New-York tribune., 1880-02-21
PERSONAL.

Madame Tane, the wife of the author Las, Il /.
reported, just died.
Miss Eads, the daughter of the Missi sippi ie.tt.
engineer. is 10 be married next week. in So ispnt
TO General Hazard, prosperous American liy,,
in Liverpool
Mr.. Robert c. Winthrop was host at the dinns,
given In Washington the other evening by Is.
trustees of the Peabody Fund. His danghtcrl..
sisted him In receiving the guests, among whom
were the President aud Mrs. Hayes.
Sefor CASTELAR, receives his friends every week !,
his modest house in Madrid; but according 10 Sps !.
sh custom no supper is offered. The guests simpIv
sit round tho room of the great orator smoke the
paper cigarettes, and listen TO bis sparkling wit ard
brilliant conversation.
One Of the pleasant things to be remembered. /.
the record of sir. James Lenox who died the otbe,
day. was his loyalty to the Union during the lal.
rebellion. He was thoroughly patriotic citizen n
that trying period. and the friends OF the soldier.
always found bin liberal contributor TO all move.
ments for their relief or comfort.
Ex-senator Pomeroy writes from North Carolina
where he s wornnRa gold mine: " Ay process /
invented. It's grand one-nOne Ike it on Size cath
and none in heaven, am sure-fOr where tha
streets paved with gold, what need have we for
mining it I have no ~ 600 week but | do
make enough to pay expenses. and that is pretty
well in the start. live IN q house Of two roo us-g
negro boy 10 cook and have nephew with me and
one other white man all the rest are of the c0Oret
PERSUASION, but good men, the best and cheapest
laborers ever saw"
Mr. Frank ID. Mllet has built himself an odd.
studio of three rooms at Bridgewater, Mass. At
tachcd 10 his paiutng-Toom is another, which is
simply nm old-fashioned kitchen taken bodily.
every particle from house IN the ncighborboOi
recently torn down, which was built in 1893. An
the furnishings are Old-fashiOned. The settlep
and clock. aud waTming-paD, the hint-lOok aFms
the crook ked necked squashes and strings OF dried
apples etc. are all there. The windows are the Od
" diamond and iOx and geese style, the identical
ones put nearly 200 years 80. over The kitcheH,
accessible by an ingenious swIpging ladder. h
sleeping apartment for the artists giesie, which is
furnished IN the date corresponding 20 the ktcneH.
Miss Esther Mary Cornish -BOwden, l;ile mail
of eight years, living in Dcyonshire. England, has
just received the medal of the Royal Humane So
cety with handsome testimonial explanatory Of
the circumstances nnder which she earned 1t. On
November 30 she was returning home from sun
day-schooI with younger sister and their gov
erness. The governess Suddenly turned giddy
and fell into the pond. six feet deep.
which thoy were passing. The brave
little ciQht-yearold had the ceverness instantly to
dispatch the smaller sister to the keepers
lodge tor help while she herself bent the pool
trying to lay hold Of her drowning gOyernCss. THIS
she DID. but in the effort she overbaanced herself,
fell INTO he pond aud sank. Never losing her pres
ence OF mnd she retained her gnp Of the goyerness
and when sne rose 20 the surface She still held hef
by the right hand, whne with the left she caught
hold Of some short bushes. In this position hey
renamed for about i've minutes, tho child calling
for heip Al last passing workman heaid tns
cries aud ielped the oOverness ami child out of the
water The former was mucn exhausted aud par
tially msensible, but her brave httle rcscuer ap-
peared quiic unconce rned.
OTTAWA. Feb. 2O.-The Princess LoGise said
to he not so welt to-day NO bulletin has been Is.
sned since yesterday.