Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-08
PERSON AL.

PERSON AL.
JOHN GILBERT, the veteran actor, is
very sick at his home at Manchester, Mas
sachusetts.
EX-SENATOR CREswELL, of Maryland,
has been chosen by the president as coun-
sci for the government before the Geneva
award commission.
JUDGE CHARLES C. MOTT, of the U. S.
court of claims, Is dangerously sick at his
father. in laws residence, at Williamstown,
Mass, from a recurrence OF an old COM
plant.
INGE RsOLL's lectures against Christian
ity have been translated into Japanese,
aud are said to be having large circula-
Certainly Japan has had enough misfor-
tune without this.
CANDIDATE MARRIOTT BRosIUs was in
West Chester yesterday, to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Hannah S. Kent. relative.
In the afternoon number of citizens
| called upon him and were introduced by
William M. Hayes, whose guest he was.
Mr.. BrOsius went to Philadelphia late yes.
terday afternoon.
Ex-GovERNoE CURTIN, when shown the
item in which he is quoted rs deprecating
tho nomination OF Pattison, declared it to
be mistake and unjust to the candidate
as we'll as to himself. He believes the
with the general wish of the party, and
that Pattison will receive full party vote
with large Republican accessions. which
will insure his election.
ALEXANDER MCEwEN, fnancier of
1 rn,~
against the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
he has rendered GoweE, valuable assistance
per cent. consols, and for his assistance
was to receive pay. In addition to this
he wants to receive a commission for
placing certain amounts of both of the
loans.
! QUEEN VICTORIA's favorite servant,
John Brown, has about tho best time in
the spring, as the Queens salmon fishing
on the Dee is at his disposal. and her
majesty's stretch, which extends from In
vercauld bridge TO Balmoral bridge, is one
of the finest on the river, and contains
many excellent pools. Brown has enjoyed
excellent sport during the last month, the
river having been in capital order. On
one day he landed fourteen fine clean sal
mon.
MIR. MOODY, the evangelist lately met
about 100 gentlemen in London to confer
as to future plans. There were present
representatives from many towns in the
kingdom, as well as from London. Mr..
Moody said that he had in hand sufficient
invitations to keep him hard at work in
Great Britain for the remainder of his life
and he was urged to return to Chicago at
once. He proposed, however, moving
about Scotland for short time, and then
visiting Paris for fortnight.
JAMES G. HILL, West Philadelphia
tinsmith and noisy Independent in poll
tics. made an epistolary assault of an
illicit amatory character on the wife of G.
P. Jones, Stalwart custom house en-
ployee. Mr.. Hill will henceforth take less
interest in politics and love. The cow
hide welts on his head and legs are nearly
as thick as Candidate Beavers crutch. He
now knows that there is nothing in the In
dependent platform to justify one of them
in covetiug his neighbor's wife.
JAY GOULD has marvels of beauty in his
botanical gardens at Irvington on the
Hudson, and all the people up that way
celebrated "the Fourth y BY accepting his
invitation to look how he has spent hun
dreds of thousands in Transforming
swamps into masses of fragrant bloom.
rivaling the glories of tropical gardens and
the sweet smells of the vale of roses. with
crOtons from the Fiji cacti from Brazil,
palms from Asia, pitcher plants from Mad.
agascar, marantas from the Amazon val
ley, ferns from the East Indies, camellias
from Japan and rhododendrOn from along
the Ganges.
PRINCESS SOULOUQUE, daughter and
only child on the Empress SOulouque oi
Hayti, has arrived in New York. She left
for New Haven, accompanied by her maid,
and will be the guest of ex-United States
minister to Aayti Bassett. Thence she will
visit Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and
San Francisco. She travels under the
name of Madame Lubin, nee Faustin
the former being the name of her husband,
the Duke de Petrionville, who died al
Port. au- Prince about fourteen months ago,
and the latter being the name of tho late
emperor.
Rev. w. w. HICKS, who has ridden into
notoriety on the shoulders of Guiteau, be-
gan his public career as minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and went tc
India as missionary returning he be-
came Congregational minister in Brook.
lyn. Then he became pastor of the Lee
Avenue Reformed (Dutch) church 10
Williamsburg. Next he turued up as a
Lutheran or of some other denomination
in Charleston, s. c., where he drew grea,
crowds. Then he went to Florida, and
got back into Methodism in some shape
He entered politics, and became connected
with the educational department of the
state government. Came North as a
stump speaker on the Republican plat.
form. Now he turns up as an I" independ.
ent" minister in Washington.