New-York tribune., 1884-01-11
PERSONAL.

Miss Adela Rankin is giving series OF read
ings from the works Of Dickens on Monday even
ings, in Mrs. Beecher's parlors, on HickS-str
Brooklyn.
DR.. Henry J. Menninger of Brooklyn. who was
last fall elected Coroner, was elected IN 1868
Secretary of State of North Carolina, as kepubi-
can and served in that Office four years with great
popularity.
While discrediting tho report OF Mr.. A. Z. SWIM
burne's proposed American lecture-tour, writer
in The Cardiff (Vales) lines says "He is one of the
best takers we have. Like Carlyle and like Met.
ternch his wont is to take subject and to eNnaust
It, But then there is always danger lest ne ne
should exhaust you. He likes TO near hlmsei
talk"
A brass tablet has been placed in the chancei OF
the ancient Church of ST. Margaret Mapledurham.
England. in memory of the late Rev. Edward
Coleridge uncle of the Lord Chief Justice of Eng
land. A memorial window will aso be placed in
the church. and an Edward Coleridge" scholar
ship be founded at st: AugustlnGsi CahIerouIy.
Since the funeral of the deceased ms gIaTe gr nAa
daily been covered with wreaths Oh fresh ho"ei''
Speaking in Worcester, Mass, the other evening
ON "Modern English Artists" Mr.. Henry Black
burn of London, said that Mr.. Ruskln was hara
master to the half dozen or "pre-Raphaelites"
who put themselves under his guidance. lie sent
Holman Hunt TO the DeadSea to paint dying goat
and he sent Brett to paint q chestnut tree brancp
and kept him at 1t the whole OF one autumn W pG'
the training made them. Ot American aItiStS MI.
Blackburn said "They seem to me TO study lheif
own country too little. They are too trenchined
Stephen A. Douglass, r. is in Florida visiting his
uncle .Judge Thomas Settle. at whose home in Rock
inpbam County North Carolina, he lived for much
of the time during several years following the war
in company with his brother, Robert NJ. Douglass'
now United States Ma shall for that district stephen
was then studying law and in 1869, when ne was
only nineteen. he was made member of Governor
Uoiden's staff and appointed BrigauleI -uJlciIi Va
militia during the campaign against the hu-huA
Klan. In person he Is short ana Stout an' ii'
popular as public speaker.
The late Mr.. Holloway, of London, the renowned
manufacturer of pills and ointment, began his
business in a small way on the Strand he ana MS
vire living over the shop and doing all their own
work. HIS first advertisement appeared in news
noner on October 10. 1897. In 1872 he spent
S25 600 for advertisements; in 1915, S5O,OOO; In
1s51. 100000; in 1888, $15000O; and for the
ot t,ventv wears an average of 100000 per year.
The size of the fortune left by nm can % oh'y S Oo
guessed at but for many years MS net pronto Ion.
his business have averaged Sl,OOO,OOO year. ~
"a most pleasant to add that lie was man OF greas
benevolence, and that his medicines really were
good.
WAsHEyGToy, Jan. 1O.-W. L, Spencer, who was
Journal Clerk of the Senate at the time the DEM
ocrats came into power in that body, ana VINO was
rornoved in the reorganization Of the offices then
made was to-day restored to his old place. having
been out tOuf years.
GALVESTON, Jan. 10.--General Hancock arrived
here from the West yesterday morning ana was
received at the military headquarters with salute
of fifteen guns. lie is the guest OF Geheial lcot
lie reviewed the troops III the afternoon, ahd
Grrat thronp OF people gathered TO see hltn Ho
started to-day for Little Rock