Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19
PERSO ONAL..


PERSONAL.
In London on Wednesday a banquet
was given to Hon. WILLIAM NJ. EvARTt
by Mr.. Puleston, n. P, at the Conserya
tive club.
Congressman S. S. Cox and wife have
arrived in Constantinople from Rome on
their way to Syria. They are the guests
OF the United States consul general.
POWERS. the sculptor, began work on q
bust of President Garfield, at his studio il
Florence, Italy, on the very day of the at
tempted assassination.
DR.. HILL and his wife, of the Protestant
Episcopal church, who have worked fifty
years in Athens for female education, have
received letter from the king of Greece
expressing kindly wishes and appreciation
of the results obtained.
In Westminster abbey the tomb of Lord
MAcAULAY, has the inscription "His
body rests in peace and his fame liveth fo1
evermore. Beside Macaulay lie Camp
bell and Dickens, and upon them looks
down the statue of Shakespeare.
Mr.. JOHN BRIGHT is said to be very
charitable in an unobtrusive way. The
most conspicuous thing in his modest home
by the family mill is the library of ZOO
volumes which was presented to him by
his admirers after the passage of the corn
laws. The library cost s25, 900.
MIDHAT PAsHA refuses to be banished
from Turkish soil. 81 prefer, }" he says, Ito
die here, in sight of tho world, as speci-
men of the tiagrant injustice of your judg.
ments, than to perish in a remote corner,
where my death, like that of barren tree,
would cast no gloom and teach no lesson. -
A committee of journalists, composed Of
prominent editors, one from each of the
thirteen colonies, has been selected to
take charge Ofthe interests of the press at
the Yorktown celebration. A. X. Nc
CLURE has been chosen chairman of the
committee. He will deliver an address
upon the power and development of the
press from the days of Franklin to the
present time.
The GEAR of Russia has curious orna-
ment on his writing table. 1t is nothing
less than piece Of the foul bread-a mix
ture of uninviting and unnutritious refuse
on which the peasants have been trying
to live in one portion of his dominions.
lie was ignorant of the distress in tho dis.
trict until newspaper published the facts,
and now keeps the bread before him on a
leeter-weight, that he may see what his
people have been obliged to eat without
his knowledge.
In preaching Dean Staniey's funeral SER
mon, dwelling on the certainty of immor-
tality, DR.. VAUGHAN exclaimed, with i'm
passioned fervor "Oh what a wanton
waste it were if such an intellect as Arthur
Stanleys We're destroyed ~ The discourse
was heard with deep emotion, and when
it was through many of the audience.
doubtless, said to themselves "There
stands the man to be the NEXT Dean of
Westminster" Probably he or Canon
Farrar will be appointed.
Hon. ANDREW d. WHITE, president of
Cornell university, and late United States
minister to Berlin, announces that ho has
secured DR.. EDWARD AUGUSTUS FREEMAN
as a nonresident professor for Cornell.
the Freeman who in 1862, ina moment of
jubilation over what he supposed was the
breakdown Of the American Union, pub
lished the first volume of a work which
he entitled GA History of Federal Govern
ment from tho Foundation of the Achsan
League to tho Disruption of the United
States" Tho Philadelphia Telegraph
wants to know if he will give tho Cornell
students the second volume of his work,