New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-09
PERSONAL.

Senator Brown, Of Georgia, gave One-fourth 81
the 900 recently raised for binding parsonage
tor the Second Baptist Church, Atlanta.
Mr. John L. Stoddard, the well-known lecturer.
and Mr. J. w. Black, the landscape photographer,
making summer tour and taking notes and
views in the scandinavian Peninsula and along the
shores OF the Baltic Sea.
John L. Hayes, the Massachusetts, member of the
Tariff Commission, has knowledge of many me-
chanical sciences requiring considerable skill lie
received the degree OF LIZ ID. from Harvard in
1879.
Henry W. Oliver, jr, who has been named as the
Pennsylvania member of the Tariff Commission, Is
of medium stature has black hair, dark brown eyes.
a black moustache and prominent nose. His
cOuntenance betOkens man of keen perceptive
powers, indOmitaDle energy aud much strength Of
character.
NJ. Emil Fret, the new Swiss Minister TO Wash
ingtOn, was formerly an American citizen, and
gained his title Of Colonel by gallant service in
the Union Army during the War of the Rebellion.
He was for some months prisoner of war In a
Southern prison. Since his return to his native
land be has taken high rank as an orator and
writer. beng the editor of tho BasLr Nachrichten,
and the acknowledged leader Of the Liberal party IN
the German CantOns.
The grave of David Wmot, father Of the Repub-
lican party of Pennsylvania, is in the cemetery of
the picturesque lltte town OF IOWanda,
by plain marble Slab which bears only his name
and years, and the words of the famous "Proviso"
with which his name is inseparably connected:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall
ever exist in any part of said Territory except tor
crime whereof the party shall first be duly con-
yicted" Near by are The graves OF ms thres sons;
His widow has survived all her family, and still
lives IN Towanda.
The bronze statue of Lafayette on which Mr. J.
O. A. Ward is now at work will cost $4,000, and
its completion in September will be presented by
J. p. Howard of Burlington VT, to the University
of Vermont, the cornerstone of which institution
was laid by the French patriot in 1925. Mr. How
ards other gifts to the University aggregate nearly
500, OOO to st. Paups Episcopal Church, Burng-
ton. he has given stone chapel worth more than
$4,000 to the fund for the support ofthe Bishop Of
the diocese, $1,000. and to the Home Mission >oce-
ty of the diocese !, 800 Of valuable land IN
Minnesota; and to the City of Burlington be has
given an opera honse worth about 1913, 200. three
handsome fountains for public parks, aud long
catalogue of minor benefactlons.
A correspondent who saw Mr. Forster for the first
time in several months the day after his resigna-
ton as Chief Secretary for Ireland had been made'
public. found him hard at work at the Irish Office,
clearing off all the arrears of his business as to
have everything in order for his successor. 81
was" he writes, painfully struck by the worn and
haggard appearance, the white face and sunken
cheeks, of the Minister upon whom so heavy a bur-
den has been laid during the past two years. These
two years of office have added ten years to Mr..
FOrsters age Only those who have been con-
stantly with him know under what difficulties he
has pursued his course. Once during the converse
ton his face grew bright and smile played over
the pallid, snnken features 1t was when he spoke
of coming down to Yorkshire, and of meeting his
dear old friends III Bradford and Leeds. Ii will
do good than anything else, he muImured;
and as he spoke felt that ii any man ever needed
help from old friends he did"
TORONTO June S.-Alexander Mackenzie lies
seriously i'll at Markham Village with all attack of
acute peritonitis. Mr. Mackenzie was the Treasurer
in the Provincial Government of Ontario until 1872,
when he retired to enter the Dominion Parliament.
Then he became the leader of the Reform OPPOSE
ton in tho House of Commons, and held that posi-
ton until 1873, when owing to the resignation of
Sir John Macdonald's Government, he was called
upon to form new Administration. His Govern
ment lasted until October 1878, when the Conser-
vative party regained power. lie first entered the
old Parliament of Canada in 1861. Tie was born IN
Perthshire, Scotland. in January, ls22 In his youth
he was stone mason, and alter his arrival III Can
ada he was for some time contractor. UP TO the
time of his illness he was engaged III the electloneer-
Ing campalgnI
MINNEAPoLIs Mimi, June s.-Bishop Foss con-
tinues to recuperate slowly. There has been no
recurrence of chills, his stomach assimilates food
and his mind is clear most OF the time. Although
his condition Is still CRITICAL MS physicians spedA
with much hope.
WAsHINGToN, June S.-Secretary Chandler VIII
visit Annapolis tomorrow to attend the graduating
exercises of the Naval Academy lie will return 10
this city on Saturday.