Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-31
PERSONAL.

OSCAR WILDE is not going to be married
this fall. He was engaged, but the man
went back on him.
writing pleasant letters from Martha's s
vineyard to the Boston Euening Transcript.
Col. JAMES YOUNG celebrated his sixty
third birthday last week. His many
friends present on the occasion were
sumptuously entertained.
Rev. S. A. MUTCHMORE, ID. d., of
Philadelphia, editor of the Presbyterian,
was on Thursday united in marriage to
Mary Burtis Reynolds, Of Wilkesbarre.
HENRY IRVING is coming to America
There is a pathos in Irving's starboard
leg only to be equaled by the soulful
yearningnsss Of his port elbow.
SILAs NJ. CLARK Democratic nominee
for judge Of the supreme court, is 4 sue
cessful farmer as we'll as a distinguished
lawyer. His farm will yield one thousand
bushels Os wheat aud rye this year. all Of
which is harvested and partly threshed.
LADY W1LDEs Saturday receptions are
described as forming a most agreeable
writers, actors, painters aud even politi-
guests all meet on even footing.
"GATII's" opinion of Westminster
Abbey, as expressed in recent letter
from London to the Cincinnati Inquirer, is
that it " is a vast collection of titled trash
and hidden romance, the biggest tomb.
stones often covering the smallest souls. :"
JOHN L. SULLIVAN, the pugilist, was ar
raigned in the Boston court and pleaded
guilty to Drunkenness, for which he was
fined 81 and costs also to the charge of
using obscene language, for which he was
fined $40 without costs. The fines were
paid and the prisoner was discharged.
w. F. EASTMAN, Of Butler Creek
Oregon, has tooth which weighs eleven
pounds. He found it in the bed Of a:
stream. It is reported that it belonged to
some extinct beast, but the Philadelphi.
political scientists firmly believe Don Cam
eron went bathing in that creek aud must
have dropped one of his aching molars
therein.
LORD BEACONsFIELD's poetry, which
was ever rather fiat and sentimental, has
won the hOn"rs of royal approval. Two
of his poems, "The Blue-eyed Maiden "
and 1.-The Green Cavalier" have lately
been set to music by the accomplished
young Princess Beatrice, who, if she con-
tinues in her present habits of industry,
will shortly have a pretty income of her
own.
JOHN ]. NOLAN. of Philadelphia, offered
to remove the body of the late Miss Fanny
ParpeIl to ireland at his own expense.
Mrs. Parnell replied that she would take
the offer into consideration, and said that
although the same desire to have the body
removed to Ireland existed in other cities
Philadelphia had alone made any practi-
cal move in the matter. She expressed
much qualification at her native city being
the first to come forward.
Mrs. MARGARET SANDERsoN, relict of
the late Col. Henry S. Sanderson and the
lady who made the flag for Fort McHenry
which inspired Francis Scott Key to write
the " Star. .Spangled Banner" has died in
New York, aged IS years. At the time of
the bombardment, in 1912, Mrs. Sander
son, who was only fifteen years old, made
the flag out of costly silk with her own
hands and presented it to Colonel George
Armistead, the commander of the fort,
just before the British appeared in the
hav