Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-10
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Mr.. BLAINE cmphatically denies that he
had anything to do with bribing or at
tempting to bribe anybody. 'iulli.an .
Mulligan
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES is a most
vigilant proof reader. lie sees every
comma and scmicolon and follows the pril-
ter till the moment of going TO press.
1t is believed that \ J. KAUFFMAN.
esq, of Columbia will l,c one OF the dele
gates from this county 10 the national con-
vention. How would Brother {. 5. do?
lie is ror Hayes and second term.
Mrs. GRANT is quoted us having said
that the happicst period OF her life and the
generals was when they lived in Galcna
''in a small brick house and kept one scr-
want
Mr.. III. l.. SI.ATMAHEH has been elected
president of the Union fire company for
the twenty fifth time. lie is the man for
the place and the company and he ale
alike to he congratulated that he fits so
well.
". X. BuCKlHGn,M, csl., late Of the
Altoona CdU, and earlier of the Lancaster
press, has joined Mr.. Mulin in the editor
ial and business control of the Bedford In
q"trer Rcp.), from which 5. j. Jordan rc-
tires on account of failing health.
LIszT is very fond of solitude, and spends
much time at lis beautiful lonely Roman
villa with no other companions than his
piano and his studies. His surroundings
are all very simple, aud i'll the coolest
weather he has II" fire, except a barrier of
Goals.
JOHH KELLY, having questioned the ac-
curacy of the New York suns statement
of its circulation. its publisher, }. W.
England, offers to bet him $1,000, for the
benefit OF the Catholic orphanagc, that it
is true. Il committee of three, Kelly being
one, to make the examination.
Mrs. SCoTT-SI DDoNs, well known to
people, has separated
from her husband and states the fact thus
pun lily lIstkCl itilt III Nay lttSt,
we separated by mutual consent, l giving
him Il valuable piece of property worth
probably go, 600, located at New Zealand,
which WAS the net profits of my three
years engagement in Australia
Mr.. TENNYSOS-of whom it has before
been stated that he was Il Spiritualst-is
said to have SO firm Il conviction as to per-
sonal Immortality that he cannot bear the
slightest contradiction on that subject.
That unlucky friend or acquaintance who
happens to question the belief in his pres
ence is silcnccd with very little ceremony
by the iratc poet.
Evarts has a poor opinion of Pemnsylva-
mia, and asks Who OF its public men
if advertised to speak upon a political
question, say in the Cooper Institute, New
Y ork, or the Academy of Music, Philadcl-
phia, could ill either with an audience,
and whose speech would be tclegraphed
the Union to the newspapers,
and would attract the attention of the
country and create comment: What man
in Pennsylvania could make speech in
that would interest people
outside of that immediate vicinity of the
state - Referred to Cameron and his
for them id literary fcllcrs."
The scene in which Governor GAHCELON
took leave of his council is described as
having been very affecting, and one coun-
,illOr, DIR. Parker, broke down in his
speech and was unable to so on. Mr..
Fogg referred to the governors past life, |
% the estimation in which Lewiston always
leld him, to his professional career, and |
inally to his financial condition., here dis
closing a fact which probably has never
,ecn published. 1t is alleged that the gov
,rnor who is not now in SO tluurisbing cir
rs at one time. and whose pro-
cssional business has, of course, been in
crfercd with by his absence from town,
md the odium he has incurred through
he recent proceedings, has, within few
weeks, had pecuniary inducements held
ut to him to affect his official action : hut
he governor is not that kind of man.
Jennie June says that among the
ear friends of the DICKENS family there
no mystery about the cause Of the
ovclist's separation from his wife. But
he true reason for it has been kept
rom tile public with remarkable loyalty
D the reputation and memory of apopular
uthor, and even at the expense of suffer-
lg woman, who lived and endured but
lade no sign. The nearest to a vindica-
on of the wife Of twenty five years and ;
,other of ten children, which her sister
nd daughter have permitted themselves, is
le publication of her husbands letters