Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-19
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
THOMAS Dunn ENGLISH, the poet and
litterateur, is Democrat of Democrats.
Col. A. ID. MARYLAND of Washington,
d. c., prominent in the army postal SER
vice during the war was in Lancaster over
Tuesday, the guest of E. Z. Martin, Esq.
Before beginning his sermon yesterday
morning, DR.. TALMAGE took back all he
had said about the "mOral rottenneSS" Of
his pursuers in the Brooklyn presbytery.
General JOHN A. SUFFER-, the veteran
California pioneer, left Washington yester-
day morning to preside at the dinner of the
California pioneers this evening. in New
York.
Senator THURMAN said to an cx-mcmber
of the Ohio Legislature, recently, that he
was candidate for the presidential nOmi-
nation, and in a sense that did not imply
only complimentary vote.
Senator WADE HAMPTON has never fully
recovered from the illness which came with
the loss of his leg, and, not being in good
health, he has not rallied from the de-
spondency occasioncd by the death of his
son.
The Conservatives attack Mr.. GLAD
STONE for lending his support to the South
ern confederacy, and Mr.. Gladstone re-
plies that his sentiments were always
friendly to the North, even Hamilton Fish
acquitting him of conscious hostility.
When NUGENT, the New York police
man, was acquitted from completely in the
Manhatten bank robbery, the judge said to
him and the audience that nevertheless,
the court believed him guilty and that
Justice had miscarried.
Senator CONKLING arrived in Washing
ton Saturday evening and stopped at the
Riggs house instead of Wormley's, where
he usually stays. Mrs, Conk ling and
maid were with him. This is the first
time that Mrs. Conkling has been in Wash
inGton since Grants administration.
Senator G. F. HoAR has bought the land
at Princeton, Mass, on which John Hoar,
an ancestor, once redeemed captive, Mrs.
Rowlandson, from the Indians. A bowl
der, called ''Redemption Rock" lies upon
this land and upon this bowlder suitable
inscription has been cut.
Hayes has astonishcd his cabinet by
making an unexpected choice for the i'm
portant post of governor of Utah he has
selected a gentleman known as "the hand
some man of Kentucky" ELI H. MURRAY.
Gov. Emery's friends will, however, urge
him to withhold the nomination for further
consideration.
A monument was recently put over the
grave of the mother of ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
in Spencer county Ind; but the grave of his
father, Thomas Lincoln, near Matoon, ILL.,,
is still unmarked, save by small heap OF
stones. Abraham Lincoln paid the grave a
visit when he was on his way to Washing
ton to be inaugurated, and left $50 for a
headstone but the money has. disappeared
and the headstonc has not been set up.
Much expectation has been raised in the
literary world by the announcement that
NJ. ERNEST RENAN is coming across the
channel to deliver series of lectures,
and that RUsKIN is also leaving his retire
ment to lecture on the subject OF
'Snakes.' WILLIAM BLACK announces a
new novel called "Sunrise; A Story OF
These Times" and Mrs. ELEPHANTS un-
wearied pen is engaged in illustrating the
history of Hante Bougogne.
Miss LUCY WALTON, RHETT HORTON,
who created sensation in the streets of
Washington some time since by shooting
and slightly wounding John H. Morgan,
son of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, has
been held in the sum of 81, 900 bail to
answer at court. Miss Horton, who was
employed in the treasury, accuses young
Morgan of having betrayed her under
had long been intimate.
Prince OSCAR, eldest son of the king of
Norway and Sweden, is to be mar
ried to Princess HELENA of Wal
deck-Pyrmont, sister of the Queen of the
Netherlands. The princess is barely nine
teen; the prince is just of age. The
empress of Austria is expected in Ireland
for the hunting season in February. The
ex-Empress EUGENE will sail for Zulu
land in March, and Queen Victoria has
appointed Lieutenant Brigge, who was one
of the prince Imperial's most intimate
friends at Woolwich, to be groom in
waiting to the ex-empress.
The members of the Newark On. J.)
club, whose invitation to the "Jackson
day" celebration called out the late bitter
letter of CHARLES O'CoNoR, are quite in
dignant at the writer and the publication
of his philippe. Their secretary thinks
that when he found out he was invited by
a club under the mistaken idea that he
still cherished his former principles of
sympathy with them, he should have had
the common courtesy to apprise them of
this fact and not make the occasion pre-
text for an insulting and injurious commu-
nication. The letter was not read, it
seems, at the supper, and was published