Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-28
PERSONAL.

Bon BURDETTE, the Burlington Hasok-
eye man, will make Philadelphia his home
next winter.
King ALFONSO has had windows with
cords and weights put into his palace,
and he is as ticklsd as a boy with new
mouth organ.
Hon. JOHN j. LIBHART's condition is
" about the same" He is unable to see
but his appetite is better than it was
weeks ago.
Gen. o. o. HOWARD has abolished the
cadet barber at West Point, and has stop
ped tho band music at Sunday parades as it
draws crowds of listeners on that day.
Fourteen Baptist churches have with
drawn from the California Baptist con-
vention ON account of the connection of
the KALLOcHs with that denomination.
MARGARET FuLLER's birthday was cele.
brated in Chicago on Monday with music
and Rotations of prose and poetry by the
Margaret Fuller Society" :" The brilliant
American woman was born just seventy
one years ago.
Our Uncle SAMMY TILDEN wants his
party to stand straight as cato post and
try to throw tho senatorial election to q
new Legislature, chosen by the people,
who may send two Democrats. s. J. T.
says he wouldn't be one of them for money
or an extension Of years.
Among the wedding presents to Miss
Maynard, now Lady BROOKE, was a
sapphire and diamond brooch, tho gift of
the late Lord Beaconsfield. It must have
been in his thoughts very near the end, as
Lord Rowton says that one of the last
things said to him by his dying friend was:
BE sure and send that to Daisy from me.
PAUL H. HAYNE, the Southern poet. has
a "double" " SO like himself that he sue
ceeded in passing himself off for an hour
ON Edmund G. Stedman and his wife, and
Mr.. Stedman did not suspect who he was
even when the bogus Paul borrowed $1s
from him. The discovery was made
accidentally some time afterward.
Philadelphia Times 1t was very unfor-
tunate for Senator MALONE that the man
who sent postal card through the mails
referring to him az 6 q damn dog" should
have been prosecuted for it. A good many
people may now be reminded to employ
this awkward expression in referring to the
senator from Virginia who otherwise
would never have thought of it.
Rev. 8. r. FISHER, D. D., of Philadel-
phia, editor of the Reformed Church Mes
senger, who has been in attendance at the
sessions of tho Genera! Synod of the Re-
formed church of the United States at
Tifin, Ohio, is lying dangerously ill at
that place, and the physicians entertain no
hope Of his recovery. DR.. Fisher is the
stated clerk of the Reformed synod, has
occupied that position for many years and
is one of the best known clergymen of the
IT has been suggested that the man
who wrote the postal card to Vance, of
which Malone complains. only meant to
call the Virginia whiffet 81 d(ea)d dog. -
BY the way, here is a postal package
going through the Albany office, on the
outside of which COnkling is denounced
rs Judas lscariot, Benedict Arnold
and all that sort of thing. The nimble
postal agents of Washington and the
deputy marsllals of Alexandria, who
have arrested Mr.. Carmichael, should
be hurried to Fairfield.
The London World says that DR.. TAI
MAGE sis an American divine of fame. or |
perhaps rather notoriety, who is chiefly
known in England by the ruthlessness
With which, in lecturing tour he made
brough the provinces, he bled his san-
'uine co-religionists who had been deluded
nto offering him large fees. Talmage re-
emily announced that il, when reaching
1eaven, he found fewer than 100, 600 souls
lad been saved by his instrumentality he
'ould ask permission to return to earth
nd make up the balance. In tho mean
ime, at the close of the services, he re-
uests the audience not to carry off the