New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-13
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PERSONAL.

Governor Hoyt, Of Pennsylvania, is q sufferer from
govt, which often confines him to his house for
weeks at time
Mr.. Cross it is rumored, has abandoned tho idea
of writing biography of his late wife, Marian
Evans, or George Eliot.
The little son of the King of Greece has just been
christened Andrew" He Is the only prince in
Europe who bears that name.
Herbert Spencer has positively declined all pro-
posals TO lecture in this country. His new work,
Political Institutions" has just appeared in Eng
land.
Mr.. Longfellow wrote "The Golden Legend" in
four weeks, not counting the Sundays; then he
spent six months in correcting and cutting it
down.
Colonel Lockhart nephew Of J. G.. Lockhart and
the author of those remarkably clever novels,
L" Fair to See " and mine is Thine" died few
days ago.
Morris Franklin president of the New-York Life
Insurance Company, who is eighty-one years old,
arrives at the Office promptly at 10 a. m each day.
and leaves it at D. m. He is the most punctual Of
all the officials and attends regularly TO bus duties
German lady has lately published in a Berlin
journal some records of q visit to the Carlyles In
1916, when she was much impressed with the pro-
found devotion Of Jane Carlyle to her husband and
his defective appreciation of her. The visitor felt
in reading long letter of Mrs. Carlyles that its
writer was haunted by the spectre Of suspicion that
her husbands heart no longer lung TO her. although
she was devoting herself entirely TO the furtherance
of his ambition and stalking her life upon it,
Senator Bayard has contributed to Tho Christian
Union short letter on success in public life, in
which be states his conviction that such success does
not at all involve disregard of the of pune
tiliously honorable action. He says of the young
American who engages in politics that the discov
cry of much weakness and unwOrth may often pain
and dlsappOint him, and he may weary of the work
and long for rest but his hands can be clean and
his soul white at the end OF the Journey as when
lie set out upon 1t"
General Truman Seymour, one of the three sur
viving officers who shared in the defence of Sumter,
and who was retired, at his own request,
several years ago as major, has mill
tary record that goes back to 1S47. In April
of that year he was breveted first lieutenant of the
1st Artillery for gallant and mertorious conduct in
the battle of Cerro Gordo. Four months later he
was brevetted captain for gallant and meritorious
conduct in the battles of Contreras and
Churubusco He was captain in the 1st Artillery
when the Rebellion began and was breyetted MAJOR
in April 1861 for gallent and merltOrlous service
during the defence of Fort Sumter" He especially
distinguished himself at the battles of South
Mountain, Antietam and Petersburg. In March.
1865, he brevetted maj0r-general OF volunteers
" for ability and energy in handling his division
and for gallantry and valiant service in action"
LONDON, April ia rumor is current in
Mentone that Queen Victoria has started for
England.
PHILADELPHIA, April Ex-senator Hill, of
Georgia. left here to-day to spend week or ten
days at Atlantic City. He will probably go from
there to Old Point Comfort, Va. His physicians say
he is getting along nicely, and they do not appre-
bend that he will have any further trouble with his
thruat