Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-02-03
PERSONAL.

Savage Landor.
Mrs. LEOPOLD DE RoTHscuILD has 4
new necklace which, although it is only
a single row Of pearls. is valued ut $780,
600.
THOMAS CARLYLE's physician reports
that his condition is one of gradual and
increasing debility, with considerable un-
casincss but no pain.
Rev. BENJAMIN {. TAYLOR the emeri-
tus pastor of the dcrger Reform church,
of Jersey City Heights, died yesterday, in
the eightieth year of his age and The fifty
second of his pas: crate.
Rev. JOSEPH CASTLE, ID. d., the oldest
and best known preacher of the PhiIa,lcl-
phia conference o; the Methodist Episco
pal church, has died at his residence in
Icstonv!lle, after !; short illness, in the
eignty-tirst year of his age.
Mr.. GLADsToNE's $ residence in Brownir"
street has been guarded by policemen
nigh: and day recently, in view of a posi-
ble Fenian attack. Gladstone was fol-
lowed Il distance by tho policemen when
he went t." the House Of Comn,n,.s YES
terlay.
Rev. EDWARD !. WAsKBURN, rector OF
Calvary Protestant Episcopal church New
York sixteen years past, died yesterday
afternoon at his residence, No. 1C3 East
Twenty first street, where lie has been
confined to his bed for the past five weeks.
lie was III his sixty second year.
General ROBERT TONES is reported 10
have said in conversation t!.c other day ::
"Jcif Davis wrote me Cor my picture to
put in his book along with some others.
wrote him that would not be found in
such company. l will bet $500 that his
book does not appear by the Is. Of April,
nor while I live
Colonel JEROME BoSArARrE ans: his wife
are now living in Washington and enter
tanning a great deal. Mrs. Bonaparte-a
granddaughter Of Daniel Wctstcr-is a
clever and charming woman. She dresses
magniiicently, and wears beautiful jewels
large share of which descended to her
from the late Elizabeth Patterson Bona
parte.
Mrs. Polk, the widow OF the ex-presi-
dent, is nearly eighty years old. aud still
retains something of her early charms.
She is fond Of literature, and greatly in
terested in the history Of the day. She
lives quietly at Nashville with a iavoritc
nInpn fnr an,npnn;ny Sl,,i i. L.;
teemed in Tennessee that through all the
financial vicissitudcs or the state the in
teresu on her $.0,00 worth of bonds has
always been promptly paid with no demur
In volume entitled 'itccollcctions of
the Ober Ammergau Passion Plays" pub
lished in Frankfort, there was Il collection
of portraits Of the various actors in the
performance of 1880, and it was noticed
that the portrait of Judas bore, ;lcsigncdly
or accidentally, a remarkable resemblance
to Kaiser WILLIAM. Complaint was made
to the criminal court, and this piece of
pictorial resemblance has been ad;id.cd
to hc another case of "insult to his m.-
jest*," and perhaps the most peculiar in
stance OF all. The offending portrait has
been coniiscated and suppressed.
Archbisop PCRcELL has suffered tota:
paralysis of the left side at his retreat. St.
Martins convent. in Brown county, Ohio.
The venerable prelatc is now almost help
less, though his mind has not been at all
affected by the ailliction. AS he is over
eighty years old, his physicians have but
little hope of his living much longer, espe-
cially as he has been much affected by the
death of his brother, Father Edward Purcell
which took place few weeks ago. Ever
since the appointment of Bishop Elder rs
the coaajutor OF the archioncse Archbishop
Purcell has been practically deposcd from
power.