New-York tribune., 1883-12-13
PERSONAL.
at his disposal,

Ex-Governor Thomas A. Hendricks, accompanied
by his wife his nephew William Morgan and wife and
Judge Rand of Indianapolis sailed for Europe yes
terday on the steamship Werra. The party will
make only brief sojoqrn in England and will then
visit France, Italy and Spain. They expect TO re-
turn some time in February next.
Mr.. w. B. Goldberg father of Mile. Amclie Gold
berg-Brillanti. the prima donna who is meeting
with such success in Europe, has purchased site
for a residence in Milwaukee and will make that
city his home. His daughter, who is now twenty
three years of age will soon return to this country
and sing probably under her fathers management.
The Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. scudder, of Chicago ire
Gently of Brooklyn), having been criticised by
an anonymous correspondent for admitting Mr.
Mozoomdar to his pulpit one Sunday evening has
made detailed reply in The Inter Ocean, He yico.
rously uphods the right of Mr.. Mozoondar and hi,
cO-religionists to be called Christians, and that OF
the Brahmo-Somaj to be considered, in faith anil
practice, Christian church. DR.. Scudder, it will
be remembered. was born in India, and was fpr
much of his life missionary there that IN tia
matter mono knows better than hc the thing,
whereof he speaks
Mrs. Carlisle was present" writes q Wiid.elphia
Press correspondent to see her husband asslnio
his dignties, and sat with several other Ken.
lucky ladies on the front seat Of the gallery re-
served for members families, which for several
years past has been on the Democratic side. Her
initials are the same as her husbands her full
name, Jane Goodson Carlisle. As the daughter "
Major Goodson, of COviEgton, sic was Of Ito
bellies of Kentucky, and : rich enough to marry
where her heart inclined. She is an elegant woiuau
with tall and supple figure, fair and wayy brown
hair, blue eyes, and clear, well l-mCdulated voice
She talks we'll and has as much of that inde.inable
quality called presence as any lady meets
here aud much gracOusness with it. She has been
a fayorite in her own right during the four Yeas
her husband has been IN Con and her Wpdues-
day receptions at the Riggs House, which she has
decided not tn begin till January, are sure to hs
among the leading attractions of the winter"
"Mr. Cables career as platform reader of his
own works began" says The Boston Gdsctte " al.
most before he knew it. He had never cherished
an ambition in that direction, and he would
probably never have entered upon it but for tho
entreatos of coterie of his admirers. In the
course of a brief conversation the othor evening,
he told the writer how 1t all came about. lie was
delivering course of six lectures Liberation at
the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore lass
spring, and while delivering these hc had occasion
to dwell on Creole history. In order to illustrate
his teachings be read brief extracts from three II
his books, and his success rs an Interpreter Of
Creole dialect was so marked and instantaneous
that he was asked to give a second lecture, to 10
devoted chiefly from readings from his own works.
This Mr.. Cable reluctantly conselted to do, and he
thus began career that promises to bring him
quite much pecuniary gain his writings to
say nothing of the added pleasure which his read.
lngS AFFORD"
The Johns Hopkins University received on Sun
day. says Tie Baltimore Day, dispatch from Pro-
fessor Caycy, of the University of Cambridge.
England, announcing that Professor Sylvester has
been elected Savilian Professor of Mathematics in
tho University of Oxford. The election was held on
Wednesday last. II Is understood that he accepts
the appointment, and will henccforth be enrolled as
professor emeritus Oh the staff of Johns Hopkins
farewell assembly will be held in his honor at
early day In the Hopkins Library. During his resi-
dence in Baltimore Professor Sylvester has given al
extraordinary impulse to the study of Mathematics
havlngtaught number ofpupils whose services have
been sought for at Harvard In the East and in tho
University of California In the West, and at many
intermediate points. Among them are Story. Craig
and Franklin, now In Johns Hopkins Marston, OF
Baltimore Gore, lately in the University of yir-
ginia and now in the University of North Carolina;
Hasted at Princeton Mitchell, at Marietta Ely,
al Buchtel, Ohio Stringham, In the University OF
California Van Velzer, In the University of Wis.
consn I; Prentiss, of The Initd States Nautical
Almanac, and Durfoe. just appointed to Hobart
College.
ITHACA n. Y, Dec. 12.-President Whito gave
his annual talk to the students of Cornell Univer-
sity to-day. He left Ithaca shortly afterward for
New-York, where he will attend tho Alumni BAN
quet of that university.