New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-10
PERSONAL.

The Rev. James rceinan Cihrhe 10 w give, ooBih-
ming next week. series of six Wednesday evening
lectures on "The History OF the Anti-Slsvery Goa
lict in the United States" IN the Church OF the
Disciples. Boston.
The death is announced in London Of John Block
ley. the composer of many popular melodies, and
best known, perhaps. by his setting to music of
Tenn yson's poem I" he Brook" He was eighty
two years old.
The Dowager Lady Crawford now occupies at
Florence the historic Villa Palmieri, whore BOccac
clio wrote his " Decfmeron." Not far distant from
theirs lived for many years the widow OF W alter
Savage Landor. and after her her granddaughter,
who has just been mailed to Count Paul de L u
renne.
Tomorrow, 1T ID expected, the commission to
select "A model for tho statue of Garfield to bo
erected at Columbus, Ohio, will make chice
fIom. among the models submitted. The list Of
comuetitors includes Preston Powers, Mrs. Winnie
ReaIn HOxie, Ross Adams, Charles NIeiaos, l.. l.
Rebsso, Wilson Macdonald, aud nearly dozen
other artists.
Lord Roseberys Christmas gift to the tenants on
his Mentmore estates was tue remission OF 10 per
cent of their half.yearly rent. He had done the
same for SIX years previously. lie also gave every
aottager in the villages on his estates six hundred
weight of coal, aud joint of beef Of weight pIo-
pOrtioned to the size OF the family.
Afewdays ago Governor Butler. of Massachusetts,,
was talking with the editor of paper that had
persisteutly and bitterly opposed him. Said the
ex.widow: Sir. we have met on many a bloody
fold but believe you never called me fool i'll
yonr paper did youG" No. General, never did,
i All right, then ii you never called me tocl'
don care about the rest
After the Commune. the late N. Laohaud, the
famous French criminal lawyer. who was great
favoiite of Napoleon H., went to Rocheforts cell
at Versailles, and railed furiously at him. You
are the fellow" he cried. " who prevented me from
being Minister OF Justice. Your internal little red
pamphlet upset the Empire and every thing Impe-
nal lust as / was beginning 10 profit by my adhe-
SON.
The late charles Cossage OF Chicago, was for
many years one Of the leading drygoOds dealers in
that city. Ills store was we'll known by the two
big iron lions that stood just outside the main on
trance These we're lost, with the store and stock.
in the great fire. and were not replaced when The
new store was built until one day an old lady
walked IN and inquired " the way to Gossage $"
She had been hunting Tor the lions ala over the CITY,
but In VAIN. MIR. GOssage at once ordered new
ones to be made and set up in ont OF the Iew store
Cardinal Bonnet Archbishop of Bordeaux, whose
death was announced the other day, once narrowly
escaped from being buried alive. 1t was when he
was "A Young man. During serious Illness his body
suddenly assumed all tho aspects of death. He was
rigid GREATNESS and his heart had ceased to beat.
The doctors pronounced him dead, he was placed in
a coffin, and every preparation was made for his
bntial Yet all the time he perfectly conscious
of everything that was going on AT the last
tnument inst as the lid OF the coffin was being put
i'm placs for the last time. the awlui mental agony
hroke the bonds of muscular inertitude, and he
rose to a sitting posture. to the astonishment ana
bornir of the attendants. After ward he made
plea powerful with personal CONVICTION, III the
Senate tor a law against rapid burials.
A few days before Gambetta's death Paris jour
nal politically opposed to him set spies to watch
about his house night and day. to ascertain II pos
sjhIe his condition. One ey ening the JOE rna an
nounced in displayed type, that One OF our stan
wont this morning TO Vile d'Avray. where he
nassed the whole day. He could see NJ Ganbetta
standing in the veranda of his house. lie was
able 10 remain there some minutes. owing to the
exceptional mdness of the day. His face gave
EVIDENCE of very great state OF weakness Some
nj b,s friends surrounded him. He answered only
hv uodsD Commenting upon this system Oh re-
rnnnoitring about n sick mans house win tele-
scnnes and saf-srumpets some OF the London pa
ncrs sadly remark that the European press IS de-
cidedly becoming Amcricanzed"