New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-29
PERSONAL.

! A copy of the will of the late Adelaide Nelson
was filed for record in Chicago last week, she nav
| ing owned real estate in that city.
Miss Josephine J. Yorke. who has been engaged by
Colonel Maple son as leading contralto in his
| opera company, belongs in Cincinnati, which city
| sue left nne years ago to study music In Italy.
| General Joshua l.. Chamberlain will pass the
| summer at his sea shore home near Brunswick, Me-
He has by means yet regained his health. but IL
able to sit up and take occasional walks Oh the Dsac1
The Princess Louise will at the Queens request,
remain IN Canada all summer, instead OF returning
home in August 10 visit Marienbad She will proba-
bly, not arrive in England before the middle Of No
yemDer.
At recent Royal Academy soiree. visitors who
had not before seen Mr. Tennyson were struck by
the shrewd, humorous and altogether worldly eI-
preston which ne wore. Mr. Matthew Arnold TOO,
had curiously unspIritual look.
Ex-Governor Piaised. of Name, has taken up his
abode in Augusta, aud with Colonel c. b. Morton,
OF that city, has purchased The Nep 1ge newspaper:
Nh. Paisted will be tue editor OF the paper and
Colonel Morton the business manager
An aged lady, who appealed for financial aid at
the Wheeling. w. Va, police headquarters o couple
OF evenings ago, declared herself to be daughter
OF ex-y:ce-Presldent King, and widow OF General
Hunter. President Jackson's Minister to Russia. w.
W. COrcoran one OF her paymates IN child.
hood Her story was found to authentic. and
she was given tue necessary assistance.
@Shaker garden seeds" have a far wider fame
than the man WHIP originated the business of grow
ing them, his and successor in authority.
ho has just died full vi years and honcis, at the
West Pittslisld. Mass, Shaker family home. Elder
Isaac Angur Inherited his fathers business on ter
prise aud shrewdu.ss aud during many OF his sixty
four years of lie enjoyed high reputation through
the State "a raiser OF hne cattle, particularly
Hol-toDs. Since bis nineteenth year lie was the
business head Of the family
"To the sermon-oving public" says The World
London), the visit to London OF the Rev. Phillips
Brooks has probably been the leading event OF the
season Opportunities Of hearing Mr.. Brooks have
been afforded at st. PauPs Cathedral, at West
minister Abbey, the Savoy Chapel, st. Margarets.
Westminster, 81. Marks, Hamilton Terrace, and at
Christ Church. Marglebone. The preachers powers
are assurcdly of a very rema kable KIND aud proba
bly, his equal has not been heard in an English
church slnce the famous days of Henry MelvIlL He
delivers Oratl0ns "a her than ernOns his eoquence
of sngua force. the feryor Of has amer Is IRE
slstIbe: no pours forth quite a tOrienC of words
and deals largely In figures of speech and striking
appeals 10 the cons hence and the Imagination. The
gregatIOn nim the tribute OF absolute silence
ana rapL attention. Indeed, when Sir. Brooks occu-
pies the pulpit there is nothing Tor 1t but to listen
TO hIu ard promptly there arises an anxiety to
loss word OF wrat he says. o. very few preachers
can as much be stated.
A correspondent of The London Dolly News eI-
presses surprise at the setting OF Fiedings bust in
The Taunton Shire Hall, because the tie that con-
nected the novelist with SOmersetshire was so
slight. The mother of Fielding was, 1t is true. he
writes, Somerset WOMAN aud 1t was at her
fathers house that her famous was born. But
before he child three years old his grandfather
died. and the FielGings left Somerset forever.
Henry, 1t is true some thirty years later took up
his abode for a short time at TwertOn, near Bath
but IL can hardly DO doubted that the chief attrac
ton which that undressing little place possessed
for the needy spendthrft lay Its proximity to the
beautiful seat of his generous patron, Nr. Allen III
Fielding must lie localized IN any particular county.
Ii Is Dorset and Somerset that IS entitled TO
mako her boast of him. It was IN Dorset that
Fielding passed his boyhoOd and early youth, IN
Dorset that lie studied the eccentric clercs and the
wealthy usurer whose iikenesses he afterward hit
oil in PaIson Adams and Trullibcr' and Mr.
Peter Pounce; IN Dorset that-if report may be
trusted-in the course of u few rolcking months
he contIiyed squander bis little Inheritance OF
goo year"
Among the citizens OF this Republic there is at
least one undoubt"d child Of royalty, in the person
OF the Rev. William j. Barnett. pastor of the Shiloh
(cooredl Baptist Church. Wil!iamsport, Penn. He
is the son OF IA once powerful African king Dumba
by namo. lie early came 10 the conclusion that u
trusty trade is a valuable adjunct to ROYALTY,
Leone. and while thus engaged WAS converted to
Christianity and baptized ia the Atlantic Ocean.
Then he Was Kidnapped. and was being brought
10 New Orleans rs % slave when he cOntrivod TO
cape nc Liverpool. From there he wont to CalifOr-
MA and then back to Liverpool On his second
visit TO England. Lord Carney became Interested
in him and had hIm we'll educated. In 1852 be
visited NowYork anu Philadelphia, and was sont
to Sierra Leone as Baptist missionary. Returning
To this country after year, he became pastor sue
cessvoly of churches IN Philadelphia, Brooklyn,
Newport and New Haven. After the war he weat
To Richmond aud founded a strong church on Navy
Hill the site OF the old slave market After that
ho preached Mt GreeEbrier White Sulphur Springs
Lexington. Stanton Charlottesville. GordvnsvIlie
North Danyilie and Louisa Court House. In all
these yrginian towns he built up strong and pros
poi Gus churches He has been IN Wiamsport
three years. and mas njoyed remarkable success.
lie Is now only forty three years oil aye.
WASHINGTON. July 2S.-Adjutani-GeneralD Drum
and Colonel Barr are expected TO return to Wash
ington somo time next week from their tour of n-
e pectIop ia the West.