New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-21
PERSONAL.
tongues.

Flotow the well-known composer of the opera
Martha" has become blind from the disease
known as gray cataract
A LongfelIow Memorial Association has just been
formed in Baltimore, with the Hon. j. NJ b. La
trobe for president and President Gilman. OF Johns
Hopkins University. for yIce-presldent
The Rev. George A. Gordon. of Greenwich Conn.,,
who has Just been called to the pulpit of the Old
south Church. Boston, will be thirty wears old next
mouth. He is a t, plcal Scotchmau in appearance.
tall. light comDleAOned and speaks with percep-
tibe Scotch brogue.
The late Godloye S. Orth, Congressman for the
IXth Indiana District, died very peacefully. His
last words to his daughter, Mrs. McNutt, when
tnrning toward her he spoke her name, "Mullte and
then. in q whisper. added, "happy-happy." In
another minute lie was dead.
Justice Blatchford of the United States Supreme
Court has purchased several lots adjoining his house
ia Washington. whichhe will convert into IA flower
gardea Tie aud Mrs. Batchford will spend the
Christmas holidays in New-York. and on their
return to the capital Will entertain good deal.
it Is said.
London Punch sent s.peasant greeting to DR.. Oil
yer Wendell Holmes on his retirement from the pro-
fesscrship at Harvard, in this form:
| Yomr health, dear " Autocrat ~ All England owns
Your Instruments the Tyre end not " tue Bones"
a
That though youg up bones, you may make old
The latest story about the Sweet Singer of the
| Sunlowor is that he was recently accosted In an
elevated railroad train by prominent French
| Catholic priest visiting this country, in these
terms Mr.. Wilde, you have just been pointed
ont to me- am glau to meet you While | was
abroad read nothing sopamusnQ us the accounts of
how you were stuifing that nonsense of yours down
the tbroats of these Americans, and making money
ont of it, Isn't il absurd ~ The aesthetic tried to
get on his dignity. Dnt was confronted by such an
honest aud jolly expression that he melted, said 1t
was rather u good joke, you know, and invited tho
priest to breakfast.
| Alexis Landry. founder of Caraquet, n. b., lies
buried in q grove of NAPLES and beeches on bold
headand of the shore of Chaleur Bay. The little
headstOne bears. in LatlE and French, the words
Pity me at least oh ye. my friends, the hand of
the Lord hath touched me. Hero reposes the body
OF Alexis Landry deceased the 9th of March, 1898.
aged 80 enty-elght. Be mindful of death. Remem-
Der thar that which has come TO will also C, me
To YOU and that that which WAS our lot yesterday
may perhaps be yours to-day" Landry was one or
the Acadams expelled from Grand Pre-. He tlen TO
Caraquet. and the first settler there where no
now sleeps beneath he grove, AMI where his great
grandson. John Lewis Landry, now lies.
1t is said ttat the inscription the Blair monu
ment at ST. Lous-now nearly fnished-wll read
as follows: "To Frank +. Blair, jr,-the ndomi-
table party leader; the STANDARD bearer of freedom
In Missouri; the founder of the fist volunteer
Union army the shield OF the conquered Southern
people and Soul hern States; whose life from early
manhood was devoted the serv ice of his country,
and whose name never dimmed by sef-seeking
or corruption who was popular tribune mem-
Der of the Legislature, member of Congress-
commander in the Union army aud United States
who W a. he n n Clamplnu
political equality OF native aud foreign born. ana Ot
the inalienabie rights Of man, white ana Olack,-
this monument has been erected by his friends; to
testify 10 tho love which they bore him, and to
commemorate his grand career
NJ A. de MELVILLE. the eminent French military
| painter who is now associated with Edouard
Detae in executing battle panoramas, is rather
older tnan his partner, being now fOrty-slx. His
father intended to make diplomat Of him, then
se mt him to naval school. then to study law; but
he neglected his books and spent all his time making
pen and ink sketches At last the father in despair
consented Tor him study art, and took him to
Bellanger who declared conempluously that the
boy" was incapable vt becoming painter" Pcot
aud Ivon said he same Then the father told the boy
to 90 ahead VIII his art. if he would. but that he
must SUPP ort himself This offer young De MELVILLE
accepted. At the age of twenty-five no into
general notice bv his first Salon picture, sketch
of the siege of SeOastCpo. Since then his career
has brilliant and prosperous ono. Personally.
he looks far Younger than his ye He is Of me-
dun size, delicate looking, dark. with "a military
all and is always elegantly dressed
PRINCETON, n. j., Dec. 20.-The venerable Stephen
Alexander LII. D.. emeritus professor of astron-
omy at the College of New Jersey. mot with fTac-
ture and disOcatiOn of the shoulder by falling
| from his bed to-day.