Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-12
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Mrs. DAVID 81. WYLIE, has gone to
Logansport, Indiana, to spend a few
weeks.
A p0st-mOrtem examination of the body
of MATHEW VAssAR, at Poughkeepsie,
revealed tho fact that no died of cancer of
the bladder.
The wife Of ROBERT TOOxBs is said to be
still, at seventy years of age, a beautiful
woman. She is the descendant of of a
Huguenot family.
THEODORE THOMAS orchestra last night,
in tho Exposition building, Chicago, pro-
duced for the first time in America, the
Fifth Symphony of Rubinstein before a
large audience.
At the Westminster police court in Lon
don MABEL WILBERFoRcE, the plaintiff in
the recent libel case of Wilberforce vs..
Philip, was committed for trial on a
charge of perjury committed at the time OF
the trial.
U. II. BROWNING, ex-senator from j.
nois, and ex-secretary of the interio,
(uuder Johnson) died at Quincy, Illinois,
on Wednesday night, at the age of 70
years. He had been very prominent in the
politics of that state.
General MAx1MO JEREz, Nicaraguau
minister to the United States, died sud.
denly at his residence, in Washington,
yesterday afternoon. One of the inmates
of the house, going to his room to call him
to dinner, found him sitting by an open
window dead. Heart disease is supposed
to have been the cause.
Mrs. AEsoN will become the Duchess o1
Argyll and the stepmother-ln-law of the
Princess Louise. The queen distinctly and
emphatically disapproves of the proceed
iugs. Mrs. Anson is a commoner, which
is an Objectionable circumstance, and
then Victoria does not approve of second
marriages.
kev. HUGH HAM1LL, D. D., native o.
Norristown, Pa, graduate of Princeton
college, and for many years pastor o.
various Presbyterian churches in tn,
Peninsula, who died at Newark, Del, left
large estate, 5000 of which he devise.
to Presbyterian church interests, ani
$1S, 900 more after his wife's decease.
General GRANT has bought the larg,
double house No. 8 East Sixty-sixtl
street, New York, for s93, 900, and it i
said that he is to make New York hi
home in the future. The house il
new and has never been occupied. It has :
brownstone 'front.' bay windows and il
our stories high, ono door from Fiftl
avenue and overlooks Central park.
Colonel HENRY B. HAYS, ono of Pitts
burg's most prominent coal operators, diet
last evening after lingering illness. Colo
mel Hays was once concerned with tn
United States Legation, at Copenhagen
and served with distinction during the lat
rebellion, earning his title of colonel b,
his bravery. He was 50 years of age, ant
reputed to be worth %, 0OO, 600 to a, 900,
600.
The Gambettist- -Belleville committe,
have abandoned their announced scheme
of building vast temporary structure i,
which NJ. GANBETEA was to speak, osten
sibly on the ground OF the expense of til,
undertaking, but really because the grow
ing importance of tho La Croix ant
Revillous candidates makes it dangerou,
for NJ. Gambetta to face public meeting
at Belleville. He will attend two privat,
meeting ON the 18th and 10th instants, re
spectively, nobody being admitted with.
out invitations.
Mrs. M1LLARD FILLMORE, wife of ths
late ex-President Fillmore, died at he,
residence in Buffalo last night, aged seven
ty-one years. Mrs. Fillmore's life was
characterized by charity, both public and
private, she being liberal subscriber tt
many ofthe public charitable institution.
of the city. She received . severe stroke
of paralysis in October last, which rem
dered powerless one side of the body ani
very nearly deprived her of the faculty o.
speech. From this stroke she almost
fully recovered, and on Sunday morning
last was bright and cheerful. About moor
en- that day sho sustained q second stroke
of paralysis, and since then has been in 8
very critical condition. She was tho second
wife of President Fillmore, whom stt
married after the expiration of his presi
DENTAL term, and when she was the widow
of Ezekiel Mcintosh.
MINOR TOPICS.
"ACTUALIT1," said Mr.. Alcott, with
deep solemnity, "is tho Thinsness of the
Here" This was at tho Concord Summe,
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