New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-06
PERSONfL.

Paul Hayne. the Southern poet. is ill, and it is
thought he cannot recover
The Rev. Edward Everett Hale has just passed
his sixticth birthday He received from his congre-
CATION gift in the shape of leave OF absence to
90 to Europe.
William Black intends to accompany Norman
LOckyer and the other members OF the commission
appointed by the British Government to observe
the coming solar eclipse.
General de Chanal, who was appointed by the
French Government to watch the operations of
General Grants army during the Civil War, has
just died at the age of seyenty-one years.
Richard Henry Dana and wife will sail for Liver
pool to-day on the White Star steamship Adriatic.
Conrad Wilson, United States Consul TO Bremen,
aud Miss Kathie Schratt the actress. will sail for
Hamburg on the steamship Nestphala.
Ex-Secretary and Mrs. Blaine are staying at the
Fifth Avenue lIofcl on short visit to this city.
Last evening at the invitation OF ex-Postmaster-
General and Mrs. james, they attended the opera
OF &" L'Alricaine at the Academy of Music.
The wife Of the Chinese Minister will remain in
Washington while he goes present his credentials
at the Spanish Court. Once in a while she appears
at q winLow or takes drvc-thOse who have seen
her on these occasions report her to be beautiful.
The denomination of Postmaster McLeer by Presi-
dent Arthur Is regarded with much favor by every
one in Brooklyn who is familiar with the workings
of the Office under his management Tho salary is
81 600 year Last year 10000 600 pieces of matter
were handled. Colonel Mcl-ecr L. Il veteran OF the
war and lost his left arm several inches of the
of his left leg i'll The second battle of Bull Run
Queen Victoria is punctilIous in the recognition
OF the devotion of her servants The old couple
who had charge for many years of her Swiss cot
tage at Osborne died last year and over their
the Queen has placed stone inscribed with the
record OF their service, with this addition: This
stone was erected by Queen Victoria and her chill
dren, January, 1852. He that is faithful i'll that
which is least Is faithful also IN much"
NJ Tissot the new French Ambassador to Eng
land is a well-brcd and well-read man, intelligent,
self-po,sessed and reserved. He is of average
height thin and erect. with penetrating eyes and
the somewhat bilious complexion of men who,
from life IN the East, have suffered in health. He
viii enter London society, from which his predeces
sOr NJ. ChlIlemel- bacOur had vigorously held aloOi.
NJ isso Is stl III oincial lite, but agreeable IN the
drawlng-TOOm.
George Washington Greene, the friend of Long
fellow. who is to write his biography lives in an
old-fashioned house hill overlooking the vii
lago of Greenwich, h. /. From Its upper windows
there view OF long stretches of cultivated coun
try and Of the waters of COwesctt Bay, an arm Of
the NaTagansett. Several years ago Professor
Greene had an old windmill, which stood in adj
Joining field, moved up to his house and fitted
Il library. In this old house have been entertained
Washington, Lafayette, Longfellow, and host of
other distinguished men.
The Emperor William, on his eighty-ffth birthday
Just passed. made some serious remarks concerning
himself. lie recognized the fact that anyone WHO
had reached his eighty -siXth year was far beyond
the ordinary range of life and hoped that If God
granted him more days still he would not outliye
himself 4 long life only TO be wished for
when accompanied with strength; but, neyerthe-
legs trusting IN cod lac entered IA new year. The
Empress Augusta gave her husband table and set
OF chairs, painted with flowers by her own hand;
\, hlie their children celebrated the occasion by gifts
of bronzcs porcelain and flowers.
PHILADELPHIA, April 6.-Senator Hill. of
Georgia, continues 10 improve. 1t was his intention