Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-22

PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Gov. JETER, of South Carolina, has di-
rected Attorney General Youmans to ap-
pear and assist in the prosecution of Col.
E. B. Cash, at Darlington, who recently
killed Colonel w. NJ. Shannon in duel.
SALv1N1, the Italian tragediau, has for
many years taken lessons in English in
order to be able to interpret Shakespeare in
the original text but he says he despairs
of ever playing in English on the stage.
Ex-Gov. SHEPHERD, formerly of the
District of Columbia, writes to friend in
Washington gleefully that he has " struck
| it rich' in the Batopilas mines of Mexico
and that in forty days he has extracted
s12O, 900 worth of silver. He has 80 men
at work in the mines.
A rumor was current in Harrisburg
yesterday that Col. JOHN H. FILLER, of
the Harrisburg Patriot editorial staff, had
died suddenly in Philadelphia. The
friends of Col. Filler will be glad to know
that the report is false and that he is alive
and we'll.
Major Walsh, of the mounted police, has
secured SITTING BULL for three years for
company of Canadians, who propose max
ing tour of the United States and Can
ada with him, commencing on the lst of
January. He will appear in a border-life
drama.
Mr. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT expects to
remain abroad about year. From Liver
pool he will travel to Cairo, where COM
pany will be formed, composed of guides,
spearmen and woodchoppers, and Mr..
Vanderbilt will set out ON an exploring
expedition up the Nile.
Senator BAYARD will speak in Tam.
many hall on Thursday evening, when a
mass meeting and torchlight procession
will take place. Six separate meetings
will he in progress around Union Square
and the parade will be reviewed by General
HANCOCK and many prominent officials
and citizens. August Belmont, esq.,, will
preside.
AMAsA STONE is the man who will give
$500, 900 to Western Reserve college, at
Hudson, Ohio, if it shall be removed to
Cleveland. At meeting of the trustees,
held Oh Monday. it was practically resolv-
ed to remove the college to Cleveland and
to change the name to Western Reserve
university" The college already has al
endowment ofs25O,OOO.
On the occasion of the opening of the
new Chestnut street opera house, Phil
adelphia, Monday night, JAMES H. HEv-
ERIN, esq, made an appropriate speech.
"The Danicheffs - was played by the stock
company, and the ornate edifice, very
temple of Thespis in artistic beauty, was
filled to the doors with an audience repre-
sentative of the most cultured circles in
Philadelphia society.
Mr.. J. V. l.. F1NDLAY, of Baltimore, has
just returned from a trip to Indiana,
whittier he went, by invitation of the
Democratic national committee, to speak
on the hustings. He was unfortunately
laid up by too great exertions in one of his
efforts, which the local paper pronounces
''the ablest speech that has been made
on either side in the campaign in Indiana" "
Mr.. Findley spent several days in Indian
apolis and the central parts of the state, and
is satisfied that Indiana will 60 Democratic
both at the Octo Der and November cleo
tions.
Gen. BUTLER has this kindly greeting
from the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette :
"Let the old man have chance. lie is
now approaching the evening of his life,
and on his head and among the remaining
gray hairs the falling twilight plays. Let
it play. Away back behind him, in the
political west, there is a red murky spot
where his old sun went down. In front OF
him rises Democratic moon. Help your
self, old man. Take just as much of the
cake as you can get, and it is reasonable
to suppose that you can get your SHARE"
HANCOCK having been invited to attend
Democratic meeting at Hicksville,
Ohio, wrote letter of regret at being un-
able to attend, and concluded: "The meet
ing will be one of unusual interest, hon
ored, as it will he, by the presence of those
two prominent leaders, Senator Thurman
and Gov. Hendricks. The cause must lie
one of no ordinary kind that brings to.
gether these two eminent men on the bor-
ders of the two great states of which they
have long been distinguished representa-
tives. have reason to feel proud of be-
ing prominently identified with a cause
that is upheld by the patriotism and ability
of such advocates. regret that l cannot
he present on this occasion to share with
my fellow-citizens the lessons of wisdom
and patriotism that cannot fail to emanate
from such sources"
OLE BULL died in his house ON Z" the Isle
of Light" forest-clad rock in the Ber-
genGord his body was borne down to a
steamer, which conveyed it to the city Of
Bergen, at the head of the ford, fourteen
other steamers falling in procession behind
it, and the cortege was saluted from the
fortress and the man-of-war in the harbor.
From the wharf to the burial ground the
coffin was borne through streets decorated
with wreaths and flags, and thronged with
people wearing mourning badges. Edward
Grieg, the composer, and Ole Bulls most
celebrated pupil, bore behind the coffin the
crown Of gold given him years ago in San