Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-14
PERSONAL.

one of the finest houses at the capital.
PRESTON BENNETT, member elect of
Parliament for Yale district Of British Co.
lumbia, has died suddenly.
nile. RHEA arrived in New York last
evening by the steamer Arizona aud was
received by large company of theatrical
people.
JUDGE WILLIAM NJ. LEVY, Of New Or
leans, did not die at Saratoga last Thurs
day, as published in some New York
papers, but is yet alive.
MCKEE, the centre fielder of the Har.
risburg club, is reported to be worth $50,
600 in his own right, and he is playing
ball for exercise and his health.
ANTHONY TRoLLoPE is sick with
Bright's disease and is travelling in Ire
land for his health. On his tour he will
gather material for a new novel.
JOsEFFY, the pianist, has devoted his
summer leisure to composition. He has
recently finished the orchestration of a
piano forte concerto which is spoken of
quite highly.
GENERAL SHERMANs daughter, Mrs.
Fitch, has Just lost her youngest child, a
baby, and another child, Katie, is seriously
i'll. Tho baby died on the cars just before
reaching Washington.
MIR. CHARLES G. FRANckLYN and family
have arrived at Provincerown, Mass, from
London, on board the steam yacht Santa
Cecilia, owned by Lord Alfred Paget.
They are en- route for New York.
GENERAL STONEMAN, the Democratic
candidate for governor Of California, lives
at Los Robes in an old square house made
of redwood, which has never seen pain;
aud is now almost black with age.
Miss Rose G. HIRsH, Lancaster, Pa, is
regarded in certain quarters as entitled te
the recognition of being tho belle of the
New Columbia. Her taste in tho matter
of dress is justly admired Ma,
Daily Waoe.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR GEORGE
r. DENNIS, of Maryland, died suddenly
at his homo in Somerset county, Nd, or
Sunday, aged G1 years. He was United
States senator from March 4, 1878 to March
4. 1879, was graduate of the Polytechnic
school, ar Troy, N. Y, and studied medi
cine at the University of Pennsylvania.
REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN, of Indiana,
was SO indignant at the publication in al
obsure newspaper of his district of a rnmOl
that he had drank a whisky cocktail that
he induced number of his fellow men,
bers to sign a statement that he had never
been seen by them in the act of drinking
or in an intoxicated condition. Then ht
had this statement printed in all the news
papers of his district.
| ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, of Toronto. VIII,
has Just returned from Rome, had til,
honor of formal official presentation t.
the Prince of Wales at q levee in LondOl
held in behalf of tho queen. The signifi-
canoe of this presentation lies in tho fac,
that for over two hundred years no Roman
Catholic prelate has been presented as sucl
at court. Such an honor has SO far no
been granted to Cardinal Manning, or eveI
Cardinal Howard, cousin of the Duke o
Norfolk, premier duke and hereditary earl
marshal of England.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS will return
to his home in Georgia. IIe is in excel
lent health and fine spirits. When aSkct
recently if he intended to make a genera
canvass of the state, he replied sit j
my purpose to SEQ as much of the peOpl
IN l can. believe that to be the dut,
Of every man who is standing for tn
public suffrage. do not intend to maxi
more than three or four regular speeches
and these l may supplement with littl
talks to the people when occasion ma.
demand.'
BRET IIARTE. SO long as ho had to dc
pend upon the immediate proceeds of hi
work, turned out vast amount of matte
and it was good matter too. He is
singular chap, is Harte. He gets up ever
morning of his lifo with the best inten
ticns in the world as to work, and hi
resolution c'ings to him while dressing
Then he takes up tho papers and sits dow
to breakfast. Gradually his determination
fades away, and by the time he has turnc
off page or SO of manuscript, industr
has fled for the next twenty four hours.