New-York tribune., 1879-12-23
PERSONAL.

Don Diego COlomb who Is gentleman of the bed
chamber to King Alphonso. has still finer distinc-
ton he is a collateral descendant OF Christopher
Columbus Don Diego is not the only living
representative of his family, for there are stil
Don Ferdinand COlomb, the deputy OF Porto hieo,
and Christophe COomb de la Cerda, the Marquis OF
Jamaica.
Mr.. j. L. Toole is grevousIy afflicted, very far
away now seem his 4" flashes OF merriment.' He has
Just lost after painful illness Of several weeks, his
twenty ty-three-year-old son. law-student Of great
promise and charming disposition. The end was
very sad: Mr. Toole was himself prisoner in his
room beng perfectly helpless with the gout; but
the medical students who had attended the son
with devoted care carried tho father down to the
poor young fellows death-bed.
Mr. George Jacob Holyoakc. singularly unpreju-
diced Briton. unlike the majority of Britons re-
turned to England with a great liking for this
much-abused country 81 never found" he
writes to The London Daily Nars, "among
any people political generosity spontaneous and
complete as among American public men. They
believed. agreed with me that 1t was bad policy, as
well as in gratitude to treat those who. having held
right principles. espoused wrong ones worse
than those who never held and never es-
poused right principles at all. For myself.
allow my friends-whose integrity | know
to go mad upon three things giving them
their choice what they shall be- with
out changing my. personal regard Ior thenl.
The reader will no doubt think this prudence IN me-
since | may need similar indulgence myself Ny
reason is that I have lived 10 know men, both 10
England and America. in whose honesty OF heart
and intellect / have unfalterng trust, adopt views
with all sincerity which thought II Impossible they
could bold, and in wbch could not be brought 10
concur even with the appcatlon OIL machinery
A cousin and school-mate of General Grant says
that Hi "-as the General was called in his child
hood-was short stout plain boy, who talked little
at hnrne
had n tremendous amount Of determination
If he once set about thing he never
rested until he accomplished 1t. Sometimes"
saws this COUSIN the boys would get after the rats
which bad their holes under the old stables and
buildings abOut well, when this scheme was once
on foot Hi would 60 further than anybody else
to get those rats ont. He would stay there and
work after MANY of the others had gwen mp
and he would persist until the stable was nearly
torn down but he'd get the rats ont" Once young
Grants father sent hlm INTO the WOODS WIN ,eanl
strong man could hardly manage. The
boy brought back the logs on the sledge
to the fathers surprise, whose object IN
sending him on such an errand he did
not explain " He had ACCOMPLISHED the task" adds
the chronicler in The Press OF Philadelphia; " but
no doubt he thought his father bad imposed upon
him and had not treated him with justice, for when
be came into the house he could not keep the tears
back Grant was peculiar boy, and II when he
undertook something, an accident occurred or 1t
became impossible for him to accomplish the end he
desired he was apt to cry-not in babyish kind OF
a way at not being able TO get what he wanted, but
as If his prideswero wounded"
WASHINGTON. Dec. 22.-General sherman has
gone to New-York for brief visit.
QUEBEC, Dec. 22.-George Stewart, jr., the author
of work on thu Earl of Duferins administration.
has been elected a member Of the International
Literary Society OF Paris, of which Victor Hugo is
president. MIR. Stewart is the nrst Canadian to en-
JOY this honor
PARIS, Dec. 22.-Victor Hugo In receiving Com
mittee OF the Predetermined Society of the South
American Republics, to urge him to use his influence
with the Paris Municipal Council to chrisen one of
the streets of Paris with the name of Bolivar y
said that he entirely sympathized with the move
ment and promised his support.