Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-10
PERSONAL.

An occasional and esteemed contributor,
"MAY MoRRow," will confer 4 favor by
sending address to this office.
Fresh cut flowers have been kept upon
the grave of GEORGE ELIOT ever since she
was laid in it.
1t was DR.. .CHANNINd who said when
am mad l weigh ton" But great
many people since him have felt just as
heavy.
At the Atlanta exposition, before the close,
the wives Of Gov. COLQUITT. of Georgia,
and of ex-Gov. BROWN, will engage in an
old fashioned spinning match.
Aunt SUSAN PETTIBONE, of Manchester,
Mass, recently sent President Arthur a
box of butternut candy and received not
! only cordial letter of thanks for the
grateful addition to his Thanksgiving din
ner, but a request from Senator Edmunds,
| with whom Arthur generously divided it,
that he be supplied with the same sort
| from tho same source.
The new d0orkeeper Of the House, Mr..
BROwNLOw, OF Tennessee, has commenced
to "bounce" the old employees right and
left. Most, if not all, of the new appoint
| ments made by him arc of Southern men,
which is exciting the indignation of North
crn and Western patriots, who are for the
old flag and an appropriation.
Tho Rev. DR.. WILLIAM 9. GRAY, ed
itor Of the Interior, the Presbyterian
organ in Chicago, and his wife Anna, have
celebrated their silver wedding. Their
home in Oak Park, we'll known for its
hospitality, was filled with friends, most
of whom brought with them silver tokens
of their esteem. In response to a con.
gratulatory poem the doctor announced
that his only regret was that he could not
go over the twenty five years again.
When Mr. and Mrs. J. w. MACKAY
| were staying at hotel at the Hague not
long ago, the landlord asked Mr.. Mackay' 8
| servant if his master was not 4 king in his
own country. He was assured that kings
| and queens were not known in America,
but was not to be convinced. Exulting
over his wealthy guest, he next day sent
| to one of the city journals an account of
the arrival at his hotel of "the King
and Queen of the Bonanza Mountains Of
California"
Rev. WILLIAM HERBERT SMYTH, of
Port Austin, Michigan, a home mission
ary, whose circuit embraces part of the
burnt district, forcibly illustrates the des-
titution which still exists there. Writing
of the case of woman to whom he gave
50, he adds: "In a moment she fell on her
knees, and held up the bill in her hand.
saying %, God, this is too good of you ;
then begged me to take half the amount
and give it to poor neighbour mile away,
but fortunately had . IS for her, too."
PAUL H. HAYHE, of Georgia, the finest
poetic genius of the South since the death
of Sidney Lanier. was wealthy before the
war, but now is very poor, and too ill to
work. His residence is little more than a
hut, standing alone in a clump of scrub
oak on a sandy knoll, twenty miles from
Atlanta. The commonest necessities of
life are all that he can procure; but he
goes on rhyming, in room papered with
pictures cut from illustrated newspapers,
and on desk made out of an old work
bench left on the premises by a carpenter.
On December s, fifty years ago, Daniel
Webster obtained place as page in tho
Senate for ISAAC BAssErT, who has been
for many years the esteemed doorkeeper
of that body and never disturbed by the
changes of politics. All this President
David Davis gracefully recalled ON Capt.
Bassett's Q semi-centennial and said: "Surely