Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
PERSONAL.


erty amounting to 81, 400, 900.
w. G. DORLING, for many years a lead
ing writer on sporting matters in this
country and in England. died in New
Orleads on the Goth of last month.
The eulogies in the House of Represen-
tatives on the late SenatorH HOUSTON occupy
thirteen pages of the Congressional Record,
comprising the speeches of fourteen men,
bers.
Gen. w. H. KooNrz, of Somerset, has
accepted the invitation to deliver the bi-
ennial Grafton before the literary societies
of Franklin and Marshall college at the
approaching commencement.
Commodore JOSIAH HANsCoM, ex-chief
of the bureau of construction and repair,
navy department, who has been ill for
some time past, died yesterday morning at
his residence in Washington, in the 65th
year of his age.
Judge BLACKS article against the third
term has been republished in the Chicago
Tribune, Cincinnati Commercial and other
able and influential Republican journals
that are opposed to imperialism and the
"man on horseback
william goes q acourtin',
With her silent sits,
Both engaged In sOrtin'.
Wood In little bits.
Not word they utter
Curious kind o. cOurtin'-
Now and then they mutter:
'Thirteen-ffteen-four
But eight or ten out of the three hun
dred members of both houses of Congress,
who served in that body when Mr.. FER
NANDo WOOD entered it, are now living,
and not one of them is now in Congress.
Mr.. Wood was first elected in 1S41 as
member of the Twenty-seventh Congress.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, in conversa-
tion with Tribune representative has ex-
pressed in a forcible way his views of the
movement to nominate Gen. Grant. He
declares that this movement is due to a
clique of self-seeking politicians if Grant
is nominated he holds that he will be de-
feated and the Republican party disorgan-
lied.
SAM WARD sent to the Beefsteak club
of London gift of Blue Point oystes,
Carbon venison, Florida oranges and
Bourbon whiskey. So many members
wanted to discuss the venison that the
fortunate ones had to be bauOtted for. The
oysters were Immediately disposed of by
the House committee, the oranges were
distributed among the members and the
whisky csrefully preserved, having been
pronounced the best kind that has ever
reached Great Britain.
The difference between THEo. THOMAS
and the board of directors of the Cincin-
natl College of Music eliminated yesterday
in his rendering his resignation to take ef-
feet in October. The board accepted his
resignation, and intimated that it would
be injudicions to prolong the engagement
to October. Colonel Nichols, the presi-
dent of the board, also rendered his resig-
nation, but the directors declined to receive
it, holding that his conduct has been sat
isfactory.
JACOB r. KLINE, ST., who was we'll
known in the district of the Northern
Liberties, died at No. 92O North Third
street, having resided there for seventy
two years. Mr.. Kline was for many years
a member of the Sixteenth section school
board, and held the position of president.
In 1884 he was member of the Legis-
lature to which Chief Justice Sharswood
also belonged. 1t was through his efforts
that the borough of West Philadelphia
was Incorporated, and although Demo-
crat, he presented articles of impeachment
against Governor Porter.
The magnificent diamond necklace pre-
sented by the khedive of Egypt to Mrs.
FITCH, daughter of General Sherman, and
valued at 5000, 900, after passing through
numerous vicissitudes was returned to
the giver because Lieut.. Fitch was unable
to pay the yearly taxes on the diamonds.
Upon receiving them the khedive wrote to
the general saying that it was not his de-
sire that the diamonds should be given to
any one member of his family, and, hav-
ing learned that he had four daughters, it
was his desire that the diamonds should be
mounted in sets and equally divided be-
tween them. These daughters are Mrs.
Fitch, nee Minnie Sherman, Ella Sher-
man, Lizzie Sherman and Rachel Sher-
man. The necklace was then returned to
the Sherman family and mounted in four
magnificent pendants, four pairs of splen-
did solitaire earrings and eight rings.
These four ladies are now the happy pos
SCISSORS Of four complete suits of diamonds,
the value of each suit being at least s75,-
600.