Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-04
PERSONAL,

CARDINAL NEWMAN, who is fourscole
years old, is an expert viOlinist.
PAUL II. HAYNES latest literary work
is short ode in memory of Ex- Senator
Ben Hill.
Mrs. LIvERMORE wrote recently in a
private letter "The newspapers of Bos
ton arc greatly improved now that women
are employed as regular writer's on the
staff.
w. C. DEPAUw. of New Albany, Ind .,
offers to give 81, 600, 600 to the Ashbury
university, in that state, GU condition that
like sum be raised by the other Metho.
dists of the state.
ROBERT p. PORTER, member and secre
tary Of the tariff commission, is spoken
of as the successor to Joseph Nimmo, jr.
as chief Of the bureau of statistics, and il
is anticipated the change will occur before
the first of next January.
The PRINCESS OF WALES recently wore
a ball costume of cream cOlOred silk,
trimmed with old gold lace, the ruff being
also Of the late material, and red gerani
ums being worn at the centre of the low
cut bodice.
The MARQUIS OF LORNE, governor gen.
hi.hness the Princess Louise, arrived al
Niagara Fails, Ont. ON Saturday evening,
accompanied by their suite. The vice
regal party have quarters at the Prospec,
house, on tho Canadian side.
EMERSON wrote to Carlyle at one time
that there was new reason why he should
not visit England "A baby named Ellen,
little fair soft lump Of humanity, with
an air of incurious security which says she
has come to stay, has come to be loved,
which has nothing mean, and quito piques
me-"
Miss NELLIE WINDOW, a daughter oi
Senator Window, writes to a friend in
Washington in reference to a recent visit
to Mentor d" Mrs. Garfield and Mollie
look lots better than when we saw them
last year, and do you know they talk
about the general all the time, just as il
he was alive and had gone somewhere on
a visit"
CHARLES ROwELL, the pedestrian, was
passenger on the Alaska, which arrived
at New York yesterday, and, in company
with Peter Duryea, his hacker, has taken
up quarters at the Rossmore. He looks
remarkably well, and will at once begin
to train. Mr.. A. M. Palmer, Of the Union
Square theatre, was also passenger on
the Alaska.
SECRETARY FOLGER left Washington on
Saturday for New York, and will be gone
about a month. He is taking a holiday
for the benefit Of his health. If chosen by
the convention he will accept the Republi-
can nomination for governor of New York,
but he will do nothing himself to secure
the nomination. His resignation as secre-
tary of the treasury, it is also stated, is
contingent upon his election as governor
of New York"
SARAH WINNEMUCCA, princess of the
Piutes, has an opinion about the pale.face
her tribe, which she wrote recently for the
Cali if0rnian, she says :: d" see very we'll
that all my race will die out. In few
not one Indian in the whole of America.
respects, but he is . bigger rascal, too.
He steals and lies more than the Indian
does. hope some other race will como
has done us. Then will say the Great
Spirit is just aud that it is all right"
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS said in his
Atlanta speech that he proposed to "tote
his own skillet" and then related to the
laughing audience how the expression had
its origin. General Dodge of Wiscon-
sin, said Mr.. Stephens, "told me during
the war of 1912 he was taken prisoner
with q number of others, and the Indians
were taking them out two or three hun.
dred miles. The Indians make all the
prisoners carry the cooking and camp
utensils. The second night he got little
tired of it aud stopped and threw down
his burden aud said /: Mr.. Indian, from
this time out every mans got to tote his
own skillet