Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-12
PERSONAL.

HENRY WHARTON, the distinguished
conveyancer and real estate lawyer of
Philadelphia, died recently.
Mrs. .CooSLET has made application to the
board of pardons for pardon. The appli-
cation will be presented at the next meet,
ing of the board.
HANNIBAL HAMLIS has announced that
he will nat be candidnte for the Maine
senatorship, and half dozen Republicans
have strippee for the race.
WILLIAM PRESTON JOHNSON, LII. D.,
has been elected president Of the Louis
lana state university. He was graduate
from Yale, and was for many years one Of
the faculty of Washington-Lee univer-
sity.
SAM WARD, now in his sixty-sixth year,
and once famous as the king of the lobby.
an institution which went out with the
disappearance of the Republican majority
in Congress. is now living in New York
the life of rich, intellectual bachelor.
His defeat ef the johnson impeachment
correction is the pride of his life.
Senator Hoar said Of Mr.. BANCROFT at
the recent meeting of the American anti
quarian society: "Ie is, l believe, the
senior living person who has been men,
Der of the cabinet. He is the senior among
living persons who have filled important
diplomatic stations. He is the only person
living whose judgment would change the
place in public estimation held by many of
the great statesmen of the Revolutionary
times
LUcRETA MORT died last evening at
her residence in Cheltenham township,
Montgomery county, near Philadelphia.
Her death was not unexpected, for she
had long passed the period of four-score
years and her extraordinary vitality had
of late begun to fade. Mrs. Mott. besides
| her active work in the cause of the abol
ition Of slavery, took part in many other
philanthropic labors, the cause of temper.
ance and education and prison reform.
She also found time for literary labor, and
amongst her published works was ser
mon to medical students, and u discourse
ON woman. Mrs. Mott was gifted with
great oratorical powers, and was power
full and convincing in argument.
Mrs OSWALD OTTENDORFER wife OF the
editor of the New York Staats-Zeitung, is
pronounced by Gath "the most extraor-
binary influence in the German politics of
America Her father founded the paper,
which now is worth 100000. Mrs. Often.
dorfer regularly visits the office or has re-
torial policy Of the paper, and governs
things generally to suit herself When
Gath was asked if Mr.. Ottendorfer had
returned from Europe, tho answer was,
81 don't know, but it don't make any
difference. Mrs. Ottendorfer is ut home.
She is about equal to three Ottendorfers
She knows all about the politics Of New
York city. and what to prescribe for it. -
Rev. ]. GRIER RALsTON, d. d., LII. D.,
founder and principal Of the Oakland fe-
male institute in Norristown, died in that
city yesterday morning, aged seventy-fivc
years. He was the third son of Samuel
| Raiston, of Chester county, where he was
born in 1915. He was graduated from
Washington college and Princeton theo-
logical seminary. He was an Indian mis-
| sionary, but failing health cnduced him to
resign, and afterward he became principal
of the female seminary at Oxford, Chester
county. lie founded the Oakland female
institute in Norristown in 1915. 1t be-
came under his management one OF the
leading institutions of It's kind in this part
of the country. Over three thousand pu-
| pills have been educated there.