Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-17
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Queen VICTORIA and Princess BEATRICE
have arrived at Mentone.
| Rev. E. A. GERxANT has been deliver
ing popular lecture in Allentown on
Here and There in Europe
SAMUEL w. SMALL {" Old 81 ~ has
sold his interest in the Florida Union, at
Jacksonville, and purchased an interest in
the Florida Daily Times, with which he
will henceforth he connected.
The widow of President LINCOLN on
Wednesday drew from the pension agent
at Chicago the s15, 900 recently voted her
by Congress.
Count Won MOLTKE, chief marshal of
the Gerpan empire, will shortly go on q
furlough to Switzerland. This is consid-
cred as an important sign that there are
no fears of peace being broken.
Does GEORGE w. CH1LDs know that the
grave of President John Tyler has no stone
nor memorial of any kind above it? tits
in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, where
Monroe also is buried.
General SKOBELEFF took part, by invita-
ton, in the christening of the Grand
Duchess Helene, the infant daughter Of
the Grand Duke Vladimir, the Cars
brother. The ceremony took place in the
Tsarskeo, Selo palace or Sunday last
Skobeleff is still. solid with the imperial
family at all events.
JOHN WANNAMAKER's new place, up at
Jenkintown, will have sixty-three acres
Of beautiful grounds, accommodating, be-
sides his own mansion and a Presbyterian
church, numerous and commodious out
buildings, farm houses for his people, and
all other necessary improvements to per.
feet homestead that the most fortunate
might envy.
DR.. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES being on
a lecturing visit to Haverhill, Mass,
learned that an old schoolmatc Of his was
stove-dealer in tho town and thought he
would look him up. He and friend
found the stove man ; asked him if he
attended such Il school when boy. liz
did. Asked him if he remembered boy
in the same class named Oliver Wendell
Holmes lie did not. Had he ever heard
his name since He had not. Without
inquiring further they left the man to the
genial companionship Of his stoves.
The New York Sun, having raped Mr..
CoNKL1NG over the knuckles, for his i'm
propriety in addressing Mr.. Arthur as
ellis EXcellency, the President" the
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prehensible that it approved the Suns
comment and recalled to it tho fact that
SO accomplished a journalist, for example,
as Mr.. DANA, having occasion to apply fol
the Office of collector of tho port of New
York to President johnson in January,
1866, addressed him exactly as Mr.. Conk
ling on the Sd of March last addressed
President Arthur.
| HAZAEL, the victorious pedestrian, left
Philadelphia for Europe, On the Indiana
the other day, with his $4,000 in hard
cash in a helt, tightly lashed to his per
son. Hazael slipped away from New
York on Tuesday to escape capias which
had been issued for him in a civil suit
brought in Brooklyn by Henry Martin
his former trainer, who claims that Hazae
agreed to divide winnings with lin, "il
consideration of board, lodging and train
ing" Hazael declared that the claim
was unfoudned, but preferred to leave the
country surreptitiously to being detained
by law suit. He says he will return to
New York after the Derby races and an
swer Martins complaint.
The New York Times, leading Republi.
can organ, thus compliments some
=, of its party friends "Mr. KEIFER's
general management Of the House is lax,
and it is allowed, in the ordinary course,
to fall into the worst of habits. In addi-
t;cn to the difficulties arising from the de.
ficiencics of the presiding officer, the ma
jority in the House suffers from the lack
of leader. No one, unfortunately, has
yet presented himself in that capacity
who is recognized or capable of COMPEL.
ing recognition. Mr.. robson certainly
does not fill the requirements of tho posi-
ton, for, with marked ability, he has q
} fatal tendency to exert himself extraortii-
narily in small matters and to ignore OF
trifle with great Ones"
The subject Of tho last estate celeb
rity y s!5etched by the Press is Hon. j. S
BLACK. The writer, Col. F. A. Burr
> dwells less ON the picturesque personal
character of Judge Black, than on his re
lations with the Buchanan administration
One Of the best contributions to recent
history in this sketch is letter from Gen
Dix to Black, dated Jan. 20, 1877, in
which the writer says In the most per
ilous period of our existence, you and
acted together and remember no prac-
tical questions on which we differed -
Gen. Dix deprecates the electoral commits.
sion-as Judge Black did-and asks him tt
use his influence with his political friendl
"to defeat scheme which invades tht
J sovereignty of the states, and cannot fail
in the end to imperil the existence Of this
} government" Concerning the persona
relations of Judge Black and Gen. Gar
field, Burr says that among the lamented
presidents latest inquiries was for Judge
Black, and when he was told that he had
called and was very anxious about him, ht
said with great feeling: "That almost
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