Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-05
PERSONAL.

The trustees of Lane Seminary have
offered the professorship of church history,
made vacant by DR.. Humphreys death,
to Rev. THOMAS DEWITT, CT Philadelphia.
A dispatch was received in New York,
yesterday, said to be from prominent
congressman of that city, asserting that
Mr.. LOWELL, our minister to Great Britain.
had been recalled.
Colonel D. 3. HENDERSON,, who was
chairman of the Iowa delegation in the
Chicago convention, is the candidate most
likely to be chosen for secretary of the
Republican congressional campaign COM
mittec.
During the debate in the House ycstcr-
day on the tariff commission bill, Judge
KELLEY said cit is not we'll to write ep-
itaphs before the subject is dead, but
hope my epitaph will be Here lies
man who when war required it taxed
everything from which money could be
extracted and who lived long enough to
obliterate every war tax"
Tho board of directors of the Philadel-
phia Union League last night entertained
Mr. JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, the new pleni-
pOtentiarv, at q banquet of a dozen courses
by Finelli. Mr.. Young is ono of the three
surviving founders of the club. General
Grant telegraphed his regrets at being
unable to attend. Mr.. Young will pro-
ceed at once to San Francisco and thence
to China.
In the Star Route proceedings at Wash:
ington, yesterday, Prosecuting Attorney
BLISS accused the defendant attorneys of
barefaced violation of their promise in
failing to produce John w. Dorsey in
court, whereupon Col. INGERsOLL sprang
to his feet and bringing his fist down upon
the table exclaimed, ''You are liar, sir,
q liar ~ Considerable excitement followed
and tho court called upon the marshal,
with the evident intention of placing some
| of tho participants under arrest, but SEEM
ingly changing his mind Judge Wylie
| simply administered rebuke and warned
all the participants in the episode against
a repetition of the language.
Tho actor, GEORGE HOEY, who is a son
of John Hoey, the wealthy president of the
with the Hoey and Hardie dramatic COM
pany, soon to appear in Lancaster, from
his early youth manifested the most ar
dent inclination for the stage. 1t is related
of the young man that when filling 4 posi-
ton in the New York office of the Adams
express company he had frequent habit
of running off to the theatre and leaving
his deslmate, Charlie Barker, to do his
work. One Saturday Hoey, unable to re-
sist the temptation to attend the matinee,
| took his hat and said to his sad-faced desk
mate, "I'll be back in twenty minutes"
He didn't come, and when his father repri-
manded him for his inattention to bust
ness George packed up his things and
Joined dramatic company. Two years
later, when he entered the express Office
again, droll Charlie Barker looked wearily
up from his work and exclaimed, "IIello,
George, where have you been? There
have been scores of people here looking
for you. 1 handed them chair and told
them you said you would back in twenty
minutes. When they ventured to ask,
when did he 60 out?' l told them,
About two years ago." Young Hocy
has been making a fine reputation for
himself and is considered one of the rising
young actors of the day. Heappeared with
Hardie in this city about year ago in his
own play of ga Child of the State.'