New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-05
PERSONAL.

Ex-President Hayes and his wife are at Chautau-
qua Lake. Mrs. Hayes has been presiding over the
meeting of the W onen's Home Missionary Society.
Congressman w. d. Kelley has gone from Denver
to spend u few days at the Greeley Farm near that
city.
George Wilson. secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, yesterday started on his summer vacation
in the Adirondacks. He will be absent about four
weeks.
Mr.. w. W. Corcoran, the Washington phiIanthro-
pist has gone from Deer Park Nd, to the Green
brer White Sulphur Springs. His health is much
improved.
Midshipman De Chair who was captured by Ar
abs forces while convey ing dispatches to Ramleh
is nephew of Lieutenant Lawson, of the Roy
yacht Victoria and Albert lie is only seventeen
years Old.
Professor Pcrslfor Frazer, of Philadelphia, has re-
Gently been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor
of Sciences by the University of France. lie is the
first American, and indeed the first not cit
zen OF France. who has ever attained to this dis
tIngulSheu honor.
Mr.. John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia merchant
and phanthrOpst, seems TO be partial to his name
sakes, for the four stained glass windows in the IL
brary of his stately new mansion at Chelten HILLS,
PENN bear portraits OF four famous JOhnS-AnoX,
Gavin, Bunyan and Wesley
Josh Bilngss Pulpit" is the name given by the
Rutland, VT, Historical Society to a curiously
rounded knob of slate rock. some twenty feet high
mt MasOns Point, Lake BOmbsee, and the genial
philosopher says he hopes, some time. to read from
1t his lecture on The Probabilities OF Life
Should the next child of the King and Queen of
Spain be boy, lie will bear the name of Al phonso
or Ferdinand, or both. If girl. she will be named
Maria-Theresa after the famous Empress, who las
the Observation-Disclosures of Queen Marie, and
IL 1 nImOthcr A
phonsO. Inc royal pair are, by the way also both
descended from Louis XIV of France.
Friends of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll say that
when he undertook the defence of the Star Route
men he fully believed in their innocence. But the
more recent testimony TO their guilt has con-
vInced him that he is upholdIng bad cause. Con-
sequently, they say he has determined, as soon as
he is done with the case, to quit the Law business
entirely, and devote all his attention 10 lecturing.
The grave of Sargent 5. Prentiss is in among the
decaying ruins of old family burylng-grOund
two niles east of the centre Of Natchez. A plain
upright slab bears this simple record: Sargent ).
Prentisi Born in Portland, Maine. Died in Natchez,
Miss" The proprioty Of erecting more endurn
and imposing memorial has been suggested by some
of the countless admirers of Mr. Prenuss.
Bishop McNerney, of the Roman Catholic Do
cese of Albany who has been very i'll for time,
has so far recovered his health to be able to leave
his ROOM and by the advice of his physicians he
has gone into tho country. Before his elevation TO
the EpiscOpacy in December, 1871, he was priest
Attached to the old Cathedral III Mott-st in this
city and was for IN my years the private secretary
OF Archbishop Hughes and atterWard OF Arch
bishop now CARDINAL McCloSkey.
The betrothal is announced of Nile. Bertha Won
Rothschlld, youngest daughter of Baron Meyer
Charles Won Rothschlld, and Prince Alexander Won
Wasram son of the Duke Napoleon Won Wagram,
Prince of Neufchatcl, and the Countess Zenaida Won
Claru niece of King Beruadotte. The prospective
bridegroom is a brother-in-law OF Prince Joachim
Nurat and Is Ca,nOlIc. The conversion OF the
bride to that religion Will occur immediately be-
tore the wedding.
Mr. Carlton Hunt, nominated for Congress by the
Democrats of the LIST Louisiana District, is nephew
of the Hon. W. H. Hunt. Minister to Russia, and
the Hon. Randall Hunt, ex-United States Senator.
lie was graduated at Harvard in 1896, being
cIassmate of Congressman Robinson, of Massa-
chusetts, Jddge Morris, of Maryland, Charles
Francis Adams, jr, Professor GreenOugh, and other
distinguished scholars. For many years he has been
Professor of Law IN the Louisiana state University.
WASHINGTON Aug 4.-President Arthur has
ceiyed an invitation from some of the prominent
business men of Chicago, together with leading cit
lzens of Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, inviting
him to visit their respective States the early au
turnn. Tie gentlemen who presented the invita-
tion feel confident that the President will accept
IL is thought likely that the trip will DC made some
time In September.
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