Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-17

ond time. under similar circumstances,
that they who 90 out wool gathering
often come home shOrn.
PERSONAL.
FRANK LEsLIE's .disinheIitcd SONS will
contest their fathers will.
Mr.. JOHN BARR, Of this city, is now with
Bailey, Banks and Biddle, late Bailey Il
Co., the jewelers. of Philadelphia.
Mrs. GARFIELD is said to be devotinS
herself to the education OF her sons, her
self in great measure carrying forward
their studies and fitting them for college.
The Republican committee of Bergen
county, n. J., have requested the reslgna-
ton Of Hon. CHAs. II. VOoRHIs, Repub-
lioan representative in Congress from the
Fifth New Jersey district.
The widow of cx-President TYLER has
has asked Congress for a pension, Oh the
ground of the immense depression of her
real estate, the mortgages on her Northern
property having been forecloscd, and those
| on her Southern property constantly
troubling her.
NJ. GAMBETTA is !; connOisscur of good
eating. and has !. marked preference for
new-laid eggs. Not the eggs of hens,
however. The president of the Chamber
condescends to eat eggs of the lap-wing
only. and, as these birds are rare in
France, he has rented large furze- heath
near Osnabruck, in Hanover, where these
creatures will be raised to supply eggs to
this French Lucullus.
| Queen VICTORIA is said to have long
memory for persons and faces. Her whole
thoughts now seem centred in her soldiers,
especially in those who have been wound
ed in her service, and i'll looking over
paintings of subjects in the recent wars
she knows and remembers the names of all
those soiders-cvcn privates-On whom
she has conferred the Victoria Cross OF
other honors, at once picking them out in
tho painting and asking after them by
name.
Mr.. BORING "deniges Of it - that he is
set up for the Republican nomination OF
mayor as the Bull-Ring -Mylin candidate,
and the Examiner, with supicious zeal,
backs him up. Yet the Er" finds
"nothing whatever in his rejoindcr to JUS
tify us in modifying the conclusions reach
cd or the suggestions made in our article
in regard to the Importance of the issue
and the proper manner in which it should
be presented to the Republicans of Lancas
ter city,
Mrs. WINNIE REAM liOXIE, in Il big
gingham apron, superintends every day al
the foundry of the Washington navy yart
the preparatons that arc making to cast ii
bronze her statue of Admiral Farragut, fol
which the government contracted at a cos
of $50, 900. The model is ten feet high, ant
: represents the admiral on the deck of ;
ship, standing with his foot upon coil o
rope, and in his haud marine 81 lass which
he is in the act of raising to his eyes. Th'
statue will be put up next summer in Far
: ragut square, plot in the aristocrati'
part of Washington, on which some OF thu
finest dwellings front. Lieutenant Hoxi'
has Just built a handsome house fronting
this park, and he and his wife will alway'
: have the statue visible from the windows
JOHN WELSH, late United States min
lister at the court of st. James, has received
a letter signed by one hundred gentlemen
mostly bankers and business men of New
York city, rendering him dinner at Del
monico's.
The Rome correspondent Of the Phla
delphia Ecening Bulletin writes thus about
the author of &" Kismct - Miss FLETCHEI
am sorry to say, is very i'll with brain
, fever Three doctors were in consultation
l the other afternoon. To-day have no
, inquired how she is, but fear the bul
Ietins are not more promising than they
5 We're the last time heard from her. The
poor girl, since her engagement to Lort
Wentworth, has been subjected to al
kinds of annoyanccs from enviOus mother:
and spinsters, who we're enraged at no
having secured the matrimonial prize
themselves. And they attacked hcrsel
and her family most numerically. NJ
doubt this has been the cause of Miss
Flctchers present illness. Let us hope
that Lord Wentworth will not bc weak
enough to be influenced by what cnviOus
tongues may utter. He is of an age when &
man generally knows his own mind and
is firm in purpose, Notwithstanding all
rcbuffs'; if not, pity poor Miss Fletcher
However, let me not be premature in my
fears. May she recover speedily in body
and mind and give a loud denial to the
mischievous rumors which envy, malice
and all uncharitablcncss are now settin.
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