Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-29
PERSONAL.

JOHN GEORGE BRABAzoS PONsoNEY,
Earl of Bcssborough, is dead.
Gov. DAVIS and Gov. SMITH, of Maine,
are said to entertain a high opinion of
each other, personally.
The civil marriage ceremony between
General GARIBALDI and Downer Frances
co has been performed.
A bill has been introduced in the House
for the erection of a monument to FRANCIS
S. KEY, the author of the ''Star Spangled
Banner -
Professor JAMES DEMILL, of DachOusie
college, author of the "Dodge Club"
and other works, died at Halifax, n. s.,
yesterday.
The fund raised for Keats's sole survi-
wing sister, Nine. II. LLANOs, now amounts
to more than So, $50, Tennyson, Browning
and Swinburnc are among the subscribers.
Miss HARRIET HOsMER is said to be
still resolved to discover perpetual motion,
and has taken workshops near Wcstmln-
ster to pursue her efforts. She expects to
be successful by midsummer.
A New York politician who has the con-
fidcnce of Senator CONKLING is authority
for the statement that the New York Re-
publican convention will not be called until
April, and that the probability is that the
New York delegation to the Chicago con-
vention will be instructed to vote for Sen
ator COnkling.
st. Stephens Protestant Episcopal
church, Philadelphia, was crowded yester-
day afternoon by an eager throng, drawn
together to witness the marriage of How
ARD MUNNIKHUYsEN, OF Baltimore, and
Miss BESSIE J. PANCOAsT. The goom is 4
wealthy member of the Baltimore bar and
Miss Pancoast is daughter of DR.. Joseph
Pancoast the celebrated surgeon.
CONKIING has never spoken to Blaine
since the latter gave him that celebrated
scathing in the House years ago, and
cherishes the bittercst personal hostility
to the man from Maine. The war of this
administration upon Conkling's friends i'll
the New York custom house has engen-
dcred in the breast of the great Roscoe a
feeling of the intenscst hatred to John
! Sherman.
Lord Lorne and suite have left for Hall
) fax to meet her royal highness, Princess
> LOUISE. The Sarnatian will be met by the
Bellerophon, Northampton and Bacchante,
: under command of Sir Edward Inglcfield.
Princes Albert Victor and George Fred
erick, SONS of the Prince of Wales, are OH
board There will be a number of vessels
of the West India fleet present to take
, part in the reception which is expected to
be glandcr than on the first arrival Of the
princess.
HORACE THOMPSON, of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, one Of the most prominent capitalists
of the Northwest, died suddenly of pleuro-
pneumonia yesterday noon at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York. He came East
about two weeks ago, intending to enjoy a
few months respite from the cares of
business life When he left st. Paul he
was apparently in the best of health, but
: Oh Saturday last he was suddenly taken
sick, and though his illness was not con.
sidered dangerous at first, he grew worse
rapidly until yesterday, when he died.
Nearly three hundred ladies and gentle.
men gathered in Delmonico's large dining
. room last evening to celebrate, at dinner
? given by a number of prominent citizens,
the birthday of Robert Burns. Mr.. David
l Dudley Field sat at the head of the table,
General Hancock sitting at his right and
, Henry Ward Beccher at his left. Near by
sat the venerable Peter Cooper, ex-Judse
Fancher, Wilson G. Hunt, Parke Goodwin,
Luther r. Marsh, Surrogate Calvin, Gen
cral Crittenden, Lieutenant Governor
Woodford, Postmaster James, William
Walter Phelps, John Weed, Patrick S.
Gilmore and many other well-known men.
Mayor Cooper came late, and was seated
at Mr.. Fields left.