New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-21
PERSONAL.

Turguenei has been placed under treatment Tor
mental arrangement
Miss Agnes Brown Degg. niece Of the poet Robert
Burns. did this month at the Bridge House. Ayr,
Scotland. age eighty three. Hen your ger sister
survives her.
The Rev. Richard A. Holland. u. d., of Chicago,
has been called to the rectorship of Trinity Church.
New-Oreans. as the successor of Dr. Hugh Miller
Thompson, who recently elected bishop.
The funeral services of the'late Bishop Jesse T..
Peck. OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, will be
held to-day in the University Avenue Church, SYRIA
cuse. The students Of Syracuse University will at
tend in n body. and the sermon will be preached by
Bishop Simpson.
While Mr. Gladstone delights in telling trees
Lord Salisbury IL devoted to tennis-not lawn ten
mis-. but the real gane-Sir Stafford Northcote re-
mains loyal to croqnet Mr.. W. l.. Forster loves
whist best. and Lord Randolph Churchill Is an en-
thusast over the chess BOARD
Professor Tyndal resigned his connection with
the British Board Of Trade and Lighthouse Board
because of difference of opinion on the conSttu-
ton of a committee of inquiry into the properties of
q particular Illuminating power.
Colonel John Hay and wife arrived hero carly
Yesterday morning by the Germanic. They were
met by a few family friends at Quarantine where
the news of Mr.. Amasa Stones death first reached
them.
Dr. Schliemann. in letter TO Karl Blind in Lon =
don, writes to say that he is once more gone to
Troy, in order to take the plan of the Lower Town
recently excavated by him. with view to his forth
coming work which is to be published stimuli
taneousy III English and German.
Richard Lcpsius. Professor of Egyptology and
Comparative Phology at Berlin, recently cele-
braed the ifteth anniversary Of his doctOrate and
received on that occasion cOngratulatory address
signed by III eminent literary. scientific and pro
fessiOnal men and women of England.
The tomb OF Thaddeus Stevens, in Lancaster,
Penn. is in a small corner lot, crowded with humble
graves. The monument is huge block of Vermont
granite and about it grow wild roses, wood viOles
and dandeions i'm the rank grass His former resi-
dence owned 10y his old colored hOusekeeper,
and her son occupies part OF 1t rs barber-shop.
Mr.. Leigh Smith presented to Captain Dalen, of
the Dutch exploring ship Willem Barents, on tho
occasion of the latters departure for the Arctic
giOnS. two superb silver cups bearing the following
inscription. which tells its own story taken frox
the journal of the Ezra party: august 3. 1882
Matotchkln, Skarr. Nova Zembla 10 ~ III. sail
sail The Wilem Barentsw
Mrs. Lydia Pinkham. of patent medicine fame,
who died of paralysis Thursday ut her home IN
Lynn, Mass, was of Quaker parentage. Her maiden
naue was Estes, and she was born in Lynn sixty
four years ago. Her four sons are dead, but her
husband and daughter Mrs. G.. c. Cove, survive
her. she Is said to have been a woman of intellect
and benevoleDce esteemed by wide circle OF
friends.
The practice which has prevailed for nearly half
a century of soemnizng mass 10 the chapel of the
Inyades, Paris where repose the ashes of Napoleon
Bonaparte. on May 3, the anniversary of his death.
was this year broken for the first time General
Thbaudin, Minister of War. positively forbade it.
saying bluntly to The venerable Abb6 de Cassan
chaplain of the lnvades. that he proposed to have
no more mummeres over the bones of tho man who
founded Bonapartism.
Ernest Renan explains In his recently published
Souvenirs how 1t comes pass that lac rides
in an omnibus. His old-fashioned and as he says,
now quite exploded notions of polIteness prevented
him from asserting himself with proper vigor and
eleowing his way to a seat. He made way for the
other passengers. who, deferred by no such obsolete
sorupes used y jostle him about and thrust him
aside without mercy till all the seats wsre taken.
The conductors at last lost all respect tor him and
treated him without ceremony as u person wholly
sans s6reuE. Their contempt and that of his fellow
passengers was moro than he could bear so he 70
| nounced this mode of conveyance altogether.
Deiaunay Of the Comedie- Francaise. Is the first
French actor TO attain position of entire equality
with other citizens Since the Revolution no actor
has been denied Christian burial, but Samson and
| Renor given the Cross Of the Legion OF Honor
| Vnly on condition of their quitting the stage
Seveste was decorated for defending Paris in 1870
but only when he was mortaly wounded. Col