Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-02
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Col. ISAAC PARKER, son of the Brown
Parker family of Carlisle, Gen. Hancock's
aid-de-camp through the war, and who
was frequent visitor to Lancaster, died
suddenly in New York on Saturday night.
Prof. VIM. B. HALL has been unanimous
ly elected as nonresident professor of vocal
music in the state normal school at Indi-
ana, Pa, and will assume the duties about
the middle of April.
Conkling would not allow GEORGE WILL
LIAM CURTIS to jump into his wagon, but
it is understood that the Ashtield district,
Massachusetts, where Mr.. Curtis spends
his summers, will select him as its repre-
sentative, and Mr.. Curtis will hail, there
fore, from the old Bay state.
STEPHEN THATCHER, native of Mas
sachusetts, died in Saratoga, N. Y, on
Sunday night, aged 80 years. He was
formerly a paper manufacturer, and made
newspaper in continuous rolls at Lee, Mass.
He served two terms in the Massachusetts,
Legislature. In 1852, being then over 20
years old, he retired from business and
went to Saratoga to live.
Mr.. HENRY IRVING is the subject of
considerable gossip at the London
clubs nOw rumor having it that a breach
of a serious nature has grown up between
the trasedian and Lady Burdett- -Coutts,
his aristocratic and wealthy patroness.
The cause of the trouble, it is said is Miss
Ellen Terry, who is now playing with Mr..
Irving, and to whom he has transferred
that single hearted devotion which he
once gave as an offering to his art.
GEO. DEB. KEIM, second officer Of the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad, sailed
to-day for Europe with his eldest daughter
| on tour of pleasure and for the restora-
tion of health, after ten years of unre-
mitting service during very trying pc
riod of the company's existence. The
| steamer on which he sailed was to have
gone last week, but was detained by re-
pairs necessitated by her rough voyage to
to this side. Mr.. Keim's trip is wholly
one Of recreation, and he expects to be
absent until about June.
Rev. A. T. PIERsON, a Detroit clergy
man, who recently attacked the stage-say-
ing, among other things, that the green
room of the theatre is often no better than
the infamous third circle that, in some the
atrcs, opens directly into the house of
shame''-is sharply taken to task by Mr..
Stuart Robson, who writes. to the Free
Press 81 challenge Rev. Pierson to name
single state prison which numbers among
it's inmates an actor, and will contribute
$1O0 to the Irish famine fund if he can
name single state prison that does not
hold preacher.
MAY FISK, the blonde actress, was ar
rested in Louisville yesterday on bailable
writ issued on a note for 500, given by
her in Peoria, ILL.,, eight months ago.
When the officers went to arrest her she
locked the door of the room and kept
them out for three hours. Charles Benton,
who pushed piece of paper under the
door with the words keep the door
locked" written on it, was arrested for in
terfering with the officers of the law. An
entrance was finally effected through a
window, and the proprietress of the troupe
of blondes was captured and lodged in
Jail.
| A correspondent of the Boston Herald in
Atlanta writes that BEN HILL, ex-Whig,
ex-Knownothing, ex-anti -sccessionist, ex-
rebel cabinet-officer, never a soldier, and
always an ambitious politician, SIS not
quite as popular among his constituents as
people North seem to think. Among the
old war lights he is extremely disliked, and
to: them, he is selfish, ambitious politi-
clan, using his constituents and the griev-
ances he attributes to them as leverage to
help him up the political ladder. The
Georgians are particularly disgusted with
his speeches in the last two sessions. His
buncombc about the South is not repre-
sentative Georgia feeling, and his constit-
uents say that he gets it off for Northern
effect, knowing that it is of no practical
value at home. Compared with Gen.
Gordon, he is not a popular man. He is
in the Senate by force ofuntiring efforts to
get there while Gordon, as a brave soldier,
is the simple choice Of the Georgians, and