New-York tribune., 1878-03-30
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Hayes will not return to Washington
| before April 10.
| NJ. Victorien Sardou will make his recep.
| ton address at the French Academy, in May NJ
| Charles Blanc will reply.
Mr. Scofeld, just appointed Register Of
the Treasury, is sxtyoDe years old. and native Of
| Chautauqua County. in this State.
| Mrs. Tyler, widow of the President, has be-
come amember Of the Roman Catholic Church. She was
| confirmed ut Georgetown Tuesday. by Archbishop
| Gibbons.
| Secretary Thompson is said to be very
industrious official. He examines closely every paper
brought to him for signature, and also all accounts
tightening much the duties OF bis heads OF bureaus.
| The kindly encouragement given by Mrs.
Charles Kcan to Mr. Irvings revival OF her husbands
famous part of Louis XI brings back to recollection by
force OF contrast, the manner In which Charles Keans
great father was once treated by Garrcks widow Kean
revived Garricks great part Of Able DrugOe Mrs Gar
rick wrote to him -" Dear Sr-You cannot play Abel
| Drugger." Kean mildly wrote in reply =" Dear
| Madam-I know it."
| The wife of that charming author, Mr.. T.
B. Aldrich, is a lady whose many graccs and accom-
pshments are matter for the delight OF her home and
friends and not for the paragraphing pen Neyerthe
less 1t may. perhaps be permitted to say that Mrs. Al
drch has been playing with very fine spirit and finish
two difficult and distinct roles in an amateur dramatic
entertainment in Massachusetts town. Mrs. Imogen
Wills Eddy the daughter Cf NJ T. Wills, also tooka
part in one OF these plays
Mr.. Sidney Brooks, an old gentleman who
died In Boston last week, an exceedingly wealthy
and cultivated He had great familiarity with
the military and naval OF all countries and tits
thought that General Scott would have made MI Brooks
his Secretary of the Navy had he been elected President
IN 1852. Mr. BrOOks's Will gives number OF valuable
bequests divers relatives, and the remainder OF the
estate said to be worth millions is to be equally divided
between his nephews Thomas b. Rockingham, Octa
yius B. Rockingham, Edward rockingham, Ward b.
Frothingham, Henry Sidney Everett, William Everett
John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, jr Henry
Brooks Adams and Peter c. Brooks Adams; aud MS
neces Ann q. Hubbard. Ellen rockingham. ME-
Henry A. Wise and Mrs. Edward Everett, widow OF his
nephew, Edward Everett, jr.
A correspondent asks what has become of
the old contributors to Ha,pe's of whom mention
has been made lately In THE TRIBUNE. DR.. Guernsey.
the former editor little. thoughtful, and reserved per-
son, lives this city, and has been engaged for some
years past In various literary work for other houses than
the Harper g. Brothers. OF the Abbott family OF
contributors, John s. C. lately died in Hartford jacob still
lives In NewYork. Austin is lawyer In Parkrow, Ly-
man is editing The Christian Union jointly with Henry
Ward Beecher, and Miss Mary TItcomD. q grand
daughter Jacobs employed in the Harper estan-
shment Benson J. LOSING lives on the Hudson and is
still making researches into Revolutionary history Adj
olson Richards confines himself mainly 10 painting, and
has dropped the pen. Charles Nordhof is now Tie Her.
aid correspondent at Washington T. B. Thorpe lives n
New York. and until lately Custom House weigher
and remains ardent political partisan as in the days
when he invented the brilliant and brief speeches OK
General Taylor, which helped materially to make Old
Zachs" popularity. The Primes continue to edit The
Observer this city. James De Mile still relieves the
monotony OF Nova Scotia college professorship with
the construction Of marvellous and bloodcurins tales
like "Cord and Crease" The Rev. A. A. Lpscomb, who
wrote most OF the essays Of the Editors Table,
broken up and disused. is In charge Of Methodist
church in the South E. g. Squer lately died
in private insane asylum n. g. Shepherd, Fitz James
OIren FItz Hugh Ludlow, Alice b. Haven, aud John
r. Thompson, who cOutribu' ID much Of the earlier
poetry to The magazine are all dead william Allen But
Ter aud Edward House. ther coabOrers in the same line.
survive the first lawyer in NewYork, the other pro-
fessor In Yokohama japanese college. ID. III. sroher
Porte Crayon lives Virginia. u. r. Castletcn" Is
nom de plume of O New-Engiand lady, who, notwith.
standing she has contributed over i0rty OF the most
charmig short stories the magazne has preserved
throughout her incognito But the line at this rate VIII
stretch out II not the crack OF DOOM certainly be-
yond the limits Of paragraph.