New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-07
Personal.

Mr. George II. Boughton. the distinguished Anglo
American painter, Will revisit New-York next
winter
Colonel John Hay will sail for Europe about the
middle of next month, accompanied by his wife
| and children.
General Sheridan and John Mccullough, the
tragelian, will take a trip together through
the Yellowstone country.
Professor c. " Riley has deposited in the Ma
tional Museum at Washington his collection of
insects comprising 10000 specimens aud 10000
| species.
The filling health of Mr.. w. w. Corcoran, the
| Washington banker and philanthropist, continues
to excite the graves apprehensOus of his friends
ana PHYSICIANS
| Professor Rufus B. Richardson, who leaves the
Indiana State University to accept the Lawrence
ProfessorShp of Greek at Dartmouth, was gradu-
ated at Yale IN 1867.
The Hon. Alexander II. Stephens has so much
work hand now that he has to employ constantly
two secretaries one to revise proof sheets of his
history, and one TO attend to correspondence.
Emile lola inherits from his father, an engineer
a mathematical turn of mind which in his youth
inclined hIm toward the natural sciences rather
than the classics for which he always expressed
profound contempt
Mr. William ID. Walcott, Of Utica, n. Y, offers to
give $4,000 to free Whte,town Seminary from
debt and establish the venerable institution upon
new basis provided like amount is subscribed by
Others within SIX months.
FRANCIS Leland president Of the Sixth National
and New-iork County Banks, laid the foundations
of his fortune in Central and South America. For
some years in his early life he represented New
York firms in the River Platte territory and at
MOnteyldeO
Hamilton Fish's residence. at Second-ave. and
Seventeenth-st., stands upon ground which was
formerly IA part of the farm of Peter Stuyvesant,
Mr.. Fishs mother was a Stuyvesant, and the land
has been in the OF the family for over 200
years There sad TO be no deed of It in existence
When John Jay was student in Columbia Col
lege he became a manager of the New York Young
Mems Anti Slavery SOcIety.' In 1884 riot was
melted against ahOlitonists, and Mr.. Jay, arming
HIMSELF led band Of resolute young men to defend
the house OF DR. Abraham Cox, which was princi-
pal point OF attack.
The Hon. William A.. Newell Governor of Wash
ngton Territory, and Ex-Governor of New-Jersey,
will deliver the annual ora ion before the Philo-
matheau Society OF the Seminary and Collegiate In
stitute. Pennington n. j. on "Wednesday, June 49,
Lieutenant Danenhower, of the Jeanette expedi-
ton, was one OF the founders OF this society.
handsome new Methodist Episcopal church was
dedicated in Baltimore last Sunday, in memory of
hODeTl SudW OTluBe, inc nrst pfeacner OF tnat de-
nomination in America. The pupt-desk 10 made of
oak wood, from a log taken from the first meeting
house" built by Mr.. Strawbridge in Carroll County.
Md, in 1864. and log OF the oak tree under which
he preached previous TO the erection of the meet
ing house has been used III making the other pulpit
furniture.
The Rev Dr. Jesse b. Thomas, of the First Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, last week received four cas-to
a chair ia Crozer Theological seminary, Pennsyi- |
vania; to a chair in Andover Theological seminary;
to the pulpit of a prominent Baptist church In
Rochester and TO the pulpit of the Seventh Baptist
Church BALTIMORE He has declined the llrst three,
and will doubtless also decline the fourth as ne is
strongly attached to his Brooky n church, which Is
one OF the finest in that CITY,
Since the Hon. Mr. Beebe, of tumutuous memory |
debated tho Force bill from the top OF his desk, |
the most picturesque scene in the House of Repre-
sentatiyes was that OF last Friday, when Fighting
ice" Wheeler, of Alabama, before giving up his
seat to the rightful claimant. Mr.. Lowe, made q
farewell speech from the height of revolving
chair Short and thin. with pale face and weak
voice he vet commanded the attention of the
entire House from the moment IN winch he took his
stand upon that perllous rostrum to the hapless
instant when tho wel-oed chair screw reyolyed
suddenly under the impulse OF his oratory and
preclpltated him into the arms of his neighbors.
II was u great fall, for 1t brought down all tho