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

Ex-Gov. WV. HOLDEN, of North Caro-
lima, was Oil Sunday morning attacked
with paralysis at his residence in Raleigh.
The attack is thought to be Il slight one.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has contributed
$40, 900 to the Actors fund at New York,
and the money has been transferred in his
name by Mr.. Lester Wallack to Treasurer
A. NJ. Palmer.
STEPHEN AUGUSTUS HURLBUT, late
United States minister to Peru, who died
suddenly Of heart disease in Lima on the
2Sth Of March was brother of WILLIAM
HENRY HURLBUT of the New York World.
JOHN RUSSELL Young will take a part
ner of his joys and woes to China with
him. The young lady of his choice is
Miss Coln,an, niece Of ex Postmaster Gen
eral Jewell.
The celebrated case of the creditors of
Archbishop PURCELL was called in the
Hamilton county district court at Cincin-
natl yesterday, but the parties not all
being ready the case was laid over until
to-day. The chief question involved now
is as to the power of the assignee to sell
church property to pay the claims Of the
creditors.
Baron FREDERICK VoN BEcnroLsHE1N,
ex-Austrian consul at St. Louis, who was
charged with cmbezzlement, was yester-
day discharged in the criminal court on
the plea that the offense only came within
the scope Of the authority Of the United
States courts. The Baron, it is said, had
defrauded several Austrian subjects OF
money they had intrusted to him.
TIE Wilkesbavre Record, so lately Stal-
wart, has discovered since the Wilkes.
barre postoffice affair that "Senator CAM
ERoN is lacking in the qualifications Of a
great man and I successful leader; that
his methods are dishonest that he brides
members OF Congress to assist him liz his
! schemes, and the charge is directly made
that Scranton got the Wilkesbarre post
Office as reward for his vote for Keifer
for speaker after he had promised in writ.
ing to vote for lIiscock. Senator Cameron
in short, is disgrace and damage t. his
party, and his exercise of power is humil-
iating to the state.' All the same, the
Record will support Cameron's Beaver for
governor after he is nominated.
In playing Hamlet ANNA DICKINSON
dresses in purple because that color is now
and always has been royal mourning at
every court in Europe. She also omits
the speech to the players because she
thinks it spoils the dramatic interest of
the act and is superfluous. She argues
that it is very improbable that Hamlet,
under the circumstances would give
advice to company of actors when he
would not care how the play was presented
so that the murder was portrayed to
the king. Her agent says she had splcn-
did reception all through tho West in
Omaha people carried lanterns through
three feet of mud to attend the play and
she met with royal welcome everywhere
except at Atchison, where the chief and
eight policemen were not admitted dead
head, and out of revenge they went around
and got all the small boys they could and
told them to throw tin cans, bricks and
soap boxes up the stairs so that they
would make a noise falling down the
steps. In Springfield "dead-heads" were
so scarce that they had to sew up an old
boxing glove and use 1t for poor Yorrick' s
skull. Only when the Dickinson reached
New York did spiteful critics open fire on
her. Iu Philadelphia, where she appeared
last evening the critics damn her with
faint praise, intimating that the perform
apce is notable mainly because it is hers
Our own citizens will have chance to
hear her on Tuesday evening Of next week,
when the novelty of the entertainment at
least will doubtless attract large audi
ence.
Playing with Firearms.