The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1882-10-26
PERSONAL.

General Fitzhugh Lee has become FARMER III
Fairfax county, Va.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is visiting
friends in Hartford, Conn.
General Sheridan and family are visiting his
mother at her home in Ohio.
Winnemucca, the Piute chief, though wasted
to skin and bones. is alive still.
General Neal Dow has gone to Minnesota to
help ont the Prohibitionists there.
General Van Buren,, consul general to Japan,
is coming home on leave Of absence.
Mark Twain has received 100000 of royal
ties from his play of g COLONEL Sellers"
Gen. George b. Mcclellan, accompanied by
his wife, arrived in Washington Monday night.
Viscountass Stringford established a hospital
for Egyptian wounded, and the Khedive gave
her eighty beds from Arabis house.
Commissioner of Pensions Dudley has so far
recovered from his recent severe illness as to be
able to resume his official duties in Washing
ton.
Hon. John D. Defrees, ex-public printer, died
at Berllcly Springs, Va, Thursday morning. He
was born in White county, Tenn, November 8,
1911.
Mrs. Fish, wife of Ex-Secretary Fish, was in
iured seriously in runaway near GarrisOns,
n Y, the other day. Two of her ribs were
broken,
Secretary Lincoln, as well as General Sher-
man, will attend the army competitive rifle
shooting contest at Lcavenworth on the 25th,
Goth. and 9th.
General JubaI Early has gone to Missouri to
look after the estate of his late brother, Colonel
T. H. Early He was astOnished to see how
much st. Louis has grown.
The jury in the libel suit Marie Prescott the
actress, against President Tousey, of the Ameri-
can News Company, rendered a verdict in favor
of the plaintiff fer So, 800
President Arthur returned to Washington
Wednesday night He is expected at'IIavre de
Grace Md, as the guest of Major T. B. Fergu-
SON for the first days duck shooting in
November.
Thomaso Salvini, the tragedian, has arrived in
New York He is in good health, and pleased
to get back to this country. He will appear as
Othello on the both inst. at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre in New York.
Mrs. Langtry, the famous Jersey Lily"
arrived at New York Monday morning, on the
steamship Arizona 4 large number of persons,
principally of the theatrical profession, went
down on a tug to meet Mrs. Langtry, to whom
they were introduced by Mr.. Oscar Wilde.
General George Crook, the new commander
in Arizona, has prohibited the use of tiswin, the
favorite tipple of the Apache Indians He has
ordered the calling of roll daily to ascertain
what Indians are absent from the reservation,
but promises that those who remain shall have
plenty of work at the spade and hoe.
General Boulanger is thorough republican.
He writes from Paris to a friend in st. Louis:
LET France in the Old World and the Ameri-
can Republic upon the new continent point out
to all the road to progress and real civilization.
Let us march hand in hand this is our most
ardent desire; it is the desire of every good
Frenchman."
Few men have had q more interesting eXpe-
rience Of the "late unploasanmess than Major
Wilmer Mclean, who Il few days since in
Alexandria, Va. He literally saw the begin
ming and the end of the war 1t was on his
farm that the battle of Bull Run was fought,
and General Lee surrendered on his farm at
Appomattox, to which he had moved with his
family.
The senior soldier in the Germn army is a
Emperor William, who is its head. In March
he entered in his eighty-siXth year. The
youngest soldier in the same army is the son of
Duke Paul Frederick of Mocklcnberg- Schwerin,
who is scarcely yet a month old and who has
just been enrolled by the veteran Emperor in
the Seventeenth regiment of Mecklenberg
Dragons.
Gen. John Kay Clement died at sunbury,
Pa, on the 18th inst. During the war he was
Provost Marshal for the district from 1862 to 1864
He was prominent III the formation of the
Washington Artillcrvists, of Pottsville, of which
he was captain, prior to the Mexican war, in
which they volunteered for service but were
refused, Pennsylvania quota being full. This
organization was one of the first defenders in
1861 and is now hcadquarter guard to Major
C,nuera1 ITartronft