New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-29
PERSONAL.

Wendell Phillips tv day enters uEon his seventy
second year OF llfe.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe will spend this win
Ter on her orange farm at Mandarin. f!orlda.
sou of Senator Conger. of Michigan, was mar
red last week in Ogdensburg. New YORK, TO MISS
Ashley, young lady y it'll whom he became &c;
quaInted while summerlng among the lhouSahu
Isles
Mrs. Waite. wife of the Chief Justice of the
United States SUI RENE Court. is at the Leland
late Coleman House. the guest of Mira Martha J.
Lamb, the historian.
Mr. David GRAY long the Editor OF The Buffalo
Courier is reported to be seriously i'll. He visited
England "a few mouths ago, IN vain hopes that
tour abroad would restore his health, which had
then begun to fail.
SubscrI tons to the fund for the statue of Harriet
Martineau. by Aane Whitney. are being received
by Messrs. HoughtOn, MifiiD & Co.. of Boston. The
smallest as well as the largest sums are welcomed
and duly acknowledged.
recent visitor says that General Butler astaken
a new lease Of life since his election as Governor of
Massachusetts. Tho deep wrinkles vn his face are
filing up and the husky voice is smooth. He Is very
busy now, finishing up the law business lie has on
hand. and getting ready to assume the duties and
hOnors of his high office.
beautiful memorial of his daughter who died
last summer has been made by Senator Edmunds
by endOwing in her name a room i'll the May
Fletcher Hospital Burlington. Vermont. Over the
door, outside handsome tablet bears the name,
Z" Julia NJ. Edmunds" and the date of the endow
ment. Within, the room Is luxurOusly furnished,
eyery article in it beng marked with the initials
j. NJ E." On the wall hangs superb engraving
of Millets printing, "LApgelus" The .endow-
ment, $1,000, provides for the support and care OF
one free patient and its first beneficiary has just
been received.
At q recent social gathering in Boston the CONVEX
sation was upon literature, and somebody CHANGED
to mention the saying about IA prophets lack OF
honor in his own country. " Yes" remarked MIR.
j. L. IrOwbridge, :" know all about that. The
taAcollector called upOu last spring, and in the
course of CONVERSATION asked me what did for
living. l said wrote and after having to explain
to him that / was neither boOkkeeper nor a
copyist, told him | wrote books. 'Pshaw now,
said he, i want to know Wa-al, it's kind O.
curious | never heard o that. Got any OF em
about yerP ! said had some OF them in the house,
but didn't keep very large supply on hand
Well, you can git 'em, spOsoP was the next
remark. | said | could. auC he gave me an order
on tho spot. s Send NE down the handsomest copy
you've got said he. and III pay you Tor IT, III
we've got Imam that kin write, III do my duty by
him."
"Save me from my friends-esi ecially Paul
A1ene." should be N. Gambetta's daily prayer. In
the last issue of the AlmGndch Gambetta appears an
article from the pen of NJ Arene, who is, by the
way. one of Gambettas secretaries, describing the
great politician thus: :" NJ. Gambetta possesses "A
fine face, modelled FROM some antique statue.
Although he has only ono eye. il is brilliant aud
eloquent enough for two. large and spacious
forehead covered with thick head of hair ~ re-
veals the extent of the mental capacities. His
sTeecb is limpid free from the catchpenny phrases
OF the ordinary lawyer. and unites the satire OF the
GreeAs of old with the amplitude oi speech rat AT
tributei by another age to the Latin races" This
exquisite mOrsel will be widely circulated among
the peasants at the Christmas fairs, when 10 VIII
be interesting to notice how the electors Oi rance
appreciate the flavor OF such uudOuLted sWeetmeats
Mr.. w. w Corcorans generous enterprise of
bringing home to an American grave the exed
dust of John Howard Payne, recalls the aged phi
lanthropists "reminiscences of the poet He saw him
first in 1909, when Payne, called The American
Roscius," was PLAYING in a Washington theatre.
Mr.. COrcOran, who WAS then mere boy, saws
Whenever could get % cents to pay for seat
went to see and hear tho tragedian;' and his mem
DRY of his appearance and action is now fresh and
clear after lapse of seventy-three years Two
years later he saw HIM again, when Payne He'd to
Georgetown from Baltimore, where he had been
trying TO defend printing. Office from mob. In
1910 the personal acquaintance of the two begun,
and continued on very intimate terms until l'ayue
went rs United States Consul TO Iuns and died
thpre Mr.. COrcoran has selected the spot where
the poets remains are to rest. 1t Is n triangular
Mot near the eastern entrance OF Oak Hill Gene
iery on the crest of hill overlooking the valley OF
Rock Creek. The place II marked by solitary,
magnificent beech tree. The remains will lie in
tered next spring with appropriate ceremonies.
aud a plain. massive monument erected above
them, bearing only the inscription:
john Howard PAYNE.
Author OF " Home. Sweet Home
Born June ., 1892;
Died April 10, 1852.
BERLIN. Nov. '2s.-The Russian Grand Duke
vladimir and his wife Will return to st. Petersburg
.nhr.