New-York tribune., 1879-05-06
PERSONAL.

Mr. James Gordon Bennett will, it is said,
90 tiger hunting in India next Winter.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves son has taken
charge of an Episcopal parish In Mane and is about To
be married to a young lady in Cambridge Mass.
Mrs. Jenny -Goldschmidt's eldest daugh-
ter has pretty voice. lat Mrs. Hooper says that she
has not inherited her mothers love for art and will not
study.
George Eliot's overwhelming grief at the
death of her husband is reported to have aggravated
an ncurabe internal malady that her health is hope
essy shattered.
Colonel r. w. HiggInson has a handsome
Swiss villa nearly completed at West Manchester Mass.
n well situated and is Of the pretest cottages
that shore.
All of Mrs. Nellie Grant SartOris's brides
maids except twO-Mss Barnes and Miss Fish--are now
married Miss Bessie Conkllng was the sixth Of those
eight young ladies'
Cornelius Vanderbilt who spent his last
Summer at Ehoron, and was expected there again. has
taken instead, a farm MOrrstown. NewJersey TO
which he intends to remove his family, If the hot
weather ever comes Its striking feature is fine
brook or creek in navigating which he probably hopes
that his boys may learn to emulate the earlier achieve
ments Of their great-grandfather.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was not ashamed upon
occasion to play II is recorded of him that he
was often seen pleasant Summer afternoons in sa.
Iem funding his baby in a baby-carriage around the
paths OF the Common in solitary and sedate meditation
The novelist always reciuse during his life in
SALEM taking interest in local affairs and not
cOuraging social approaches
Queen Victoria is said to object seriously to
the feminine fashion Of wearing the hair o fringe
across the forehead II is stated further that she
structed the bridesmaids who appeared at the recent
wedding of her that they would be permitted to
wear their locks in that fashion, to don hsh-heeed
boots nor to wear tieback gowns Last year. it IL
rorted, one young lady who came to a Drawng-Room
with her hair over her eyes informed by the Lord
Chamberlain until her hair had grown she need not
attend any more &C the Palace
Miss Emma Thursby has before her most
gratifying prospects, She will remain during the pres
ent season In London she then goes TO sing At the Ger
man waeringplaces. She will return to England for
the Hereford Festival in September and for tho fulfil
ment of engagements in tho Provinces during October
and November. She will afterwards go back to Paris to
sing at the Conserya0re, aud also a, the concerts OF
Pasdeloup and Colonne Then follows a tour in the
Feuch Provinces and In Holland to which succeed en-
gapemens in Berlin. Vienna Prague, Pestl ~ Peters
bnrg and Moscow. The next season she VIII spend IN
England and will return 10 America III the Autumn of
1880.
BERLIN, May 5.-The presence Of Herr Wind
thors the Utramontane leader in the Reicbetag. az
Prince Bismarcks Parliamentary soree, has caused COG
siderable comment
ROME, May 5.-William w. Story, the Ameri-
can sculptor ha. just completed q clay model for
statue OF sardanapslus.
LONDON, May 5.-The Daily Ne'cs says there
is reason TO believe that the Prince oi Wal0s viii visit
the Australian International Exhibition.