New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-16
PERSONAL.

Nine Gerster will sal for New-York by the City
of Richmond, leaving Liverpool september %.
Nine. Theirs, carrying large trcolor bouquet,
and accompanied by number of friends has Just
attended mass celebrated for the repose of her
late husband.
The late Tom Taylors will gives to his widow,
Laura Wilson Taylor, all his property for life, as to
the income and as TO the principal at her death,
for his children. she shall by deed will appoint
She is also made guardian Of the children.
Prince Charles, the cbildless ruler of Roumania.
has adopted as his heir, Prince Ferdinand, the sec
ond son of his eldest brother the Hereditary Prince
of HohenzoIlern. The youth is pupil in the
High School at Dusseldorf The chief objection to
this arrangement came from his mother, who, as a
devoted Roman Catholic, protested against her
sons secession to the Greek Catholic Church in
sisted upon by the Roumanlan Cabinet.
Archbishop Gibbons gives pleasant picture of
the Pope as he saw HIM during his recent visit in
Rome He welcomed me heartily" says the Arch
bishop " and made me feel at home. He is about
seventy years of age tall aud erect, OF very thin
figure His face is perfectly palc-as pale as Cardi-
nal Mannings. His countenance shows great in
tellect happy blending of gentleness and force of
character. He has a benign countenance."
The wedding of Miss Easton, niece of Mr.. ID. o.
Mills and Mr.. C. F. Crocker, vce-president of the
Southern Pacific Railway, pretty aud pictur-
esque one. 1t took place at Mbrae. the California
country seat of Mr.. Mills and special train of five
draw room cars conveyed a crowd of guests in
full dress from San Francisco to Millbrae Station
Mr. Charles Croker, the father of the young hus-
band gave hun a wedding present of n handsome
residence In San Francisco, whIe Mr. Mills pre-
scented to his niece a costly country house at Menlo
w. H. Wills, who died in IIcrtfordshrc Septem-
Der l. will long be remembered OF the crea-
tors of Punch and as for many years the acting
editor of Household Words and Al the Year ROuRd
Mr. Wills was the devoted assistant Of Dickens and
to him are ad Iessed many of the pleasantest
letters in the volume Of Dckens's CORE
spondence recently published. He was also
for years the Baroness Burdett .Coutts's wise
counsellor and the efficient director of most
of her important schemes and undertakings. Mr.
W Ills seventy years old. He Christian
gentleman-a man of singular kindness and unset
iishness. The only regret which disturbed his
death bed was that of leaving behind him certain
work on which he had set his heart, and by which
he had hoped TO do good. This book was almost his
last conscious thought HIS wife was the sister of
William and Robert Chambers.
President Hayes, appearing on the hotel balcony
at Virginia New. the other day, sad Familiarity,
among other things. to the crowd below Money
YOU may lose and presume some OF you have lost
some In your day, but long as you have health and
this land you must prosper. In coming across the
continent out here the desert somewh here, we
came across little place of four five houses and
there a and wife and two children came
out to SEQ US. | asked where the town was and
was answered Here this is all there Is Of It,"
inquired how long they had lived there and was
told five years. aud the little boy saw was a. gen.
tlemanly as any reared anywhere. l asked il they
were never tired Of life amid such surroundings,
aud " thav newer ionaed to get back tn NHv-E"s-