New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-15
PERSONAL,

The Rev. DR.. Frederick Courtney will begin his
rectorshp of st. Pauls Protestant Episcopal
Church in Boston on May 7. His salary will be
$1,000.
Bishop Coke ofWestern New-York. who has been
i'll at the See House in Buffalo, is much better, and
has resumed some of his duties. Knowing his love
Of work. his friends are afraid that he III over
exert himself
Wikie Collins, like many other Englishmen, IS
devoted admirer Of the works of Fenimorc Cooper.
He saws in . recent lcttor to an American friend :
81 have just read Tn, Dcerslayer for the fifth
time"
Mr.. Stedman says of Mr.. Swinburne in Harper
that the English poet cared for little in youth eX-
cept poetry, riding and swlmming-in the latter he
has always been profcient-and. being bred by the
sea- was bold cragsmal, scaling the st-epcst ellis
Senator Chilcott, who has been appointed to Mr.
Tcller'5 vacant chair, is a handsome man who has
twice been an unsuccessful candidate for Colo
RADIO Senatorshp. He Is not wealthy but has
comfortable fortune.
The wife of Senator Malone has won in Washing
ton the distinction Of wearing handsOmer jewels
than does any other woman in official society. Her
diamonds used long ago 10 be matter of comment;
and when she returned from Europe lately her hus-
band presented her with additions to her JeWel-case
valued at 100000
Judge BIdck ana Jne non. wayne AiCN cdEu are
opposing each other rs the leading lawyers in the
case of the contested will of the late William Came
ron. brother of Simon Cameron. Two wills have
been founl disposing Of $l,50O,O00, the last
giving most of the estate 10 the testGtOrs daughter
Mrs J. b. Packer. The second daughter contests
the will on the grounds of forgery OF undue i'll
huence" and produces another, giving equal shares
TO the sisters.
A memorial tablet to the late Professor Hart, who
died while carrying on bis researches in Brazil was
placed in the Sage Chapel at Cornell last week.
The tablet is of stone with cut letters illuminated
i'm red and black and bears the following inscrip-
ton; "Charles Frederick Hart. VI. A. Born at
Fredericton, n. H., August, 1870 Professor of
Geology IN the Cornell University 1868 to 1852
II is understood that the tablet was put up by Pres
idcnt White.
The White Star steamship Germanc. which will
sail for Liverpool to-day, has lis; Of l75 cabin
passengers, and five other steamships VIII carry
enough moro to make the total more than 300
Among those on the Germanics list are Chen Tsao
Ju Tsai Kivok Ching Chin Chi Yung, Tsai Kwan
and Lux Yam Chang of the Chinese Embassy, Sir
John Lister Kaye and Alexander Taylor Judge
ChatterOn, of Lansing Mich, Is q passenger on tho
Bcigrayia which VIII sail for London.
1t is related of General Jubal Early that in COM
pany with brother officer, he had attended church
once where the theme Of the preacher was the
Judgment Day, when the earth and sea should give
up their dead. WHAT would you DO, General if
all those people the preacher spoke Of should pop
ND around you ?" asked his companion II was dur
ing the closing days of the Confedcracy and, after
"a moments silence, General Early, with character
is,IC profanity. responded: would conscrlpt
every - mothers son OF Them"
Lord Shrewsbury is known wherever the English
language is spoken as the representative philan-
thropic roblcman of England He is equally a.
home an assemblage OF aWasherWOmen's Benevo-
lent Association at meeting for the evangelical
ton of the South African saYages. His kindness Of
heart is often publicly recognized. Il am very glad
indeed to meet you my Lord" sad Mr.. Sturgeon to
him at Il large meeting. the other nlLht; and /
hay, one request 10 make OF your Lodsmp u is
that your Lorlship Will be good ENOUGH 10 keep Or
Of heaven as long as It may be personally con-
Ycnlent Tor YOU 10 do So"
General Beaurcgard has been engaged for some
almost complete. The work covers his whole mill
tary career 1t is not conciliatory in tone. 1t
sume3 throughout the fundamental justice of the
Confederate cause, and maintains that their senti
lnent and teachings upon that subject ought to be
preserved and cherished. General George ". Smith
has hi SO cOmpetCd an account OF the tall Of New
Orleans under Mansfield Lowell, together with n
history OF military operations on the Peninsula IL
attacks Jefferson DAVIS as severely as some OI his
predecessors.
WASHINGTON, April Ex-senator Edmunds who
has been for three weeks i'll Florida, reappeared IN
his seat to- lay and was cordially greeted lie is
apparently much improved IN health.
LONDON, Aurl 1.-THE Queen arrived AT Ports
mouth this afternoon from MentOne.
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