New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-02
PERSONAL.

Governor Stephens, of Georgia Is just recov ering
from serious attack OF sickness
"Billp Nye is reported by The Boomerang to be in
hopeful condition at Greeley, Col. His wife feels
confident that his entire recovery is matter only
of tme-a few months at most.
It has just been discovered that the man who was
found dead in his bed in a hotel at OsteDd. Bel
gium on July 4, 1881, was E. V. Suffer. son Of the
discoverer of gold In California, General John
Suffer-
The Paris Gazette des Tribunaur reports that man
was recently found on the road near Sevres In a
starving condition. who. on being taken to q hos
pital and restored to consciousness declared himself
to be Don Alfonso Juarez, q nephew and at one
time orderly to the famous General and President
Juarez of Mexico He had been, he said, banlshed
from Mexico and abandoned by his relatives
II Is announced that on his return from India the
Marquis of Rpon will be offered dukedOm. His
family has been rapidly advanced in the peerage
Prosperity" Robinson, younger son OF LORD
Grantham, was made Visoount Goderich In 1927,
and afterward Earl of Ripon. The present holder
of the pserage, George Frederick Samuel Robinson,
succeeded his uncle IN the esrdom, 2nd was MADE
Marquis In 1871. Should he be made duke, the
family will have taken four steps In the peerage IN
little more than half century.
Mr.. Ernest w. Longfelow has Informed the Long
fellow Memorial Association Of Cambridge that he
and his brother and sisters have decided to give TO
the association lot of land 12O feet wide on
Brattle-st and 24o feet wide on Mount Auburn-st,
being part of the grounds opposite their fathers
former home. The gift subject to conditions re-
garding the laying ont of paths and the placing of
the statue in the centre, facing Mount Auburn-st,
has been accepted At the last meeting OF the asso-
citation, James Russell Lowell was elected presl-
dentj Oliver Wendell Holmes, G. W; Eliot, j.. q.
Whittier, c.. Dean and Il. n. HorsfOrd, ylce-presl-
dents Arthur Gilman, secretary and Benjamin
Vaughan, treasurer.
Professor Peter Merriam, who died at Basel last
MONTH was one of Switzerlands ablest scientists
and most highly honored citizens. He had reached
the age Of eighty-seven years. and still retained,
says The London Times his faculties unimpaired al
most TO the last. He had never occasion to use
spectaces; and his latest writings were character
lied by all the vigor and cearness OF his earliest
Less than fortnight before his death he was busy
from morning to night among the meteorological and
geological collections Of the Museum and IN the
Natural History Library Of the University,
which he himself founded sixty years ago. Peter
Merian's first work, published in 1921. on the for
nation of the Jura in canton Basel. marked an
epoch in the progress Of geology This work was
followed by another on the geology of the Black
Forest In 1924, while holding the Chair OF Chem
isry and Physics he was for the first time, elected
Rector of the University of Basel. At a later pc
Rod he became Professor Of Mineralogy and Geo-
ogy position which he retained for more than half
a century. But the professor did not confne his
attention exclusively 10 sciences he was also an
active politician In $50 his felOw-citizens made
him a member OF the Great Council Of the canton,
and in 1884 when Basel. owing to religious differ
ences. was divided into demi-cantons, he became q
member of the State Council of Basel the city, and
In that position did much to improve public educa-
ton and promote the prosperity OF his beloved
University. In 1888 no founded the Academic
care. has thIiven beyond the hopes of the most
sanguine.