New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-05
PERSONAL.
Mr.. william C. Prime IS about TO build summer
hnm nj Erancnnia

Mr. William C. Prime Is about to build a summer
| home at Franconia
There is refreshing frsnlness in the reason given
by Ex-Governor jarvis, of North Carolira, for declin
ing the Presidency of the Agricultural and Mechanical
College of that st ate to which recently elected
lie says he does not feel qualified TO fill the position
Probably the Oldest grain dealer in America Is Mr.
Otis Nunroe the doyen Of the Boston Corn Exchange.
lie Is nnetyonc years old. but hearty and vigorous,
and now and then does some active work on Change.
The Hon James Russell Lowell will soon reoccupy
| his old home at Cambridge.
! 1t Is threatened that the Harper's Ferry engine
house which was used as fortress by John Brown
and his heroic followers will presently be demolished
10 make room for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Mr. Arthur Sewal president of the Maine Central Rail
road and Mr. II. VI. Sewal lately Consul at Samoa,
have gone with party Of friends over the Canadian
Pacific road TO Vancouver Mr.. H. VI. Sewau may
settle permanently in the far Northwest
Secretary Bayari's wedding with Miss Mary
willing Clymer Is 10 early next month; the
exact da'e has not yet been announced.
Deborah Powers, Of the firm of D. Powers & Son.
Lansingburg y. Y, is probably the Oldest banker in
the country, being ninety nine years Old
Mr. william W. Thurston, president Of the Bethele-
ham PENN Iron Company finds his health aiIng
and on that account will presently 60 TO Cuba for
the winter.
The late Mrs. Polly Bruce, OF Lavenworth. Kan.
was born slave in 1904, at Charlotte Va and
enjoyed perfect health until two years ago. when she
was stricken with paralysis. from which she never
recovered. She had ten children of whom nine are
vet living. The best known of them IS the Hon.
Blanche X. Bruce formerly United States Senator.
Cifron NJ Nichols, after period OF forty years
Of active work as newspaper man. has retired from
the edtOrshp OF "The Repubc-Times,' of Spring
field. Ohio. For thirty-i years he has done
tinuous work editor of daily paper Tor series
OF daily papers in Springfield. the much larger portion
OF the time on The Republic His career as
Journalist has covered years that have been most
remarkable I'm popular movements, and he has always
fought . good and faithful fight for every good and
Wholesome cause.
Among the papers Of the late John W. Forney, says
The Philadelphia Press" found the other day
a letter from b. b. French, under date Washington,
May o. 1865, which gave fac SMILES of some notes
written by President Lincoln relative TO his domestic
affairs One sent to Mrs Lincoln on the official paper
of the Executive Mansion, was: "NOther-Please
put somebody at work on Tads room.-A L.
To this Mrs Lincoln added note TO Mr. French, then
Commissioner of Public Buildings, saying: Please
give Tad a board and some plank-Mrs. Lincoln
card written by the President to Mr. French, on
November O. 1864 said; " If Commissioners Of Public
Buildings chooses to give laborers at White House
holiday | have no objection.-A Lincoln" The pro-
posed holiday was TO be given after the re election
of President Lincoln.