Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-19
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PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Attorney General PALMER is SO far re-
| covered as to be able to supervise the grist
of the pardon mill.
CHAUNCEY BROOKS, one Of the best
known citizens of Baltimore, died sudden |
1 ly yesterday morning at his late residence
on Eutaw place in that city.
Rev. DR.. F. w. CONRAD, editor of the
Lutheran Obsercer, has committed to men,
ory the entire hymn book of the Lutheran
church, and when giving them out quotes
the number of the hymns and recites them
correctly without looking at the hymnal.
JOSEPH SEL1GMAN will give s., 600 to the
society for Ethical Culture, Of which he
was president, and $25, 900 to be disturbed
by his executors among such charitable,
benevolent and educational institutions as
they shall think best, without regard to
creed, race or religion
Rev. HENRY WHEELER, by invitation
from General Welsh post, G. A. r., will
pronounce the Grafton on Decoration Day
in Columbia. The services will be held in
the opera house on Sunday evening, May
3Oth. The music will be furnished by
chorus of voices consisting of the combined
chorus of Columbia.
HENRY JAMES, jr., is very popular IN
the cultured society of London and Paris
Women think that he is charming. His
old New England friends believe that he
has become over-refined by his study of
French literature and one lady said that
if she met him and she dropped her fan,
laughed or sneezed, he would regard her
as another discovery and that each of
those actions would be regarded by him
as profoundly indicative of female charac-
ter.
DIV. SEILEE, esq.,, and Major ELBRIDGE
MCCONKEY, secretaries of the state agricul-
tural society, returned from a trip to Ohio
and Kentucky on Saturday, whittier they
had been on business connected with the
approaching state fair. These gentlemen
met the prominent blooded stock raisers
of the two states and received assurance
that they would send to the state fair at
Philadelphia some of their finest herds of
! short horn cattle, the best sheep and pigs
and bloOdcd horses.
WM. II. KEMBLE, who is reported by the
Cameron people to hold a $1,000 check as
proof of Blaine's legislative venality, has
been talking politics to New York World
reporter. lie says that in 1876 forty-two
of the Pennsylvania delegates out of fifty
eight were for Blaine, and if his friends
had not broken up the unit rule in the del
egation, it would finally have voted for
him solidly-except Kemble himself-and
Blaine would have made the landing. This
may be consoling to the Mulligan Guards.
Les bellies Americaines in Paris: At
the ball given the other night by Nine.
Eakin, rue de Ii Perouse, Mrs. NOyes was
in cream-colored satin marveilleux, with a
5 tablier covered with lace and white jet.
Mrs. Mackay wore court train of ruby
colored velvet, with tabler of gathered
pale blue satin. Mrs Gordon Gall the
American colony was represented at this
: balD wore all orange brocade foulard, with
a gathered satin tablier Of the same color,
low-necked Marie de Medici style, with
? sleeves a la Juive. Diadem of pearls.
Mrs. Stevenson in pale pink satin marveil-
leux, the tablier trimmed with beads.
Pearls in the hair.
= Rev. MYRoN ADAMS, " Thoughtful and
eloquent Congregational preacher of Ro-
g chester, N. Y, has been telling his people
that the popular idea of hell is leading peo-
pie to skeptcsm. He thinks the church
is declining, and says Bishop Simpsons
statement in his sermon at Cincinnati, on
Sunday of last week, was sort of whist
ling to keep up courage. Skepticism, he
says, is crushing the church, and the
. church is to be blamed for preaching a false
4 doctrine about the future condition of the
, race. The affair produced profound SEN
satlon, and Mr.. Adams kindly tells his
4 church folks that if if they do not like it
t he will take his hat and leave in good feel
: ing. The trouble is that they seem to like
S it very well.
The richest woman in America is Mrs.
E. II. GREENE, wife of the vice president
t of the Louisville and Nashville road. She
was Miss Robinson, and her father a
= whaling master at Bedford, Mass, owned
fleet Of ships known rs the blue line OF
: whalers and was known as "Blubber
t Robinson" He died when his daughter
was a mere girl, and left her fortune of
about eight millions. She lived slenderly
2 and prudently, and gave the management
! of her affairs to Mr.. John j. Cisco, of New
York. AS her tastes were simple and her
wants few she was able to transfer her
enormous income almost every year to the
body of the fortune itself, and it has now
accumulated to more than $4,000, 900.
: Her husband, Mr.. Greene, was a very rich
man when she married him, and has been
successful since. 1t is said by one who
: should know that the income of this couple
-, is s., 500, 600 year. Mr.. Greene is about
AZ years of age and she is about 43.
| The Tax Commission.
| The commission appOinted to revise the