Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-13
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PATTI sails for America this week.
RR1cK " PoxRRoY is fifty years old
and y living in good style in Denver.
GENERAL HANCOCK is visiting his farm
in Missouri.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, is sure that
Pennsylvania and New York will 60 DEM
ocratic.
PRESIDENT GONZALES wife, of Mexico,
is in Chicago studying medicine aud sur
gerry.
GENERAL BUTLER has invited most of
tho members of the Boston press to take a
sail on his new yacht.
Mrs. LANGTRY, London gOssips say,
finding how much is expected of her
beauty in America, has become better
looking.
MIR. FRANK g. CARPENTER will this
winter paint portraits of President Arthur,
General Grant aud ex-senator Conkling
for the rooms of the American legation at
Pekin.
EVANGELIST BARNES, who will make q
sensation in some parts of the Kast, told
the Western people that he did not like
the idea that they should 60 on excursions
to hear him preach on Sundays. "
PRESIDENT ARTHUR still retains a live
~ interest in his college society, the Psi
Upsillon. He recently gave the Union
College chapter 500 to aid in erecting u
chapter house.
FRANCIS and GEORGE DARWIN, tho
sous of the great naturalist. are about to
move from the old Down House to the
vicinity OF Cambridge, where they will es-
tablish large factory for making philo.
sOphical instruments.
GOVERNOR CULLoM was makiag 4 polit.
ical speech in Illinois when a lady in the
audience rose and said, "governor. how
arc We to keep our husbands and sons
from drunkenness lie replied "Keep
them out of the saloons, madam"
Hon. j. T. UPDEGRAFF, re elected to
trict, on Tuesday, and whose death was
reported in Wednesdays dispatches. is
much better. and will undoubtedly re-
cover.
FATHER PETER JOHN BECKx, the gen.
eral of tho Order of Jesuits, is now in his
S7th year, and his declining health has of
late given rise to much speculation con-
corning his probable successor He has
been ut tho head of the order for nearly
thirty years, which is an unusually long
period, since it is tho rule for only men
well'advanced in years to be advanced to
the position.
CONGRESSMAN LEFEvRE speaking of
his eccentric chirography says 81
ought to write better, that's i fact. Why
some time ago wrote to man thanking
him for clipping cut from a newspaper
about me, and asking tho name and date
of the paper and he replied {: Il am
much obliged for your advice, and will
follow it, believing that my claim will
go through and 1 will at last get my pen
sion.'"
IsMAIL PACHA's two daughters, whom a
correspondent describes as "bright and
clever girls" are attending school in
Paris. Their pas harem is handsomely
situated on the Rue BOyard. The dethrOn-
ed khedive bears we'll the weight of his 81
years and the ri0tous living to which many
of them were devoted. His light hair is
scarcely streaked with gray, and he still
wears tho fez cap. He has of late grown
very stout, and this change is the more
noticeable on account Of his small stature.
He speaks rapidly in French, with many
gestures, generally closing one eye when
1nlil13Ieu
PRESIDENT ARTHUR was on his way
from Alexander bay to New York, when
two little girls, aged ten and thirteen years,
nieces of General Buttertie!d, were pre-
sented to him, they being passengers liz
the same car. When they told him that
they too had been boating and fishing. he
described to them the glorious sport he
had on the st. Lawrence, and asked
" How would you like to catch fifty
pound fish on light rod like yours, with
a tip almost as slender as rye straw
That beats bass fishing. You have to
play with the fish and hour or two some
times, and be careful not to allow him to
escape or to break your rod" "Why,"
said Miss Thirteen-years-old, "a little girl
up to Carlton caught a four pound bass
aud broke the pole right off !'' "Ah,"
replied tho president, "when she gets
Older she will soon learn to play larger
fish than that on light roc, and land him
too"