Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-18
PERSONAL.

Mrs. SCoTT-SIDDoNs arrived in Quebec
on the steamer Morayian on Saturday
night.
Mrs. JULIA d. BATES, widow of Hon.
Edward NJ. Bates, United States attorney
general u,lder President Lincoln. died at
st. Louis Oh Saturday.
The Earl Of BEAcoNsFIELD D is revising his
former literary productions and writing a
new novel. The title Of the new novel is
Endymion.''
E. V.SMALLEY Of the New York Tribune
on the way east from Indiana, where he
made a careful study of the campaign,
stated that the Republicans made more
than one thousand votes by colcred i'm
portation.
SAMUEL WATKINS, 4 prominent citizen
of Nashville, Tenn, died there on Satur-
day, aged Sc years. He bcqueathcd $780,
600 for the establishment of a Polytechnic
institute in Nashville, the building to be
erected next spring.
The New York Sun asks :" SIMON CAM
ERON processes to have retired from poll
tics and handed his dukedom over to his
son. What took him to Mentor on the
same day with Grant, Conklins and Logan
Was a great party bought and sold that
day: Were the imperialists, sent to the
rear at Chicago, brought to the front in
pursuance Of a corrupt bargain with the
nominee 90
When ARTEMAs WARD was in England
he went to lecture at a remote place, where
his face was not known. He was little
late; the audience became impatient and
began to stamp with their feet and to
whistle. BY and by Ward came out and
began to move about the platform, busting
the chairs and desk. The people took him
for "supe," and became still more im~
patient. Presently he turned around,
dropped the dust-cloth and said: "Now
having busted the chairs will begin my
lecture
The late JOSHUA +. JEANNEs, Of Phil
adelphia, who died millionaire, by his
will gave his brothers nearly three times
as much, each, as his sisters, and had in
dicated his desire to make certain bequests
to public institutions and to q few
friends, but did not make them legatees
under his will, and the brothers and sisters
were not obliged, therefore, to consent to
division of a portion Of the estate in this
direction. The brothers and sisters. how
ever, decided not only to have the wishes
of the testator carried out, but consented
to Ill equal division of the estate between
them after the gifts to institutions and in
dividuals and the expenses incident to the
transfer of the property were deducted.
Although but short time has elapsed
since the death of his wife, the Car has
married the Princess Dolgorouki, who has
been his mistress for a long time and by
whom he has several children. The mar
riagc was privately solemnized on the Sth
of the present month in the chapel of the
Imperial palace. The only member of the
royal family present on the occasion was
the Grand Duke Nicholas. All the others
showed their disapproval by their absence.
The marriage is Of the kind known as
"morganatic or, as it is sometimes
called, ga left-handed marriage - a not
uncommon kind among the German princes,
but heretofore unknown in Russia, by
which the wife takes the name but not the
rank of the husband.
Senator Bayard says: 81 believe, and
have always believed, that Gen. HANCOCK
typi6es to the American people high
toned, patriotic and lovable sentiment. I |
think they love him because he represents
all that is gallant and true and clear
headed and upright. The affection which !
they evidently have for him 1 might de-
nominate justified hero-worshir, l be-