New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-09
PERSONAL.
1t is, it is q glorious thing to be an

Mr. Alfred Tennyson IS mentioned as receiving
81 800 for De PrOfundis" his poem or slXty-hve
lines recently published in The Nineteenth Century,
Mr. Walt Whitman Is travelling through Canada.
where he expects to remain during the Summer.
The good old gentleman apparently has the travel
ling fever upon him. for he talks OF journeyng also
through the South.
Senator Edmunds's action In Congress the other
day. in opposing an appropriation to Improve" a
mountain stream because 1t would disturb the trout,
recalls the fact that the Senator is an inveterate
and enthusiastic angler. For many years he has
been regular visitor of the salmon rivers of Que
bee and New-Brunswck not & Summer passes IN
which he does not indulge in the fascinating task OF
angling
General Garfield did not allow the excItements of
the Convention to keep him from church last Sun
day. With two or throe other delegates ne drifted
INTO n little church IN Chicago's suburbs, where he
heard an excellent sermon, and was greatly stared
at BY the congregation. At the close of the sermon
the clergyman asked the General to make few
remarks, but the latter did not comply.
Dr. Schlipmann is about to leave Athens for Leip-
sic where he will remain for several months super
intending the publication of the German edition Of
his work. " lIi0s, the City and the Country of
the TrOjans." An English and American edition
will also appear about the same time. The new
book is to be three times tho size of Mycen9,"
and Will contain more than 1000 illustrations.
Miss Longfeow, the poets eldest unmarried
daughter is described as a clover young lady with
astrOng. clearly marked face much resembling her
fathers. She sat in the state dinng-rOOm nj Mount
Vernon the other day wearing q gcndarme blue
dress with brOcadrd ribbons, o curOusly beaten
gold pin combining the lace at her throat, and a
broad, black hat"
Mrs. Garfield is a lady who will honor the White
House by her gentle presence. She is Il woman OF
a sweet and winning spirit. and of bright and culti
waited mind AS Miss Lucreta Rudolph she was
an exceedingly pretty and interesting girl, and
her marriage with the General was both
sides Of ideal affection Her intellect has kept
pace with her husbands; she has studied the books
he studied, taken mp languages with him. and has
trained herself to t her boys for college in the
most thorough manner. She is an excellent Latin
scholar, and is also proficient III several modern lam
glageS She Is mite lady, graceful IN carriage,
and having most frank and charming manners.
Princess Marie of Hanover, youngest sister of
Princess Frederick intends, it is rumOred to follow
her sisters example, and DO married to a cOmmoner:
the fortunate man is Lieutenant Colonel VoReler.
Herr Vogeler, like Baron Rammingen, was O friend
and companion of the late King, the Princesses'
father. Princess Marie is said have been secretly
attached for some years to this gentleman, who
did not hope to aspire to her hand
until the example of Frederick her elder sister. en-
bOldened the two publicly TO announce their en-
gagemeut The Duke of Cumberland, who, as chief
of the house Of Hanover, vainly protested against
the mGsdIOnce of his elder sister will be still more
infatuated at the proposed union of Princess Marie
with an untitled officer. The Duke, who is now
siaying in Itav has become so emblttered by his
continuous Ill fortune that intercourse with him IS
anything but agreeable. HIS wife has left him and
returned with her infant to her parents at COpen-
hagen People assert that the Duchess will not re-
turn 10 her husband for some time.