment OF affection, with sOuHeni
10 mark friendship II would amount 70 soibethi9s+
but the bare name, ban! besides' 'l'io ' no Uoo "
Its authenticity
BERLIN, Dec. 1S.-The Hon. Bayard Taylor,
the American Minister, continues to improve IN health
He left his bed to-day.
LoypoS. Dec, 19.-Mr. Welsh, the United
States Minister Is III with bronchitis He was teversh
yesterday. but ply scians report that the Droncha
symptoms have not increased during the last twenty
four hours.