New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-14
PERSONAL.

Mr.. Henry WattersOn, OF The Louisville Courier
Journal will on Washington's birthday Thursday
of next week address the Democratic members OF
the Tennessee Legislature on Tariff Reform"
Ex-Governor and Senator elect Colqutt. of Geor-
gia lectured in Cleveland Ohio. last Saturday
evening and was introduced TO the audience by ex-
Pres dent Hayes
Mr.. " d. Howels has been visiting in Florence,
Italy and IA reception given IN his honor there
three weeks ago at the house of Nh Ball. the Aneri-
can sculptor.
The health of DR.. William II. Van Buren,, the we'll
known surgeon OF this city. has been poor for some
time. Recently bis illness assumed dangerous
form. but he has far recovered that ne was able
10 60 ont driving n day OF tWOa ago
alt NAV 10 news TO YOU since you have invited
me 10 smile.tp said Mr.. Bob" Burdette, the
humorist to PnsJuryh Post reporter the other day
that | have become total abstainer reduced
the matter TO figures and found out that to each
mai is allotted one barrel of whskey and by close
calculation discovered that had drunk barrel
aud half In other words, haI drunk my own
Md halt of some other mans barrel. am TOO
honest to rob anybody especially OF the Wnlskey
We get nowadays. aud therefore have quit drinking
whiskey entirely"
Mr. Howard Roberts. OF Philadelphia hos finished
his marble statue OF Robert Fulton, which Is to be
paced in one of Pennsyvauia's inches Ia the Capt.
sized and represents the great inventor sitting. With
his coat oil in an arm chair studying the model OF
steamboat which he grasDs with botn hands as It
rests upon his knees. Books and tools scattered
about the base of the statue carry out Inc ldea OF
well-dressed man in hia Workshop. studying out
further improvements IN n machine upon which he
has concentrated the best Thought of his LIE.
When the late Hon. Marshall Jewell first left his
fathers home and ward seek his fortune IN the
West he went to Rochester n. Y,itO work in
telcgranb Office. But when he got there he cid not
find the vacancy he expected, aud his means were
40 Exhausted that lie could not travel further. 30 he
accepted tho first opportunity that was presented
for earning a livelihood namely, a ksnlp I'D the
old Eagle Hotel. which was then Inc principal nos
tclry in that part of the state. He worked faith
fully in that position for some time' untll an open
ing was found in his chosen calling.
DR. wepber. pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church OF Troy has been induced to reconsider his
reeently.teudered resignation partly by the unani-
mons entreaty Of his congregation and partly by
IN. anpeal made to him last Saturday by the
Sunda, school A large delegation OF the children
Including nearly all Of the lEiant class, made an
impromptu call at the parsonage and petltioned him
not TO leave item. "Well, but what dlilersnce
would il make-what would happen II l went
away ~ he asked. "Oh,' was the ready response
we woud all become heather Them Ibls COM
liment to his restraining grace almost upset the
r1-tcrs CAVITY Dnt at tne same a,ne Ge nee, ~
40 Just yet. ans way.
Mr.. Henry VI. Stanley seems doomed to uisap-
nontment in his campaign on the Congo Tor IL Is
now announced that VI de Brszza has not yet re-
turned thther True, tho French gunboat Saglt-
taire is now its way to that region, Tut the
French explorer, who took passage on 1t, became
frightened ct the prospect of being Dutchered to
maze a Stanleys holiday and scuttled back to the
French shore IN a rowboat. interesting develop
Iar rfaI hnKN
may destrOy the gunbOat for de BraLZas sake III
he does ne will have LIFELONG enemy IN KING Ma
kok0 for the vessel Is irelghted from stem 10 Stern
with pretty presents iIoh 'no Ooui''J ''"e4" ="
the dusky monarch
81 bo saysp writes Mr.. VI. d. Conway, In an ac-
ooupt of personal interview with LoGIse Michel in
London that not only women but men have far
more freedom in England than in France The
Repnblic is largely delusiUn 1t fares no better
,,th the poor than under the Empire. She does
mt wish that women should be enfranchIsed III
France; the men vote bad enough without the help
| ,f the women dependent on them. There has been.
sho .avs a remarkable and steady decrease of the
influence of the priests over women since the FRANCO
German war. but that emancipation has not gone
far enough yet to enttlc women TO vote. Inc great
work is to give them the freedom OF all oceupa-
tions; to give them equal wages, to protect their
vote and not merely one which doubles the vote Oh
some priest or master. She much admlres America
and should have gone there this year had ~ ho'
been for the illness and decline OF hef moVhe''
BLOOMINGTON. Ill.,, Feb. 13.-George T. DAVIS
| son of David Davis accompanied by MS "he, leu
this city this evening for Washington Clty' rom
what seems to be Trustworthy authority she oblect
of Mr. Daviss visit to the capital Is TO renan toI
few weeks The guest of ais father anc alvL 'Ss -
4 IN nroceed with the Senator 10 FayeLieYiile ~
! where the LATTER will we'd Miss burr Inc u"'o nAcu
| for the marriage is said TO be March o.
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