New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-25

NAMED so strong that he recently had his coueet
wheeled out into the park, that he might thsrs
propped up with pillows and his gun stead!ed BY !.
attendant shoot stag which was caught and ia
up to him for the purpose. A counterpart of a.
story 10 found In the Frsnch National Library.
where q caricature by Traves represents ths
dressing-gown and night-cap, seated In an arm.
man holds near the muzzle OF the royal gun.
The Rev. Joseph Marsh, of Sandwich. Mass, nov
eighty-seven years old, has been preaching about
sixty-ive years. He is said to have been the fra
Methodist Episcopal pastor In Cambridge, Mass.
and one of the earliest regularly statone preacher
of that denomination in Newark. N. J. He bss
lately been revisitng and preaching in his Old
churches. So we'll preserved are all his faculties
that ne has been able to preach at some OF than
three sermons in one day. 10 the same conference
the New-England Southern, also belongs the Rev,
Frederick Upham, u. u, age elghty-iour. He
two consecutive years, probably the longest IN.
broken term of ministerial service on record in thai
denomination. He is the father OF the Rev. Dr. a
f. Upham. Professor In the Drew theological Sem
mary.
Robert Rawlinson we'll deserves the honor Of tina
baronetags which Queen Victoria has seen 81 "a
bestow upon him thus late in life-he is now ssy.
enty.three years old The son Of working builds,.
he became SJono- tooh az sno "so VI SAtoon, and
then. by sheer force of ability and industry worked
his way up to the foremost rank Of British civil and
sanitary engineers. He was appointed engineerins
inspector under the first Health Act, In 1S48 hsld
the first inquiry wrote the first report ana then
visited. inspected and reported npon every impcr.
tant town IN England. In the spring Of 1855 Nj.
Rawlnson was sent engineer member Of the San.
itary Commission TO the British army ON the Boa,
phorus and in tho Crimea. In 1868 he was sent by
the Home Secretary to Lancashire az engineer com.
missioner. to devise work for wages" in the din.
tressed cotton district during the cotton famins
and. with Mr. Arthur Arnold. who was his colleagua
advised and saw executed IN the ninety four towns
and places in Lancashire and Cheshire works q
road-making, public parks mixing, water. works
construction, street and road forming. main sewer
inc and land draining. The sum of money ex.
pended under the signature OF Mr. Rawlinson wa
f1 $50 900, upward of 400 miles Of roads and
streets were formed, drained severed, channelsd,
and paved, the manual labor being done for che
most part by cotton operatives. The administers
tiOn did not cost the Government IS. 3D. per cent
The money was advanced for term OF thirty years
nj 3l2 per cent. The entire sum advanced has up
TO this date, been regularly repaid. Mr.. Rawhuson
has served on three Royal Commissions in England
and on one for Dublin and since 1862 has been
member of the Army Sanitary Committee In 1882
he reported on Windsor Castle, and subsequently,
upon Sandrlngham and Marlborough HOUSE for the
Prince OF Wales.
LONDON, Aug. 24.-Among the passengers by the
steamer Sandman. which left Liverpool yesterday
for Quebec aud Montreal, are Lord and Lady Car
uaryon and the secretary of the Welsh Quarymens
Union. Tho object of the latters trip is to esab.
lish Welsh colony on a spur OF the Rocky Noun
tains near Fort Calgary.