The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-10-17
FOREIGN PERSONALS.

The poet Whittier. it is said, will visit New
York soon, for the first time in many years.
The death is announced of NJ. Jules JAG.
quemart, tho celebrated water.color painter
and etcher, at the age of forty.two.
Princess Louise at last accounts was at
Linz on the Danube and travelling toward
Salzberg, the capital of the Austrian Tyrol.
a dispatch to the London Standard from
Berlin says the report that DR.. White, the
American minister, intends to retire is un.
founded
a french statesman, pre- uming to speal,
Tor Gambelta, says tho latter would much
rather have German alliance than war
with Germany.
Senior Zamscona is not going to France
but will return to his old post at Washington
with his family, at the close of the present
month.
The Grand Dukes Sergius and Paul OF
Russia are going to Italy for the winter.
They are to spend some five months between
Florence, Rome and Naples,
Heine's niece, the Princess della Rocca, Is
about TO publish in italian volume OF
souvenirs of the Private Life of Heinrich
Heino." II is fortunate for her tina. her
uncle is dead.
The Baroness Burdott Coutts' sister, Mrs,
Clara Maria Money, and Mrs. Moneys son.
have been allowed TO use the surname Coutti
in addition to and after Money, and to bear
the arms Of Coutts.
Justice Clifford, of the United States
supreme court, who WAS thought to be dan
gerous III, is much improved, and no fears
whatever are now entertained by his friends.
1t is stated on the authority of the Liver
pool Albion that the bishop of Liverpool,
Or. Kyle, upon driving away from the church
of St. Martin.in-the Fields, one Sunday eve.
nlsg not long ago, was mobbed by crowd
Of roughS several Of whom threw stones al
tho carriage.
The sudden death is announced of DR..
Wins, the celebrated surgeon of Germany.
and one OF the luminaries of scientific and
professional Berlin. His death was the result
OF ood'poisoning, consequent on an acc-
dental lesion during the performance Of an
operation,
The last English papers announce the
death of Sir We're dc We're, eldest son of tho
late Sir Aubrey do We're, author of "Mary
Tudor" and of Admiral Sir John Walter
Iarleton, who had received medals from the
Humane Society and the congress of the
United States for saving life-the "Somers
medal" probably.
Mrs. Theirs insisted that NJ. Mercie, in pre-
pairing his statue of her husband, which was
inaugnrated a few days ago, should repre-
sent him as seated in his ofiice.cha out
when she insisted on having bronze casters nut
on the legs the sculptor struck and arranged
for an arbitration by NJ, Bonnat the painter.
who decided against the casters.
The Marquis of Salisbury's brother, Lord
A. Cecil, has been appointed locomotive Su-
gerlntepdent of the Great Eastern Railway.
lie has been in the engineering department of
the Great Eastern Railway for some wears
mas gone throughe every branch of the bust
ness scientific and practical, and is no doubt
qualified for the position to which he has been
promoted.
:, M. Bsrthelemy Saint Hilaire, the new
French Foreign Minister, has translated the
li,ad into French verse; When friend ask.
cd him how he ever found time to make so
many rhymes, he replied that he had done
much OF the work while riding back and
forth IN the omnibus, and that he had found
the regular movement of the horses and the
monotonus noise Of the vehicle stlmulant 10
the poetic faculty, and their regular csdenct
also marked the cadence in the verse.