New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-25
PERSONAL.

Professor r. R. Raymond is spending the season
at Oak Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard.
Mr. Gladstone has of late been very closely
onarJed even at church being attended by two
policemen.
Prince Victor Napoleon will in November enter
the artillery branch of the French army tor years
military service.
Simors, the Belgian sculptor, is dead He was
the author of the great equestrian statue OF Godfrey
dc BOuIllon at Brussels.
Ex vce-President Wheeler Justice Stanley
Matthews and number of friends were at the Isles
OF Shoals OH Saturday.
Mr.. George Werrenrath, the well-known tenor
singer of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, IS IN CoFen-
hagen, Denmark, with his family.
The Rev. Dr. j. T. Duryea, OF Boston, formerly
of BrookIyn is going to take his family on an ex-
cursion among the Adlrondacks this summer
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe will read selections
from her own works this evening at an entertain
ment at Ferry Beach, Me-, where she is spending
the summer
Count Tostoi, the Russian Minister OF the
Interior. receives every now and then anonymous
letter warning him TO choose between a Constitu-
tion or death before September"
Wendell Phillips's new nome in Boston is on
Pleasant st. an old, questionable locality, and in
hot weather he goes. Tor a month or two, to Wa.
verify an inland village, rural uuii anu uiequoHIeu
by city visitors.
Henri Rochefort knows all about the death OF
Skobelef, he says. soporifc draught was mixed
with his VINO and in his sleep the gallant soldier
WAS strangled NJ Rochefort always expected this
to happen, and would have prophesied it only
prophecy Is always a good deal safer after the
event. The Jury in the Gulermuih inquest should
have summoned the IrrepressiDle and OnlDlsclenG
Iauternier.
The death is reported at Vienna OF Carl Hoffman.
for many years chief editor of the " ienT IdqeotdH
lie had for thirty years orn constantly upon the
forefnger of his right hand an iron ing, made by
himself ron q link of the chain be lad worn
through two weary years Of Imprisonment at hard
labor. When Wpdischgractz entered Pesth In
1s4g his lirst act was 20 arrest Hoffman, then lad
of nineteen, and have him tired by court-martlal
f,r tieason and sentenced to five years penal servi
tude in a bohemian fortress. Tho unfortunate
ntisoner with others, was forced to march in the
WINTER from Pesth 10 Vienna and thence To Kong
gratz by roundabout routes. heavily Ironed and
wretchedly clad Arrived at his prison, he spent
two wears at street-swtepng IN letters. lie was III
excellent company, however, hls fellow prisoners
being mostly noblemen OF high rank. Among them
WIS Sllavy who has lately been Imperial Finance
Minister. ard who Is probably the only Chancellor
of EXcheauer in the world who has done scav-
engers work with chained ankles
Inc crowned heads of Europe are planning to en-
10y the summer season in the most approved style.
The Emperor and Empress OF Austria next month VIII
90 to Trieste and thence into Italy, where they
will be entertained by King Humbert aud his Queen
nj Monza. The royal pair of Italy Will accompany
their Ma,estes of Austria back TO Vienna about
tle first of Seftembef and then 60 to Berlin for "
little visit The King and Queen of Spain. with
their daughter and the lnfantas Isabel. faz ana
EnIaIis are nc La Grania. the Spanish Balmoral