Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-28
PERSONAL.

Mr.. W. w. CORCORAN, the banker .!
Washington, yesterday celebrated his Sitll
birthday.
DR.. MAEoN, !. weli-kncwn writer Gu
political economy, shot hi; wife and him
self yesterday at London.
CONRAD B. DAY, the new grand master
of the Masonic order in this state, has ap.
pointed Govcrno: Psttison senior grand
deacon, and w. 4. Morton. of this city,
deputy grand master for Lancaster county.
LADY MACNAGnTER, daughter of Wm.
Howard {" Bull Run ~ Russell L. L. ID ,
the well-knOwn newspaper correspond
ent and wife of Sir Francis Edmund
Observation-Disclosures, an Irish baronet,
has oloped with a young agent, leaving
several children behind her.
THOMAS INLAY and wife, of Imlays-
town, vino celebrated a few days ago the
seyentieth anniversary Of their wedding.
were married when he was % and she 1S
years of age. They have had twelve
children, and ten of them are now living
with large families of their own, there
being about 100 grandchildren.
Mrs. GARFIELD is entertaining few oi
the friends of the late president at her
home in Cleveland. She looks much bet
ter than she did early in the summer.
There is better color in her face and she
is moro tleshy. She looks older and is
moro caroworn and numerous wrinkles
have appeared in the face. Her dress is
wonderfully plain, as is that also Of her
husbands mother.
NJ. DE BRAzzA considers it possible to
complete tho exploration Of tho Upper
Congo in two years. NJ. De Brazza's OBJ
ject is to maintain the position already
achieved by founding eight chief aud
twelve minor stations, forming chain to
Brazzaviile from GabOon and from the
sea. In order to mark the pacific charac-
ter of the mission, it goes under the aus
pices of the ministries of foreign affairs
and public instruction.
VICE PRESIDENT a. II. FETTEROLF
was yesterday, after six ballots, elected to
the presidency of Giravd college, mace
vacant by the death of William II. Allen,
LII. d. The candidates for the position
were Henry d. Gregory. Geo. 1. Richie,
A. II. Fetterolf, General Chas. F. Ruff,
General Jas. A. Beaver, Henry K. Trask,
General VIM. +. Reynolds, Leroy F..
Griffin, Colonel Richard H. Rush, Cyrus
Northrop. Geo. w. Fettsr, Lewis NJ.
Haupt, W. II. Baker, Robert Cornelius,
F. E. lockwood.
Miss MUTT, the daughter of the victim
of the UniontOwn tragedy, whose name
has been dragged into tho affair, denies
all the rumors associating her with tho
fatal encounter, and says that the contents
of the letters which passed between her
father and his antagonist in no way affect
ed her personally. Miss Nuts lady
friends who have known her long and in
tinately just as earnestly deny the asper-
sions that have been cast upon her
character. Tho young lady is probably
twenty-three or twenty-four years of age.
She was the idol Of her father, we'll edu-
Gated, naturally bright and very pretty.
She is brilliant convcrsationalist, an
excellent musician, and was the favOrite
not alone of her family but of all her as.
sociates.
Hon. SAMUEL B. DICK, tho retiring
Right Worshipful Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of the Masonic Order in this
state, was yesterday est. Johns Day. pre-
sented by the lodge with chaste and
costly grand masters jewel. 1t consisted
of a compass aud square of heavy gold.
A first water diamond of the size of q
large pea glistens on the joint of the com.
pass, and across tho face of the square
there is a representation in gold Of the
sun descending behind cloud. The re.
verse is appropriately described. The
officers of the lodge newly installed are
r. w. Grand Master, Conrad B. Day; r.
w. Deputy Grand Master, E. Coppee
Mitchell; r. w. Senior Grand Warden.
Joseph Eichbaum r. w. Junior Grand
Warden. Clifford r. MacCalla; r, w.
Grand Treasurer, Thomas r. Patton r.
". Grand Secretary, Michael Nesbit.