New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-15
PERSONAL.

In speaking OF Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. who
celebrated her e!ghty-fourth birthday yesterday.
THE Hartford Courant" says: The general health
Of this famous woman is better than It on her
birthday last year; her appetite Is excellent and her
strength such that she is 10 be seen daily during
this beautiful June weather walking with her
tendant FOrestst where IL situated her pleasant
home. Mrs. Stoves physical powers are remarka.
her fondness for outdoor life does much TO keep
her in such good condition. Congratulations and re-
membranes will come her 20 morrow usual,
from all parts of the country and from foreign lands
It Is forly-thres years now since dneis Tons
ance but its popularity has continued undated un-
Ill the present day.
John H. Lttlefeld will deliver his popular lecture
Personal Recollectons OF Abraham Lincoln" be
fore Bucknell University, at Lewisburg, Penn. On
Monday next.
In speaking Of the Rev. DR. Charles Ray Palmer,
who is soon to leave the North Church. Bridge.
port Conn., to go to Yale College. 1.-THE Standard"
OF that city says: HE has always taken a great
interest In Yale University from which he was
graduated many years ago. II was from that col.
lege that he received his degree and he has always
been regarded by the officials OF the college az
one OF the men in whom they could take especial
pride For this reason he was elected to the cor.
poration and has always taken an active part In
its deliberations. The sad death OF his son. Alfred
Barnes Palmer. will be remembered with pang
by nearly all the city, for he was young man
who had made a devoted FRIEND or all win whom
he had come In contact In memory OF him Dr.
Palmer presented to the university scholarship
and in numberless other ways has he shown the
pace which IL held In his heart. IL Is not alone
because of his connection with fa.e however, that
DR. Palmer has become known so widely and -
we'll He Is one OF those men who can see the
poetry of religion and has written several hymnA
which have struck a choH In the hearts OF all
who have heard them. one or two OF them have
become very familiar to the church-go.ng people,
and are TO be found In all me paohcations OF sa-
cred music.
Miss Ida B. Wells. the young colored woman who
has recently become widely known as a leader In
a movement against the lynching OF coored peo-
pie will be married the 9th inst. to Ferdinand
l.. Barnett a prominent colored lawyer OF Chicago.
Miss Wells was born in Holly Springs. Miss. thirty
years ago. She lost her parents when child and
in the face OF almost nsuperabe difficulties she ed
ucated herself and at the same time supported her
brothers and sisters. In 1855 she became the Edi-
tor OF The Memphis Free Speech In about
year after she wrote strong article against lynch
Ing. which aroused such bitter feeling against
her that the paper was discontinued. and she VAS
forced leave the South. Her recent career on
known.
"As will be by local columns" says
THE T.ockrort IN ~ Journal" Russell Sage the
New-York many-times millionaire. was an atten-
dant incognto at one OF our I.ockport churches
Gently. This undoubtedly accounts for the
dollar bill found upon the contribution plate that
morning. The deacons have since been
deavoring to locate the donor. but no one In
the customary congregation ever having given cause
for suspicion. the quest up 10 now has been futile.
but your Uncle Russelps presence explains all.
especially perhaps when they are put up on
margin"