New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-09
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Representative Ranney, of Massachusetts,, mas
Just returned from a four months tour in Europe in
company with the Rev. MiDot j. Savage.
Mr. Eliot Clarke. of the Rev James Freeman
Clarke IL prominent civil engineer Of Boston. and
has recently been ntrus ted with the direction OF
some important public works in that city.
Ex-Governor Proctor recently presented ground
for cemetery to the town of Sutherland Falls, VT,
and the body Of his own daughter was the first to
be buried there.
Nine. Hyacnthe-Loyson and her young son
reached this port on the steamship Arizona yester
day. The husband and father had engaged passage
| on the same vessel Int an attack of sickness COM
| PEELED him TO defer his departure.
Charles E. Moss, of Pawnee City. Neb returned a
few months ago from Paris, where for five years he
studied art under Bonnat. He succeeded in getting
picture admitted to the Salon in 1879, when only
nineteen years of age aud has been represented at
each succeeding exhibition up TO and including that
of 1882 when his picture was " on the line"
Mr.. Hamo Thornycroft has completed clay
model of the bust of Coerdge which Is to be placed
in marble IN Westminster Abbey. Mr.. Brooks
bust of Longfellcw has reached the same stage
and will probably be ready for dedication at about
the same time The literary Pantheon Of West
minister will thus be enriched simultaneously with
busts of two lustrious poets-that Of COleridge, a
gift to England from America, aud that of Long
fellow Tribute to America from England.
few minutes after Mr.. joel Chandler Harris
had registered his name ut Boston hOtel the other
day. according to The Gazette of that city, he was
slapped ON the back by stranger, who exclaimed
" Why, hello, Harris, old mani How are yOu 7
When did you leave AtlantaW "Uncle Remus
looked at HIM from head to foot carefully and then
said My name isn't Harris. I'm Charles Francis
Adams :" and IL surprising to see how quickly
the stranger disappeared. All OF which shows that
Boston still has her bunko steerers and also that
I" Uncle Remus" knows just how to fix EN-.
Late one winter night a reporter went from the
Office of The Missouri Republican (St. Louis to show
Mr. George Knapp, owner of that paper, who died a
few days ago, proofs of important editorial.
While Mr.. Knapp was reading the proofs, the fire
bell struck az, denotlng the corner on which The
Republican office stood. |" Was that alarm AZ ~
asked Mr. Knapp, looking up. Yes. sir" " Well,"
slowly and with a draw -" when you get back to
the Office if you find it fire. please come and let
me know" Then he went on reading the proofs
slowly tor at least twenty minutes handed them
TO the reporter repeated Please don't forget about
the nre" and went upstairs to bed. Fortunately,
the fire was not IN The Republican building.
"There is spot here" writes Fllrence Italy,
correspondent of The Indianapolis Journal, that no
American ever fails to vsit-the Protestant cemo
terry that is hal0wed by the dust of Walter Savage
Lander. Arthur Hugh Cough, Elizabeth Barrett
Browring and our countrymen, Richard Illlureth,
the historian and Theodore Parker. ildreths grave
ia marked with a plain white marble slab, and on it
the words Richard Hlldreth. Died July 10, 1868.
The grave of Theodore Parker is simple
than that of Hildreth. H. is brow1 slate slab,
inscribed:
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