Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-10
PERSONAL.

The Cars coronation, according to
dispatch from st. Petersburg, will take
place on the 1st of September next.
Mrs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON has
headed tho subscription started last week
in Boston for the benefit of the widow of
John Brown with 500.
DIR. II. Z. LANDS, formerly of Lancas.
ter, but now of Little Rock, Ark, where
he has resided for several years past, is
here visiting friends preparatory to max
ing an extended eastern tour.
J. NJ. McCLINToCk, the Republican
nominee for state auditor in Arkansas,
publishes card of declination. Tho state
central committee will fill the vacancy.
ROBERT p. PORTER has been elected
permanent secretary of the tariff commits
sion. Mr.. POrter's duties as secretary will
be in addition to those he will perform as
a member Of the commission.
Miss HELEN GLADSTONE, daughter of
the premier. has accepted tho vice prnci-
palship of Newman college, in place of
Mrs. Henry Sedgwick, who will resign in
October.
THE PRINCE OF WALES has begun to
shine as farmer. He won three first
prizes at the Norfolk catt" show one for
a shorthorn bull and two for SouthdOwn
sheep.
ROssI played only Lear in London. The
English critics evidently resented the idea
of an Italian playing Shakespeare, and they
1t is certainly very different from anything
an English actor ever conceived.
CHARLES E. COURTNEY, tho oarsman of
Union Springs, was badly poisoned on the
Fourth of July, with thirty others, at the
village by eating poisoned ice cream. 1t
has just been made public to-day that
Courtney was one of the number. He has
been very i'll, but it is now said he will re-
cover. Some miscreant put tartar cmetic
in the ice cream.
JAMES LICK's estate, by a recent report
made upon it, Is shown to be worth ST.
94e. .350SG. Out of this are to be paid
s7OO, 900 (less (s10s, ,97s.73, already paid)
for an observatory and telescope to the
California school of mechanical arts, $780,,
600; for free public baths $3.50, 900; for
bronze statuary in San Francisco and to
tho Old Ladies' Home, $4,000 each :;
for monument to Francis Scott Key,
$50, 600; and other bequests to benevolent
societies, etc, amounting mali to 81, 72S,-
271.27.
WEBSTER once wrote letter to the
editor OF leading newspaper iii New
England, demonstrating against some re-
peated attacks against his pecuniary honor
that had appeared in the columns Of the
journal. He acknowledged his careless.
ness in what he owed and others owed
him, adding, rs regards the latter "Aud
rs al illustration inclOse two notes on
money which loaned your father to aid
him i'll giving you and your brother
an education" That newspaper never
troubled Webster moro on the debt and
credit impeachment.
REV. LOUIS +. ZINKHAN, formerly pas
tor of the Reformed church at Mannheim,
now agent Of the Maryland Prisoners Aid
association, read his first report at the
quarterly meeting of the organization in
Baltimore the other evening. He spoke
of the nature of the work upon which lie
had entered aud tho Impressions it had
made upon him dnring the short time ho
had served the association rs its agent.
Forty. eight persons had been forwarded to
their homes, l33 had been given pecuniary
aid, 50 lad been furnished meals aud
lodging, and AZ had been found employ
ment. On motion of DR.. John Morris,
seconded by Mr.. Louis A. Birely, each of
whom highly commended the first report
of the agent, the report was received and
adopted. BY request of Mr.. Griffith, the
agent gave au account of the method of
his work. which was quite interesting,
after which there was a general inter-
change of opinion in regard to the care of
prisoners, pauper children, sc. The
amounts collected toward the work OF the
association since last meeting aggregate
$1,273.