Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-21
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SENATOR L. @. G. LANAR talks Of
spending the balance Of his days ~ pro:
fessor in tho Uniysrsity o. Georgia.
SIR GARNET W0LsELEY. calls war cor
respondents Of newspapers "tbose newly
invented curses 10 armies"
JOHN SHEA, who was once worth $15,-
O0O, 900, is now living in comparative
poverty in a rude cottage near Soda
Springs, Cal. --.-
WALTER F. SINGMAsTER, president Of
the Lebigh telegraph company, died yes.
terday in Allentown. of congestion of the
brain, after ono days illness.
CLARK MILLS, the well-known sculptor,
was yesterday at Washington, D. c.,
stricken with paralysis. It has bonumbed
his brain.
HARVEY CHAcE, one of tho pioneers
among cotton manufacturers in Rhode
Island. died yesterday at Valley Falls,
aged 85 years.
PRINCE LEOPOLD has a morbid aversion
to being thought ill, and to this the Gin
spired" " paragraphs which have appeared
announcing his improved health are due.
DIR. J. G.. HOLLANDS widow and two
daughters still occupy Bonnicastle," the
stately mansion built by the dead author
five years ago on the St. Larence bay.
OSCAR WILDE took a trip among the New
York brokers the other day. the brokers
made fun of him, and Oscar took a note
OF it for his forthcoming book of America
and the people he has met here.
MIR. STURGEON does not seem TO have
much sympathy with the idea that drunk
enness is disease. He recently declared
it to be Gin itself an awful sin-one of the
worst of sins, in short dreadful crime" !"
MElssONIER's famous little painting
which Mr.. Ruskin recently sold for some
$50, 900 has become the property of DOfOer
Bey, who is well-knOWn in Paris as an art
collector.
PROFESSOR EvANGELlNUs A. SOrHO.
Giles, the venerable professor Of Greek in
Harvard college, is dangerously i'll. He ID
4 nativo of Greece, but has been resident
Of this country for many years.
REV. II. NJ. KIEFFER, of Norristown.
we'll known in this city, lately received a
call from Emanueps Reformed church,
Hanover. He is said to have declined the
call and will remain with his congregation
at Norristown.
NINE. HELENA MODJEsKA, and her hus-
band, the Count Bozenta Chalapowski,
were welcomed by Oscar Wilde upon their
arrival ut the Clarendon hotel on Monday.
Nine MOdjcska says that in London the
Lord Chamberlain cut good deal out Of
her "Camille."
BJOENsTEENE BJORNsON will soon cclc
brate his twcnty-fifth jubilee as poet.
He has not produced any new poetic work
for many years, having been completely
absorbed in political agitatiOns resulting
from conflict between his views and those
of King Oscar of Sweden.
CONGRESSMAN CRAPO, Of Massachusetts,,
lives at New Bedford in an old fashioned, =,
but large and elegant Gothic house, of an
almost cloister- like appearance. 1t is sur
rounded by widespread lawns and winding
paths, and shaded by q grove Of huge elms
whose lofty branches meet in a leafy arch
above the rOot-tree. Within there is no
snowy. display, but in furniture, books ard
pictures quiet, simple elegance rcigns,
bespeaking at once the wealth, culture
and sturdy common sense of the owner.
ARrEMUs WARDS grave, near Bridge
ton, Me, is marked by plain marble slab
on which are the inscriptions: "Charles
F. Browne. known to the world as Arte-
mus Ward, died at Southampton, Eng
land, 1867, aged 33 years." And beneath
this line: His memory will always be
sweet and unfading recollection" These
words were copied from tho letter sent to
the sorrowing mother by MIR. Miller, tho
English gentlemen who cared for tho son
in his last illness and closed his eyes
when he ceased to breathe.