Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-26

promptly turn off the correspondent who
writes to it from Washington that Senator
Logan is "natural born orator.
Prominent men of both parties in Ken
lucky arc again agitating the question of
calling constitutional convention in that
state.
A NAN and his wife in Philadelphia who
left the we'll on their brick yard unguarded
have been mulcted in 81, 900 damages for
the drowning in it of neighbor's boy
who went there to fish and fell in.
IMPORTANT to Gen. Weaver The
Greenbackers Of Ohio are to meet in state
convention in Columbus to-day. The Mis-
sissippi Greenback state committee meets
for consultation in Jackson to day.
RUFUS E. SHAPLEY is credited with the
opinion that the Democrats are as likely
as not to elect the next governor of Penn
sylvania aud that they can best resolve
all doubts about it by nominating Robert
E. PattisOn, controller of Philadelphia,
for the gubernatorial Office
MCCLURE has been over in Washington
settling things. He reports the end of the
dead lock nigh Garfield and Conkling at
dagger's points the cabinet and presi-
dent harmonious the Republicans
ashamed Of the Malone bargain, and the
| coalition weakening ; and Representative
Mckee more likely to DO surveyor at Phil
adelphia than Edw. H. Nevin, whom
Cameron, Mitchell and Window had
picked out for the place.
PERSONAL.
! JOSEPH K. EMMET's new residence in
Albany is to bo the finest, or ut least the
costliest, in that vicinity.
presidency of Hamilton college, to which
he was recently elected.
Mrs. LOUISA G. ALLAN, the foster
mother of Edgar Allan Poe, and one of che
most distinguished ladies in Virginia, died
at her late residence in Richmond on Sun
day, aged S3. The deceased was the
leader Of the best Virginia society in her
day.
NJ. d. WIckERsHAM, postmaster at Mo-
bile. Ala, is charged with treachery to
the Republican party, with disorganiza-
tion; and worse than all, with tampering
with and destroying all letters of com.
plant against his administration sent to
the department through his office.
Prof. r. A. PROCTOR, the English
astronomer, is soon to marry Mrs. Robert
Crawley, widow of St. Joseph, Mo.
They met in Australia, where he took his
first wife and she had taken her first bus-
band for their recovery from delicate
health. Both died, and their grie:-strickcn
relicts, returning OH the same steamer, de-
veloped degree Of sympathy for each
other that has ripened into the basis of the
above announcement.
The sudden death Of Mr.. JAMES r,
FIELDS removes from the world of letters
one who has had no small share in for
warding the best interests OF American
literature. Mr.. Fields, to large extent
from Is to 30 years ago, initiated the pub
fishing Of the writings Of Hawthorne,
Whittier, Longfellow and Emerson in
fitting form. He was the first to bring to-
gether the scattered essays of DeQuincy,
the first to reprint Tennyson's "Iu Me-
moriam," tho first to acquaint American
readers with the remarkable school of
English authors who have clustered
about Tcnnyson and Browning. In the
firm Of Ticknor s. Fields, in which Mr..
Ticknor was the financial and Mr.. Fields
the literary partner, he showed his signal
ability as mediator between authors and
their readers, and gave the house. with
which he was connected a unique position
among American publishers, treating
English writers fairly and encouraging
American authors to fresh and larger eff.
forts. His own literary ventures were
meritorious and successful.