Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-21
PERSONAL.

Prince LEOPOLD took his seat in the
House of Lords yesterday as the Duke of
Albany.
Gen. GRANT has telegraphed to Presi-
dent Potter, of Union college, that he will
be unable to attend the commencement,
owing to the indisposition Of Mrs. Grant.
Assistant Secretary UPToN, of the treas
ury department., will not be requested to
resign, and Secretary Window doesn't
know why lie should.
Tie duke and duchess of CnAULNEs will
soon figure before the Paris courts in a
suit for separation said to be particularly
promising to lovers of scandal.
d.. ALBERT G.. MACKEY, of W Washington,
one of the most prominent Masons in the
! United States, and author of Mackey's s
Masonic Manaul,' died yesterday at Fort
reSs Monroe.
Here is \ Louisville girl, KATIE NAL
KERNs, Is years old, who can't swim. who
saved the lives of eight little boys and
girls at different times in the past three
years when they have fallen into the river.
A Aspccial cable despatch reports, on tho
| authority of ga prominent and well-in-
formed afticial " in London, that Sir JOHN
A. MACDONALD is to be raised to a peerage
and is to succeed Lord Lorne as Governor
General Of Canada.
GEO. l. SENEY, Of New York, has dc
nated SEQ, 900 to the Wesleyan female COL
lege, making so, 900 given by him to the
college within two months. Forty-five
! thousand dollars will be expended at once
in the erection OF a new college building.
The gold token which was given to Sir
ANDREW MELVILLE, by MARY, queen Of
Scots as she assembled the scatfold has re-
Gently fallen into the possession Of . little
girl in Ottawa. The present owner of the
historic gem is descendant OF Sir An
drew, and is named for him.
Col. Bon INGERsOLL's mining strike is
the sensation at Washington. Last winter
twenty-onc undeveloped silver mines in
New Mexico were purchased by Pope Bob,
General IIalbert f. Paine, Navy Paymaster
Stevenson, Colonel Grafton, and c. P.
Farrell, brother-in-law of Ingersoll.
Gillette, who developed the wonderful
Comstock lode, was sent out to work the
property, and he reports an assay of $780,
600 per ton. Four of the mines have shown
| wonderful richness.
Mr.. ED. C. KNIGHT, the noted sugar re-
finer, and Mr.. MOORE, of the liquor deal
ing firm of Gibson, Son s. Co., of Phila-
delphia, were recently engaged in CONVEX
sation Mr.. Knight related that his net i'll
come for the past year piled up to the
handsome sum of 100000. To this MIR.
Moore replied in congratulatory terms.
| but said he could see Mr.. X. and 60 $113,-
00s better-thus making his return foot
| up the still more sublime sum of $413, 900.
The last mentioned pile was only Mr..
Moore's share of that firms net receipts
and it is safe to fix the total income of the
firm for that year at one million dollars.
The Dobsor Brothers, are known for their
carpets, blankets, etc, all the world over.
Last year this firms income also netted
s., 200, 600.
Gen. WALKER, superintendent OF the
census, has received a doleful letter from
an unmarried lady from sne of the South
ern States. She said her lover left her
fifteen years ago, taking with him, as a
loan from her, a few hundred dollars that
her uncle had left her. She gave the
name of her lover as also her own and
said her lover possibly might be dead.
She had certainly not heard from him
since lie went away, although she had
taken great trouble to find out his where
abouts. She had been waiting for the
names of the census to be published, but
she vas getting tired Of waiting. There
fore she begged that General Walker
would look over the names and tell her
where her truant lover could be found, or
if he was dead to tell her where he was
buried. She enclosed stamp.
BERNHART calls America ga great
country, colossal, extraordinary, fabulous
"A veritablc country of Jules Verne. The
audiences at American theatres arc bril-