New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-07
PERSONAL.

Professor Tucker, Of Andoyer, will conduct the
Friday evening services and preach on Sundays this
winter, at the Old South Church. Boston.
The Lee Monument Association of Virginia now
has fund of more than S25, 000-only a small part
Of the sum it hopes to raise for erecting monu.
ment in Richmond to the memory of General Robert
4. Lee.
The wife Of Lieutenant Greedy of the Arctic
colony is described a very beautiful woman.
tall, with a tea.roSe complexion black hair and
blue eyes, She belongs to an old New-Engand
family.
When Miss Kate Field. visiting Denver with q
letter of introduction to Judge McCurdy, inquired
at the hotel office where hs could be found she was
Mortified to receive the reply: Don't know. Hef
been dead eight years"
John Wentworth of Chicago, got homo to his
rooms IN the Sherman House the other day, after
his extended summer ramblings, and was promptly
beseged BY reporters; but their lot was lucklesa
At noon they sent messenger boy to inquire If Mr..
Wentworth was disengagedj and back came the
answers :" He's engaged, sir; a-unpacking hu
trunk, sir" At evening the errand was repeated.
and the boy came down with an ear whose blushes
told thumb-and-fnger story. and said, all breath
less He's aunpacku lis trunk, Elrj he's engaged,
sir" Toward midnight they sent him up again, and
back he came bounding like champagne cork.
with hands tight casped upon his jacket-tail, and
look OF unulJcTdDle woe upon MS IdCe ME-
Wentworth says. slr' he gasped, tell 'em ALL sir.
every mothers son Of 'em. sir, as how he's a-un-
packin Of is trunk, sir and hasn't been out OF his
room all day. sir. A-unpacking of his trunk, srp
The reporters smiled at the baTkeeper and went
pensiyely homeward.
"A new, life-size portrait Of President Arthur,
painted by Andrews, has" says The Boston Adrer-
dse "been hung in the corridor Of the White House.
1t is a remarkable likeness and the execution is
very fine, though some might pronounce it a little
too ideal to be in good taste. Every line Is in ac-
cordance with perfect grace, but the figure seems
posed for effect The subject is represented as step
ping from the poTticO, and has paused with one
foot still lingering upon the last step, where lies
red rosebud that has fallen from his buttOnhole.
Portraits of all the Presidents except Buch anaG
now OCCUPY places upon the walls Of the White
House. Fine bust portraits of Adams, the hrss
occupant of the White House, and Van Buren,.
which have been consigned 10 the dust and Oblivion
of the garnet since their respective adminlsra-
TONS have been rescued from a pile of rubbish,
and by decree of Mr.. Arthur hung up IN the red
plr!Or, together with the lfesize portrait OF Cen
eral Grant, after having been retOuched"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.-Surgeon General Crane Of
the Army is confined to his house by an attack Of
quiusy.
ITHACA, Y. Y. Oct. 8-Professor Rudolf Gnest.
Dean of the Law Faculty Of the Berlin Unlvcr iiy,
and membsr Of the German Parliament, who has
been visiting Cornell University rs the guest Ut
President White left here for Washington Tonight.
lie was referee for the United States and Great
Britain in the Northwestern Boundary question