New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-05
Is another living in this city-the Hon. Michael
Ulshoefer. now more than ninety years old.
PERSONAL.

| Ex-Governor Hoffman will not leave Paris until
| June.
N. Outrey, the French Minister, will, with his
wife, go to Saratoga this Summer, and will travel
| through the White Mountains and other American
| regions which he has not yet seen.
Senior Zamacona the Mexican Minister. sails for
home to-day from this port. He will return in the
Autumn and meanwhile the Legation will remain
In charge of Mr.. de Cuellar the first secretary.
The Rev. DIR. A. J, Epson, of Albany. is mentioned
as possible successor Of Professor Herrick John
son at Auburn Theological Seminary. The commits
sOners will conduct the election to-day.
DR.. c. II. F. Peters, Of Hamilton College, has re-
ceived from the French Academy of Sciences the
Lalande prize for the discovery of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Eight Of them he first saw during the past year.
The aspect which Mr.. Simon Cameron presents to
the newspaper man is graphically described by The
Herald of Boston. ITO the interviewer" says that
Journal " he is tomb" To other visitors the ex-
Secretary IL courteous and hosptable and likes to
make them at home
Genrcal John A. Suffer, the energetic German,
who in the prime of his manhood did so much to
develop the far western coast of America is now
living in Pennsylvania, broken in health and re-
duced In purse. 1t was of this gallant old Forty
miner" that General Sherman said that to him
moro than any other single person are wa indebted
for the conquest of California with all its treasures
Mrs. ScOtt-Sddons is quoted as saying that she
went on the stage ut sixteen without lesson, and
has never had any dramatic training othor than
that of experience. She played POrt2 the first
time she was ever on tho stage and that with only
o weeks notice and but one rehearsal. She hadn't
the least instruction about gestures; nobody SAID
word to her about the stage business. =" made a
success at first" says the actress and from that
time to this have not lacked engagements"
OF the late DR.. Webb. the brother Of Mrs. Hayes
the Washington correspondent of The Troy Times
says "He was handsome, plainly dressed, solid
looking man of perhaps fifty, with the vivid color
ings of his sister he looked like country doctor
who would do his wise and conscientious best for
his patients. He expressed fear to mo that the
Hayes children ght get spoiled by living In the
White House and in his whole bearing and con-
did not seem at all set up by the situation, while
appreciating it with grave Of its worth and
duties to his sister and her huSband.D
The venerable Mrs. Sylvanus Cobb, the widow Of
the well-known Universalist clergyman and the
mother of the writer, has just died in Boston. She
WINS q woman Of great energy and determination.
When, many years ago. her husband was a member
of the Massachusetts Legislature, committee of
Mrs. Cobl1s denominational friends visited her to
ask her to influence her husband to recede from his
position of obstructng bill to prohibit extraju-
dica oaths. The stout-hearted younG matron said
that she glOricd In her ieRe lords position. 10 the
suggestion that her childrens bread and butter
might depend upon her action, she replied that
rather than ask her husband to change his course
she would take the children to the woods and feed
upon nuts and acOrns. No further effort was made
in that direction.
ToRoNTo. Ont, May 4.-The Hon. George Brown
appears to be gradually sinking. He has taken
very little nOurlShment.