New-York tribune., 1882-12-31
PERSONAL.


Mr. Walker Blaine Is reported to bo quite in. hay
ing been confined TO his room for more than week
While in England Mr. D. l.. Moody has been pre-
sented with three fine Ayrshire helfers. which ne
will send homo to Northiied, Mass
The Garfield Monument fund of Cincinnati now
amounts to 80, 600 IT, and has been placed IN
bank to draw four per cent lhtoiest until usod'
A complimentary banquet was given in Boston
last week to Governor Long and the Executive
Council. by the Hon. N. j. Flatley the only Demo
cratic member Of The Council
"There is M man," Said John Greenleaf Whittier
on his scvonty-ffth birthday, who ought to write
much after be is seventy unless perhaps il may be
DR.. Holmes. He ought to write from now until he
Is one hundred. He is charming in everything lie
writes and there is such wonderful variety in
hls work that 1t seems pity ne should ever stop'
An elaborate banquet was rendered last Wednes-
dsy evening to the Hon. W. c. Ruger, ChIef-Judge-
elect of the Court of Appeals, by the Onondaga
County bar ut Syracuse. Moro than ore hundred
guests were present aud numerous letters were
read from prominent politicians IN al! parts Of the
state. Judge Daniorth wrote: " l beg to offer as
a sentiment tie Old provcrb, Long loOk't for IS
cOulc at last and JON IN congratulations over Its
YerilicdtOn."
In respect Of my health" wrote tho Hon. Fred
erick Douglass, week ago, the papors at first
told the truth but they kept on telling the trath
ill it to he the truth aud became something
else ! think have seldom been IN better health
than during the past two months. OF course, | am
not as young.by forty years, was " hen we met
under the Old anti-sayery shod at Oakland, AMI am
growing somewhat heavy; but am still strong
and firm aud fleet of leg, and can walk oil three
miles to my Office without sensible fatigue"
According to The FIRE. Press of Bodle. Cal, the
4 4 t1.,,r1
ing for two hours. just to give reporter q chance
to talk With Nine. Nilsson ROuzeaud, ana this was
Tho literary result: at is impossible to tell
whether her eyes are blue or gray it is certain,
however, that they are very expressive, and wou.d
have considerable 10 effect when brought TO bear upon
a susceptible man, young or old. during the brief
conversation with her the reporter realized that
she was one of those children of song WHO make the
world holier and happier by the motuOus strains
they bring TO Us fTolu the ron realm OF beauty
and love-"
The Hon. Charles C.. TrowJlid OF Detroit
Mich whose eighty third birthday WAS marked on
Friday by public dinner given in his honor by
more than one hundred of lhe prominent citizens OF
Detroit has been IA resident of that city now for
more than sXty-three years. He went thither from
his birthplace Albany, ~ y. by the way OF Buffalo
from which port lie embarked in the steamer Walk
in-theWater. Six years later ha became cashier of
the Bank Of Michigan in Detroit, on 500 year.
which was considered large salary. When the
bank was reorganzed after the pane Of 1887, he
became its president. He has been prominently
connected with the financial, educational religious
and social interests of Detroit for more than half
century. and in politics has been earnest RI pub
licau ever since the foundation OF the party.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 30.-Anong the passengers
by tho steamer City Of Pehing to-day were lis
Exccllcncy SuFi Mageshchin, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plcnipotentary from Japan to Hawaii;
IshIblsLi Masaketa, Secretary of Legation; F.
Ka5imuchi, attacho; Mechinari s. Nagasaki. Secre-
t4ry OF HIS Royal Alacsty's household ; X. Sugi I;
Ills EXcelcncy John Vi. kapena, Envoy Extraor-
diuIry and Minister PieulpO cutlaTy from Hawaii
10 Japan, and the Hon. D. l.. kauIklon, secretary.