Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-12-13
PERSONAL,

1t is said of Queen VICTORIA that she is
becoming capricious.
JOHN w. MACKEY, with his wife and
brother-in-law, Count Telferner, will 80
up the Nile this winter.
Lord BEAcoNsFIELD was the guest of the
queen at Windsor for three days last
week. Mr.. GLADSTONE was also invited,
but ill-health obliged him to decline the
honor.
The partnership of the French ROTHs-
CHILDs, which expired Oh the 1st of Novem-
Der has been renewed. 1t is to end in 1905.
The capital of the house is fixed at $10,-
OOO, 900, of which Barons Alphonse, Gus
tave and Edmond Rothschild are each to
furnish one-third.
The engagement that has been SO long
talked of between Mr.. FRANK POTTER and
Miss KEY, of Baltimore, is announced at
last. Mr. Potter is one of the sons of the
late Bishop Potter by his second wife, and
the bride-elect is daughter Of the late
Barton Key, who was shot in the streets
Of Washington by Gen. Daniel Sickies
about twenty years ago.
The Cottesmore hunt ut Oakham, Rut-
land, England, Of which Mr.. JAMES Cor
DON BENNETT is now master, has pack
Of sixty couples and is classed with those
known as the leviathan packs. During the
hunting season in England, which is now
in full swing, more than 81 900, 900 is ex-
panded, and it is not unusual to have from
500 to I, ,OG0 meets each week. The season
be las about the 1st of November, pre-
vious to which cub hunting is in order,
and lasts from five to six months with oc-
casional interruptions from frost.
ADELINA PATTI reappeared in opera in
Madrid ON Saturday night, after an inter
val of seventeen years. She was born in
Madrid. Her parents were obscure artists
in the opera company there in 1914. Even
gala nights never witnessed so full and
fashionable house. 1t was graced by
the presence of royalty. Every part of
the theatre was densely packed. Twenty
five dollars were asked for stalls and ST for
single seats in the upper gallery. The
applause was immense ald the stage was
covered with floral tributes
Mr.. THOMPSON, secretary of the navy,
has decided definitely to accep: the chair
-manship of the American committee on
the Panama canal, with salary of Ss5, 900
year. He has notified Mr.. Hayes of his
intention to resign from the cabinet, but
he has not yet prepared the formal letter.
Mr.. Hayes assured him that his resigna-
ton would be accepted with sincere re-
gret. 1t is probable that no change will
be made for fortnight. In the mean-
time Mr.. Thompson will arrange the gov
ernment business and Mr.. Hayes will have
an opportunity to select new secretary of
the navy for ten weeks service.
Several days ago an order was issued by
the postmaster of Washington requiring
all employees Of the city posto:fice, includ.
ing officers, clerks, messenger, etc, to ap-
pear in uniform and brass buttons. The
postmaster sent tailor to the different
employees to measure them for their
liveries. Some Of them objected to the
proceedings, declaring that they had all the
clothes they wanted and that il they rcquir-
ed more they preferred to go to their own
tailor. Some Of the most important clerks
rebelled, but it is understood the post
master intimated that they must either
wear the uniform or leave their situations.
The clerks say they will bring the matter
to the attention Of Congress and see where
the postmaster gets his power.
Madam THEIRS is dead. She was the
widow of the late President Theirs, of the
French republic, to whom she was mar
ried just before the revolution of 1S4S,
being then in her seventeenth year. Her
father, NJ. DOsne, stock broker, had
intimate business relations with NJ. Theirs
when that illustrious historian and states
man was a young man. Madam Theirs
and her cider sister, Mile Dosne, acquired
social distinction in Paris many years ago
their remarkable intellectual brilliaucy
lending them great service. After the
death Of her husband Nine. Thiers devot-
ed herself to his memory, spending
much time in the preparation Of unfinished
works for the press and taking a keen i'll
terest in the election of proper successors to
his chairs in the several academies which
compose the French Institute. She caught
a severe cold recently, when the Theirs
statue was dedicated at St. Germain-en-
Laye, and her illness was aggravated by
the reflection that many Of her husbands
professed admirers were not present at the
ceremony.
MINOR TOPICS.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR observed of
Byron's poetry that it was as bitter as gall
and original as sin.