New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-01
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| A monument to the late Priuc" Imperial will be
erected III South Africa by the British Colony.
General Garfield is building himself handsome
| and picturesque new house at Mentor, Ohio having
| torn down the Old one.
VI. de Chennevieres has proposed that portraits of
| all the members of tho French Academy shall be
placed in album and preserved IN the library Of
| the institute.
Mr.. John Fsko will soon deliver three lectures on
American Politca! Iieas" before the Royal Insti-
tuition Iondon). NJ. Ernest Renan will also lecture
before the same society on !" Marcus Aurelius."
MIR. Iownshend. who made himself unpleasant in
Congress the other day. is described as q man in
the prime Of life, tail. dark-cyed slender, wiry,
cXcitable and full OF words.
General Grant. 1t is said. intends to pay the doc
tors bill of tho small boy who was severely injured
by falling from a warehouse while observing the
Generals arrival at Galveston. He will moreover,
make the youth handsome present a,,d if. when
hc RECEIVERS, lie proves 10 DC deserving tho General
viii Ind linn employment. Sd runs the Galveston
tale.
Senator Thurman. since his recent illness has
been forbidden by his physician tosmolse more than
two cigars day. He has been devoted and per-
sistrnt smoker. 1t Ia not thought that his illness
VIII have any serious effect upon his constitution
lie Is a rebrliion> pat'ent and utterly declines to
obey the doctors command to stay III bed.
The Hon. Eugene Hale. before entering upon the
study of law, was o student for few years at
Hebron Academy. the principal of which was then
Mark H. Dunnell, now a member of Congress from
Minnesota. He studied law with Howard g. Sirout,
at Portland. from whose office the Hon. Thomas
u. Reed was admitted 10 the bar few years later.
Professor Thomas Bill. long president OF tho
Linnean Saciety. and at the age of eighty.four
editor of Gilbert Whites Selborne" has lust died
at Sclbornc on tho estate which once belonged to
W md w he frop p; ~,
neccs. He delighted IN collecting every relic and
memorial of his predecessor. and his honsa and
grounds were always open to the lovers of Whites
fascinating work.
Yesterday WAS the thirticth anniversary of the
death of John Z. Calhoun. After the fall Of
Fort Sumter, few of his former friends
took the responsibility of removing his "a
mains from the Hugirnot Cemetery N Charleston.
TO what they considered u more perfect place OF
safety. Where they now rest is known only to
such OF these persons rs are living.
Bishop Bowman, presiding over the New-York
Fast Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church
is graduate of Dickinson College. Carlisle Penn.
lie was elected Bishop eight years ago at the Genc.
raj Conference held in Brooklyn. Bishop, Wiley.
presiding oyer the Ncw-York Methodist Conference.
was elected tn She Episcopal Office eight years ngo
II" had been editor Of The Lcdys Rr,oy;tory now TTs
,dtionat hfp9sorg one Of the official publications
VI the Methodist Episcopal Church.
i"e "oo'hb VI INC irihcesS St>phanc 10 described
by Brussels correspondent as having been very
practical. AT al entertainment ut tho palace Ru.
iolph and the Princess found thens lives for o mo
ment alone. The Prince, seizing tho opportunity
md preserving tho cOurtly style which il no.
where more rigorous than Mt Vienna, said:
y Madame. Will You have me for your husbandf"
The reply was simplicity itself, "Yes, MonseigneurD
y Your Highness's answer makes me very happyD
'ajOined tho Prince and she added, And prom.
SO You that under all circumstances I will do my
luty." This Was oil. and they wont out together 10
'eioin the royal family, when Prince Rudolph said
% the King, Sire, with your Msjesty's permission
have asked the Princess Stephanie TO aceent
ne as her husband. have the pleasure 10
been accepted" 81 am happy, Monsegneur. to re-,