New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-27
PERSONAL.

Jefferson Davis will attend the Southern Histori-
cal Sociesy's meeting at Nashville. May 20 as
private member, and not US orator.
During last Sunday nights storm st Greenvhio'
S. c., Mr.. c. B. Lewis-a NJ. Quad, wrote at MID
night a two column newspaper letter by the glare
OF the lightning.
the Hon S. s. Cox has purchased q house and lot
in Washington, a step which his wife has for the
past ten years been urging him to take. He says,
now that he has gone and done that he realizes
that he should have done so thirty five years ago.
The Rev. George Thomas Bowling of the Euclid
Avenue Baptist Church, cleveland, denies that ne
has accepted call to Cincinnati and says that al
tbouoh there are many fine people 10 that city he
doesa't want to 20 there for soap is too dear ana
life is zoo short for man to spend four hours Gay
In the bath-tub."
curious story of the late Lord Derby has just
come to light. When he Prime Minister OF
England he offered the Lord High Commissioner
ship to the General Assembly of the Church of Scot
land to o certain Peer, who in reply wrote four long
pages setting forth numerous reasons against MS
acceptance, but in the last two or three lines de-
caring his willingness to take the Office. Now, as
Professor Goodwin Smith has said. Lord Derby was
VIGOROUSLY INDECENT. He only took the trouble TO
read the first two pages of the letter. and, conclud-
ing from them that his correspondent wished to de-
cline the honor at once offered the Commissioner
shin to another man. who Immediately accepted III.
OF course the first candidate was furious ana also
dreadfully bewildered, but both he and LORD Derby
died without finding out how the mistake occurreu'
BY his purchase of the Dungeness and STAFFORD
estates, Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has become the owner
OF about two-thirds of Cumberland Island Georgia.
which is about two by twenty miles in SIZE Dun
gcness is the old seat of the Greenes. and was
granted to General Nathaniel Greene by the State.
That cheftan built fine mansion there. embow-
cred Ia o grove of live oaks, but IL was destroyed
by fire years ago, and the grounds cnce laid OUT by
the abest European landscape gardeners are now
n wilderness Of flowers and weeds l1 which the
grave of Light Horse Harry" Lee can scarce be
distinguished Still the fields glow crimson with
the roses for W hich Dungeness was famed choice
fruit-trces, shaded by live oaks and magnolias.
bear proflsely deer wander at Will through tue
deserted parks, and the estate is one that King
might envy, despite quaIter-century decay. zen.
eral Davis of Tallahassee. owned IL recently but
a few years ago his son wbilc hunting there acci-
dentally shot his own and only child. LAD OF less
than q dozen summers. A few months ago MT.
Davis died broken hearted, and then the old Gen-
eral bereft of son and grandson, determined to sell
the place to which such sad memories chung. MI
Carnegie will 81 are means for even more than
restoring tc the place its Old-time splendor. new
mansion will be built On the site OF the old
Greene home q thousand acres will be devoted 10
parks and gardens in which will flourish every
flower and fruit OF the tropics and deer and other
game will be protected until there are preserves on
which q seasons shooting will have scarcely per-
ceptiblo effect.