New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-12
PERSONAL.

Rear Admiral Daniel I. Braine who has been ordered
to the command OF tho South Atlantic Squadron. has
| sailed from Newport News on the United states and
Brazil steamship Finance. for RIO De Jsneiro
secretary, and Lieutenant H. IL. Barrol' as nag
lieutenant
Vienna papers report the death OF Anton annakampf
the valet In hose died the Due dc Reicistadt
At Es says orrespondent, great packet OF papers
arrives daily for the Emperor read In order
20 make the reading little burdensome as possible,
nigh official il charged with the duty OF looking
through heap Of newspapers and marking with
red passages which the kassrs private secretary
Is to read aloud TO his august master. The Emperor
day OF the Ournals and asked the mean
Ing rod lines witt which it pr0fu>ey scored
Uroa the secretary explaining the sgnlcaton OF these
strokes. the venerable monarch sad Win nearly
laugh. Then, my dear fellow let me beg you, TOR onoe
in way, to read everything in this Journal which
has not red line underneath It,.
Mr.. Amos A. Lawrence, who del recently was says
Boston writer in The Hartford CourdH the last man
If mark among the celebrated Lawrence family OF
Boston This composed in the last generation or
cures to this city from tue town OF
roton ard ut into business here-Amos, AbOott ana
samuel Tue two elder the able men OF the trio.
Amos a pnilanthropst In the seuse that he was
Kind aud generous to those about nm as lew
40 tastr whatever for Politics, aud in what were known
public causes In hilanLhroEy hid little part But no
was constantly giving 10 dement, ms wo o
lived peculiar life In the latter portion OF MS nays lie
TO dyspepsia VINO pursue an exactly
opposite course to that now recommended by tnose
ngaged In what Is known as the mind-eure de put
MS mind entirely upon wnat he ATE; had MS f0Oa
literally weighed and measured for him each day ara
all his for luxury lived the LIE OF an ascetc
fIe excellent business man, anu dld lDucD 10
promote the firms Success He was interested grestly
in young men, and gave them excellent counsel AMI III
stIuctoD With all his Observation-Disclosures, he was
thoroug ly unselfsh.
A notable is Frances new ally the African
monarch samory. According to lie Temps he Is forty
i've years old and stands six feet high He half
breed his mother belonging the tribe OF Peal and his
father to the Saacvas He is good type or the SO nj
savage with fat nose thick lips ana protruing jaws
His skin is reddish black lie began life caravan
driver but displaying great in with neigh
BORING tribe he became famous and elected chief
Fired by ambition he set making conquests on his
own account aud eventually assumed the rank OF
royalty estimated that he conquered no FEWER
tuau Isl small states The frontiers or his Kingdom
extend from English Gambia TO Ashan.ee on the one 81 10
nni from tue TO Sierra Leone on the other Ills
territory therefore, is large that OF the whole Of
France. His army consists OF 90 900 Infantry arnei
With guns and 5000 cavalry. Samory Is Mussul'naD,
nut very feryent believer. Tie mas prOhloteu
Intoxicating drinks throughout his empire; ne save
drunken man neither God devil, and Is prompt
TO ebeon HIS arms, hands ami breast are tatoOe,i
bathes day. after his bath lie ruu5 Ills OOly
with peimed butter, according TO an ancient custom,
and paints his as to maks the appear large ana
terrible. In time peace his roDes are all white but IN
wal th-y yellow. samOry has harem or about
hunIred girls chosen from different parts OF MS
tue loo Al chief to make him presents including tue most
beautiful girl in the nelghb0rhol I'd.
BERLIN Sept ll.-Mr Pendeton, the United States
Minister who has been travelling in Switzerland, re-
urned Berlin to-day and resumed the duties OF his