New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-14
PERSONAL.

Mr. W Hamilton Gibson has returned to the city
and opened studio at No. 30 East Fourteenth ST.
Mrs J. Donald Cameron has returned to Wash
ington with health entirely restored after the ILL
ness that recently threatened her life.
Since her husbands defeat in the recent election.
aIrs Robson has decided not to move into her
palatial new house IN Washington this winter.
but will go to Europe with her children.
D. Willis James who recently gave the Union
Theological Seminary 100000 toward the build
Ings now being erected in Park-ave yesterday gave
the students practical talk in the chapel.
honors come not singly to General Butler. I'M
mediately after his election as Governor of
Massachusetts, he vas made an honorary member of
a league of women in Washington ID. c., who are in
quest of employ ment in Government departments.
The health of ex Sturgeon General Barnes contin-
ues to he SO feeble as to excite the gravest appre
tensions Of his friends DR.. Woodward another OF
President Garfields physicians, has been steadily
sinking for several months past, and no hopes or
his recovery are now entertained
The Garnett Literary Association Of Lincoln Uni
versity learning that the grave OF the Rev. Henry
Highland Garrett, late United States Minister to
Liberia Is still unmarked proposes to erect thereon
a suitable monument, and has issued public APP
peal to his friends and admirers tor Iunds Tor that
purpose
Massachusetts, will give reception this evening
at his North Easton home. complimentary to the
various Republican candidates the I'D Congress
sonal district Among those expected to be present
are Governor and Congressman elect Long, Gov,
eruor-rlect Butler and Mr. Bishop the unsuccessful
Republican candidate for Governor.
Mrs Margaret J. Preston, the wellknown South
em writer slser.in-law of the late General Stone
wall" Jackson, Is untiung collector OF curiosl-
ties She has in her parlor what is said to be the
first alpenstocll ever carried by an American to the
top of Mount Blanc; and a large picture entirely
composed of woven spider webs, which at distance
cannot be distinguished from steel engraving.
Charles r. Vansant. who killed on the Penn
sylvania Railroad the other evening was the hero
of one of the most gallant episodes of the late war
He bore the cOlors of his regiment at Balls Bluff,
and when, during desperate charge, his Colonel
was shot he bore him from the field, and then re-
turned. amid IA hail of bullets to rescue the flag
Five times was it captured by the rebels, and re-
gained by Vansant in n hand-tohand struggle. At
last he broke away with the flag and reached the
river His enemies were at his very heels, but he
plunged into the water, diyed to the bottom. placed
the flag there under stone, and then nam TO the
other shore and escaped. Afterward he revisited
the spot and succeeded in finding and restoring to
the regiment the flag lie had so desperately de-
Tended.
NJ Desbarolles. the famous chrOmancer. IS
again living in Paris not in the pretentOus style
of the average sorcerer, but in simple commonplace
apartments his parlOr being adorned principally by
n framed portrait aud autograph letter of the elder
Dumas inscribed To my dear friend DesbarOlles.'
The two were intimate ana lifelong friends.
Desbarolles Is now seventy years old, small
vithered. and white-h aired, but with the most
charming manners. He has practsed his curious
art upon many noted personages among them being
the Empress Eugenie. who frequently consulted
him Once, in 1850, it is said, he told her she was
to lose her throne aud die In. exile. Not upon
the sca0oldf" she queried. eagerly, having long
been haunted with fears OF meeting Maize AntOi-
nette's fate He gave adecided negative reply, and
she sought TO learn no more.
BETHLEHEM, Penn, Nov. 13.-The widow of the
late Judge Asa Packer is seriously i'll at her home
at Mauch Chunk.