Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-25
PERSONAL.

JdChSOuSlllc, Id, lOI hoilC.
King HUMBERT gave a banquet in Rome
last night in honor of Professor NOR
DENsKJOLD.
Sir EDWARD THORNTON has served
his government in Washington twelve
years.
J. WARREN CONRAD, managing editor
of the Reading Eagle is attending court
| here-a witness in the Huber poisoning
case-and is ''taking shy at Lancaster
things in general.
Secretary EvARTs made the address at
| the commcmoration of the founding of
Johns Hopkins university in Baltimore on
Monday night, and Sidney Lanier read an
original ode.
as considerable as might have been ex-
pected, Judging from his renown as an adj
vocate and the high positions he filled.
Each of his three children will have about
$50, 900.
General BoYNToN has received the fol-
lowing letter from Judge Advocate Barr ::
II am directed by the secretary of war to
furnish you with the following copy of an
endorsement upon the charge preferred by
you against General w. T. Sherman. viz :
The president directs that a court martial
in this case be not allowed, inasmuch as
the civil courts afford an ample remedy
for the acts complained Of"
"By the way" remarked Ben BUTLER
/ O.
other day. "Mr. Lincoln did me the honor
to ask me to take the second place on the
ticket with him in 1864. l replied that 1
was only about forty years old and did not
desire to shut myself up in the sarcophagus
of the Senate desk. 1 also jocularly, but
most prophetically, avowed that would
accept his offer provided he would give
bonds to die three months after his inaugu-
ration. The joke came back to me with
intense sadness
The Cincinnati society celebrated the
14Sth anniversary of Washington's birth
day at Delmonico's on Monday evening
A very large attendance of the descend
ants of the officers of the Revolutionary
war were present, and, after one of the
usual collations, toasts were answered to
by letters from Secretary Evarts, Cover
nor Cornell, Mayor Cooper, and speeches
by General Hancock, Commodore Nichol-
son, VIM. H. Crosby and Gen. Cochrane
Ex-Secretary Hamilton Fish being in
Washington, Major VIM. G. Popham pre-
sided, and Mr.. John Schuyler, the sccrc-
tary, read the letters.
On the 10Th instant General GRANT
visited the Hacienda RincOn Grande, in
the vicinity of Orizaba, where. after what
the dispatch which announces the event
describes as "fine breakfast" he wit
messed the sport called failing the bull.
The sport is said to have been very spirit.
ed, and the general was so we'll pleased
that he specially complimented one of the
sportsmen-for teaching him the trick,
possibly. This is of interest to the politi.
call bulls who are threatening to smash
things in the Republican china-shop in
event of the third term boom continuing
its boming.
1t is AMBROSE POWELL, he of Chris.
tiana, who thus writes to the Tribune
about the presidency: First, Blaine, fol
the reason of his being the choice of our
Republicans. The Grant men would
support Blaine, while on the other hand
the Greeley element would not vott
/ for Grant. Grant is my individual choice
the greatest general and the bestreprcsen
tative of an American citizen, admitted tt
} be such by all, both at home and abroad
> then why not make him president again
, No dark horse this time. want no better
, than the staid, steady and tried old leader
? U. S. Grant"
Concerning England S two great Catho
l lies: London World :-"NEwMAN will
3 live in the national memory, not only a.
a theologian, but as a writer who has
/ made the English language more varied
subtle and sympathetic instrument thai
| almost any other single master of prose.
/ Edmund Yates says: "In the case O
> Cardinal MANNING exemplary blameless
, ness of life is united with indefatigabl,
public activity. That impressive ant
acetic presence, with the face who's
sharp outline takes us back into tn,
Middle Ages, is well known on ever!
1 platform on which social improvement,
{ are advocated, and is a power with th'
= English public"