New-York tribune., 1879-05-23

PERSOSAL.

Yice-President Wheeler will not return to
Washington tais summer lie is III, suffering from ex-
treme nervousness.
Mr.. Joseph Cook has the prospect Of large
audiences next season very great number OF tickets
have already been sold.
While IN Hartford Modicska was the guest
of NJ and Mrs Charles Dudley Warner. and for the
first time met Mrs stowe in whose Uncle Tom" she
PLAYED IN Poland when she first went upon Jhe stage.
George Eliot abusing burlesQue IN her last
work. says The English people ia the present genera
zion are falsely reputcd know Shakespeare but there
seems prospect that in the coming generation,
he viii be known them through buresques and that
bis PLAYS will find a new life pantOmimes A bottle
nosed Lear VIII come with monstrous corDuleuce.
from which he will fTancay dance himself free during
grotesque ballet With shepherds and sDephertesses
Mrs. Butler (NIiss Elizabeth thompson has
in the Royal Academy this year pathetic picture OF
the al Jealabad OF the faint and worn sur
vYor OF 90 army of 10000 men sent out - fight the
Afrhans in 1912. The artist tod the Locdon CORE
spoudeu Of The Hartford CoVTaSt that she had had this
tragic incident n her mind ,or many years when
was altc child she heard her father "Ihere Is
subject for panter-one of the tragic Incidents
H. VII be he arIIst Of bis nme" And a very remark
able picture AIs daughter has nldcoi IT,
Mr.. Justice Miller, Of the Supreme Court, is
quoted relating story told him OF Daniel webster
by the late Judge Curtis Il illustrates Webster's
professional hfc he had been employed junior conn
Sc 10 1ir Webster in important case. c0nsulta-
ton being necessary, Mr. Wcp5ryr invited him t0 cal 90
Dis olcc early hour after Daylight as he could
End convenient when he arrived he found Mr. Web
s-er g. th the uaners on TIE table before him pen IN
hand. aud several sheets or paper written over am
veTg glad t0 yOu,' sald Mr Webster " nave been
t31in flv brain for the last sc minutes for the proper
word iu tAe sentence ust writing, ana can't CAL 10
mp. Perhaps YOU can assist me-" Alter some suG-es-
tions the proper word was found, 70 M NeUsters oe
LEut, and the consultation fIutfcutO
A striking incident in Mr Linc0ln's Official
life is related Dy Judge BrOmwell, Of Denver who Wis
tied the White House in March, 1868 Mr. Seward and
several other gentlemen were also present, and the
President gradually TO tsk on decisions OF life and
death Al osher matters submitted to him he declared,
were nothing 10 these, and be added: Il
reckon there raised III the country on
o farm where they always butcherlng cattle and
hogs and think nothing Of t. that ever grew up with
such an aversion TO bOodshed have and yet I've
had more questions OF lie and death % settle in four
years than all the men ever this char put TO-
gether But I've managed 20 get along and my duty,
as believe aDd sill save most of them and there's no
man knows the distress OF my mind But there have
been OF them couldn't saVe-there some eases
where the law must DE executed. There that man
-. was sentenced for piracy and slave
trading on he high That a case where there
must be example, ana you don't know how they fol-
lowed and pressed get him parioned OF his sentence
commUtcd; but there was use Of talking. II had to
De uouti cOuluus uctp utiif anu tth 'uti0 was ''t
-, no was caught spying and recruiting wijhin
Popes lines i'm Missouri. That another case. They
besleged me day and night, Dut coulcn't give way
We had To point where some hng must De Done
tnat would put a such work. And then there
was tn ease Of Beal. on the lakes. IBat case
where tuere must De example. 1dry ucd NE every
way. They wouldn't give up; but had % stand hrm
on that and even had To turn away nls Door sister
when .ho came and begged FOR his life and let him De
executed and he was executed ana can't eeI te dls
tress Out my mind yet" AS the kindly man uttered
these words the tears ian dO"E AS c.eebs a. INC g e
There profound silence ID wlcn they rose 10 dt-
part. IN &c weeks after the President killed.