New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-31
PERSONAL.

Ex-Justice Swayne, since the death of his wife.
has been staying ia this city with his daughter Mrs.
Parsons. He Will remain here several weeks.
Mr.. John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, has done kindly thing in be-
slowing 81 900 on the Boys Home Society in Bal
timore.
Mr. Roscoe Conkling is, it is once moro reported,
seriously out of health, and unable to conduct tho
legal business offered to him. He eats but little
and suffers from sGepleSSneSs. He is supposed 10
have malaria.
General Simon Cameron, who is looking remark
ably well and strong intends to entertain his
friends at home on New Years Day. and will imme-
diately afterward leave for Mexico, where he will
spend the winter.
Mrs. Ellen Grant Sartorls is about TO visit Wash
ington with her children the guest of her former
bridesmaid, the daughter of Surgeon-Genora
Barnes Mrs. SartoTis still keeps, it is said, the
pleasant prottiness of her girlhood.
Mr. Tsu. one of the attaches Of the retiring Chi
nese Legation of Washington, wished much TO re-
main in this country. but obliged to depart at
the command of his mother, whose will, in accord
ance with Chinese CUSTOM could not be questioned.
The Chinese diplomats are said to be amazed at tho
lack of flial reverence In America, and a writer Of
their race has even proposed to establish missions
here TO teach the sentiment.
Madame ARRAY, the Inst and principal witness in
the famous rODOcry or inc courier OF Lyons, mas
Just died at Melun at the age of ninety-six.
Brought forward time after time to give her evil
dence, she always persisted in her elimination Of
Lisurques, and would never admit the possibility
of mistaken identity, and believed to the last that
the man whom she saw, and tn whom she gave D
piece of thread to mend his stirrup the fatal eve
ming, was Lisurquos, andnOt DubOsc, the supposed
murderer.
EMrs. Matilda Dallas wilkins the daughter Of
Secretary Dallas the sister of ex-senator and
Vice-President Dallas, and the widow of Senator
WILKINS of Pennsylvania, died on Wednesday in
PHILADELPHIA She was born In 1898, and entered
When twenty years old she married Judge wilkins,
and travelled from Washington to his home in
Pittsburg in the first private coach wnlGn ever
trayersed the Aleghanes. Her husband left the
Senate during Jackson's Administration TO go 20
Russia as American Minister, and was aiterward
made Secretary of War under Tyler. with her
death ends the family OF Secretary Dallas.
Justice Horace Gray is not only learned IN tho
law. but also in literature and in many branches Of
science. lie Is positive judge, aud sometimes an
arbitrary one. A distinguished Massachusetts, lavs
yer was once making an argument before him, and
when stating existing rulings on his subject vas
peremptorily interrupted by the Judge. "Mr. -
the law is so and 50, said he, giving the points az
ne believed them TO be, 1t Is the law now, yQqp
Honor but il was not till you spoke was tho quick
response. 1t is narrated that Judge Gray subs5-
0uently explained to the lawyer in graceful terms
ready TO acknowledge afault when convinced that
one existed.
ALBANY. Dec. 3O.-Governor Cornell viii reeelvo