Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-19
PERSONAL.

to day.
BREWSTER says the Camerons We're uh-
doubtedly for him or he would never have
been nominated.
Mrs. LINCOLN hasscompletely lost the
use of her eyes. Her letters are written
by an attendent and she is quite weak.
OSCAR WILDE sails for America this
week with the view Of producing his play
He may accept invitations to lecture pr
he may get a chance to play the poet lover
in Patience"
Baron NORDENsKJOLD has not yet for
given the British nation for neglecting to
bestow an "Order'' upon him. When he
passed through London lately he declined
to stay for dinner or fetc.
WM. F. WELD, the Boston twenty enc
millionaire who died in Philadelphia the
other day, left his four grand children
one of them nine years o!d-three million
apiece, his wife $50, 600 a year AMI to eich
OF his sons half 4 million.
Uae democratic editor of the Er-
| ani1kcr announces exclusively the dis
covery that his amiable contemporary
JACOB MILLER WILLIS GEIsT, of the Ne'c
Era, is. g. D..-Bachcior of Divinity,
having Won his title by publishing :. A
Prayer of Love" in 1850, and threatening
to publishing . volume to be called, !" Tie
Living Gospel or. the Life Of Home
Missionary.
| When HERMANN, the wizard, gave out
| the pistol which he had loaded with five
bullets to be shot at himself in New York
on Saturday night it fell into the hands of
a half drunk fellow who coOlly exchanged
it for his own derrinser, and was with dii-
ficulty restrained from deliberately send
ing bullet at the performer, which he
could not catch or stop.
SAMUEL j. LIBBY, 4 wealthy young man
of Boston, lately committed suicide, after
being told by the doctors that he was GER
tainly doomed to 4 lingering death by
consumption. He put his affairs in ad-
mirabic order, and left a letter in which
he calmly justified the act on the ground
that it would save him great deal of suf-
fering and his family great deal Of care
| and sorrow.
| DR.. ISAAC l. HAYES, the Arctic eXpiorer
who died suddenly in New York on Satar-
day morning, was aged 80, and was born
in Chester county. He accompanied DR.:
Kane to the polar regions in 1So3-51 and
himself set out to find the open sea in
1860; he was 4 surgeon in the army !;
went to Greenland in 1850, and beside
|
served in the New York Legislature 1916.
1880.
Gov. and Mrs BLACKBURN, ofKentucky,
entertained = thousand guests at an old
fashioned "Iuilting' =. last week. The
} ladies and gentlemen and the evening was
ended with quaint old reels and !iigs
danced to the music of "darkey fiddlers.
The young ladies were attired in costumes
of the last century, some of them wearing
tho treasured dresses of their grand
mothers. DR.. c. c. Graham, of Louis
villc who has not danced for eighty years,
, was particularly active in the reel. He is
, now % years Old and the way he cut the
"pigeon- wing is said to have been Won
derful.
KELLOGG is soon to be married to Mir.
Whitney, of Philadelphia ANNA LorIsI:
CARY, who is Al years old, will we'd James
Lorillard, of New York, next fall--he is
3j ncbleman who followed her all over
Sweden and Norway, and put his carriage
ut EMMA THURsEY'S service in every city,
has come to this country to be naturalized,
as she has promised her mother to marry
none other than an American Mrs.
LANGTRY' success as an actress
in London is we'll assured, and when she
has improved she is coming to America ;
the count whom IIoRTENSE SCHNEIDER,
the famous "Gland Duchesse" of Paris
married, turns out to be a swindler, and
. has beaten her cut Of her money as she
= beat princes and lords for years when
Bernhardt was pursued by the anti Jewish
mob in Odessa, with admirable presence Of
mind she opened the case containing the
| jewelry she had just Worn, and flung the
, glittering toys among the people. A
, scramble Immediately ensued, and the
actress and her companion, taking aavan-
tagc of the iull rushed into the hotel, the
doors of which were ut once closed:
When she was told that the rioters were
furious on finding the gems bogus, she
coolly said 500 these gentry think
that | am going to east pearls before
swine.