New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-09
PERSONAL.

Mr. Gerald Massey has been spending few days In
Chicago, not In the best OF health.
Miss Laura Haygood sister OF the Rev. DIR. Atcus G..
Hsygood, OF Georgia, is going to China to engage III
missionary work.
The Rev william " Paxton, D D., will be inaugurated
into the Professorship OF Ecclesasca Homiecal and
Pastoral Theology in Princeton Theological Seminary
next Tuesday evening
The pupils st. Johns school in this city, OF which
the Rev. Theodore Irving formerly the principal are
erecting memorial OF him in the form OF church and
mission house at Cape Mount. Africa.
The Rev Calvin Butler will preach the Baccalaureate
sermon at Lase Seminary Auburndale, Mass. on June
II, and June ls DR.. Lyman Abbott Editor OF The
dress.
The newly organized Second Uniyersaist Church Of
NewHayen, Conn, expects to secure for Itself the pas
toral services Of the Rev Pbobe IIanaford who now
ministers the Second Unyersalst Church or Jersey
City.
The Hon. Reuben f. Fenton reached his home at
jamestown week ago after absence Of four months
lis health seems to quite restored and ne will
the duties Of his position president OF the First Ma
tional Bank OF jamestown.
Sir Charles Topper the Canadian statesman who has
ust resigned his seat in Parliament and will presently
Europe 10 recruit his health. given an elaborate
farewell banquet last night at Ottawa by the Liberal
Conservative Association OF that city.
Louis schaefer, of Canton, Ohio, who has offered a
Mrs. Meileham, the granddaughter of Thomas
Jefferson to whom Con4ess recently declined to grant
pension says shall be proud TO give her home. She
shall have the best my means VIII allow mat is the ku
of "A Democrat ann"
The late George Cadwalader of San Francisco,
of the Old Forty miners" went the Pacific by
pictlresque rOue-irom his native town Of GAINESVILLE,
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers the Gulf to
the Rio Graude across Mexico to Mazatan and thence
by schooner TO the Golden Cate
Truman Smith," says The Hartford Post either in
tho the House, surrounded as he was by the
hosts who bowed the knee TO aa always TO his
conviction, disdanng to compromise. and ready always
with his vote matter what II cost It Is Tor TINS nc
will be remembered"
Secretary Lincoln and General Sheridan will
go next week a fishing excursion TO Point au Pelee
Island Lake Erie General Arson Stager Marshall Field,
George ". Pullman ard other ChlcaRoans at San.
dusky will go with them the club house Point
Sheridan Tor couple OF weeks fishing for bass in Canad-
waters
John ". Bookwalter the Ohio manufacturer who
for Governor the Democratic ticket in 1881,
booked for voyage India this week, but has post
poncd the trip unfit June. He is at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel where he is generally spoken OF Governor Book
walter. His is being frequently mentioned OF late
in connection with the Democratic Vice-Presidental
nomination.
The Rev. p. c. Mozoomdar meets with bitter op
position in his aspiration to become the successor Of the
late Kesab Chunder leader OF the Brahmo Soma OF
India strong faction holds that the deceased Babu IS
still perceptbly present in spirit, and will always
main and hence they refuse TO admit tae possibility OF
there being s.lcccsSOr" 60 him Mr.. MOzoOmdar I'M
qualihedy rejects this notion and is supported in his
position by an equally strong faction.
The late Professor Gross OF Philadelphia. of the
earliest American users of choroform anRsthetc,
and he adhered ii all his life preferring It to ether
which general practice has largely superseded it, He
made Use of chloroform in than 5000 important
operations without single accident resulting therefrom
fact speaking much for his and skill The last
medical and surgical essay written by HIM read yes
tery by Professor Parvin before the American Medical
Association In Washington.