New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-14
PERSONAL.


well reading in Boston this afternoon, and this
evening Mr.. Matthew Arnold will repeat bis
Emerson" lecture In the same city.
MIR. Ephrafm Keyser, the Baltimore SCULPTOR TO
| whom was awarded the commission for the DeKalb
| statue to BIO erected at Annapolis. will sail for
Europe on wednesday with his model, to have the
| statue cast In bronze.
Awonderfully well-preserved man is Lord Shaftes-
| bury. At Oxford recently he attended the meeting
of a society Of which he was an active member half
century ago and seemed to have lost little If any of
his youthful energy and enthusiasm.
Governor Cleveland not only gave the public
school at Holland Patent $500 for additions to its
library, but he has personally supervised the work
OF selecting and purchasing the books and securing
the largest possible discounts from publishers in
order that the money may be expended to the best
| advantage.
| Speaker Carlisle Is said by The Hamilton (Ohio)
Nevs to have challenged an exasperating liti-
CANT to fight duel The latter accepted promptly,
and, as was his right, selected the place and
weapons which he chose to be- respectively, Boston
Common and clapboards. Mr.. Carlisle let tho
matter drop.
Mr.. Matthew Arnold visited one of the grammar.
schools of Boston the other day and spent soms
time inspecting the various classes at their regular
work. He was much pleased with what he saw aud
heard and said that the school compared very
favorably with, and in some respects decidedly
| surpassed, the London schools of corresponding
grade.
Here's point for would-be monument-raisers.
Erect the monument during the subjects lifetime
and ask him to foot the bills. For precedent,
take the of Cividae, in Upper Italy, the birth
place of Ristor. The town council decided not
long ago to put up monument in her honor. But
the communal treasury was not full enough to bear
the cost, and private subscriptions were lacking.
SO they wrote to RistOri herself for aid. And sha
gave it, too! But her private opinion of their
assurance has not been placed on record.
According to Macaulay. Warren Hastings made it
the ambition of his life to possess-and doubt
less to transmit to pOsterity's long line-Dayles-
ford, the home of his ancient and tmehonored race.
He did gain possession of it, but from him 1t went
to his step-son, Sir Charles Imhoff, and from him
to the real estate market. 1t has had several own
ers since then, and few years ago fell into the
hands of Bass, the renowned manufactures of ale
and beer; He restored it to its former glory and
made 1t his home, bat has now sold it again. for
enormously high price.
Charirari greets Marshal Serrano, the new Spanish
Ambassador in Paris with incident Of the access
sion of Alfonso few weeks before that event,
Serrano commissioned Madrid artist to paint pict-
ure of him, on horseback crossing the Bridge Of
Acoea-where he had defeated the Royalists and in-
sured the establishment of of the Republic. When
Alfonso was proclaimed King the polite Marshal
with the picture. Too late, was the reply; tho
picture is finished already. But if you like will
paint another in which you will be seen recrosSing
the same bridgeW
Private letters from Lady Thornton" says The
Independent, give the painful intelligence that tho
health of her oldest daughter, Miss Mary Thornton,
will not allow the return of the family to St. Peters,
burg during the coming winter. Last spring, by
the order of physicians, Lady Thornton left Russia
with her two daughters. She carried them to Ger
many, to Switzerland to Italy, where they still
remain forbidden to return to the frozen air of tho
Neva. The Misses Mary and Frances Thornton arc
young ladies of remarkable intelligence and anima-
tiOn and still deeply attached to the city of WASH
ington, where they grew from childhood and lived
fifteen years as daughters of the British Minister,
| and with which, through intimate friends, they
still maintain a constant correspondence
1--WE went to Denver to attend the old soldiers
reunion" The Troy lines makes General Sherman
say speaking of his Western trip with Justice Gray,
of the United States Supreme Court, and Others,
last summer. 1.-The boys came down to the station
with big crowd of people John Sullivan the
fighter, expected the same day, and half
the crowd came to him, and half TO see u.s. Well,
you know Gray is n big fellow, and of course no one
knew him out there. When he got of the cars the
sports thought it was the other man, and set up
a shout, 'HuTrah for Sullivan, the sluggerv L got
in one carriage aud Gray In another, and they FOL.
lowed Gray more than they didm and Justice OF
| the Supreme Court rode through Denver with all
the sporting characters in the city ut his heels An
hour afterward Sullivan came into town without
any demonstration at ALL"
RALEIGH, n. c., Dec. 13.-The Rev. A. A. Watson,
of Wilmington, has been unanimously elected
Bishop of the new Episcopal Diocese by the conyen-
ton at New Berne.
WASHINGTON Dec. 13.--J. A. Thompson, Acting
Deputy Controller of the Treasury, was stricken
with paralysis this afternoon while at his desk.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator HILL of Colo
RADIO, was called to Orange County tonight by the
death of his sister, He will be absent three or
four days.
The condition of DR.. Willard Parker, who has
been dangerously sick for the last few days, was
greatly improved last night. His attendants are
confident of his recovery