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

"Pinafore" SULLIVAN is to be knight
cd.
n. GAMBETTA, the new premier of
France, is only forty-fou years of age.
Mrs. JANE GREY SwIssHELM puts no
presents on her daughters wedding in,
| vitations.
Clerk Of tho House McPHEEsoN. after
beating Rainey, generously appoints col
Ored messenger.
Rt. Rev. Bishop HOwE'S semi-cen;en-
NAL of his entrance into the ministry ocs
ours the coming New Year.
Mr.. OSCAR WILDE is said to be negotiat-
ing with manager for a series of aesthetic
lectures in this country. Tho fee he de-
mands is $500 a night.
JEFF DAVIS, accompanied by his invalid
| wife, has returned from Europe and is
| visiting Louisville friends. His daughter,
| also with him, is a tall young woman,
with dark hair and eyes, an extremely pale
face and an expression of intense reserve.
Tho Philadelphia Press says "CLEMENT
Il. CRUDE, of Lancaster county, is having
| his handsome residence Oh Walnut street,
near Twenty-first street, in this city,
beautifully frescocd and decorated previous
to the marriage of his youngest daughter
with New York millionaire.
Mr.. PAUL TULUNE, who proposes to
donate 81 ,O0O, 600 to education in New Or
leans, is native of New Jersey, who made
his money in tho Crescent city by selling
ready-made clothing and investing in rea!
estate, which he bought low, has held
long, and is now very valuable.
Col. G. J. ARMS, formerly of tho Erami
| 1,ac f1,o ffrcf INor nf q
illustrated weekly called Life. 1t is a neat
quarto, with colored advertisements ON
the last page, and illustrations, and aims
at meeting the demand for dignified soci-
city gossip, interspersed with agreeable lit
erature.
After long and bitter contest over the
will of EDWIN p. CHRISTIE, the founder
Of negro minstrelsy, who died in 1862, and
decision has finally been rendered in which
the heirs of the widow of the former arc
entitled to some $3J, 900. Edwin p. Christie
left originally an estate of about $500, 900,
but through litigation tho major portion
has passed into the hands of the attorneys.
"Miss Grundy'' writes to the Philadel
phia Times: Being in such deep mourn
ing for Mrs. Randalps sister, Mrs. Burnett,
! CA-sopcGktI 1Sttuudll WIG ttuu
will mingle little, if at all, in society this
winter, which is much regretted. 1 think
Miss RANDALL the best talker for so young
person have ever met. Her converSa
tion, while always ready aud perfectly un-
studied, invariably shows the results OF
thought and reflection.
DR.. BLISS is met with the plump deciar.
alton of DR.. Boynton, certified to lie true
by Mrs. Garfield, that Oh the Sth OF
August, while in the presidents bed
chamber, i'll the presence cf his wife, he
said to me that he never at any time made
request that Dr.. Bliss be his attending
physician, that position having been occu
pied by DR.. BAXTER for several years, and
that he has no recollection during his
present illness Of having sent for DR.. Bliss
and did not know how he happened to be
in the case"
AETHUR's bed-chamber in the renovated
White House is certainly bluer than words
can paint it. "Imagine an intensified
combination of robins egg and turquoise
blue lavishly applied to the wood work OF
the deep, embrasured windows, rs we'll as
to the inside blinds, and by no means neg
lecting the other wooden surfaces in the
room. Imagine, still further, Il pale blue
and silver paper covering the walls and
the luxurious lounge and easy chairs GOV
cred with delicate blue andgOld satin"-
and then your imagination has run out OF
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