New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-09
PERSONAL.

Mr. d. L. Moody. the evangelist, is travelling il
| the Alps
| Paul du Chaillu. the French traveller is rambling
| in the Catsklll Mountains.
NJ ROnstan the French Minister to the United
| States IS spending a few weeks IN Montreal.
Attorney General Brewster passed through the
| city yesterday on his way to Newport, X. l.
Mr. Walker Blaine is winning much praise as a
stump speaker in the present campaign in Maine.
Matt Morgan. the we-llnown caricaturist is
now settled in Cincinnati in the show printing bus
mess.
The Hon. J. NJ. Francis, Minister to Portugal,
will remain at Carlsbad all this month for the
benefit OF his health.
Mn David Gray the Editor of The BUgGlo Courier,
expects to spend the next few months III Europe to
regain his shattered health.
Robert c. Winthrop is now in Paris. He is to pass
the month Of October IN England, and will return
home III lime to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.
Since the war Alexander II. stephens has collected
more than 100000 of war claims for southern
people for which he has refused to accept any com
pcnsatIon.
Designs have been sent in for statue of Abraham
Lincoln. to be erected in Lincoln Park Chicago.
The money for the erection Of this statue, $4,000,
was gwen by the late Eli Bates, OF that city.
the party sent to Patagonia to observe the transit
OF Venus, lett this city with his mother ednes-
day OF this week on the Cunard steamer Scytha,
for England. lie party will reach Patagonia III
about two months.
Charles F. Fcssenden, OF Maine, has in hIs posses
sion IA numb OF manuscript sermons which be-
longed TO his grandfather the Rev. William Fessen-
den who was one of the pioneer clcrgymen of
Name in the latter years of the last century The
peculiarly of these sermons IS that they written
in an exceedingly fine hand and one sheet of
ordinary letter paper. II must have been great
surprise 10 the backwOodsman OF that day 10 hear a
sermon nearly al hour long preached from tour
small pages.
William North Steuben. the son OF Jonathan Steu-
ben. the revolutionary soldier, to whom Baron
Steuben gave his name, IS now living in
santa Clara County. California. at the OF Sow
enty-four. The original name of Jonathan Steuben
was Arnold. shortly alter the treason of Benedict
Arnold the Baron was reviewing the regiment Of
which young Jonathan Arnold was a member. Hear
ing bv accident the name o. Arnold he called for the
man who bore It, and on seeing him sand: " Change
your name brother soldier yOuare too cspecabc to
Rror fhe mann OF a fraltor6 Whose name shall /
take Gencrall" " Take any othcr-mue Is AZ your
service was the reply. The offer was at once ac-
copied and the first American SteuUcn was uSll-
cred INTO existence almost by accident Inc pres Mt
Mr.. Stcubcn was OOrn on the Steuben Iract," III
Oneida County, NeN-lork.
NJ Moszowsi musical critic Of the Beliur Mon
fa0s5lat ami Paris correspondent OF the Beriaor
Iaqcbiait. mast indeed be bold, bad man. and, IN
truth his very name does have an accent of
brigandage, or something else equally horrd. He
has Just pcrpetratcd the enormity OF publishing IN
the columns of the latter journal the ages
actually, the ages of numerous popular European
actre,ses Nme. Miolan-CaryalhO, the soprano. he
declares to be lify-nyc years old, and her popular
colleague Gabrielle Krau- is, to his own cruel
words weighted with the ballast of more than
forty years of life This last brutal remark VIII
also he AYERS. bc true after next year Of Adcilna
PATTI. while sarah Observation-Disclosures has been
upon our planet Tor thirty ght yeas Truly. the
age Of chlvarY IL past III Paris. such conduct u
few years ago would haS compelled the correspond
eut To beat hasty retreat across the Rhine, with
the SHADOW of the gullUtine at ms heels such
things aIc done better mere. 1t would be mclan-
chOly day, the saGuest OF the year. for VI. Moscow
ski when he thus lIbelled the perennial youth OF
American staIS.