New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-30
PERSONAL.
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The Hon. George Peabody Wctmore and family are
in Paris. They will go to Germany next week.
Ex-Governor John l. Carroll and family, of Mary
land, are guests of Mr. Bancroft at Newport.
Professor Elder, of Colby University, is to deliver
the Grafton at the jubilee Of Acadia College, Grand
Pre-. Nova Scotia next month.
Miss Frances f. Willard president OF the National
Woman's Council, that was organized at Washington
last spring, and Mrs May Wright Sewall, correspond
ing secretary of the same body have undertaken to
establish W0mans Council In every important town
and city of the United States.
Mrs. H. V. Bronson, of Peninsula, Ohio, has raised
for the present campaign the largest flag used in that
part of the country for William Henry Harrison In
1870
Miss Breckenridge daughter of the Kentucky Rep
resentative, will probably be a teacher in the high
school at Washington, ID. G., next winter. She was
graduate at Wellesley College this year Her father
used to regard with cOntcmphous dsapproval the
idea Of sending Southern girls up North among the
Yankees TO be educated
1t Is told that when the Rev. DR.. Phillips Brooks
the other Sunday and announced his text was
in prison, and &c unto me-" little fellow, five
or years old, looked up anxiolsly into his grand
audible to those In the adjacent seats, " Grandma.
was Mr.. Brooks ever really III prsonl'
Nine. Pelouze, the sister OF Daniel Wilson, has lost
most Of her splendid fortune. Her brother induced
her to Join him I'm some Of his speculations, which
came out badly Mortgages on her town house and
her historical chateau being forecloscd, and baffS
In possession OF most of her goods and chattels
Nine. Pelouze is In appearance the most mannish and
painest woman In France but she Is so clever bright
genial ard generous that she has always since she
arrived years of discretion had more devoted adj
mrers OF the Other sex than she knew what TO do
law adviser before no became President of the Re
public.
Captain Kennedy, who recently applied to Par
lament for pension, is the man who in 1850 was
asked by Lady Franklin to take charge OF tho expedi
ton she was fitting out to go I'm search OF her husband
Sir John Franklin In June Of that year he took
mand of the vessel Prince Albert and I'm the following
year he discovered strait leading from Prince Re
gents Inlet into Sir James Ross Western Sea, to
which he gave the name OF Bellot Strait. This dis
coyery furnished the link wanting to complete the
chain of surveys that, at different times, had been
made, tracing the continuous coast line OF the North
American shore from the Pacific to the Atlantic
Passing through this strait Captain Kennedy dscov-
cred large island, which he named Prince Consort's
Land, and now known Prince OF Wales Island. In
1857 Lady Franklin asked Captain Kennedy to take
tho command Of another expedition which she
fitting out, with the view OF extending the search
through Belot Strait In southerly direction, and he
went to Liverpool to assist her Ladyship in her
dertakng, when private affairs caused him TO forego
this enterprise, and his place was filled by Captain
Admiral, Sir Leopold McClintock who made Port
Kennedy, within the strait, his winter harhor and by
passing through IL the following spring. he reached
King Williams Land" where he found tho only
written record wo possess, giving particulars Of the
disastrous termination OF the Franklin expedit ON
Captain Kennedy claims that the discovery OF this chan
mel opened tho shortest and most direct Northwest
passage, which he made known 10 the world five years
before the longer route discovered by Sir John Franklin
was published When Captain Kennedy went this
expedition, which he did a volunteer. &c was es
tmated that there about GOO men scattered over
the Arctic regions, employed like himself I'm searching
for traces of Sir John Franklin. All these men re
ceived from the Government double pay and many
had promotion Lieutenant Beot, though a volunteer
also received promotion his return TO France and
when, in q subsequent voyage, no was accidentally
drowned, the English nation raised monument 10 his
memory at Greenwich Hospital, while Captain Ker-
nedys services to his country by discovering the
direct Northwest Passage which led TO tho finding OF
30 far overlooked by all, save by the Queen, who, In