Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-01
PERSONAL.


JOHN BRoUGHAM, the actor, is lying at
the point of death.
General and Mrs. GRANT arrived in Du-
buque, Iowa, yesterday.
Seventy years ago yesterday HoRATIO
SEYMOUR was born in town Of Pompey,
Onondaga county, New York.
Mr.. EMERsoN's health is good and his
mind is unimpaired, except that he cannot
we'll remember names and faces. He is still
much interested in the work of the world.
Miss ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS is an
invalid, slender, graceful woman, with a
sympathetic face and gentle voice. She
is kindly and charitable and full of good
deeds
Prince Leopold and Princess Louise and
suites left Toronto for Niagara Falls to-day.
Thence they go to Chicago and Milwaukee
but no further, the trip to San Francisco
having been abandoned.
The LAWRENCE BARRETT is writing a
life of Forrest, which will form one of
series of actors biographies to be shortly
published. Mr.. Edwin Booth, it is said
will write the life of the elder Booth.
The Pope has recently undergone sue
cessfully surgical operation of a painful,
though not of dangerous character. He
is far from strong, and it is thought advis-
able that he should not spend the summer
in Rome.
Admiral PORTER is said not to have
military air, looking no more like an old
salt than any business man. He is Of
medium height, his figure is erect and
shapely, his dark hair and whislSers are
tinged with gray, and although sixty-five
years old he looks fifteen years younger.
Count CoRTI's remains have been taken
to Milan for cremation. 1t has now be-
come the fashion for aristocratic Italians
| to have their bodies reduced to ashes and
| at Milan incineration has become so Ordi-
nary thing that the administration has
published regulations concerning it.
RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, a prominent
member of the old Tweed regime, died in
Marseilles, France, IN the residence of his
son, J. Townsend Connolly, at o'clock on
Sunday evening, from the effects of a
severe surgical operation. He fled to
Europe in 1871, Immediately on his surren-
der of the office Of comptroller of New
York.
Mr.. Cross and his wife, Mrs. "GEoRGE L
ELIOT" Cross, have gone to the CONT.
nent, where they will remain several
months. Mr.. Cross is reported to be a
handsome, attractive, intelligent man, with
no pretentions to literary or scholarly
abilities. He has for some time attended
to George Eliot's finances. He has a house
at Chelsea. where they will probably live.
General J. E. JOHNSTON has a small but
erect figure carried with stately dignity ;
an intellectual face with flashing eyes,
lofty forehead and striking expression and
of manner of blended suavity and dici-
sion. Mrs. Johnston, an invalid, to whom
her husband is most tenderly devoted, is the
daughter of Louis McLane, once minister
to England. Senator and member of Jack
| sons cabinet.
At recent fancy dress ball given by the
American colony in Paris, Mrs. LUCY
HAMILTON HOOPER, the vivacious CORES
pondent, personated the Press" in a
dress with the train covered with news
papers and trimmed with titles of news
papers. Scissors, paste-brush, and ink
bottle were hung at her side, and in her
hair was placed a quill pen. Across her
corsage was fastened a white ribbon with
the words La Presse printed upon it.
WIN. E. CHANDLER says he will sue the
proprietor of the Palmer house, Chicago,
for refusing him accommodations after he
had made written contract for rooms.
The proprietor, who is a brother-in-law Of
Fred Grant, and who, though a Demo-
crat, is an enthusiastic "Grant man."
says he found that Chandler, whose rooms
were next to the Grant headquarters, had
made arrangements to spy into their Sc
crets, and for that reason he had refused
the rooms.