Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-05
PERSONAL,

PERSONAL.
Sir. ARTHUR will be presented to day
with petition mile long. It's $50, 600
signers want Mason pardoned.
Lord RANDOLPH CHURCHILL sails for
America on the Goth instant for the CON-
plete restoration of his health.
Warrants have been issued in Richmond
Va, for the arrest of General PEYToN
WISE and 3. TAYLOR MCCUE, tobacco
dealer, on a charge of being about to en-
gage in breach of the peace.
EUGENE F. BEECHER, a nephew of
Henry Ward Beecher, was committed to
Ludlow street Jail, New York, yesterday,
on a suit for damages resulting from an
alleged fraudulent transaction.
In an interview with Minister PHELPS,
the Khedive of Egypt said he did not
hesitate to express his preference for
American sympathy and cooperation over
that which had been offered from other
sources.
FRANKLIN B. GowEN, has sailed from
New York for Europe by the steamer Ar
izona. An immense crowd was on the
pier to see him off, Among the other
passengers were Mr.. and Mrs. CASTELAR,,
Mr.. Dixon Boucicault, Mr.. ]. H. Harper,
Mr.. Roswell Smith, of Scribner's.
The will of HENRY w. LoNGrEILow
makes no public bequests. and after nam
ing several small sums to be given to rela'
tives. it gives the balance of property to
his children. Richard A. Dana, jr., the
executor named in the will, being dead,
the poets son Ernest will be made ad.
ministrator.
OSCAR WILDE said to New Orleans re-
porter q" Kate Field is kleptomaniac Of
other peoples ideas. I think she is wrong
in urging women to wear knee-breeches
What they should put on are Turkish
trousers, something like these" conclud-
ed Mr.. Wilde, holding one of his feet in
the air in dizzy sort Of a way.
1t is learned from an authoritative
source" that President Arthur is not sat
isfied that Minister LOWELL has acted as
promptly as he ought in urging the speedy
trial or release of American citizens i'm.
prisoned in Ireland, and will therefore in
few days recall Mr.. Lowell from the
Court of St. James.
Mr.. ALFRED CoNKLING COKE, who has
just been nominated for judge of the
United States district court for the North
ern district of New York, is a nephew o.
Roscoe Conkling. and also of Bishop Coke
of the Western diocese of New York. Mr.
Coke graduated at Hamilton college, and
read law with Mr.. Conkling, whose part
ner he afterward became in Utica, where
he now resides. He is Sc years old, ablt
and eloquent.
JOHN SMITH, Of Brooklyn, las obtained
permission of the city court to change hi.
name, after April 24, to JOHN CoUR1E1
JMITH. His petition states that for four
teen years he was commercial editor of th,
Courier aud Enquirer, published in New
York, and ever since has been known ant
addressed as John Courier Smith. Th'
authorized addition of Courier to his nam'
will, he says, save much trouble and in
convenience, and he knows no reason VIII,
the addition should not be allowed.
The Philadelphia Presbyteryy sends th'
news to it's late member, Rev. DR.. VIII.
LETS, that in its judgment his recent de
livery Of his lecture on "Sunshine." OF
q certain Sunday in 4 Cincinnati oper:
house for the benefit Of a Unity club, al
admission fec OF ten cents having beer
charged, was unbecoming, and the offense
ought not to be repeated. 1t would be
very sad if Dr.. Willis would remind the
Philadelphia brethren how some people
get rich, and what a vast field of worl
there is for Philadelphia preachers ON thi:
side of Cincinnati.
According to Prof. Gilman, writing in
Our Continent, the late SIDNEY LAN1ER's
friends "will always remember him as q
man of remarkable personal qualities. In
their eyes he was as valiant knight as
any at King Arthur's court. All sorts of
adversities beset him. But his gallant
spirit never wavered. He met each new
obstacle with cheerful resolution of one
who regards the business of life as the
conquest Of difficulties. Disappointment
unfair criticism, the lack of money, bodily
suffering, even the approach of death did
not dismay him. He seemed to live above
the evils of life in realm. of ideal seren
ity. He dwelt with Chaucer and Spencer
and Shakespeare !; he listened to Eschylus
and Sophocles, to Dante and Milton and
to David and the prophets; his living
friends were those who had most sympa.
thy with the best in art and literature
his domestic life was a perpetual solace ;
his faith in the Divine government was
ever shaken -
PERU.