Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-01
PERSONAL.

MIR. COLUMBUS DELANO is mentioned as
a model farmer. and the possessor of the
finest horses and cattle in Knox county,
Ohio.
General GRANT will probably not 60 east
of Illinois before the autumn. He is going
in June to the Rocky Mountains for visit
of a few weeks.
Mrs. HAYES has gone to Cincinnati to
attend her brothers funeral Her mourn-
ing will interfere with the few social duties
left to perform this season at Washington.
The widowed Madame THEIRS has sent
to Mr.. Wheeler handsomely bound
edition of her husbands works, which
is to be placed in the library of the Sem
ate.
Colonel WILLIAM HEMPHILL JONES,
clerk Of the ways and means committee
of the House, has died at his residence in
Washington, d. c., of pneumonia, after
an illness of five days.
In the little city of Nashua, where the
Howe sewing machine was invented, the
woman still lives who used to wash
HowE's shirt every week because he was
too poor to have third.
Mary Clemmer says that SAMUEL
BowLEs once told her that latter he had
made an unusually savage attack upon
Blaine, he always expected and received
an invitation to dinner on his appearance
in Washington"
During the session Of the cabinet, yester.
nay, Hayes rendered to Postmaster Gen.
eral KEY the position of district judge OF
the eastern and middle districts of Tenn
essee, made vacant by the recent death Of
Judge Trigg. The postmaster general ac
cepted the position. The nomination will
probably not be sent to the Senate until
shortly before the adjournment of the
present session. Nothing was said with
regard to Mr.. Keys successor.
The was a gathering Thursday evening
at the residence of prominent man in
New York of about one hundred leading
Republican business and professional mer
for the purpose of considering what course
they should pursue if Grant was noml
mated at Chicago. Among others present
were Mr.. Joseph II. Choate, Mr.. George
William Curtis, Mr.. Joseph Harper, Mr.
Benjamin H. Bristow and others equally
we'll known. Surprise was created by Mr.
CURTIS indicating that he was not prepar.
ed to say that if Grant was nominated hi
| would be willing to bolt himself or encour
age others to do so. He was the only
man present who talked that way.
The nuptials of FLORENCE DAVENPORT
daughter of the late E. L. Davenport, and
Harold c. Tiers, a young broker of Phila
delphia, well known in social circles, was
solemnized yesterday in the Catholic
church Of St. John the Evangelist. The
church was thronged. Among those pres
ent were Mrs. E. L. Davenport and three
of her children-Mlle Blanca La Blanche
the prima donna, recently from Italy
Edgar and Mary, all of whom came from
New York to attend the wedding. Fanny
was absent in New England. The bride, q
pretty brunette, was simply though be-
comingly attired in a brown silk travelling
costume, tastefully trimmed with old gold
| brocade, and wore a bonnet and gloves tt
correspond. The groom was plainly
dressed in suit of black. Immediatel,
after the cermony the couple departed for
Atlantic City, where they will spend the
honeymoon. Miss Davenport was brought
up in the Episcopal church, and professed
Catholicism only two days ago.