Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-14
PERSONAL.

HANNIBAL HAMLIN has returned from
Maine to Washington sadder and
wiser man.
The new st. Botolph club of Boston has
FRANCIS PARKMAN for is president. Pro
fessor Alexander Agassiz is one of the ex-
ecutive committee.
The widow of the late Landgrave Of
Hesse-Philipsthal and daughter of the
Duke of Wurtembcrg has been declared
bankrupt.
Senator LAMAR's illness is now believed
to be vertigo rather than paralysis. His
condition is considered ''serious but not
dangerous.
The wife of General CHESTER A. AR
THUR, of New York city, died on Monday
night. She was daughter of the late
Captain W. J.. Hcrnon, of the United
States navy.
Senator Anthony, Isaac w. England, of
the Sun Whitelaw Reid, Of the Tribune J;
General Graham and Ex-Governor Rice, of
Massachusetts, were among the pall-bear-
ears at the funeral of FRANK LESLIE, in
| New York, yesterday.
The name of Mr. r. A. MALONE, of this
city, is included among the prominent gem
| tlcmcn occupying seats on the platform at
the monster meeting in Music hall, Bos-
ton, Oh Monday evening, at which Messrs.
Parnell and Dillon made their plea in be-
half of the Irish tenants. Mr.. Malone is
now engaged on large contract is Bos-
ton.
a Maine gentleman, at present residing
in Boston, and claiming an intimate ac-
quantance with the private and domestic
life of DR.. GARCELoN, pointcdly denies the
statement (reportcd to have been made in
a Springfield prayer meeting) rejecting
upon the moral character of the ex-gOv-
ernor, and alleging that he married another
man S wife while her husband was in Cali
fornia
| CHARLES n. NALLANDIGHAM the son o.!
the late Clement, has introduced into the
Ohio Asscmblya bill to create a pardOning
| board, which shall consist Of the lieutenant
governor, secretary of state, auditor, treas
urer and attorney general. 1t is proposed
| to give the governor power to disregard the
| recommendations of the board. There is
likelihood that the New York Legislature
| also will consider the establishment of such
board at the present session. Young
Vallandigham, by-the-by, is the only
| Democratic member of the Ohio Legisla-
| 1,ooa,,co
he charges that the latter swindled his
father out of'the scnatorship in 1S67-6S.
RICHARD A. PROCTOR, the astronomer,
takes a shy at an American fashion in this
style: doubtless there are good reasons
for eschcwing here the rule which makes
evening dress essential in European opera
houses and in the stalls and dress circle of
all the better order of theatres, though for
my own part think house deprived of
nine -tenths of its beauty when ladies are
in bonnets and hats. But if in free
country ladies must go as they please to
theatre and opera, SO far as bonnets and
hats arc concerned, might they not devise
headgear of moderate dimensions, SO that,
for instance, a lady should not hide more
of the stage from those behind her than
man not exceeding, say, seven feet in
height and proportionatcly broad9 A hat
adorned with white ostrich plumes (and
doubtless very beautifully reduced me last
Thursday evening to the abject necessity
of rolling my overcoat into a cushion, by
which was enabled to sit some four or
five inches higher, a proceeding which l
frankly admit would be perfectly repre-
hensible save in self-defence. My friend,
who sits no higher than myself, had no
occasion thus to elevate himself, though
he was sitting behind tall and portly
man."