New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-30
consent to zee the Lieutenant Govemorship % ~
Buffalo.
PERSONAL.

Judge Z. lockwood Hoar's golden wedding last week
brings to certain Boston minds the fact that s b ono
Of the few surviving members Of the Saturday o.
Literary Club Of that city in the days when II was
at the height Of its intellectual brtllancy In those
days Hawthorne Emerson Agassz, Peirce and w'hppls
were prominent among Its members, and Holmes,
Lowell and John S. Dwight remain to indicate the
wealth of Intellectual life that belonged TO It. Says
"The Boston POST Lowell In his tribute TO Agssss
In which he has given charming picture OF ~
saturday Club In those psl%y dsy refsr s e
reference which he makes to Emerson a. pricked By
the cider OF the judges Wit"
Ex-Pcsident Cleveland has purchased the Ehsnezss
Holmes homestead at Marion, Mass, where he spent
the summer this year.
One Of the features at an art reception given By
william Ordwsy Partridge in Boston last week was
u. portrait bust OF Edward Everett Hale. II Is said
that Phillips Brooks fingered longer before II than
did any other visitor.
"The Chicago News tells curious story Of ths
late Justice Miller. He was about to undeQgo .
and painful surgical operation some years ago.
and tho attending physicians asked him to name two
friends who might be present rs witnesses. Justice
Miller selected Secretary Belknap and Governor Shcp-
herd, two men who were famous for their nerve and
GOODNESS. After the operation had been successfully
performed the physicians had great difficulty In revv.
OF ether Governor shepherd noticing that the Judge
turning black In the face, Immediately sprsne
apart thrust his fingers down the Judges throat and
pulled back his tongue, which was sufocatng him.
"Governor-eIect Pattison's father says "Gath.'
"was a Methodist minister Of the Philadelphia Con-
ference, with large, splendid port and hne kindly
eyes, giving idea Of the late Chief Justice
Chase According to my irrevercnt "reminiscences, he
would announce his text take his stand firmly In ths
pulpit and when you would expect out Of splendd
presence magnificent sermon, you would get nothina
in particular to take back home and tell the family.
Many men mistake what is described as the call for
speech for their own deep, resonant voices The
Rev. Mr.. Pattison however, was an upright man-tco
good pastor to quarrel with his times or anticipate
any special reforms. He had married wife nom
the Eastern Shore Of Maryland WHO belonged to one
of the Official families there to whom the Methodste
looked up at period when Methodism itself DID nos
bring much fees. This lady had been named Vol
ford and she was relative OF tho Conuouer
of Maryland. fancy that on the Patson side OF the
house there was no important connection. Inc Woi.
fords like Southern folks In general, never torgos
how important they were, and the bias OF the family
was back toward Maryland and Virginia. MI. Patti.
SONS aunt who lived unmarried for a good many
years, finally married just before the war person
by the curious name of Sm0ot. In Alexandra. va"
Lieutenant J. M. Hawley, U. S. n, whose gallant
efforts saved the Nipsic from destruction IN the
Samoan hurricane of March, 1885, is about to assume
duty at the Annapolis Academy. Just at present -
is making a brief visit at Maiden, Mass.