New-York tribune., 1880-02-06
PERSONAL.

senor Flores. former Minister from Ecuador to
the United States is spending the Winter in this
city.
General Robert Toombs is to give the address this
vear before the Literary Societies OF the University
Of Mississippi.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair is reported by The Wash
iyoion Star ~ saying that MT. George Bancroft is
even prouder Of owning his new thoroughbred.
which he daily rides than of writing the history of
the United States.
David Stuart, the noted merchant of Philadel-
phia and Liverpool, has Just died in England in bis
seyenty-third year He man OF strong char
noter and excellent business talent. Hewas known
"a sturdy Unionist during the Civil War
JE. Canchon, Governor of Manitoba.
Ina ,ust been married in Chicago to Miss Emma Le-
moline, daughter of the Clerk of the Canadian SEN
ote II was the third marri tge of Mr. Cauchon, who
is sixty-three years old. HIS wife is tweniy-fOur
A large number of ladies most prominent in Gin
cinuati society have memorialized the Chamber Of
Commerce to take action toward commissioning
Mr. Preston Powers to make full fength statue of
Mr. Reuben Springer for the Music Hall in their
city.
Mr. Ruskin is quoted az saying: d" You fancy You
ore sorry for the pain of others. Now. tell you
inst this that If the usual course of war; instead of
| nnroofng peasants houses and ravagng peasants
1 fields merely broke the china upon your own draw
| last a week"
The passion for statuary continues in Boston un-
abated The latest proposition there is TO erect
| stotue of Liefr Eric or Ericsson, who in the year
1000 yovaged from Iceland and it is supposed dis
| covered Nova Scotia and Outh-eastern New Eng
| land. which he called Vnand. Mr.. j. Q. A. Ward
has finished statue of this old sailor. which. at any
rate must be picturesque one. Eric il represented
! IN Morse clothes leaning on a spear This must be
| better artlsicallv considered, than knee breeches
| or swallow-tailed coats, or even cooked hats.
The late Jules Favre. while q most eloquent
| peader is said to have hardly ever won case For
all his biting wit he a man of very delicate sem
| sibilities-a good-hearted, warm-blOOded man
quite sentimentast, in fact, who could shed tears
at will. Judges smiled derisvely at one another
when they saw him bring ont his pocket. handker-
chief ard dry the drops which coursed another
down his innocent nose In plteOus chase y but the
pnblic-who perceived that his eyes were really red
| and swollen when he hurried ont of court, as II
| oyerpOwered by emOton-regarCed Nj. Favre q
| man Of generous stun.
Senator Bruce in a lecture at Baltimore the other
evening urged tho idea that the negro. being in
debted to the country for his freedom. more the
citizen of the Nation than of any state section.
| and must be true to the National Government
at oil times. Marshal Frederick Douglass at the
conclusion of the Senator's lecture, made q short
| address In which he said that "the three-story
| headed black Senator" had never during MS Sena-
| torial term "by word or deed done anything which
did not reflect great credit upon " cOlored race"
| and that he |" was an honor TO the country"
IF the President says The Hartford Courant.
| "had desired to reward a biOgrapher he would have
| long ago sent Mr. w. ID. Howells abroad, and the
country would have been benefited by his services
In Arst-clasS mission. Probably the only reason