New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-16
PERSONAL.

cb rova of ox-president James K. Polk is to
be removed from the old Polk place III NaSn' nv
Tenn to the capitol grounds In that city. flesF
dent Polk in his will directed that the FOLK pace
should always remain in the possession Vi inc
'amily and that each time the properly chanseI
hands II should go to the most worthy MEMBER OF
the family. This provision was declareu ilesat Y
the estate was sold. TO effect the removal OK the
ex-Presidents tomb. the tennessee hesis'a'"ie
made an appropriation OF shoW
The Empress Eugene is going to pay her usua'
autlmnal visit to the chateau at Arenenoerg
Cha rrinplv situated on the Untersee, or inferior
lake which forms a continuation of the Lake of
Constance The chateau. which Is on the brow OF
hill sloplng down toward the iake; oMeis S,
splendid view of the Black Forest and FERTILE as
trcts Of the 'Thurgau i was formerly the "a
vore residence of Queen Horense' anu uch who
visited the place after his release from "iiheiihs-
hOhe in lSl.
Enoch Pratt one OF the most conspicuous public
benefactors of Baltimore, passed his eghty-htth
birthday on Sunday and is still active and ener-
getic MIR. Pratt founded the citys great free
library and continues his personal interest in all
that concerns its welfare, Besides this, he has
most useful philanthropc and educational insti-
tutions of Baltimore MI. pratt weaien wa, was
in Plymouth County. Mass, and his first business
experience was in Boston at the age OF fifteen.
Prince Gloukhousky. representative Of the Car
of Russia at the Worlds Fair. gave reception
last Monday at his chicago residence, IN Michigan
ave in honor of the Cars name-day. The two
leading officers OF each national commission at the
Fair invited with the exception OF the French
Commission. of which the whole number were pres
ent.
The last newspaper letter written by Mrs. Lucy
H. Hooper, the correspondent who recently died In
Paris ended with paragraph bidding goodby to
her readers and saying that before they would
have seen II she would have passed away. She
foresaw the end clearly for her death occurred
two days after this dated. For eighteen years
Mrs Hooper had never missed her weekly letter
to The Philadelphia Telegraph"
The report published some time ago that Captain
Robert Inglls. marine superintendent of the Cunard
Line at Liverpool. had been drowned while boat
ing in the English lakes. is called mistake by the
Captaln's brother. lie writes Boston friend
that ne Is alive and well. and that he retired few
years Captain Inslis commanded the China,
OF the first screw ships OF the Cunard Line
Mrs Caroline II. Dali writing to correct some
mistaken impressions about the origin OF Long
fellows "Evangene." gives the poets statement
made 10 her In answer to an inquiry as follows:
some time before wrote 'Evangeline' Hawthorne
and Sumner dining with me. and | think Their.
must have been others present After dinner Haw-
thorne told that ne had lately become inter-
ested in the exile OF the Acadians 1t excited his
imagnation. He fancied two lovers widely sep
arated and wandering for years meeting only 10
ever thought the subject too difficult. and fancied
he should have 20 give II up. | waited awhile
heard nothing more about the novel, and finally
asked Hawthorne II he were willing that | should
consented and was one of the first to congratulate
me on Its popularity"