Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-05
PERSONAL.

Congressman DE la MATYR was renOm-
mated by the Greenback men Of his dis
trict yesterday.
The announcement of the death of
CHARLES B. BROCKwAY was, we are glad
to say, premature. He is very sick and
sinking, but still survives.
Among Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock
Craik's poems there is none prettier than
"Philip, my King" Few of those who
read and are fond of this piece of verse
know that the baby it glorifes is now Mr..
PHILIP BoURKE MARsToN, the blind poet.
He is Mrs. Craik's godson.
Count BALZARINO LITTA, first Secre-
tary of the Italian legation at Washington
has died at st. Vincent's hospital, of ex-
haustion. the result of terrible disease
under which he had long suffered-cancer
| of the neck. He was but fifty-fivc years
of age, and had been four years in this
country.
Dan RICE the Snowman did not abandon
his temperance professions without an ef-
fort. Shortly after his conversion at one
of Mr. Moody's meetings in St. Louis The
started on a lecturinS tour through north
ern Missouri, but as he was greeted with
beggarly account of empty boxes he
gave it up in disgust and is now back in
st. Louis making up for lost time.
Mr.. JAMES BLACK, chairman of the
"National Committee Prohibition Reform
party" and Mr.. John Russell, secretary
of the same, have issued formal call for
the national convention of that party to
meet at Cleveland on Thursday, the 18th
of June. to nominate candidates for presi-
dent and vice president. The Philadel-
phia Times says: "1'here is no restriction
in regard to sex or race in the selection of
Prohibition representatives. Mr.. Black is
a highly y-respected citizen of Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania. lie has made sew
eral campaigns as the presidential candi-
date Of his party, without getting his name
into the electoral college; but he evil
IDENTIFY belongs to that limited school of
politicians that would rather be right
than he president and he is undismayed
by defeat
BLAINE is reported to have made over
quarter of a million recently in the Lead
vile mines. He is largely interested in
two of the leading mines, having gone in
| on "thc ground floor" in both He was
associated with Senator Plumb and ex-
Delegate S. B. Elkins in stocking the
Amy mine, and is said to have trebled an
investment of $4,000 in that operation.
He was engaged with Hon. John B. Alley,
Hon. A. H. Rice, and others in stocking
the Dunkin mine, and that, too, has been
a very profitable operation. Next to Mr..
Blaine, the man who is said to have made
the most money is his cousin, Tom EWING,
of Ohio, who devotes all his time to his
stocks, and is seldom seen in the House.
He was a pauper last year, when he was
declaiming in favor of the repeal of the
resumption act, and now he is worth over
5000, 900.
After reading Judge BLACKS anti third
term paper, the Memphis Appeal is moved
to say 1--WE thank God as devoutly for
Judge Black as the church does for the
saints. He is great Democratic bulwark.
His life is an example of sterling inde-
pendcnce, of the highest integrity, and of
unyielding devotion to principle. Occu-
pying position in his profession, which
compels constant and engrossing labor,
there has never arisen crisis in the
affairs of his country or the Democratic
party when his services have not been
freely offered and his great abilities been
exerted for the greatest good Of the
greatest number. No man living wields
80 trenchant or SO powerful pen. He
wastes no words. His sentences are COM
pact and full of meaning. He goes
straight to his subject. He neither turns
nor yeers. He believes that what is worth |
doing is worth doing we'll"