New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-21
PERSONAL.

The Rev. George Batchelor OF the First Uni
Ia ran Society. Of Lowell Mass. has been chosen
to nh out the unexpired term OF the late Or Grin
dali Reynolds a. secretary or the American nj
tartan Association.
Mrs Louise s. Rounds. who has just been elected
president OF the Illinois Woman's Christian Tenn
perancs Union for the ninth time has worked In
forty three counties. given 10 addresses In the
State and has visited four other States
Mr. Gilbert Pond of Milford. Mass one OF the
oldest musicians the country. has just celebrated
his cghteth birthday He played with the Mil
ford Brass Band AZ the dedication OF the Bunker
Hill Monument.
Andrew Carnegie has presented to the Braddock
Free Library. OF Pittsburg. n statue OF Mercury.
by Clio or Clan. he Is sometimes called. an 1ta
ian sculptor OF the sixteenth century. 1t Is re-
garded ore Of his three masterpieces. the other
Coming from the Bath"
writer who has recently Cassus NJ.
Clay at whitehall. near Richmond. Ky. his resi-
dencc thus describes him TALL but so massively
built that he looks to be below the medium height.
Cassius NJ tay Is to-day 1.-THE and agile. as
sprngy In his walk. quick In eye and gesture
as he was In that dead past call before the
war" His massive legs are like the Doric columns
In that old portico. his snewy arms are like the
solid raftcrs OF Its roof Hair and beard are white
az freshly fallen snow and his leonne face half
dreamy, half forcefu. combines the ruggedness of
age with all the poetry OF youth. His eyes are
soft with liquid gentlcness. but overhung with
shaggy eyebrows. and their sparkle underneath
reminds one strangely OF the clear stream from the
cave fhe brows above them beetling like the
bushy cin wherein his deadly deed was done.
Strange how grow like the scenes with which
their history Ia linked. They blend with their
surroundings. "a II were and some strange agency
OF nature photographs thrilling scene upon their
souls, to grow with them. become a part OF them
and be cncotfined with their bones This
man preached Abol.tionism In the heart OF
slavery when Lincoln was Il country lawyer and
old John Brown speculator In wool. He II was
who published warning In his paper at LexnS
ton which set the whole country wild with
element and caused the people to seize his entire
office outfit and ship II beyond the state He
them that only pane of glass separated the
white-skinned woman olling on her sofa In luXurl-
Gus from the dark slave who passed
by her window and looked In. These terribly
suggestive words In those times OF negro insurrcc-
lions. Always fighter with voice. with knife. with
pen with sword. he will die. he has lived n
warrior to the last. lie fingers now q white and
rugged memory of the days that were. A dreamer
always, he Is now n embodied dream almost the
twin brother almost stands tho old mansion Both
of them rcdolent OF the aroma from forgotten
days Not brick I'm the one or fibre In the other
but IL saturated with the poetry and romance OF
this dark and bloody ground Side by side exist
the mansion and the man--perhaps time whl let
them die together.
Utica. \. Y. Nov. 20 (SpeciaD.-At meeting here
to-day OF tho trustees OF Hamilton College. the de-
gree Of A. B.. nunc pro tune, was conferred on
Chester 8. Lord. Of New-York.