Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-06
PERSONAL.

Col. THOMAS BIGGER, soldier of 1912,
and who had been more than twenty
years postmaster of Richmond, Va, be-
sides filling various state offices, died in
that city yesterday, aged 81 years.
The formal reception to General GRANT
in Springfield, ILL.,, took place yesterday.
General Palmer delivered an address of
welcome. General Grant, in responding,
alluded to the revival of prosperity and
return of love for the old flag in the
South.
WILLIAM COLEMAN FREEMAN, Of Corn
wall, Lebanon county, with his bride, has
arrived home from Toronto, Canada, where
he married a daughter of Rev. Brown, an
Episcopal rector, formerly from Man
helm, this county. A magnificent residence
has been erected for the young couple.
BENJAMIN p. CHENEY, of Boston, a
member of the United States and Canada
express company, has paid into the treas
ury of Dartmouth college $4,000 by his
check. OF this it is understood that $40, 600
will be devoted to founding Cheney pro-
fessorship of mathematics, and by Mr..
Cheney's special desire $1,000 will aid in
endowing the Daniel Webster professor
ship of Latin.
The Chicago Daily Ners is authorized
by the Hon. Z. B. WAsHBURNE to state
that that gentleman adheres unequivocally
to his already pronounced position, and that
the various movements looking to his can
didature for the presidency are entirely
without his approval. Mr.. Washburne
says positively that under no circumstances
will he be a candidate for the presidency,
but that he is for General Grants nomi
nation first, last and all the time. He is
every much panied - at the course of gen
tlemen who profess to be his friends, but
who are using his name in an entirely un-
authorized manner.
1t is VICTORIA Woodruff, of whom
London Life is talking when it says
"In each of her three English homes she
is all that daughter and sister should
be; and before long, it is understood
nay, is even coyly confessed-shc is to
unite her happiness with that of an
Englishman for whom the world has
nought but praise, and we cannot but feel
that where she loves, Mrs. Woodruff loves
entirely. For her there can be no tenn
perate zone, and she is as full of affection
as of character. With the naive impetu-
osity of child, she blends the deep sensi-
bilities of a woman. and when her mar
riage has been announced to the world she
will doubtless step at once into prominent
place in the society of London
The venerable Mrs. SyLvANrs
COBB, the widow of the well-known
Universalst clergyman and the mother
of the well-known writer, has
just died in Boston. She was a woman of
great energy and determination. When,
many years ago, her husband was mem
Der of the Massachusetts Legislature, a COM
mittee of Mrs. Cobb's denominational
her husband to recede from his position
of obstructing bill to prohibit extra
judicial oaths. The stout hearted young
matron said that she gloricd in her liege
lords position. To the suggestion that
her children's bread and butter might de-
pend uIon her action, she replied that
rather than ask her husband to change his
course she would take the children to the
woods and feed upon nuts and acorns. No
further effort was made in that direction.