Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-09
PERSONAL.

General and Mrs. GRANT shortly wnl
issue cards for dinner party at their res
idence in New York in honor of Mr..
Arthur.
EMMoSs BLAINE, the ex-senator's
Youngest son, is clerk in a railroad
Office at Fond du Lac Wis. He is study
ing the business.
JOHN PIERPONT, chief justice of the
supreme court Of Vermont, died at Eer-
gennes, in that state, yesterday afternoon,
after long illness.
Miss BLANCHE ROOSEVELT, the singer,
is writing in Italy life of Mr.. Longfel-
low. who is said to take fatherly inter-
est in his biographer.
LAURENCE OLIPHANT, the traveller and
author, was the first through passenger
from San Francisco to New Orleans on
the new Southern Transcontinental line.
HAvERLy is small in stature, has a
round head partly bald, keen, black eye,
an enormous mOustache, and pleasant
manner controls about fifteen frst-clasS
theatres and runs several travelling shows
besides.
Senator and Mrs PENDLEToN and their
family are nov occupying their new house
on the next lot in Washington, d. c., to
that of Senator Cameron. Its interior is
very elegant the walls of the drawing
! room are covered with blue silk.
Senator CAMERON's young wife, who is
passionately fond Of children, has adopted
child whose parents she knew and eS-
tcemed and who have both died, leaving
the little oue alone. The father was a
clergyman, and the couple were special
friends of Senator Cameron.
The Washington Post has q letter from
General JOE JOHNSTON denying the charge
that he recently accused Jefferson Davis
Of apprOp:iating tho Confederate funds
carried through North Carolina to his own
use. General Johnston admits having said
that the president ought to have account
ed for the money.
The annual dinner of the District At
tOrncys' association of Southern Pennsyl-
vania, comprising the counties of Bucks,
Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Le-
high, Montgomery and Northampton,
will take place at the Cafe Finnelli,
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Saturday
evening, January 21.
WILLIE SEYMOUR, the dramatic author
and stage manager of the Madison Square
theatre, was yesterday married to Miss
bAN CAC ACUICSS, IL
HoughtOn's church, in Nineteenth street,
New York, now So familiarly known as
"The Little Church Around the
Corner" The marriage took place im-
mediately after the morning service.
ARIsTlDEs WEIGH, whose stock farm,
Erdenheim, at Chestnut Hill, is celebrated
all over the country as the birthplace of
some OF the most noted horses that ever
ran Oh the turf, has sold his farm and en-
tire stock, consisting of about eighty
horses, mares and colts, among which are
Alarm and Reform, two noted stations,
and Maggie B. b., the dam of Iroquois, to
Commodore Kittson, Of Minnesota, for til e
sum of 100000.
President ARTHuR's children return to
New York to-day, where his son attends
Columbia college and his little daughter
goes to school. Little Miss Nellie is very
anxious to return home, as she says she
finds the White House entirely too big and
too lonesome. Her brother, although only
seventeen years old, is six feet four inches
in height. President Arthur's nephew
and his wife occupy his house in New
York, and Nellie lives with them.