New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-04
PERSONAL.

The Hon. James G.. Blaine and family have ar
rived at their home in Augusta, Me.
Mr.. Henry +. Dickens, the youngest son OF Charles
Dickens the novelist has just been appointed TO
the Recordership of Deal.
David Dudley Field and Cyrus w. Field with
their families are at Greylock Hall, Wiilamstown,
Mass
Some time ago DIR. Ii. ID. CoggsweD a citizen of
San Francisco Cal. publicly announced that he
would if requested, present handsome drinking
fountain to each Of the leading cities of the country
lie has already heard from several Albany IN this
State. being the last. The fountains are SAID 10
cost S. 600 each.
N. Floquet, according to The London Globe, has
made inquiries concerning Berezowsky, the would
be regicide. who attempted the life of the Car
during his visit to Paris in 1867, whose name has
been put forward on several occasions, and whose
liberation was demanded by the Radicals when the
communists were permitted TO return from New
Caledonia. Felix Pyat jealous that Henri Roche
fort should have offered a seaskin cloak to Louise
Michel, opened subscription for the purpose OF
presenting Berezowsky with rerOlrer dhonneur
The inquiries made in Noumes prove mar
BHr6zowsky is employed in the Island OF NOu. chop
ping ana saving wood for baker. AS soon as ms
daily task Is completed, he devUes the rest OF MS
time to -tudy. He IS quiet, peaceful BODY, re-
curing no watching and the warders let him come
and go as he likes During the earlier part OF his
money clothes, books. ETC., but he appears TO be
forgotten now. In turn he has blotted the past
from his memory. time has Gained down the en-
husiast and fanatic. and the prisoner prefers the
solitude Of the Island of Non 10 the buoDIe repu-
tation which attended him IN Europe
Colonel Faulkner. of Louisville KY. was the
other day exhibiting TO his friends an ancient and
massive one barreled horse pistol of which he re-
lated the following story That pistol was
brought down 10 me from Lancaster by Bill Camp
boil and am going to send 1t up to Joe Blackburn
in day or two This pistol and another one justlIke
il wcro brought to this country by the ancestors oil
the present Blackburn family from Ireland. Thev
came down through the family till the civil war;
when Joe got them. lie was captured during the
war by the Federals, and his pistols taken away
from him. He never heard of them till during the
THOMPSON trial, when he saw this pistol In my
office at Lancaster That's my pistol. said he.
If you don't believe me, Pll tell you the make
It's Dundalk pistol, and then he went on to
identify It, Now, the way it came IN my posses
sion. is this: was visiting an old friend OF mine
ont i'm Garrard County, named Lees best. got up
in the morning aud he gave this pistol lie SAID
he was passing by a pawn Office In Cincinnati ana
saw the pistol in the window. lie went In ana
bought it, The man who had taken IL irom Joe
Blackburn had doubtless pawned 1t. or it may have
passed through hundred hands before II reached
the pawnbroker's show window. tired the pistol
immediately by shooting at n hawk and Killed the
bird the first shot afIerward found that the ball
went straight to the mark. Rough as 1t looks, IT'S
a fine shooting piece. told Joe To take the pistol
but he forgot IL when he left aud l Will have TO
send IL up to him."
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Adiutant-General Drum
will leave Washington on Thursday on q visit OF
inspection of the military posts on the Northern
and Union Pacific railroads.