Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-13
PERSONAL,

PERSONAL.
Mr.. TURNER MESsEEsMITH goes to Say.
brook Point, Conn, on Friday.
The admirers OF VICTOR IIUGU through
out tho world arc asked to furnish money
to erect a statue to him.
Mr.. GARFIELD has been :lnXiously in
quiriny: What effect does this have
upon the contest at Albany ~ Mr.. Gar
field should restrain that sort of curiosity
In tho meeting of the American Denta
society in New York, DIR. NJ. II. WEBB
of this city, prcsidcs over the department
of operative dentistry.
OF JOHN $. CLARKE's three Sons ono
has taken to the sea, another has his
fathers genius for comedy, and the
other inhcrits from his mother the Booth
apt,ess for tragedy.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
HENRY +. JOHNSTON, of Whcatland, will be
glad to know that their son, Harry, is con
vaIcsccnt, and in tho opinion Of his physi-
Clans is ''getting Oh finely"
Vicc President ARTHUR called at the
executive mansion last evening, an! had
a short but pleasant interview with Mrs.
Garfield. 1t is understood that ho will re-
turn to Now Yoik-tO aid in clcctin" anti
Conkling senators, Of course.
Col. ii. w. GRAY has retired from the
Philadelphia board of health in whicl, he
was serving his third term. Col. Gray
was born in this county near Mountvillc,
went to Philadelphia in 1857 to assume
the management of the Shoemaker piano
forte company. As councilman, colonel
and politician he has been in public life
twenty years.
At Mr.. TILDEN's age the young man. S
faucics lightly turn to thoughts Of books.
lie is adding the adjoining building to his
town house and will Use it rs n library and
art gallery. TO that end he is having the
present building torn down, and will have
it rebuilt of iron ahd fire proof brick. The
front Of No. Is will also be torn down,
and 4 uniform front Of about sixty feet
Of brown BcllcvilIo stone and reddish Car
Isle stone, with stron. courses of black
granite will be built.
During JOE JEFFERsON's travels
through Franco he chancet, in one of tho
smaller towns. to visit 4 church, the Of
ticiatiug priest of which hal just died, and
in consequence tho letters r. I. p.
Qtcquiescat in Pacc) were displayed in
silver in a black drapcry above the altar.
His little boy, clinSing to Mr.. JeGcrson's
hand, looked up at the familiar word and
exclaimed, Why, papa, how dill the i'eo-
pie know that you We're coming here to-
day 80
WILLIAM STIRLING, of the late firm of
Stirling, Ahrcns & Co., of Baltimore, died
yesterday, aged s. years. Tho firm of
which hc was head was the principal sugar
and coffee importing firm in Baltimore,
and controlled all the large sugar refincrics
there. About ten years ago it became in
volved with the government regarding tho
payment Of duties on sugar, and finally
suspended, the closing Of all the rciincries
in Baltimore following. At tho time of
his death Mr.. Stirling was engaged in the
southern trade.
Tho Philadelphia Times and Boston
Herald disapprovc earnestly ofthc pro posi-
ton to present Mrs. Garfield with a purse
Of money in case her husband lives. Dur
ing the long service of JOHN Quincy
ADAMS in tho House of Representatives
after the close of his presidential term,
somc publisher scut him fine edition of
the Bible, bound in costly style, rs u pres
cnt. Mr.. A. asccrtained tho probable
valuc orthc book, and enclosed tho amount
to the donor with his thanks, but with the
assurance that ho regarded it rs improper
for Il public officer to receive presents
from the people.
LEE FAULKNER, who failed to meet his
marriage engagement to Miss Hubbard, Of
Hartford, Conn, is still missing. A Now
York drcssmakcr comes to the front, whom
he was to have married the week follow
ing the date fixed for his marriage to Miss
Hubbard, and first heard Of his Hartford
engagement by reading an account Of the
preparations for the marriage. He SC.
cured her gold watch to have a new main-
spring put in, aud he appears to have
played the same game in Hartford. Miss
Hubbard had valuable gold watch, and
as she wanted to carry it on her wedding
journey she gave it to him to take to New
York to be cleaned, and that was the last
she saw of it. She has overcome the
shock of her first great disappointment,
and is satisfied that her confidence was
entirely misplaced and that the fellow is
a scoundrel.