New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-11
PERSONAL.

Mr. Thomas Bayley Potter VI. F.. is to be
entertained by the Merchants Club 81 Boston at the
Parker House This afternoon. The political. Judicial
aud literary celebrities OF the region invited 10
/ him.
Senator Blaine and General Ewing are rel
atives. aud good friends spite political differences
Mr. Blaine has making speeches IN OHIO in posi-
10 Tie Geucral-aGd taxing tea with INN in chance
| Interval.
The Governors of the thirteen original
STATES of America % meet in Philadelphia on the
10Th 10 arrange for tie centennial celebration
surrender n Yorktown. IL L. possible that fney will
also yisit YORKTOWN together.
M NiOllet-Leduc was man Of nerve, and
showed IN the last remty oil lie. Apo
plexy caused his death. and when first fell ne
drew h.s peaknfe ana attempted 10 cut vein but
brain ana hanI sulled before could accomplish
| his purpose
Oh Herr Bsrthold Aucrbach's stout belief in
his powers aud appreciation II his many
anIusin- stories told rs tile Germans. valued
correspondent The IKIBUSE that every year
Amer bach visits three four fashionable watering
places each OF which the following episode occurs
L ast thirty times: The novelist INDUCES in small
t wh e ts Children h Of the Rs,yes ana inyar
has p sen tal1i with thee BerthOd AueIbach. Tell
tnat 70 hOrae ~
General sherman is remembered as prae-
Jaw III Lelyenworth-tAa Is TO s~ he waited pa
tentiy clients Iona time. aud last gor small
al size. and looked up authorities and care
islB prepared himself Then he went INTO court and a
lawyer, who Is picturesqueiy described as spike
hair,d7 came aud won MS away from him. Tue
future General az the Army, yOwlng Ee'd never try
another case 10 hsn' picked up ms BOOKS and walked
way and he Kept h.s vow.
Mr.. IIoratio Seymour declares that he is glad
to see railroads succeed. but the expense Of tie
canals The railroads. The BNga5o ExPress quotes
him as saying, not creative, ~ the canas are.
ma Huan A
labor 4 many more ways than does Transports
ton the railroads. The latter, Tor Instance cannot
carry quantities az st0ne clay, lumber bulk IS tho
do, yet think II tile vast employInent
that Is given IN producing lumber from the ior-
est stones from The QuSrres and clay from the earfl
lncse things lie directly the ba-is ~ Industry.
they represent values IN larger than most OF Inc
freight carried oy The railroads"
Senator George IL. Pendletou says that he
never but once carried a pistol and that was Ia Syria
when he young man. d" had pistol" BE said to
a CORES ponoent OF The Enquirer OF Cincinnati. that
had been 50 long loaded Thought II shoot
on At the time were 4uartuuued a little Arab
hole. ot earthly reSson had nothing TO give any
body aud there travellers coming or going.
Jaw NANCY. starvelnZ miserable dog around
cooking apparatus aud taking aim at him / suppose |
tn.oag tie heart. fOs he eiprd several feet m
the air aud fell stone dead Ibey raised more VGtcry
mat dog than the pstOi Was worth. aud 10
money and diplomacy 20 ret away"
1t Is not often remembered that VI. Victor
Hugois Couni and OF family that has borne
title since 1881. AlexAn Ire Dumas was, and his
L. by the Ordinary French law OF Marquis lie
Palictere, perhaps not one Ia ten even 81 their
educated coun tIyucn saHafc 0l Ae fact II Las been
said with soe truth % NJ rners that he forgaye
the noblsss" for having been bora rOtuger.' Az
coriiugy Marshal sDult, who himself Duke Of
Dalmatia aud a deyout worshipper OF rank. condo
scendlngly addressed him a. NJ. le Baron" Theirs
mockirgy whispered: Al g. VI rechal. surprising
wanted a title, don't you thlnS should have gwen my
SELF better should awe made myself AT least
duAe"
LONDON, Oct. 10.-The Paris correspondent
OF Ire Standard states that General Edward + Noyes.
the Amer.cAa Minister France, aud the Hon. Icins
Fai-chlld. the American Consul PARIS. With lheir
wives. Will shortly 10 Egypt. North Africa and spain.
They Will be absent about three mouths