New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-14
PERSONAL.

General george Is. McCituan Is WISHING, In Official
capacity, the United States Military Asylum at
TOgus, Me.
Ex-Governor Shepherd, of the District of Colum.
bia, is enjoying excellent health and great pros
perty among the Batopilas mines He intends soon
to revisit Washington, W. here his three daughters
are now staying
John Mccullough is spending a few days in
Quincy ILL.,, previous to gong with General Sheri-
dan and Secretary Lincoln to Yellowstone Park.
He will return TO civilization in time to open his
theatrical season on September A. ~ St. Paul, MIMI
Bartholdi, designer of the statue Of Liberty
Enlightening the World to be placed in New
York harbor, is man of great wealth, and has
given 5000 of his own fortune to defray the ex-
penses of constructing the huge monument.
Active interest is taken in Chicago in the celebra
ton to be held there, in Ogden's Grove August %,
for the purpose of raising funds for the erection of
a monument to the memory Of John Brown. All
the States of the Union will be invited to cooperate
in making the memorial a Nationel one Among
the persons asked TO make addresses at the gather
ing Mrs. Harriet Beccher Stowe. Secretary
Lincoln, ex-Secretary Blaine Senator Logan. Gov
ern0r Cullom, and the Hon. Messrs. 3. X. Bruce,
Frederick Douglass. Wendell Phillips Roscoe
COnklng and Charles b. Farwell.
Midhat Pacha leads monotonOus life for so active
and vivacious political schemer, IN the prison of
Taiffa, near Mecca. In addition TO the Jail attend
ants he has until lately, been allowed to see only
the Sheriff of Mecca who comes every four weeks TO
visit him and report his condition to the Sultan
Now, however, he is allowed daily to meet num-
Der of children, to whom no gives instruction IN the
Koran which, with few other religions books, con-
stitutes his entire reading. II is said that the
prisoner has entered upon his duty religious i'll
sirGctor of youth with great zest and earnestneSs
One of the most notable decorations worn at the
recent christening of the Youngest heir to the Ger
man throne was the Order Of the Golden Fleece
which cleaned apOn the breast of Prince Frederick
Charles There no new specimens of this deco
ration made nowadays, the old ones being handed
down from knight to knight the name of each sue
cessive owner beng engraved on ono Of the links.
SO il happens by strange freak of fate that Prince
Frederick Charles. the Red Prince liberal-mnded
but earnest Protestant, wears che very cham once
bestowed by Philip ii. upon that stern and relent-
less prosecutor of heretIcs the Duke OF Alba.
Doubtless the special attraction of the Concord
Summer School of Philosophy this year will be
Emerson Day. which occurs on Saturday of next
week, July %. The exercises, held in the Town
Hall. will consist of opening address at a. m,
by DR.. Bartol, on The Nature of Knowledge" a
monody of eleven 14-lined stanzas, by Mr.. Alcott,
expressive of his feelings at beng separated by
denth from his almost lifelong friend n paper 1e-
scTIbing his first interviews with Emerson and
IhOreau, by Mr. Albee an address by either Henry
james or Professor Harris, and some other papers
ana addresses.
Adele Hugo, the daughter of Victor Hugo. who
has for many years been confined in private luna
tic asylum in Paris is now about fifty years OF age.
but at ort distance does not look TO be half so
old. She resembles to "a marvellous degree the pOr-
trait of Madame Victor Hugo painted by Tony
Johannot To her companions in misfortune she
frequently relates her sad story how she was mar
RED. long ago, withou: her fathers consent to a
| naval officer, and how soon afterward he deserted
| her penness, and without power to prove the
legality of her marriage. This blow unsettled her
reason, and afterward she has bJen kept under
| Restraint Year by year she grows more proud of
her ather's fame, and has committed most OF his
| pOetlcal works to memory.
Count 1ostOi. the new Russian Minister of the
Interior like many other prominent Russians is OF
Teutonic descent, and for that reason IS dsliked,
| not to say hate |, by the party of Slavism. HIS
family strayed into Russia from the Baltic PROV
inces about the year 400. One of the earlier
members of the lolStoi family, Count Peter An
dreievltch trusted cOmrade of Peter the Great,
and was associated with him in many of his eccen-
trc schemes Of reform Another, Count Peter
| Alexandrovitch. saw four sovereigns on tho Rus
sian throne namely Catherine H., Paul the mad
| man. Alexander l., the well-iDtentiOned." and
| Nicholas the Autocrat whose Minister of War he
was All members of the family have risen to
honorable distinction, save one. Jacques TOlstoi.
who was pioneer of Nihilism and accomplice of
pestel IN his proposed rebellion. The present head
of the family despite his German or GIN is endea v
orlng 10 WIN favor with the Slav party by manifest
inc great zeal in the cause of PanSlavsm but has
not yet succeeded in gaining the confidence Of the
| public.