Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-23
PERSONAL.

BELLE BOYD, the real ono, is living in
Gonzales, Texas, says Southern corres-
pondent.
ALFRED AWKWARD, tho Irish Bocr COM
mander, is in the alcoholic ward in Belle.
view hospital, New York. He expects to
be all right in few days.
MELVIN JONES, colored boy of Coch-
ranton, Erie county, is seven feet high
weighs $50 pounds, and wears shoes fifteen
inches in length.
SoJoURNER TRUTH, now 10S years old,
lectured in Decatur, Mich, the other
evening and devoted the proceeds to fur
thering the woman suffrage campaign in
Nebraska.
HERBERT SPENCER, who is steadily rc-
covering his normal health and strength,
was in Cleveland, Ohio, day or two ago,
and visited the grave Of Garfield in Lake
View cemetery.
SENATOR L. @. G. LAMAR, of Mississippi
is reported to have said recently that he
would DO glad to tako professorship in
tho University of Georgia, and, rs there
is a vacancy in the faculty, ho may be
gratified.
THE PRINCESS OF WALES, q year ago
appeared at an entertainment at Bucking-
ham palace with simple wild white clovor
as floral ornament, and tho clover i'm
mediately thereafter came into fashion.
Now it is all the rage in London.
LADY FLORENCE DIxEY is doing more
than merely to talk and write in behalf of
the poverty stricken inhabitants of the
west coast of Ireland. She is soliciting
contributions for their relief, and has
received as much as $4,000 in a single
week.
Miss HOPE GLENN, the young American
vocalist, who is yet to make q first ap-
pearance in her native country, is adver-
tised to sing at Hanley, Staffordshire,
England, October 9, her last concert be-
fore leaving for the United States with
Mime. Nilsson.
A. S. VAN WICKLE, Of Cleveland, Ohio,
superintendent of the New York and Ohio
coal company, was married in Hazleton
on Thursday evening to Miss Bessie Par
dee, daughter Of the widely known AriO
Pardee, the millionaire Of the Lehigh
valley.
Miss EMILY FAITHFUL, of England, will
visit New York this season, and on the
first Monday in November, will be the
guest of SOrosis at dinner. American
women will feel great interest in meeting
Miss Faithful, whose worth and work are
familiarly known among us.
Pore LEO has decided to found library
in Rome for the use of the Catholic scien-
tific students, and especially for the Pom
tifical academy of tho Lincel. Several
private collections have already been ac-
quired, among them ono that contains a
rich collection of works on surgery, pur-
chased at cost of q. 900 france.
Ex-M1NIsTER Comfy has returned to
bis home in Ohio from the Sandwich
islands. Mr.. Comfy is tho man of whom
Mr.. Hayes said, when no was asked to
appoint Pacific slope man who under
stood something about commerce "NO,
I propose to appoint Comfy. Why, he
and have slept in the same bed -
Mr.. OLIVER AMEs, who has been nomi.
mated for lieutenant governor of Massa-
chusetts, has been in the employ of the
Ames shovel works at North EastOn since
he was fifteen years old, and he has bsen
the superintendent. His father, Cakes
Ames, died with an Indebtedness of $S,-
OOO. 900. In the time of panic the son
managed the assets, which were scattered
all over the Union, SO that he paid dollar
for dollar, paid a million dollars in
legacies and had surplus for tho ro.
siduary legatees.