Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-25

war department to general supervision OF
target practice in the army, ''in the in.
terest of the improvement of marksman-
ship"
Mr.. POTTER PALMER is about to build
the largest aud most expensive private res
dence in Chicago. 1t is to be situated at
the northwest corner Of Bank street and
Lake Shore drive, and will cost s2C0, 900
or more.
JOHN r. MCLEAN. the editor OF the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, contributed $3.50 to for
ward the religious revival now going on
in that city. The gift las been accepted
with thankfulne SIS not unmixed with sur
prise.
Commissioner LOR1NC, of the agricultu-
raj department, leaves Washington to-day
for Minneapolis, where he is to open, on
Tuesday next, series of lectures arranged
by the Minnesota agricultural college, and
other organizations in that section. On
Thursday next the commissioner is to ad
dress the board of agriculture of Ohio, at
| Delaware in that state.
| The Amateur orchestral society of Lon
don, composed Of eighty gentlemen Of the
aristocracy, the Duke Of EDISBURcn play
ing first fiddle, has irauSuratcd series of
concerts, during which every one smokes
as much as he pleases. Eight hundred
Englishmen, "all aristocrats," attended
the last one, which was described as most
enjoyable.
| GARIDALDI loves the sea and cannot
bear to be away from it. When he was
carried out on 4 terrace overlooking the
water after his recent illness, lie cried
Here have the sea ; live on the sea
and for us sailors the sea is life - He at
first insisted upon staying On the terrace
so late that his doctors had to be-. him t.
be more prudent. The poor old mau urged
that it would be depriviny him of his
greatest comfort.
DONALD G. MITCHELL, The TX Marvel
of former years, is now almost 60 years OF
age. His hair and bushy whiskcrs arc
plentifully sprinklcd with gray, and he
has grown stout, but lis face has the rud
dy hue Q! health. He bears strikin. re-
semblance to the Rev. DR.. Richard S
Storrs, of Brooklyn. Mr.. Mitchell occa
sionally leaves the retirement of his Earn
at Edgewood," near New Haven, to read
Il lecture before popular assembly.
People have wondered why Prince LEO
FOLD, who has never had any military
education, should have been appointed to
4 colonelcy in the British army. Mr.. La
bouchere learns that the appointment was
made in order that he may be married il
becoming uniform, as the Peers robe.
Of the Trinity house uniform would not
be suitable fOr the occasion, and the pro
prictics would be violated for prince tC
be married in plain clothes
Ex Governor JOHN II. PALMER was in
terviewcd in reference to a report that he
had received a proposition from Mr.. Tilder
to become a candidate for the second
place Oh the ticket with him for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
1894. In reply to = question tho ex-gov.
ernor said "There is nothing in it. The
reporter then said: II suppose, COVER,
nor, may deny that you have received
such a proposition ." To this he replied
ut is sensation that is all"
When President GRANT WIS SO sorcly
pressed for a successor to Chief Justice
Chase that he even nominated Calet
Gushing and George Ii. Williams to that
position, only to have them rejected by
the Senate, he actually rendered the place
to Mr.. CONKL1NG also, but the latter had
less than year bc!olc-tlc offer was
made in November, 1S13-5ceu Reelected
to the Senate, and he preferred 20 remain
in that body, Of which lie had hecome one
Of the most influential administration
leaders. SO Mr.. Copklng's namo as
chief justice was not sent to tic Senate,
but somehow Or other the fact that he
bad declined the Office was made public
MIR. Conkling is now just cutciirg upon
his tifty-fourth year.