Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-22
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
WILLIAM G. CROSBY, LII. D., governor
Of Maine in 1858 and 1854, and for nearly
fifty years prominen. lawyer, died yes
terday in Belfast, aged seventy-five years.
Secretary and Mrs. WINDoM have three
son, who is in New Hampshire
for college daughter, Helen
Window, who is in her teens, and another
a child of seven years.
Secretary and Mrs. K1RKwooD are as
sisted in their hospitable duties by an
adopted daughter, Miss Rachel Kirkwood.
Miss Abigail Dodge and Miss Alice Blaine
aid Mrs. Blaine in receiving her guests.
Gen. ORD has been received with great
honor in Mexico, gorgeous banquets and
special cars being offered to him. The
general took to Mexico with him a guam
tity Of German carp to be used stocking
Mexican waters.
In Manchester, N. H., Judge IRA A..
EASTMAN has died suddenly of neuralgia
Of the heart aged seventy-two years. He
served two years in Congress. In 1868 he
was the Democratic candidate for COVER
nor of the state, and in 1868 he was the
candidate of his party for United States
senator.
Since Col. THos. A. ScoTr's return from
the South he has endowed the chair of
mathematics in the University of Penn
sylvania, now held by Professor Kendall,
with the gift Of $4,000; he has pre-
sented the like sum of ESQ, 600 to the JEFF
ferson college, and a third sum of $50, 600
to the Orthepedic hospital.
Mr.. RICHARDSON, of Mississippi, is the
largest cotton planter in the world. He
has many plantations, factories and mills,
and also great many country stores. He
is man of sixty-two. He has a peculiar
habit OF rising at clock in the morning
waking his secretary and dispatching all
his business before his Z o'clock break
fast.
Auntie GRAHAM, West Chestcr's Oldest
inhabitant, was 104 years old on Sunday.
The event was celebrated on Saturday by
the congregation of the Presbyterian
church, of which she is devout member,
and many more of her friends, who paid
her friendly call. Everyone brought her
a valuable present in tho shape Of money,
clothes or some other useful article.
Rev. THOMAS A. KING, recently elected
pastor of the New Jerusalem, Calver,
street, Baltimore, preached on Sunday
morning in that church for the first time
since his baptism into tho Swedenborgiau
faith. Mr.. King was formerly ministe,
in the Methodist Protestant church, but
bad studied the doctrine of the church to
which he is united for some time. and
several times preached in the church OF
which he has been chosen pastor.
The state department. has received no
tice through the United States consul at
Bangkok, that the king of Siam, as a
mark of his satisfaction with the iescrip
tions of his country in the book upon Siam
and Java. recently published by Colonel
THOMAS w. KNOX, has conferred upon
that gentleman the diploma and decora
tions creating him Knight of the Most
Exalted Order Of the White Elephant
Col. Knox is the first American upon
whom this distinction has ever been con
ferred.
Judge HUNT had not the remotes.
thought of a cabinet place. He was upon
the bench of the court of claims, and to
all appearances was fixed for life as par:
of that drowsy tribunal. One evening he
was surprised by call at his house from
the president-elect, who asked him in few
words if he would take cabinet position,
he did not know precisely what he might
desire to offer him because the matter was
not fully arranged, and left him in a
state of pleasant astonishment. Next day
lie read in newspaper his name as sccre
tary of the navy in the cabinet list sent to
the Senate.