Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-15
PERSONAL,

Mr.. w. w. STORY, the sculptor, arrived
from Europe yesterday in the Parthia.
Mrs. LANGTRY has been holiday making
in the Swiss Ensadine with Mr.. Labou-
chere and Miss Hodson.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is aboard the De-
spatct, and it is surmised that she has put
into some port for shelter during the
storm.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY is in Leavsnworth,
Kansas, visiting her brother, Colonel
Anthony, editor of the Leayenworth
Times.
SENATOR SEwELL, of New Jersey, says
that the railway officers, employees, and
these depending upon them in this cOun-
try amount to about onc-sixth Of the popu-
latiOn.
GUsTAvE DoRE has just laid the foun-
dation of his magnificent new mansion in
Paris, just opposite the princely palace
built by the late M. Menier, Of chocolate
making fame.
HENRY o. FLIPPER, the colored gradu-
ate of West Point, in letter to the New
York Tribune, denies thu story that he has
been appointed captain of tho Mexican
army.
C6L3ssE;H ;iUuiii...ss uii.s kI!:ETT, Who mar.
ried Miss Emile Schaumberg, of Philade| J.
phia, will come to this country as military
attache of the British legation at Wash
ington.
MARQUIS DE MAUzANEDO, Due dc San
tona, the richest man in Spain, died last
week and left behind him estates valued at
SEQ, 600. 900, tremendous fortune for a
SDaDiard to DOSSeSS
WILLIAM II. VANDERBILT, Pierrc Lor.
lizard and Miss Catherine Do Wolf, three
of the wealthicst people, perhaps, in the
United States, have adjoining pews in All
Saints chapel in Newport.
LIEUTENANT BERRY, who commanded
the relief steamer Rodgers which was
sent after the Jeanette, is above the Or
binary height and strongly built. His
countenance is expressive Of tirmness and
determination.
ENGINEER MELVILLE looks the picture
of health. He wears a full sandy bearC
and mOustache. As the Parthia steamed
into Now York harbor Melville swung his
hat so enthusiastically that ho lost 1t over.
board.
Mr.. CHEsTON CLARKE son Of Mr.. John
Clarke, has adopted tho dramatic pro-
fession, and will accompany his uncle,
MIR. Edwin Booth, in his tour through the
English province, which is to begin this
| month.
KOsSUTH expresses to his cOuntrymen
| surprise aud regret that tho anti.Jewisl
movement should have taken such deep
root among them. Tho agitation is, ht
declares, nothing but trade carried or
by certain persons for the purpose of pro
fitting by the passions of tho thoughtless
HARRISON AINswORTH's library had ir
it hardly ono book of conspicuous value
He purchased simply the tools of his liter
ary wOrk-chrOnicles of crime aud cOur
romance and g:ossaries of slang. Small as
was this literary workshop. he depended
upon it almost entirely, and rarely wen
abroad to study his characters aud thei
language from the life. When he wrote
"Rookwood' and Jack Sheppard" HI
relied absolutely on ais power o.
reading up and assimilation, ami never hat
the slightest intercourse with thieves in
his life. 1t is said that when he wrote thl
really admirable ride of Turpin to York,
he only went at . great pace over th'
paper with road nap and description O
the country in front Of him. 1t was only
when he heard everybody say how trul!
| tho country was described and how faith
| fully he had observed distances aud locali
ties, that he actually drove over thu
ground for the first time, and declared il
| was more like his account than he coult
| have imagined.