Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-07
PERSONAL.

SECRETARY LINCOLN is anxious to sue
ceed David Davis in the United States
Senate.
THOMAS DURFEE, chief justice of Rhode
Island, was yesterday re elected chancellor
of Brown University.
MRS. MARY HOLLAND. colOred, died in
Lebanon on Monday at the alleged age of
1O3 years.
E. CLYMER WHITE was yesterday
elected chairman of the Baltimore stock
exchange at special meeting of it's men,
bcrs.
WALTER NJ. O'DwyEE, formerly of
the New York Tribune, has become asso-
ciate and joint publisher of the newspaper
1po Republics, in the city Of Mexico.
MR. INGERsOLL yesterday finished his
argument for tho defense in the Star
Route cases, and Attorney General Brew
ster began his argument for the prosecu-
tion.
The MARQUIS OF LoRNE and the Prin-
cess Louise arrived in Chicago yesterday
and were driven to the hotel where rooms
had been reserved for them. They leave
for San Francisco this morning.
DON PEDRO, the emperor Of Brazil.
cares SO little for etiquette that he allows
the escort which accompanies him when
he travels in his own country to smoke
cigarettes in his presence.
MATTHEW FISHER, i finisher in the
shovel department of the Lehigh manu-,
featuring company, of Bethlehem, Pa,
has been notified that he is an heir to
the estate Of the late Sir Matthew Cul.
len.
CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES JACKSON is pro-
posed as the successor of tho ;ate Senator
Hill in the United States Senate from
Georgia. lie says he will make no per-
sOnal canvass for the position, but will
accept the Office if it is given to him.
Hon. LUKE PRYOR, late United States
senator from Alabama, has accepted the
t:ered him by the Democrats of the Eighth
district of that state. He proposes to
make an active canvass against his Inde-
pendent Greenback competitor, Col. Lowe.
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs, of Georgia, ac-
cOrding to an Atlanta letter, has greatly
changed recently in his ply ysical condition.
His eyesight has nearly failed him, and
his once full face has grown thin and
wrinkled. 1t is predicted that his long
and brilliant career, with all its successes
and failures, will soon come to an end.
COMMODORE UPsuUR. commandant of
tho New York navyyard. has directed his
aid, Lieutenant w. ]. Jacques, to hold
himself ready to board the steamer in
which Engineer Melville and Lieutenant
Berry return to this country, for the pur-
pose of extending to them such assistance
as they may require.
GENERAL SHERMAN has requested that
Major General John NJ. Schofield bc
ordered to San Francisco TO relieve Major
General Mcdowell, and that tho latter be
ordered to his home in New York, prepar-
atory to his retirement from active service
next month. No action will be taken in
tho matter until the return to Washington
of the secretary of war.
GENERAL HARRIS NJ. PLAIsTED, Fusion
candidate for governor of Maine, lives
with his grown up family and young
second wife in q beautiful home in Ban
gOr. He is described as man of medium
height, with thick.set frame, ard full,
round face, not altogether pleasant in ex-
preston but denoting great combative
qualities. Tie is not graceful orator, but
has homely and fOrcible manner of
speaking that seems to be satisfying to the
average country audience.
MIR. WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT's new
palace car for his private use made its first
appearance at Saratoga yesterday. Its de-
signer claims that in elegance and comfort
this car excels even the CIR owned by
Baron de Rothschild, of Vienna, and in
which he recently visited Bairenth. The
Vanderbilt car includes a sleeping-room,
furnished with bedstead instead of a
berth, small parlor, an Office, and
smoking-room. 1t is intended whenever
guests accompany Mr.. Vanderbilt to be
connected by bellows cover with another
car which Mr.. Vanderbilt has hitherto
used.