New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-06
PERSONAL.

The late William Spottiswoole president OF Il Q
ROYAL Society, left personal estate OF moro than
$93OOOO.
William Marwood. the British hangman. never
a. il said saw a man hanged until he performed
the work himself
Senator Dawes who has been examining the In
dian agencies. along the upper Missouri River, ex-
poets to return home week alter next.
The iote Dean Boyd. OF Exeter Cathedral, left o
personal estate of nearly 800 600. and bequcathed
more than $3.50, 900 to religious, educational and
charitable institutions.
The tenth anniversary of the conservation OF
Bishop Paddock PROTESTANT EplscopaD Of MaSsa-
chusetts will be celebrated IN Boston on September
10 with a service at St. Paurs Church and break
fast nj tie Hotel Venhome nj which Bishop CLARK,
OF Rhode Island Will preside.
Professor Ritter. of Geneva, has been tracing the
penealogy OF Madame dc Stael and finds that her
father NJ. NeckeI. was not, az is sometimes claimed
of English or Irish descent. lie came of a family
louo s.ttlsd at Custrin. Prussia and his own father
WA induced 10 go to Geneva by George |. OF Eng
land TO open % school for English boys.
The twentieth anniversary of the settlement Of
the Rev Charles q. Rice AS pastor OF the FIRST
Parish Church in Salem Village" Mass, was OBJ
served on Monday. Mr. Rice Is the sixth pastor In
regular succession during period OF about two
Samuel Paris of witchcraft-persecutlon fame.
The Rev. Adm Grout, who this week celebrated
his eightieth birthday ut his home in Springfield,
Mass was on, of the earliest missionaries among
the Zulus going to that country in 1891 and per
sistsnt, and effectively abCring there for thirty
five years. lie prominently concerned IN the
formation of the Zulu tongue into q written Ian
guage.
Mrs. Mary Yonng completed the one hundrsdth
wear of her life this week. good health aud spirits,
nj her home in Bangor, Mo OF her nine sons and
four daughters, nine arc now living and every one
attained a good old age, married, and had chill
dren. She now has living elghtv-tive grandchildren
one hundred and ten great RranucnlIuren, ana
seven grandchildren.
Mr.. Joseph Jacobs, In his Studies on Jewish
Statistics disposes OF the supposition that John
Bright is of jewish descent. o believes the state
ment That Mr. Brgnts great-great -graudmother
Martha Jacobs was Jewcss is altogether erroneous
That farmer in "a Wiltshire hamlet o century and
a half ago should have courted and won a jewish
bride is q wild improbability. Jacobs IL common
namo In South Wales and Wiltshire Is not very iar
from the Welsh border. There eau BIO little doubt
that John Brights alleged jewish blood Is realiV
Welsh.
UncA, N. Y, Sept. 5-Horatio Seymour has ar
rived in tins city, and will not be able to attend the
meeting of the Prison Reform Association at sara
toga
SAN FRANCIsCo Sept 5.-The second lecture OF
Henry Ward Boecher in the Metropolitan temple
last evening, on the subject Government oil inc
People by the People" was attended Dy IoO per-
sons The applause accorded the lecturer upon his
entrance was enthusiastic
PORTLAND, Me-, Sept 5.-Lord Coleridge was at
his hotel this morning. AT 1880 p. m he took sail
down the bay on the revenue steamer Dallas ac-