New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-06
of a dilemma on which to be impaled-a question OF
sacrilege or one of yeracltyf
PERSONAL.

rial window for Williams College.
NJ. (sambetta will. it IS announced, visit London
this month.
Colonel I. w. Hgginson has just recovered from
the first attack of acute illness he has had since
bOyhOOd.
Count lie Lesseps, who is now in his seventy-sev-
enth year. was presented few days ago by ms
young wife with another child-the tenth.
Mr.. F. D. MIllet the artist will spend most OF
the summer making tour of Scotland, keeping
pen and pencil busy meanwhile.
The Rev. +. J. Caskey, Of Cincinnati, is the
rector-eect of the new American Protestant Epls
cvpal church in Dresden, Germany.
The Earl of Rosebery has purchased Mr.. Boehms
fine statue of Carlyle and will place it IN the hall
of his mansion, Dalmeny Castle, near Edinburgh.
The new home of Mr. George II. COrlss. builder OF
the great Centennial steam engine, will be ready
for occupancy this fall and will be one of the finest
residences III the city OF Providence *.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is to have a grand
reception given by her friends in Boston on the
SEVENTEEN anniy ersary of her birthday, Nednes-
day. June / 4.
The twelfth anniversary of the death of Charles
Dickens will be commemorated at Botfns
Bower" Boston, on Friday evening, by appropriate
musical and literary exercises.
Alexander III. has recently presented to the En-
pcror of Germany four horses two of which are, 1t
is said the very that drew the late Cars car
rage when he was assassnated.
Professor James Hall, New-York State GeOlogist
has been made by King Humbert Commander of
the Royal Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
This is the highest honor the Italian monarch can
bestOw upon foreigner.
Miss Clara Barton the well-known hospital
nurse lectured last week in Orange, NJ j., on her
Cor lice
Barton is president OF the American Association of
the Red Cross.
The Rev. Merrill Z. Gates, Ph. d., will be installed
formally as president of Rutgers College, New
Brunsw lex, n j., on Tuesday, June 20. Addresses
will be delivered by Governor Ludlow, Professor
DOolittle the Hon. Jonathan Dixon and the Rev
W. II. Campbell, the retiring president
Richard Wagner will never again visit England
because he thinks that the antipathy manifested
toward him IN LONDON years ago was based upon
the peculiar character of the English religion,
having more affinity with the Old than the New
Testament"
Mrs Susan Willis Fletcher, the Spirtuast who
has Just served a term of Imprisonment in England
upon the charge of obtaining money under false
pretences, is now in this country and lectured IN
Philadelphia on Sunday. She is described as a
little below the medium height and of prepOssesslng
appearance with masculine face anu pleasant
style of OTatOry.
A marble statue of Harriet Martineau is soon to
be set up in Boston, the plaster cast, by Miss Anna
Whitney, having already been shipped to Italy, to
be reproduced in stone. Ii represents Miss Marti-
neau sitting in a STRAIGHT backed rustic chair her
hands lying folded over IA manuscript IN her zap.
The hair hangs low upon the broad brow. and Is
loosely knotted at the back Of the head
When Emerson last visited England he went one
Sunlay to the church in Standardization, and
,lF Ia tO hak
There was an unusually fine sermon. and at its
conclusion the congregation dispersed, but Emerson
still sat- silent and absorbed. After little time
friend touched his arm and reminded him that the
sermon over. The sermon y exclaimed the
philosopher, starting from his revere, dld not
know there had been one"
Many years ago Ephraim NJ Baynard, wealthy
planter of South Carolina bequeathed $l6S,200
to the College of Charleston. And now his grand
nephew Owen Thomas Baynard. IN INDECENT cir
cumstances receives back the bread from the waters
in the form of a free scholarship from the trustees
of the High School and an annual grant OF $500
from the Charleston City Council to enable hun to
prepare for college. When he Is ready t. enter the
col ege he will he provided with a scholarship and
maintained during his course at the cltys expense
Wendell Phillips. correcting recent statements
about his old house in Essex est, says that 20 his
know ledge Daniel Webster never was in the house,
but Mr. Forster lately Chief Secretary for Ireland,
visited Mr.. Philips there. Dut am most p1ouu,
adis the great orator, of the fact that it in
that house that John Brown visited me and deliv
cred INTO my care his fugitive slaves The old
house has been carried OFT piecemeal by relic
hunters, the choicest mementOes beng some tiny
SQUARES of wood from the Old-tashiOned door
castings, which Mr. Phillips has inscribed with his
autograph and given to his intimate friends.
General William s. Harvey the eghtytwo-year
old veteran of the Black Hawk. Seminole, Mexican
and Sioux wars, is now looking remarkably well
aud vigorous and his stately form is not yet bowed
by the weight of advancing years. Memory and
eyesight however are beginning to fail One of
the great Western railroad companies recently
offered him 10000 acres OF land as compensation
for the influence for peace he exerts over the Indian
tribes and to induce him TO remain in the North
west. but he declined to accept it. He spends his
winters at his Southern home near Pass Christian,
Miss. and his summers in st. Louis, No.
LONDON. June ga dispatch to The Standard
from Berlin states that Prince Henry, son of the
Crown Prince Frederick William, will in October
proceed on board the corvette Olga to the West
Indies and America. Prince Henry, who is twenty
years Il, ~ the third child and second son Of the
Crown Prince OF Germany.
PHILADELPHIA,June 5.-At meeting of the Pres
bytery of Philadeph this afternoon the request of
the Rev. DIR. Dewitt that his pulpit be declared va
cant on July 2 was approved DIR. Dewitt will take
the chair OF Church History in the Lane 1heO-
logical Seminary at Cincinnati.
LITTLE Rock, Ark, June "a dispatch from
Eureka Springs confirms the report that since the
latest operation for cancer of the tongue Senator
Hills condition has been steadily improving.
GENERAL NOTES