New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-01
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Arthur will be ffty-one years old next
Wednesday,
Dean Stanley is reported TO have left g, 800 to
the infant son of Pere Hyacinthe.
Professor Ernst Curtius has been nominated %
Rector of the University Of Berlin for the coming
year.
Mr.. Henry Irving has received from the Duke Of
SAKE Meiningen in recognition Of bis services 10
dramqtic art the decoration of the Knight-Cross of
the Ducal SAKE Ernestine House order.
Crown-Pr1nce Rudolph and Princess Stcphanie
are going to make long stay at the Castle of
Meran in the Tyrl 1t is whispered that there is at
present 10 danger of the Austrian dynasty becoming
extinct
NJ. de Lesseps made speech at the International
Geographical Congress at Venice, which much
admired, King Humbert listening with marked at
tntion and bowling approyngly to several of his
remarks. The sympathetic. homely features OF
DE LeSSeps, with his heavy gray mustache, made
HIM conspicuous, and he was loudly cheered
Miss Griswod, the young American prima donna.
has been making great in Faust" in Paris
A correspondent of The London Standard says that
there is but one opinion about her performance, aud
that is that she is the very best Marguerite the
French have seen OF heard since the palmy days OF
Nilsson.
An the beautiful presents given TO General and
Mrs. Grant while they were abroad have just been
sent TO this city by Mr.. George w. Childs, who has
had charge of the eighty-twO containing them.
The Philadelphia record says: " Ii is understood that
III the Observation-Disclosures trip around the wori,
General Grant received presents equivalent value
to double the expenses OF his journey
When General Garfield passed through Cleveland
year ago he rode out to Lake View Cemetery, and,
after talking cheerfuly and philOsophcally of the
beauty of the spot, said Il think shall make my
home here, in the end He is reported 70 have had
anniversary, and General H. Is. Aussey of Ohio, -
quoted saying that he once told him he believed
lac should die on the 18th OF September. Ii was the
anniversary o, the battle OF Chickanauga
Mr.. J. G. Whittier wrote the other day touching
letter which was read at the Garfield memorial SEP
vices at Amesbury. Il share the great sorrow
which overshadows the land" he says Z" fully ap-
precate the irretrievable loss. But it seems me
thai the occasion is for thankfulness well as
grief Through all the stages of the solemn tragedy
which has just closed with the death of our nof~st
and best, have felt that the Divine Providence
was over uling the mighty atiIction-that the pa
tient sufferer at Washington was drawing with
cords of sympathy all sections and parties nearer to
each other. And. now, when South and North,
Democrat and Republican, Radical and Conserve
five lit their voices i'm one unbroken accord of lam
entatiOn when see how, in spite of the greed Of
gain, ihe lust of office the strifes and meanneSs of
party politics. the great heart of the Nation proves
have trmer faith in its stability. 1t is said that
no man liyeth aud no man dieth to himself: and the
pure and noble lite OF Garfield and his slow, long
martyrdOm so bravely borne in the view of all,
are, / believe, bearing for US. a people, the
peaceable ruits of righteousness. We are stronger,
wiser, better tor them"
LONDON, Sept. 30.-The steamer City of Berlin,
which sailed from Queenstown for New-York to-day,
has on board Bishop Peck, delegate to the Ecumeni-
cal Methodist Conference; Signor Ardit, Minnie
rnl No AI.s
Company, aud Mr. James l.. Ashbury, The we'll
known yachtsman and member of the last Parlia-
ment.
PARIS, Sept. 30.-At banquet given by the Pre-
feet of Limoges to the foreign officers attending tho
autumn manGuvres of the Twelfth Army Corps
Major-General Schofeld. of the United States
Army, in replying to a toast, thanked the French
for their cordial reception and dwelt upon the share
which France had taken in the enfranchisement II
America and the excellent relations of the two