New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-07
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Herbert Spencer il is again reported. is com.
ing 10 this country tins summer.
Dr. ID. w. Bliss, the Presidents physician. is a
native of New-England. and during the civil war
was volunteer surgeon.
Mr. Chadbourne, the retiring president of VIII
ians College is intending edit several books +,
manage some gold mines in North Carolina and n
cotton mill IN WilliamstoWn.
Don Marcal Martinez. the new Gillian Minister
70 this country, is of university training and
is at once accomplished scholar and politician
lie Is torty-nin years old.
The Marquis of Tseng, Chinese Ambassador If
Paris has blended diplomacy and poetry. In rerJy
10 an Imperial msSive which lately ordered him ia
-. Petersburg on important affairs u. fslegra1,iey
tins coupet TO Pcking:
My knowledge is scanf and my powers ere fr,n.
Al The voice oi the thunder ircnIDlc ana uratL
The writer Of a CARLYLE article in the forth ,o,o,r
British Quarterly helped Mr. Carlyle in many v,a,s
more especially 10y preparing indexes and mans IA
the life of Frederick the Great. AT length he was N
worried by the petuance Of The sage that when ;he
work was done he wrote to Carlyle. expressing q
bit OF his mind and after that lac had tie co,,ra,e
10 go 10 Cheyne Row. when entered his s,ns,,
he met me very much as usual. but could both 500
and feel that he was greatly hurt: and when
looked IN AT The draWing-room. Mrs. CARLYLE re-
celNed me with widc-optn eyes of aSfoniS h,rert.
which might have meant 1T tu BrnteT or might
ONLY have meant: Are my forebodings al last full
MED ~ Mrs. Carlyle did not encourage those who
remarked TO Mr. Larkin: 1T was mcstiy nal ,o nv
pie who came running after Carlyle"
General Henry A. Barnum suffers TO this dav from
gunshot wound not unlike that of the President
received nineteen years ago at the battle Of Antic
TAM He was shot entirely through the right SIDE of
the body and so desperate his condition that he
could not be removed from the field the physicians
declaring that an attempt TO remove him would be
fatal. But he recovered after few weeks treat
mcnt in field hospital, and is to-day well and
hearty. His great annoyance is that he is COM
PEELED TO wear seton to keep the wound open. and
the careful washing of the wound is a part of his
daily toilet. In his ease, however, the liver was
probably not lacerated. The late General Lowell H.
hoSseau, OF Kentucky, was shot i'm 1896 by DR.
Standiord for some time President of the fomis-
VILE and Nashville Railroad The hall entered the
abdomen just above the navel and lodged i'm tho
back. IL was never removed. He was in danger
Gus condition for several weeks after but finally re-
covered, and lived until 1869. dying suddenly
Whlle apparently in the best of health from " hat
lns physicians at New-Orleans called "knottcd
bowels"
United States Marshal Knox is quoted by TIE
Springfield Republican as mentioning a touching evil
denco of the Presidents well-poised nature. Mar
shall Knox visited the White House during Mrs
GarhelGs illness and the President spoke hopefully
of his wifes recovery /" so that when / learned
later In the day." says Mr.. Knox, that Mrs. Gar
fields condition was most critical knew that the
truth had been kept from him. But knew the man
better than the good people around him, and after
consultation with the physicians went TO Garfield
and told him frankly that the truth had been with
held from HIM and what for. He listened quietly,
leaned back in his chair, and with the calmness of
Christian faith but with pathetic sadness, said:
why, Knox, is il possible that people have so poor
an opinion OF me love my wife and my children,
bat ii God takes them from l can bear IL. /
hope am not too small To bear the worst a man
endure After that he took bis place by his wife's