Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-11
PERSONAL.

l&au wrlUo ZOE Tue Sta&e.
WEBER, the piano man, will be married
June z, to Miss Merrie Cowles.
EDMUND YATEs's London evening
paper, the Cuckoo, has proved failure
md has stopped after inflicting heavy loss
On all concerned.
Mr.. J. s. CURTIS, eldest son of George
Ticknor Curtis, has been appointed min
ing geologist ON the United States geolo ii
cal survey for the Eureka district in Ne
vada.
The new GEAR leads very simple life.
He rises early and takes a long walk, then
breakfasts with his family. After dinner
he spend long time in ing himself
with his children.
Secretary BLAINE in undergoing misery
with inflammatory rheumatism, which
skips over him remorelessly, and has at
last settled near his eyes. In spite of his
suffering to persists in working.
Chief Justice Charles P. DAILY, in the
court of common pleas New York, on ap-
plication has granted an order giving
John T. O'Brien the legal right to assume
and be known by the name of JOIN T..
RAYMOND.
Mrs. EDWIN BooTn is gradually failing
in London, where her mother is now her
constant companion. She cannot survive
this illness. The best physicians say her
death is only question of a few days
now.
Various threatening. notices concerning
the queen which came to the notice of the
home Office led to extraordinary precau.
tions being taken in her recent journey to
Osborne, Isle of Wight. Personally, the
queen has no fears, but those responsible
for her safety believe that there is much
cause for uneasiness. Foreign Socialists
are believed TO be at the bottom OF these
threats.
CARLYLE's will expresses his ':kind feel
ings, obligations and regards towards
New England and hearty good will, rea.
and steady, to America at large, recogniz-
ing with gratitude how much of friendli-
ness, of actually credible human love
have had from that country, and what i'm
mensities ofworth and capability believ.
and partly know to be lodged especially il
the silent classes there" He goes on te
say that he bequeaths certain books tt
Harvard as poor testimony of respect 70,
that Alma Mater of SO many of my trans
Atlantic friend" These are tho books ht
used in writing the lives of Frederick til,
Great and Oliver Cromwell.
MINOR TOPICS.
WOLFE says that Speaker Hcwi. is rul
by Harry HUM aud mas disappointed the
hopes of his friends.
THE editor of Truth advocates the
secession Of New York city from the rest O.
the commonwealth and its admission as :
sovereign state Of the union.
THE Altoona Sun has rctraced its back.
ward step, and having emerged from
the cloud of too many bosses," appear:
enlarged and improved.
The pulpits Of the two Methodist Ep:s
copal churches in Red Bank, New Jerse,
were filled last evening by colorcd minis
ters, cclcred conference being in session
there.
Az convention of Readjusters, held oil
Saturday in Harrisonburg, Va, John Paul
member Of the Legislature from that dis
trict, spoke in full approval Of Senator
Mahone's course. Resolutions were the,
adopted commencing Mahonc's action i,
the Senate of the United States.
THE Indian commission of the Orthodo,
Friends, comprising James E. Rhoadcs, O
Philadelphia Benjamin Latham, of New
York Francis T. King and John Butler
Of Ohio Charles F. Coffin and Barnaba.
c. Hobbs, Of Indiana Cyrus Betler, O
Iowa, and Thomas Stanley, of Kansas
called upon the president on Saturday ant
conferred with him regarding Indian ac
fairs.
The report of the committee of the New
England Methodist conference on the stat,
of the country, deprecates the devotion t,
money getting now SO prevalent the cor
rupt employment Of money in elections
expresses the hope that free ballot an6
an honest count would come out of the
dead lock in Congress, and warmly com
mends the earnest purpose of President
Garfield to make war on polygamy. The
report was adopted and it's sentiments
were loudly applauded by the ministers
Of the conference and the audience.
IT seems to be made manifest that T.
Buchanan Reads poem "Drifting" was
originally written in March, 1859, and ap
peared in the Atlantic April of that year
That it was written before the autho,
had ever seen the Bay of Naples. That
the verse descriptive of Sorrento was
written in 1870, after Read had made his
second visit to the bay of Naples. Another
of his popular poems, ''Brushwood," was
written on the same day as "Drifting,' -
one bein. the work of the morning and
the other Of the afternoon.
OBITUARY..
The Roll of Distinguished Dead.
Tho widow of Theodore Parker died
yesterday in Boston, aged 81 years.
General Martin w. Gray, a well-known
ex-Confcderate officer and politician of
South Carolina, died on Saturday morn