Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-27
PERSONAL.

Jesse James widow is writing book,
and Mrs. ScovILLE is going to lecture.
Mr.. EMERsoN's physicians have given
him up, and his death is regarded rs in
evitable.
Senator LOGAN writes from Hot
Springs, Ark. that his health is improv-
ing.
Gov. HAWKINS will be renominated in
tho Tennessee Republican convention to
day.
Mrs. CATnARINE NININGER, mother OF
Pauline Nininger. tho opcratic singer
died at St. Paul, Mimi.
The Utah women have made q silk quilt
for Senator EDMUNDs' wifc-that is, the
Gentle women.
Colonel HENRY MCCORMICK. Of Harris
burg, has given $4,000 to the city hos
pital.
Fresh flowers have adorned GAHFIELD's
tomb every day since the burial, aud it is
4 great place of popular resort.
ANNA DICKINSON has a weakness for
gems, and the jewel necklace she wears in
Hamlet is of real amethysts and sarncts.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON, the actor, has pre-
sented to his lifelong friend, Attorney
General BREWSTER, 4 fine view of q South
ern landscape, painted by himself.
When the ROTnsCHILDs cannot keep
their money in the family, they at least
! try to retain it in the house. One of the
girls is going to marry the Brussels agent
| of the firm.
TO use the words Of prominent scIa-
| tor, "CAMERON can get more appoint
ments than anybody else in the Senate.'
Mitchell must have been ''the prominent
SENATOR"
A Chinese baby ut Sacramento has been
| named "CHEsTER A. ARTHUR The
celestial christ ening had better been
postponed until after Arthur tackled the
new aDtiCEinesc bill.
Five members of the Liberal party.
friends of Mr.. GLADSTONE. are to be
created baronets." This sounds like
| American politics tho trade over there
| is in titles, not in revenue collectorships.
WENDELL. PHILLIPS has lately taken a
house in Boston as old fashioned aud
almost retired as the one from which the
work of city improvement has driven him
after long years of quiet possession.
The remains of the late Minister IiUHL-
day, were shipped last evening to Chi
|
friends.
Gen. w. S. HANCOCK, accompanied by
General Mitchell, Of his staff. and Cap
tain Delachene, Of the French army, ar
rived at Fortress Monroe yesterday TO
lery school,.
| ROBINSON, the congressional defender of
Ireland. who lets the eagle soar on unfct-
tered pinion, is % man from Tyrone, by
way of Brooklyn. lie does not blush to
be called modern combination of Cicero
and Richelieu.
! THOMAS VALENTINE COOPER rises to
the level Of place in the Press gallery Of
I" state celebrities" This is getting ON
in the world. But it will surprise Cooper's S
friends, if not himself, to read i'll this
sketch how much of an anti Cameron
man he has been i'll his time.
| Mr. l. N. s. WILL, of the state depart
ment, has our thanks for official courtesies
Aud, 10y the way, whoever thinks the good
penmen left Harrisburg with Sam Matt
Fridy sholld see Wills present style of
handwriting. 1t would even adorn the
records o: the parliamentary Office.
Maybe it will some day.
The property left by LoNGFELLow was
very large-at least for a poet but he
made no public beGuests. 1t is proposed
to erect statue to his memory on the
meadow which he once presented to the
city OF Cambridge. No doubt also the
Craigie house, in which he lived and which
is SO endeared by patriotic associations,
will ultimately he converted into heroic
| museum.
The Andover theological seminary
visitors have rejected the nomination of
DR.. NEWMAN SMTTHE to the Abbot pro-
fessorship of systematic theology made
vacant by the resignation of Prof. Park.
The nomination has caused bitter contro-
versy in the ranks of Congregationalism
over Smythe's alleged liberal views on the
subject of future punishment aud other
doctrines. The IRON bound creed pre-
scribed by the founders of Audcvcr is un-
changeablc.
The following distinguished Americans
| are over seventy years of age: Thurlow
| Weed, IS Ralph Waldo Emerson, 70 ;
Charles O'Conor, 7S; David Dudley
| Field, n Charles Francis Adams, John
G. Wittier, and jefferson Davis, each "A !;
| Oliver Wendell Holmes and Cornelius X.
Garrison, 73 jeremiah S. Black, Robert
Toombs, aud Phineas T. Barnun,, - :;
Wendell Phillips, II !; Judah p. Benjamin,
Alexander II. Stephens, and Horatio Sey-
mour, 20.
Fire Record.
A fire which broke out at Searcy, Ark,
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