The National tribune., 1882-10-19
Private Co. F, eth Ill. Vol. Cav
PERSONAL.

I@A-1CitdtOA AolldAOh . iiCH bolh OOoI aOpOpO
General Butler has invited most of the mem
! bers of the Boston press to take sail on his
| new yacht.
Gen. Sir John Adyl1e has been gazetted Gov
ernOr of Gibraltar for his military services in
Egypt. The annual pay is $4,000.
John Brown. who as a boy rode by General
John Morgans side at the head of the raiding
column, is editor of the Gallatin (Tenn.) En-
| Qtjrer.
| General w. S. Hancock makes an annual
visit to his farm in Henry county, No, which
! he bought in 1850 when a captain. 1t is now
! G60 acres large.
The Hon. ]. T. Updegraff, the Republican
member of Congress from the seventeenth Ohio
! district who was reelected, is recovering from
his late severe illness.
Rev. DR.. Ray Palmer, author of many favor
tie hymns, celebrated his golden wedding a
Newark, n. j., the other day. He and DR..
Holmes were fellow students
President Arthur still retains lively inter
est in his college society, the Psi Epsilon. He
recently gave the Union College chapter 500
to aid in erecting chapter house.
General Beaver, Republican candidate for
| Governor of Pennsylvania, rode most of the
way from Lancaster to QuarryviIle, the other
day, seated upon the pilot of locomotive.
1t is rumored in Dublin that Gen Sir Garnet
Wellesley has expressed his intention to decline
accepting the freedom of that city, which is to
| be presented to him on his return from Egypt.
Baron Nordenskold is getting ready for an
| other Arctic expedition, which is to set out
from Stockholm next summer under the patron
age of Wilhelm Schonlenck, a Berlin merchant.
Sir Garnet Wolseley is total abstainer from
intoxicating beverages. A man who sat by the
side of him at dinner found that he left his
wine glass untouched, and that that was his
habt.
Some time ago Kossuths friends began prep
arations for grand birthday presentation to
him, but he has now requested them TO devote
the subscriptions to some work of public
charity.
Father Ryan, the Southern .poet-priest, Is
Iecturing in the South for the benefit of the
Society Of the Army of the Tennessee in their
endeavor to raise a monument to the memory
of their fallen comrades.
Bishop J. L. Spalding, of Peoria, Ill.,, has
sailed for Europe. lie was cOnsecrated in st.
Patrick's Cathedral n. Y, May l. 1877, and
was at that time the youngest prelato in the
Roman Catholic Church in America
Miss Emily Faithful has been given fare
well dinner in London preparatory to her visit
to this country, where she will lecture on
Modern Extravaganza: its Causes and Cure >"
She will follow the Langtrey company.
General James II. Wilson, the Federal cav
airy leader, who lives i'll Boston, thinks that
Gen Cox does him very great injustice in the
latter's new volumne, THE March to the Sea, ~
and so writes to Gen. IL. Y. BoyntOn, of Gin
cinnati.
General and Mrs. Grant are ut present guests
of Mr. George W. Childs at Wo0ton, his cOun-
try seat, near Bryn Mawr, Pa. 4 reception has
been rendered to Mrs. Grant by Mrs. Childs
which was largely attended, General Grant
announces that he is permanently out of poll
tics.
Thomas Clark's will, filed at Buffalo, n Y.
divided an estate valued at $2,00OO00, giving
$1,000 each to the Buffalo Orphan Asylum, the
Charity Foundation of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church of Buffalo, the Buffalo General
Hospital, and the Hospital of the Sisters OF
Charity of Buffalo.
The only near relatives of John Howard
Payne now living, it is said are Mrs. Elose f.
Luqueer and her two children. Mrs. Luqueer
is the wife of the Rev. Lee Luqueer of Bedford
Westchester county, n. y, and is the daughter
OF the late Thatcher Taylor Payne, of Brooklyn,
younger brother of the author of Home,
Sweet Home"