New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-14
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PERSONAL.

Mr.. TennysOn has been nominated to the LORD
Rectorship of Glasgow University.
Mrs. Hayes will Witness May 81, the laying Of
the cornerstone of the new Wesleyan DOrmitory
Middletown. Conn. President Porter of Yale, is to
give the address,
Mr.. Henry Clay, grandson of the statesman. and
now Prosecuting Attorney of Louisville, has Joined
Lieutenant Howgate's Arctic Expedition. Mr. Clay
is accomplished man, twenty-nine years old.
Mrs. Eleanor Sherman Thackara is wise young
lady. She declared that her trousseau and her we'd
ding gifts were her own private property, and she
wouldn't allow them to be paraded in the news
papers,
Letters just received in this city mention that
Nine. Gerster-Gardini was at Bologna on the 25th
Of April The condition of her health is highly sat
lsfactOry; and there is beautiful little girl.
NJ Jean Baptiste Leon Say, the new French Am
bassadOr to England, is now ffty-fve years old.
He is married to tho daughter of NJ. Bertn princi-
pal proprietor Of the L@bats, of which journal N.
Say has been an editor.
Mrs. Langtry appeared as E6le Deans" in Lon
don tableau entertainment the other evening She
is described "a looking very lovely In her simple
blue serge pettcOat and jacket Of lowered print,
her face downcast. her fair hair flowing.
Secretary and Mrs. Sherman. Senator Conklna
and Senator Jones are mentioned as going to the
circus lately in Washington. Herein lies one charm
of Republican Government. How curiOusly would
read the statement that MOltke or Gladstone OF
Beaconsficld had attended the circus.
Judge William P. Daingerfeld, of the Superior
Court of California fell dead from the bench in his
courtroom last week, an instant after making q
testing remark to the clerk. Judge Daingerfied
was of Virgnian birth. and had lived III California
since 1850.
President Hayes Is reported by The Baltimore Bull
lehn as saying that be intends to go to the Pacific
Coast this Summer. He added that no President
during his term of Office had visited that coast and
he was anxious to such fine country and meet
the people Of that section, whom he looked upon az
among the most thriving and best OF the Amer
leans.
Mrs. Blaine" the Washington correspondent o.
The Syracuse Journal says, "is fair-haired, tall
rather stout, with digniAed carriage, and manner
earnest and practical. Sincerely conscientious
Mrs. Blaine seems to belong to o race Of New
England women not always to be met with even
among the rugged hills, and rarely seen elsewhere
A beautiful home-life is the result of her wise
management. Already her sons are in business,
and popular In society and Miss Alice, the eldest
daughter beautiful girl OF eighteen stands beside
the mother like a younger sister. though Miss
Mary is home from school, she is understood to be
not as yet in society. Miss Dodge, better known as
Gail Hamilton. is for half of the year, member of
this lovely family. The moving throngs OF visitors
nt the Executive Mansion would be amply and
generously entertained if the coming contest should
seat Senator Blaine In the chair of state. Mrs.
Blaine ever sympathiZeS most deeply with her
brIlli1ut husband in his political exploits and am
billions yet would gladly persuade him to retire to
private lite"
LONDON, May 3-The Marquis Of Ripon, the new
Vlceroy and his staff left here to-day for India by
the wav of Brindisi ... Prince Leopold will sail
from Liverpool to-day in the steamer Sandman
for Montreal Thomas Hughes will visit the
limited States this Summer. The Emperor OF
Rnssia will not paw his usual visit TO Ems but
will 90 TO some other German watering place dur.
ing the Summer. The Right Hon: Robert Lowe
and the Right Hon. +: h: Observation-Disclosures,
London University and Sandwich, respectively
have taken leave Of their constituencies. prepare
tory to entering tho peerage.