New-York tribune., 1880-10-01
PERSONAL.

The colored people of North Carolina are to hays
a State Fair of their own az Raleigh, aud Frederick
Douglass is to deliver the address.
Both Mr.. George William Curtis and Professor
Charles Eliot Norton. of Harvard. have turned their
backs on their summer homes in Ashteld. Mass.
Only twenty-tour hours separated their dopaTtufes.
Mr. Walt Whitman, who is at Niagara Falls and
Will return to his home near Philadelphia thu
week is said to have travelled 5000 miles In Can.
ada during the summer
Mr.. Thomas Hughes Is writing letters to The Loh-
don Spectator over the p>eudonyin Nacuus NiatoI'
which Is n tain mask Tor the gcnalty OF the author
of" Tom Brown at Rug5y crops out unmistak.
ably. In speaking of his visit To Cincinnati no
says that city has done well To adopt thH motto
Laudace tout ours Paudace, which X indeed, clai-
acteristic of this country and this t!me."
President Grevy's salary and allowances amount
to about S1S0.000 yearly, the salary proper being
Sl20, 900 At the end OF his seven years term he
WILL consequently have received 81 2g0,O00 ont u
the public treasury. lie is not penurous, aud man
ages to spend this large sum in receptons aad sub
scripll0ns. He gave ! 900 to the American yellow
fever fund. Before he was President be did not
keep a carriage and lived in little house az Passy.
Colonel Gordon is credited by The Aorih Cana
HerOM with having offered this plain language TO
the Chinese Ministry: &" Ii is idiotlc for Chlna 10
think she take the Geld againS. Russia. But If
you will fight then carry your Count and Enlrcror
your archives and all the rusty AID croakiug ma
chinery of your central government, far away into
the interior OF the country Tor once hosiilites are
begun on the eastern scabUarG. Russia VIII, IN few
weeks. be mistress of Pehing Only b. assured tnat
this means the downfall of your dynasty"
In May last the late Dr. William Adams. m pr
yaUe letter, spoke follows of bis old friend. Dr.
Muhlenberg. the phlanthropIst: 81 have been
reading this evening the life of Df Muhleubcrg.
and have been melted into tenderness by many of
its incidents. He was "A yeritable saint. with moth
ing of ascetIciSm about hun he knew he greatness
and the bessedness of sc.i-Suhectlon for tie gooi
of Others He was truly catholic ia spirit whils
cordially attached To his own church. HIS taste
gratiiCd by it's forms OF ship, aud by tho glt
observance Of its cal, ndaT lie left hls ideas 81
representative communion rs legacy with nv. 90
b. calrIcd INTO execution, and am rcpr1achrd,Fh
looking upon Bls sweet aud brIuiiul tac". n'cffs,n
have been Vigetfui o. ths tIusI Moie Ot tnls
hereafter"
Mr.. r.. II. Mcdonald. of san Francisco. oder
500 900 toward endowment fund ior thus-
tian University, on condition that an rquai sum
shall be raised by the Bdpu,t, Presbyterian. Ep.c-
palian, Congrogat.onal and Methodist dcn0miui-
tioms. lie stipuates that ali persons ot.,rtisa
meeting the prescribed requirements Tor entrance
shall be admitted 10 She University upon ,qsll
terms, without regard to thor religions opinions.
nationality, sex color; thlt 40 professor, rl..It
or employe $ all be- connected vita the l'nN, iiI
IN any OF It's department, who ~ addicted to iu"
use OF tobacco or opium M any form, 81 Mo u,ri
spiriluous feImented or mali liquor. Of any ktd Or
character as beverage aud ,hai uo1e ot these af-
tlces shalt be allowed u DO sold or used - ia % on
Or about the premises.
An aged resident Of Kent recalls an incident con-
nected with Lord Nelson's visit to school in
Wimbledon. short time before ne went fo taAo
command of the fleet with wh'ch he gained the We
Itl
boys and when tie visited the schooi the bofs
always got a ho iday. On Of his visit-. winch
took place at the dinner hour be came into tie dr-
ing hail the boys rose 10 salute him, when he tod
them 10 resume their seats n H. wanted t0sr' trn
eat They did 40. while be walked round thr iahiD
much eniOying the sight. A. another time. duuug
theatrical prri rnance at ire ,cho0. bY amlicufs.
Lord Nelson g. 'd one Ol TIE boys 10 him where io
remained durf he evening, ana wniic There ~.
mircd the star o = coat. Lord Nelson eudcINofrd
TO remove a for the hoy. tut, finding be- could not
do So he took the sash Of some order he was wearing
and decorated the urchn.