New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-21
PERSONAL.

Minister Lowell has been visiting tho historic
town of st. Ives, In Cornwall
Prince Leopold Duke of Albany, whose health is
in SO precarous q state. has violent aversion to
being regarded as in any sense an invalid.
Bastien Lepage's painting Jeanne PArc" Will
be placed on exhibition about October at the Bos-
ton Institute Fair.
The deaths of two veterans of Trafalgar have Just
been announced in England John Crawford, OF
Dundee age nDety-fve; and Charles Williams, OF
TwIckenham, age lOl.
Good news comes from Washington that Mr. W.
w. Corcoran has returned to that city from the
Greenbrer White Sulphur Springs much improved
in health.
Mr. E. Aubrey Hunt, the English artist who came
to this country last spring, still camping out at
Peggotty Beach, Mass, and is working diligently
with pencil and brush depicting especially the
various scenes connected with the work OF
gathering Irish moss, which there abounds.
The citizens of MUNICH Bavaria, intend 1t is said,
without distinction of party or creed, to petition
their eccentric King to relinqush his retired life
and show himself his faithful Subjects at least on
festa occasions. 1t Is hardly expected, however,
that he will grant their request.
Ex-senator Blanche X. Bruce. Register of the
United States Treasury, has gone to Alabama to
make some political stump speeches. From there
he will 90 to Mi sissippi the Same mission, and
then come to New York State to take hand III the
campaign He will not return to Washington until
after election.
The Hon. Joseph Medll, Editor of Tho Chicago
Tribune aud late Mayor of Chicago, returned by the
Arizona Monday, but has been delayed IN New-Yoik
fora day or two by slight illness in mis- family. Mr.
Medill spent one-thrd of his stay abroad in Eng
land another in France. and the remaining third IN
Switzerland.
Not many American artists have been more
fayorably received i'll England than Mr.. Thomas
Moran His paintings and etchings have been
warmly commended by critics, and he has sold
nearly all OF them to eager purchasers Mr.; Ruskin
bought q number of them, and gave an Order 1or
copy of the Yellowstone Park"
Father Hyacnthe has written letter TO the
Vice President of the French Chamber of Deputies
favoring the separation of the Church from the
State but at the same time earnestly protesting
against making such action mere adjunct OF
the present anti-Chri stan war, which he pre-
diets, If carried much further Will emu IN the
shame and ruin of the French nation.
The tweuty-ffth anniversary Of the death of
Auguste Comte was marked in Paris, September 8,
by memorial exercises in the morning at his grave
in Pere lachase an address in honor of the founder
of the Positive Belief being deliver by NJ Lagar-
rIpue of Chilli In the afternoon NJ Pierre Laitte
addressed meeting ut the former home or the pun.
osopher. and in the evening there was banquet OF
Seldom is it that "stores" about the Princess
of Wales are circulated, but a recent issue OF 1he
Whitehall Reri recalls one. of an incident That oc-
CURED a few years ago, which Is worth repeating,
as giving an insight into the practical kindness OF
her truly royal heart. An Austrian General, visit
ing at Sandrin CHAM. while saying goodnight"
to his royal host, CHANGED to stumble and spraned
his ankle SO that for several days he was confined
TO his bed Not only did the Prince call frequently
TO inquire after his condition. but the Princess also
came every day, and read aloud TO him at his bed
side to divert his mind from the pain he was SUI
fering Il know OF none of my own family, ex-
cent nv mother who would have done the samo for
me,p tie General always adds, with grateful tre-
NOR in his voice, when he relates the story.
MONTREAL Sept. 20-General w. I. Sherman has
arrived here.
WASHINGTON Sept. 20-Clark Mills, the sculptor,
whose home is in Washington, suffered stroke of
paralysis two days ago, from which it is feared he
cannot recover. His mind is seriously affected. his
eyeslght nearly gone and little control is left of any
faculty except the ability to walk with assistance.