New-York tribune., 1884-01-04
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Olphaut has been spending much time in
Germany of late.
Professor Leopold Won Ranke the historian, has
lust completed his eighty-eighth year, and still
works iudu,triously seven hours a day.
Major Henry Maplcson husband of Nine. Marie
Rozc, and eldest son of Licutonant-ColonclJ J. II.
Mapleson, the impresario, was recently promoted
TO the position of colonel of the 10th Corps Of the
Royal Artillery, on recommendation OF H. R II. the
Duke of Cambridge COmmaudeT-ln-clueL
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, says that If
he consulted his pride rs a Of affairs and pre-
science that enabled him 10 predict the events Of
forty years he would rest the fame Of his life upon
his speech on slavery in Boston in 1s5i, rather than
any other single effort but in the light OF humanity
he would rather stand upon bis compromise speech
I'm the ~.uatp in 1890. There Is, he says, period
of his life upon which ne looks with greater sats-
faction than that I'm which he attempted to ADJUST
bv compromise the differences that were ten years
later. settled by war.
NJ. de Lesscps relates that thirty years ago he
was travelling in Upper Egypt with sand facha.
the then Viceroy, when, at Ber-Ber, they found
famine and distress on every hand. Said Investl-
GATED the cause and found that his prcdecessOrhad,
to punish n trHugrcyolt, sentthithera large army,
which had laid the whole country desolate. "What
shall l do to repair the damage" asked Said. &" Be
Gin bv abolishing slavery" answered VI. de Les
scps I'm do it," said the NlcerOy; and he did.
And moreover, TO show his confidence IN thG people
whom his predecessor had ll-uscd he had the forts
razed and the cannon thrown into the Mic. Are
Won not going little too arE inquired VI. de Les
sens "Oh now said the Pacha "nOue of these
cannon could ever have been fired again if the forts
had been attacked. They have all been ruined by
neglect aud exposure.
Henry Irving relates that on his last night in
Philadelphia he f und his entrance to the stage
blocked by several strange mon, who did not heed
his request that they would move away. When he
repeated the request they didn't even look at him.
but kept their eyes fixed on the stage and the per-
formers there. Then Mr.. Irving new angry and
forced his way through, and demanded OF the man
nearest the stage! " Who are you, and what do you
want ~ Baggagew ~ was the scant reply. Mr.. Irv-
inc took this for an insult and not as an equivalent
for luggage and his cue coming at that moment
at which he to rush on the stage ana seize q
villain by the thTOat-he made the natural blunder
of applmg with the wrong man, that Is with the
cXaSUCTatug stranger; and only when the latlcr
cried for help did he collect his mind and spring
upon the Legitimate object of his wrath. After the
plav he found that the intruders porters wait
ing by his orders, for baggage to take to late
tram
inst twenty years ago last Monday, TIE 81. Louis
Globe Democrat relates Colonel Claiborne then of
the 37th Virginia Regiment lCoufcderatel, deserted
by his own troops. was captured by the famous
"Stoneman Brigade. and witnessed the death las
he supposed at his side of his one faithful follower
Captain !. Il. Roberts, whom ne altcIMaIu IcpoIlcu
to the Confederate Government as having been
shot dead on the battlefield. But on last Monday
Colonel Claiborne, now Prosecuting Attorney OF the
st. Loui, Criminal Court, was opening his mall
when he started and cried: 1--WE got letter from
the dead | saw this man killed at the battle of
Morehcad twenty years ago to-day, and here he is
writing to me-" The letter was from Roberts, and
explained itself as follows: 81 have been trying
to find out Your address ever since The war, and
have only lust succeeded. | would rather and
talk to you than any 0therman on earth. DO
YOU remember that fight at MOrehead, when you
and started alone to charge Stoueman's Bugadef
/ ell YOU. that fellow StOucmau was the worst cuss
IN the whole Yankee army for us fellows TO tackle
But that company of mine were the most cOWaTdy
God Almighty ever had hand IN making! No de-
cent man would have run OF the way they dld. .
You thought was dead. Well, I'm the healthieSt
dead man in North Carolina. got an ugly wound
in that scrmmage. but after you had all gone /
came to and found q horse, and managed TO get on
him and ride until found some friends, WHO took
care of me and brought ne ont"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-Attorncy-G General Brews-
ter returned to Washington to-day from NeW-Or-
/ leans.