New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-31
PERSONAL.

carved likeness Of the late DR.. j. G.. Holland
will soon be placed on the wall of the room and
back of the char which he formerly occupied at
The Century office.
The Rev. Dr. J. Fl. Eccleston. rector Of Trinity
Church, Newark, N. j., who received call to st.
Georges Church in this city, has decided to decline
it and has so informed the vcstrymen Of ST.
Georges
The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott Admiral Farqnhar
of the British Navy Wesley Harper, the Hon. Wal
ter C. Maxwell A. Sartoris the Hon. Levi Parsons
and the Hon. G. W. Warren arrived from Europe
yesterday on the Cunard steamship Bothnia.
Ex-Judge Z. D. Culver, formerly of this city, who
was an active Republican worker and speaker until
the campaign for Mr. Greeley, whose candidacy he
advocated, was closed, is the president Of the
First National Bank, of Greenwich, n Y: He is
still active, though past seventy years old The
town is one of the former homes of President Arthur,
who once studied law in Judge Culyer's Office.
"I am one of the superintendent here and my
brothers are tie Others" remarked ex-Pos'master
General Jewell TO visitor to his great leather belt
ing mandatory at Hartford the other day. We
are all practical in this business we tanners
by trade. can put on an apron ana 90 any work
in our factory from the cTrylng oil leather 10 the
finishing OF belt"
The ST. Petersburg correspondent of The Neccdstle
Chronicle saws of General SkObeletf 81 have never
come in contact with any man who has left so
charming an impression upon me. An interview
with Skobelef would have made Mr. Carlyle young
again. 1t would have revived the extinct iires OF
had known SkObceft ne would have made him his
ideal of perfect gentleman"
II. c. c. Astwood, recently appointed United
States Consu-General at Santo Domingo sailed for
his station yesterday on the steamer George W.
Clyde Mr. AstwOod is dark mulatto, q little
above the medium height, and he has bright and
intelligent face. He speaks with tiuency and has
good command OF language, his PRONUNCIATION being
purely Southern He is she fourth coored man 10
receive Consular appointment under tho United
States Government.
Mr. Longfellow was born in wooden house in
Portland which is still standing, and which Is
known to all the children of the city as the first
abode of their favorite poet. One day this week a
teacher in one of the public schools, after giving
divers moral lessons OH Longfeow's beautiful life,
asked her pupils if any of them knew where the
poet was born. A little hand went mp in hurry
and q small voice pped forth, In Patsey Con:
nor's bedroom master Connor beng now one OF
the occupants of the old Longfellow house.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe is perhaps the most
energetic and persistent opponent of vivsection in
England. Alittle Inconsistency on her part was not
long ago pointed out to her by scientific man with
whom she had demonstrated ON his sanction of the
practice she objects to- Madam" said tho gentle
man. charity begins ut home; when you have
given mp wearing ostrich feathers which plucked
from the living bird causing the most exquisite pain.
and birds of paradise, which, in order to enhance
their beauty and lustre, are skinned alive;
when you have ahjured the use of ivory,
because you know that the tusks are cut out
of tho dying elephants jaw-then, and then
only come and qP6pad me with tine cruelty Hf
madam, that infct pain in the pursuit of knowl-
edge and for the ultimate benefit OF my fellow
creatures you cause cruelty 70 be inflicted merely
for your personal adomment"