New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-12
PERSONAL.

Rear-Admiral Amy and family will spend the
midsummer at Rchfed Springs.
Or. Palisa has discovered four planetoids already
this year, making 224 Ill all that are known TO
trOnomers.
Senator Mitchell viii forsake the turbulent field
of Pennsylvania politics this summer long enough
TO pay visit to his son. who a large rancho In
Dakota.
Mr.. w. H. Vanderbilt and family VIII spend the
greater part of the summer at Saratoga Springs
Mr. w. X. Wand rbilt and family will occnpy their
country homo on Long island this summer.
Jefferson Davis has announced his intention o
spending several weeks this summer at a resort IN
North Carolina. and the fact is being advertised
widely to induce his "old Confederate comrades"
to paTonze the same place.
Professor Merrill +. Gates, late principal Of The
Albany, n. Y, Academy, and now president-elect
of Rutgers College, was entertained at dinner at
the Delavan House. ALBANY. Friday evening,
by the Albany Association OF Rutgers Alumni.
The Hon W. L. o. Richelieu') Robinson has
placed in the members lobby Of the House of Rep
resentatyes large oil painting Of himself. And
bis colleagues asking why in the world he didn't
have q view OF the BRUSH Llon minus scalp, III
the background.
Delanay, the famous French actor, is only fifty
six years Of age, but he has been member of the
society of the Theatre Franchise for thirty five
years. lie will finally retire from the stage next
spring his eyesight being impaired that he
not endure the glare Of the iOotlights.
Ex-Mayor Henry l.. Fish, of Rochester, has been
presented with handsome cane, carved from the
keel of the first boat that passed through the
Erie Canal. Mr.. Isaac Warren, of Clarkson. n Y
now eighty-eght years old, is said to be the only
living member of the company of ten passengers
who made the first trip from BrOckpOrt to Buffalo
Oh that boat the Young Lion of the West.
81 should have ended my days in the Rue Las
Cases." sand Count Beust resigning the Austrian
AmbassadOrship at Paris; but there was almost
a conspiracy to get me away and when saw that
Vienna was being drawn into the combination
thought il high time TO take decided stepp The
Emperor sent Count Beust kind and highly COM
pLmentary autograph letter accepting his resi- gna
ton, but the comments of the German press on his
retirement were generally uniayorable.
The Princess Dolgorouki will never again enter
Russia, because she fears the Nihilists would lay
hold upon her and proclaim him Car in oppo-
stion to Alexander III. Such movement might,
il is thought meet with some success as the family
of Dogorouki is far ancient and noble
than that of ROmanof; and It is. moreover purely
Russian. while the latter is partly TcutOnic. The
Princess - now at Nice and her old home, at Ems
has recently been tenanted by the ex-Empress Eu-
genie.
Sir John Whitaker Ellis Bart, Lord-NIayor of
London is said to be one of the abcst men IN the
long line of Whittington's SUCCESSORS At every
morning he takes his place mt his desk in the Man
sion House. and devotes the FIRST hour To details of
his own private business and whether 1t be the
value of duca territory or the pattern of the pa
per the walls of cOttager's back kitchen, the
topic in hand absOrbs for the time his undivided at
tention. At 10 O'clock he begins official work in
the same spirit, and for hours is busy with most
amazing medley Of affairs. In the afternoon, clad
IN elaborate civic robes and attended by sword and
mace bearers and of police, he goes about
the city in his state chariot drawn by four horses,
| to discharge all manner of municipal functions.
And even his evenings are generally dey9ied to
public receptions or banquets at the Mansion
Iouse or the hall of some of the old city guilds. Sir
John is cripple his right leg having been broken
and badly some years ago, and had he been made
q knight instead of barOnet, II ~ doubtful IL Nc
could have knelt 10 receive the accolade.
| Mr. Amor dc Cosmos, an influential member of the
Canadian Parliament and strong advocate OF
Canadian independence is now travelling In the
United States, his native country. His original
name was Alexander Smith, which was changed to
the he now bears at his request by the Califor-
MIA Legislature, years ago. Before the formation oil
the Dominion ho was member OF the victoria FAR
| lament and in hopeless minority, opposed an lnl-
quitous bill designed to rob many settlers of their
land. The majority, sure Of success, delayed pass
ing the bill until near the close OF the session. At
| 10 o'clock one morning De Cosmos rose to speak
against II at noon he had reached L" In the first
| place ~ and sunset found him at thirdly" The
| alarmed majority tried to break him down but with
| no success and finally settled down 10 watch his
desperate struggles Without a moments respite to
eat or rest De Cosmos kept on talking all through
the weary night, aud the following morning, until,
just as the clock struck the hour of noon. exhausted