New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-07
PERSONAL.

Ms Langtry will leave Liverpool for this city
on September 80 by the steamer Alaska.
Mr. Sailer the veteran financial editor of The
| Philadelphia PuLHc Leiger. who recently retired
from that position will receive as honorary PEN
sion his full salary for life.
Mr.. Guild ord Onslow, NJ. p. whose death has
j.:st been announced is said to have spent nearly
$45 900 in behalf of the IichbOrne claimant, whose
advocate he was
Mr. John s. Clarke the well-knOwn comedian,
reached Phi ldelpha. on hi. return from Europe on
Monday in the best of heal and spirits. In about
two weeks he viii AGAIN san Tor England.
Thedeath is now almost hourly expected Of the
Hon. Truman G. Youngoye, formerly Speaker of
the New-Yorl State Assembly. no has for some
tme been III failing health, al his home IN Crescent
saratoga County.
4 corre>p ondeat of a Western paper recently
found the mother. sister and brother of Miss Emma
Abbott ID theIr modest ltrlc home in WIukesha.
Wis and exercised al hismgenuity III trying to as
cert ain from them the puma DONNA age, butln VAIN
" .mma always cautioned me not to speak about her
age sad the elder lady. IL think she is very fool
ism and have often told her that people woud make
h,r out great deal ol Ter than she really Is. Will
cll YOU how yer, that she has ten good years OF
life "a SINGER YET before Htr voice gives Olt Oh
account Of agc.'
, Deb Bowman, of Rock Island. Illinois, who
dian Tcrrit ~ writes in a private letter: My time
is ont. here. and my mission OF civilization OF Paw
necs Is M an end | did not respond to the assess
ment thinking had right 10 direct my means TO
whore | thought they would do most good
Moreover believe i'll keeping our treaties with this
feeble folk rigorous fidelity. IL has not been
don. with the Iawnecs. Perhaps have been q
thorn III the side of those who ought to know and
correct our National dercAchoH."
'In the cafe Oh the Place Morny.' writes Dcau-
VILE France correspondent, Henri Roche ort sits
surrounded by ms friends. He is full of anecdote.
That verve and ready wit which made a name for
him under the Empire have not been dulled and he
has the same VEN of sarcasm as when NliemeSsant,
of he Figaro took the young clerk from the Hotel
de Vile on his staff and made the Tulleres laugh
- +. iol.s .r ,ckrd lt the XDeuSe of the lmOcTai
Court Now and then he pulls ont stump OF pen
ell and Otcbook 20 iOt down some passing Thought,
some happy dea or some nickname winch Will
cling To ms political opponent as the soDlquet OF
the .srrpent a uucttcs' did 10 NJ. IhleTs."
After the Ashantee war; Sir Garnet Wolseley re-
criv.J SOME additional letters to his name and n
Parliamentary grant of $4,000. He Is now IA
KuiVht Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, so
that nothing remains to be awarded to HIM in
the way of additional honor save peerage. This,
ir Given will have to be accompanied by large
grant of money and pension if the dignity to be
sustained in the manner additionally deemed beiit-
ing and all the more 50 IN view 81 the Queen
we'll known dislike to creating poor man "a peer
Wrlliugton's patrmOny was PROBABLY at most
$50 600 but lac received grant, of S3, 800 600 from
| Parliament Nelson began life poorer still. and the
grants that he and his family TcCelV, amounted In
| mi 10 about one-iOurlh of those given to Yelling
ton. Several of the other naval and military peers
of lesser fame than these. bu, nevertheless, OF very
| high dis melton. received pensions for themselves
and two successors: others as IN the case OF LoId
Exmouth the hero of Alters perpetual PENSIONS 1t
| is not likely That such grants rs those made to
WELLINGTON will ever he maize again. The last lnlll-
| tnrv nrrr was Sir William Mansfield, Lord Land
hurst In his case, too there was lack OF adequate
| means to support the dignity.
CHICAGO sept. 6.-lhe special train bearing the
Marquis OF Lorne Princess Louise and party arrived
about noon AT the Rock Island depot. They visited
Pullman early in the morning and on reaching this
city were driven direct to the hotel where twenty
one rooms were reserved for them. They spent the
dav quietly IN the city. They VIII proceed 10 San
Fran. sco by the way of The Rock Island road to-
| morrow morning.