New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-20
PERSONAL.

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visiting in Guernsey.
Ex-senator ConlSIlng was summoned home to
Utica Monday by the serious illness OF MS WIFE,
Justice Stanley Matthews left Washington for
the West on Monday morning.
NJ. Mignet. father" of the French Academy, now
in his eighty year. has been. spending the
summer at AK. busy with historical Investigations
Generals Sherman and Hancock both expect TO be
present ut the Missouri State Fair, at st. Louis
which opens October z.
Herbert Spencer, who is steadily recovering his
normal health and strength, was IN Cleveland
Ohio Il day or two age, and visited the grave Oh
Garfield in Lake View Cemetery.
Dr. SchlIemann is drinking the waters at Marlen-
bad, in Bohemia, in hope of Kidding himself OF the
malarial fever contracted last winter during his
excavations in the Iroad.
Mr. Spurgeon does not seem to have much SYM
pathy with the idea that drunkenness is disease
lie recently declared it to be in itself an awful sin
of the worst Of SINS In short dreadlul crhe'
The famous little painting by Meissoner which
Mr. Ruskin recently sold for some S3O,OOO has be-
come the property of Defoer Bey who is well
| known in Paris as an art collector.
Up to the first anniversary of President Garfield S
death. Sl07s9 had been subscribed to thefund fof
erecting a equestrian statue to his memory In Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia.
| The Hon. George H. Corliss of Providence, r. L.,
| has given 200 for the purchase of Professor
Wards college series of casts Of extinct specimens
| in natural history for the new Museum OF Iowa
College 1T Grinnell and Professor Ward has himself
50 added to the gift that the entire collection mas
| been secured.
| Dr. Coplestone, Bishop Of Colombo, has recen thy
| brought himself into unenvable notice by dismiss
ing a schoolmaster for engaging himself to marry
the daughter of Methodist. IL am deeply
ba u ttat nd nOf q
courage enough to save yoi from the wretched fall
| YOU contemplate" We are deeply grieyed.' adds
| me london Echo, which tells the story " that tho
! Bishop had not sense enough to save himself from
this wretched exhibition of bgotry'
The monument to Lazare Nicolas Carnot recently
unveiled at his birthplace. Nolay. Burgundy, con-
ssts OF q noby designed statue. by Roulleau.
mounted on pedestal bearing the simple inscrlp-
ton "A Carnot, Organsateur de la Nctoire.
! Souscription Rationale 1882" The ceremony of
unwilling attended by two generations of
Carnot's descendants, including his son iIppolite,
| Minister of Education in 1913. and his grandson
Sadi recently Minister of Public Works.
Chaunccy VI. Depew arrived from Europe yester-
day on the steamship Baltic. He was met down
the bay by party of personal friends who took
him on board the steamboat Sam Sloan, which had
been engaged for the occasion. 4 dinner was
served on board the Sloan, and speeches Of welcome
were made. Among the party were Collector Rob
ertsOn. j. w. Hustled General Traffic Manager Hay
den, of the New-York Central and many ether
| officers of that road.
Kate Field wrote from Paris, under date of Sep
TENDER 6 With good luck / shall be in Work
again almost this reaches YOU it being
my intention to sail Ly the City of Berlin sep
| TENDER H. I've been to Mt. DOre, in Auvergne,
! since leaving London, and thence l came to
| Paris I've climbed fine mountains, fine
views breathed fine air, and been IN no cud OF hot
wafer having taken baths at hign temperature
! f,r heV % n a nv
| Nous rejTOHs.
Under the patronage of the King cf Italy an
ISOLATION has been formed at Urbno to celebrate
the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Raphael. 1t is proposed to erect his statue, in
| Carrara marble upon pedestal bearing bas-reliefs
| illustrative OF his most famous works. For this
public competition is invited and the models sent
! i'm will be exhibited together for tWenty days, be-
ginning with March 2S, 1888, the anniversary 1t Is
| proposed to celebrate.
CONGRESSMAN CrapO Of Massachusetts, lives at
! New Bedford IN old-fashoned but large and ele-
CANT Gothic house of almost coister-like appear
ance 1t surrounded by widespread lawns and
winding paths, and shaded by grove of huge
elms whose lofty branches meet in a eafy arch
| above the roof-tree Within there is no SNOWY
| display but in furniture, books and pictures
! quiet simple elegance reigns,l bespeakins at once
| the wealth, culture and sturdy common sense of
| the owner
Eastman Johnson has spent his summers for the
| past twelve years in Nantucket. where he has a
large old-faShioned house filled with antique furni
| ture, which looks as if 1t might all have been
brought to Nantucket by the earliest settlers there
The house, which is painted red is on high bluff
| overlooking the water. Mr. JOhnsOn's studio a
| separate building near the house, and almost
| large enough to accommodate gOOd-Sized family
in Itself. Mr.. johnson rarely returns to the city
| until late i'll the fall.
NEWPORT, k. l., Sept. 19-W. n. Story, the we'll
known sculptor of Rome, arrived here to-day, in the
| steam yacht Con air, the guest of j. T. Morgan