Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-26
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL
!. MRS. BURNETT, tho novelist, dresses in
the highest style Of 1stheticism.
MISS SARAH SARsEANT, aged 10, and
very pretty, Is mail carrier in Washing
ton county.
EDWARD ARTHUR WELLINGTON, the
second Baron Keane, in his 6Sth year is
dead in London.
REPRESENTATIVE STEPHENS has many
namesakes in Georgia, even among the
girls.
Hon. GEO. L. CONVERSE was nomina-
ted for Congress by the Democratic con-
ventiOn of the Thirteenth Ohio district, at
Lancaster, yesterday.
Mrs. SCHUYLER COLFAx wants her hus-
band to again enter public life and vindi-
cate himself. She is fond Of Washington
society.
]. PRocToR KNOTT Is definitely an
nouuced as . candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of Ken
tucky at next years election.
SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN, of Ohio, is an
extensive landowner in Iowa. He has con-
siderable property in Des Moines, forty acres
adjoining Council Bluffs, and several thous
and acres Of land in northern counties.
MIR. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA has con-
sented to be the first president of tho first
Journalists club in London. The organi-
cation will have its rooms In Fleet street
and will include among its members both
London and country members OF the pro-
fessi0n.
VENNOR says of next month: II cannot
butthink that August will be another month
of storms and unusual rainfall, with ono
or two remarkably low curves of tempera-
ture. expect snowfalls will be recorded
in extreme western and northern sections,
and cold rains at moro sOutherly stations
shortly after the middle of the month"
JOHN C. HAMILTON, the last surviving
son of Alexander Hamilton, whose death
at the advanced age of 90 years is just an
nounced, wrote tho life of his father in
1888, emitting from it all mention of the
tragic duel by which the great statesman
came to his death. His last and one of his
few appearances in public life was in 1880,
when he presented to the city Of New
York statue of his father, and made an
address.
WEBSTER was graduated from Dart
mouth college, and the valedictory was
given to Thomas A. Merrill. Webster
went out in the street, tore his diploma in
shreds, trampled it under his feet, and
exclaimed "Thomas A. Merrill given
the valedictory over Daniel Webster One
day will soar as much above Tom Mer-
rill :" And he did. Merrill was awarded
the position because of his attainment in
classical studies. But he became lazy,
lounging, drawling preacher.
GI4ADsToNE's friends propose to cele-
brate his "jubilee "-the completion of
his fiftieth year in the public service.
Mr.. Gladstone issued his fiji st election ad.
dress to the constituency of the borough of
Newark on tho 9th of October, 1882, the
nomination took place on the 18th of
December, and the election was completed
on the 18th of tho same month. 1t is
proposed to have the commemoration
coincide as nearly as possible with the
fiftieth anniversary of his first return to
Parliament, December Is. Since that time
there has been no Parliament of which he
has not been . member. The form which
the celebration is to take has not been de-
cided upon as yet.
Hon. GEO. p. MARSH, the venerable
American minister to Rome, just deceased
was one of the few Americans permitted
to remain in the diplomatic service of the
country undisturbed for long series of
years. Mr.. Marsh's first service as for
eign minister Ito Turkey and Greece)
dates back to 1S49, continuing till 1854,
and then, after An interval of seven years
at home, he was appointed to Italy in
1861, and has been continued at Florence
and Rome ever since. Long before his
departure to Italy, he had made his mark
as the pioneer of popular language study
in this country. As linguist and English
linguist he will be longest remembered,
although as scientific naturalist his at
tainments were of high order.