Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-29
PERSONAL.

Old Daddy K1RKwooD is going back to
Iowa to try and become a private citizen,
but his friends may drag him out of his
retirement and. make him governor.
A Republican senator, who has dined
with every president from Buchanan to
ARTHUR, says that the latter has given
the best dinner he ever saw at the execu-
tive mansion.
Professor SAMUEL D. Gross, the re-
nowned surgeon, resigned yesterday the
chair of surgery in the Jefferson medical
college, which he had occupied for twenty
six years.
Ex-Collector THOMAS MURPHY, who
lives in Washington. during the season,
because he considers it the winter Sara.
toga, is said to be of opinion THAT he could
cheerfully represent our government in
Holland or Italy.
JOHN CADwALLADER ERsKINE, fourth
Lord and grandson of the great lawyer,
Lord Thomas Erskine, died in England
yesterday. He was the younger son of the
second Lord David Montague Erskine, and
succeeded his brother in 1877. His heir
and successor is his son, William Mac
Naghten Erskine.
President ARTHUR held his first public
reception in the White House last night.
He was assisted in receiving by General
and Mrs. Grant, the wives of severel
cabinet officers, Mrs. Senator Pendleton.
Mrs. Senator Cameron, Mrs. Mcpherson
and others. The reception was crowded
and unusually brilliant.
JOHN WANAMAKER, president of the
Presbyterian Sunday school superintend-
ents' association, offers to supply, gratui-
tously, 100 packages containing four va
rieties of flowers to every Sunday school
making application for them provided
that they hold summer exhibition, offer
prizes to those making the best displays,
and report the same.
The Times notices that while the Dem
ocrats are solid for J. SIMPSON AFRICA for
secretary of internal affairs, the Republicans
reject Lucius Rogers, their most exper-
fenced candidate He will not be thought
of, because the Office was traded off more
than year ago when the bosses wanted
votes for United States senator, to State
senator John NJ. Grier.
While Mr.. RANDALL. positively declines
membership in the Democratic city com :
mittee in it's present demoralized and in
harmonious condition, he writes: elf 10
the exigencies of the coming canvass, so
vital to the reform of public abuses in
Pennsylvania, union and harmony in our
party can be surely and certainly obtained
by any labor of mine, l will be ready to
assume any other duty to which may be
assigned
May will we'd Novem Der when the mar.
riage of the Duke of WESTMINSTER and
CATHERINE CAvESDIsH, third daughter
of Baron Chesham, takes place. Tho
bridegroom is So, tho bride is hardly Of
age. Her eldest brother married daugh-
ter of tho Duke Of Westminster, who will
thus be the brother -in.law of his
son-in law. The late Duchess of West
minister died in 1880. She was the Duke
of Sutherland's sister, famous for her
beauty and good works.
BARNUM addressed large temperance
meeting in New York on Sunday evening.
He said he had drank more liquor than
any man in the house. He first began
drinking in England in 1842; he drank
steadily, and the habit grew upon him for
twenty years, until one night at a temper
ance lecture delivered by the Rev. Mr..
Chaplin, in Connecticut, he made up his
mind il possible to break up the habit.
He thought it over all night, and the next
morning he went and signed the pledge.
For twenty years he has kept the faith.
The statement to the effect that the
naval portfolio had been rendered to w.
E. CHANDLER, or New Hampshire, "seems
to be inaccurate in view of the fact that
General Grants visit has resulted in his
friend, General E. F. BEALE, formerly
minister to Austria, being selected for the
position. Secretary Hunt has been offered
and has decided to accept the Russian
mission" This is the latest rumor and
anybody who thinks he is ga bigger man
than ole Grant at the White House will
soon find out his mistake.