New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-12
PERSONAL.

Thomas Moran, the artist, visiting his BIRTH
place, Bolton, EIgand.
Professor Peabody, of Harvard, is enjoying his
vacation in England and Scotland, and will not
turn to this country before September.
The death is announced at the age of seventyeight
of Joseph Aloyslus Hansom the inventor of the
famous cabs that bear his name, and prominent
architect OF London.
Mr.. Turtle, once an intimate friend and coadjutor
of Spohr and Mendelssohn, and for fifty years or
ganist of Westminster Abbey, is dead in his eighty
first year.
A monument Of marble and granite is to be
erected in memory of the late Prince Imperial of
France on the green facing the Royal Military
Academy, NoOlWlch.
Miss Louisa Howard of Burlington, VT, has
given IS 900 to the University of Vermont, for the
establishment of five scholarships to be known by
her name.
An imposing presentation is to be made, about
November l. to John Bright, in eOmmemOration of
the completion of his twenty-ffth year in ParlIa-
ment as the representative Of Birmingham.
Queen Victoria has announced her determination
hencoforth to have her birthday celebrations held
on the actual anniversaries of her natal day-May
u of each year-ald NOT has often been the case
on other days arbitrarily selected Tor the purpose
The Darwin memorial fund in London now
by the committee in charge 20 devote the fund to
the erection of marble statue of the great natural
ist and the Trustees OF the British Museum
will be asked 90 allow II to be placed III tne
large hall of the Natural History Museum, South
kenSngton.
Henry Irving the English actor, has two young
sons who are following i'll his footsteps with bright
PROMISES of success They recently appeared on
the amateur stage at a fancy fair, Master Harry
Charles Surface, III the Screen Scene from The
school for Scandal" and. according to the London
pap. rs acquitted themselves excellently well.
Since the downfall of the Southern Con-
federacy. Mr.. Judah p. Benjamin, " the brains
of the Rebel Government" has enjoyed great
prosperity as lawyer in England. Re
Gently, on looking over his list of cases, he
found that it included just half of all the
suits from the entire realm that were before the
HOnse of Lords on Appeal. His wife and daughter
now live in Paris, the latter having married
French army officer.
The Right Hon. W. +. Forster, NJ p, late Secre-
tary for Ireland, recently addressed a meeting of
the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals in
London. Once, he said he was asked by lady
to 20 and see demonstrating match Hisreply rath
er astonished her lie told her that although he
much older than she was he hoped to see the time
when men who engaged in the sport would run
the chance OF being sentenced TO hard labor, any
tbe ladies who witnessed il of being set to picking
oakum On his giving his reasons for such strong
opinions, she convinced that he was right, anu
has not attended shooting-match since.
In Vineland, N. j., lives John W. IIurn gray
bearded man of sixty, who probably saved the life
of Frederick Douglass at the time OF the John
Brown raid at Harper's Ferry. Hurn was then a
telegraph operator in Philadelphia, and received,
he tells reporter of The Philadelphia Record,
dispatch to the sheriff of the county, instructng
him to arrest Douglass, who then in the city,
a. proofs of his completely in the Harpers Ferry
affair had been discovered. lurn quietly suppressed
the dispatch for three hours, meanwhile giving
warning to Dougass's friends. When at last the
sheriff came to look for him, Douglass far from
the city his way to Canada, where he arrived in
safety