New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-18
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PERSONAL.

Mr.. J. X. Osgood will sail for Europe next week
Cbief-Justice Waite is spending his Summer a.
usual as his old home in Lyme, Conn.,
General Trevino, of the Mexican Army and b,s
bride-formsrly Miss Ord-intcnd 10 live at San a.
Luis Potosi.
President Hayes has determined 10 remain mt
Washington until the miudle Of August. He will
then spend a fortnight IN Ohio and after attending
the meeting Of his old regiment on September l.
viii go to the Pacific coast.
General Grant is going down the Rio Grandc
with some Boston gentlemen rs far as the Corillos
and Iandias He will then return 10 Colorado for tho
rest of the Summer. General Sherman will return
TO Washington from his Western journey August
Senator Don Cameron is quoted Ivy The Cincinnati
Commercial saying that he had indeed been ont Of
health and had been obliged 10 20 TO the SPRINGS
and abandon all business or anything requiring
exertion, but be never regarded IL as serons. Tie
thought his friends were oycr-anxious simply and
needessly alarmed He felt 50 far improved that
he should return TO his usual yocations oi life lie
was in high spirits to the political outlook. lie
held that Garfield and Arthur would DO elected
matter of AS to there being any DOUBT about
Pennsylvania, That was all NONSENSE He had two
hours consultation with Governor jeweii, Chair
man of the National Committee IN which the cam
paign discussed and work mapped out Tor the
future.
friend of George Eliots writes from Eng
land 10 The Romans Journal: I" Mr.. John Cross
is an excellent man of forty-two years. rich.
and an old and devoted friend of the
Leweses Mr. Lewes was very fond OF bin. He
lived close by the Leweses country place, and came
in and ont like an attached relation. He admired
Mrs. Lewes profoundly, and always said he would
do ANYTHING in the world for her. lie is not an in
telectual companion like Mr.. Lewes, but strong,
solid reliable man, who gives you ut once sense
of confidence a thoroughly reliable, kind, up
-. 1g,rA "A
man as any woman would be thankful TO have near
her as a constant and devoted friend. Nothing is
more wise and more happy than that such an H.
Valuable friend should be allowed to SIMPLY the
daily care and atfectionate COMPROMISING wilch
his admiration and his affection DOM maze nm
long to give And Mrs. Lewes is not the woman.
with her tender and yielding nature $50 uncoD-
scionsIy sketched in Maggie Tulliver and Dorotheal
To resist the soothing support OF such devoted
affection"
Mr.. Carl Petersen whose name is connected with
some of the most renowned Arctic explorations,
died nj Copenhagen on June 24. Mr.. Petersen was
\ iarn Dane but had lived many years IN Green
land. End fad there acquired perfect know edge
of the Esouairaux lanage, being at the same time
n most skilled hunter aud fisherman. At the age OF
tbirty-seven he was engaged hy Captain Penny as
interpreter, and accompanied his EXPEDITION IN me
years 1s50'51. Some years later he followed III.
Kane on his unfortunate expedition when the YES
sci had to be left in the ice and the crew were
nearly starved and frozen 10 death. lie had not
been home more than a couple of weeks after re-
turning from two years stay in Greenland before
he went out again interpreter with the Fox. Cap
tain Sir Leopold McChntock with Mr. tnow sin
Allan Young rs sailing master or this expedition,
lasting from 857 to 1859 and leading to the DIS
coverv OF the fate of Sir John Franklin. he has
written o graphic description, supplying many de-
tails wanting in the well-known book OF Sir L. Me-
Clintock and inscribed with the words chosen by
Jane Franklin for the flag of the Fox " Hold FAST"
In 1861 he accompanied the Swedish natnralists
Nordenskj0d and Torell their first expedition TO
Spzbergen, and when, IN last April. the vega
passed Copenhagen the hardy old sportsman and
sailor with his cross and Arctic medal, was one OF
the friendly faces greeting the dscoverer of the
Northeast Passage Mr. Petersen died from heart
disease at the age of sixty-seven.
WASHINGTON July 17.-Information was re-
ceived at the State Department to-day that Mr.
Maynard left Constantinople yesterday homeward
bound to the United States
LONDON, july 1.-THE Duchess of Westminster
is seriously ill..A Berlin dispatch to The Morn
ina Post says that the Emperor William declines TO
meet the Emperor Francis Joseph at Gastein but
he suggests an interview at lschel.