New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-28
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Judge Black, at York, Penn
Recent rnmors that the health Of Pope Leo XIII
is failing are authOrtahvey denied.
Although ex-Secretary Hunts health is seriously
ailng. he hopes to be able to sail with his family
for Russia, via England. on Tuesday
General Ftzhugh Lee is lecturing in Southern
cities on Charlottesville" for the benefit of the
Southern Historical Society.
A little granddaughter Of Andrew d. White, of
Cornell University just born in Paris, receives the
name of Elisabeth Cady Stanton
General Hancock was recently elected commander
of the Pennsylvania Commandery of tho Military
Order of the Loyal Legion
Having successfully experienced bad, worse and
worst failures preacher. anti-Christan lecturer
and actor. Mr. George c. Min has now gone to
Fargo, Oak. to engage In the lumber business.
Mr.. West the British Minister at Washington. in
tends shortly to present 10 the city Of Philadelphia
n portrait of his ancestor, Lord De La Ware for
whom the State of Delaware was named
Mrs. Ole Bull has abandoned for tho present her
intended trip to Norway. aud will spend the sum-
mer in or near Boston, busted with her forthcoming
book of rcmlnlscenceS.
CAPTAIN Cecchi, the Italian explorer of Eastern
Africa is not yet thirty years old. But his face Is
wrinkled aud haggard, and his hair once black, al
most snowy white-the effect of the terrible suffer
tinent.
Mrs Meikleham, of Georgetown, ID. c., the only
Surviving grandchild of Thomas Jefferson, is IN
favor of the removal of the stateslnan's remains
from Monticello to the grounds of the University
of Niruna--thc institution which he tondly called
the child Of his Old age.
George |. of Greece, second son Of the King OF
Denmark, is Il handsome man, of slender figure and
medium height. He has regular features a light
complexion. and an expression of great good ma
ture His general appearance is decidedly youthful.
despite the fact that he wears heavy mOuStache
and is quite bald.
Judge AlphOnsO Taft, ex-SecTetary of War and
ex Attorney General under President Grant, re-
Gently appointed Minister to Austria, is in town,
and is to sail for his post on the Alaska Tuesday
next Judge Hunt late Secretary Of the Navy and
now Minister to Russia, hopes to sail also early
this week.
The Rev. Celestine C. De La Helandicre, who re-
Gently died in France at the age Of eighty-four was
the second Roman Catholic Bishop of Yncennes,
Indiana. lie succeeded Bishop Brute there in 1889,
and resigned the charge eight years later lie has
since lived at his castle of Trandln, France. but has
frequently gwen material aid To the churches OF his
former diocese
Professor Stone, of Cincinnati, has resigned his
position as astronomer the Mount Lookout Obsery
Observatory at the University of Virginia. In his
fresh field of duty he will devote himself entirely
observations of the heavenly bodies, having the
use of of the largest and best telescopes IN this
country.
One of the best-knOwn railroad managers of the
country is John Newell, general manager of tho
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, who
has been in the city recently in attendance upon
the railroad meetings here. He is a clear concise
aud al ~ Al rOQ
questions shows that he has large grasp of the sub
lect
Professor Moses Colt Tyler the author of "a His
tory of American Literature" and the popular Pro-
fessor of American History and Literature at Cor
nell who was a leading candidate for the Professor
ship of English Literature at Columbia, but with
drew his name a short time before the final choice
was made will sail for Liverpool on the steamer
Egypt on Saturday OF next week.
DIR. Schliemann lives in prncely style inAthens, in
an imposing marble palace which bears on its front,
above the door. the inscription in letters of gold
Hall Of Ilum.". Here, every other Thursday even
ing during the winter, he eptertans hundred or
more professors, journalists and statesmen The
spacious parlors afford room for more than three
hundred guests. All the decorations of the house
commemorate DR.. Schliemann's great researcher
The floors are paved with Italian mosaics, the
walls covered with Pompeiian frescoes and patterns
of objects found at Troy and Mycenie and lIomerlc
notices ana inscriptions abound. AT the family
table classic Greek alone is spoken, and even the
servants have classic names; the gardener Is Prlam
the porter Bellerophon, and the two nurses Hecuba
| and Polyxen
Among the ifty-eight law school graduates who
applied to the Supreme Court yesterday for admis
sion to tho bar three of Messrs. Soligmans,
bankers of this city, admitted attorneys and
counsellors at Law. The names Of these young gen.