New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-09
PERSONAL.

General J. c. Caldwell, lately the representative
of the United States in Paraguay and Uruguay, has
returned to his old home at Ellsworth, Maine.
The Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston. last
week completed his seventy-fourth year. Physi-
caly aud mentally he yet seems as vigorous as he
was thirty wears ago.
An old story is perhaps worth retelling to indicate
what sort of q man the Postmaster-General is.
Once when he was on the United States Circuit
Court bench, the District-Attorney announced that
a certain important case, just called, would be with
drawn from the docket. 'By whose authority y
inquired Judge Gresham. "By instructions from
Washington" But whose iustructionsp The
answer was unsatisfactory. "Wo do not recognize
the right of an body ut Washington, the Pres
ident HIMSELF" said Judge Gresham, TO interfere
whether by insructinns or requests IN the trial OF
cause before this court. Proree with the case"
The trial went on, and conviction was secured
Mr.. Frank Hatton, whose lamentable death in
Borneo has already been announced was only
TWENTY-FIVE years old. He had distinguished him.
self prior to bis work In Borneo both as q chemist
and as minetaljgist. lis research into the infu-
ences of gases ON bacteria made him, two years
ago. an authority on that subject This research
which lasted over six months, obtained for him the
prize offered by Dr. Fraukland and also election
an Associate of tho Institute of Chemistry. He
wa, educated Mt the College of Marco Lille; Kings
College School, London the School OF Mines,
Jeruiyn-st., and the College of Chemistry, South
KensIn gton. At the time OF his death be was SUI
gagged in making a dictionary of the Dusun
language Which as wei as Malay :, ne sp9Ee win
burial and his diaries Will be collected and pub
lished.
Ex-senator Tabor was interviewed by reporter
as lie passed. through Kansas City the other day.
" sometimes think" said the illustrious statesman,
pathetIcay, THAT no man in this country has been
abused and lied about as have don't call my
self great man; all that claim is the right to be
let alone. / never saw the like of some of these
newspaper men. They say good morning or
good evening to a man. or perhaps pass dozen
words with him. and then go away and write col
umn of stuff about him, telling how much he pays
for his night-sbris aud all that sort OF thing The
scribe here sympathlzed with the injured million
naire, and soothed his swelling bosom with the az
surance that il was a shame SO it was; and they
shouldn't treat hun so any more. so they shouldn't
whereupon the grateful ex-senator. treasured, be-
came communicative and said: Il am out or pol
itics and will have nothing moro TO do with that
kind of thing. l am married THE reporter had
heard rumors to that effect" and am going
home to attend to business
writer in The london Daily Ncrs calls attention
to the Circumstance that Lady Florence Dixie is.
on her own authority. a remarkable dreamer. She
published Immediately after the death of the
Prince Imperial in South Africa, long poem
infinitely describing the occurrence, which she do
clared size had written six years before 1ts ex-
actness OF description may be seen in these quoted
lines:
IIark 10 that horrid shrek, unearthly sound!
A hundred demons crowd upon the scene.
With horrid shres and yells, and features menacng
They hurl their darts ut that pale lonely boy
The scene became uneartlhy. hcndish yells
Incarnate filed TIC air Pale unto death.
Yet all undaunted. facing hls dark foes
Defiance In those glazing ey es, despair
stamped on tnat childish brow, he stands at bay,
Heroic unto death. Bright CLEANS the sword
That Pushes green and ghOst-ke In his hand,
Waving aloft. hundred darts whirl round
And strike him down."
That was dated 1S73-sIx years before TIE event
took place Lady Florence, on publishing It, stated
that she had dreamed il all ia 1873 and had m-
Inediatey written it dovn-but she waited six
years for its fulilment before she save it to the
world.