Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-02
PERSONAL,


Mrs. CATHARING: BRANCH, the oldes;
PRISON in Boston, died, aged III years
Seven daughters of the newly elected
Gov. Lowry, Of Mississippi, were present
at tue recent Inauguration ball. Five are
married and two are yet single.
| HORACE: W. TABOR, the mining; million
aire and cx-iieutcnant governor of Col
GRADE, Is reported to be worth 50, ,Oo0, 900.
In 1854 lie was stonecutter ut Augusta.
Maine
Senator DAVIS DAVIS gives it out that
he is going to improve the grounds around
the Lincoln monument at Oakb.i.igc, Ill.
The wc,l; will be done at his own ex
pensc.
Madame GEHsTEE's baby is named
Linda, from Donizetti's opera of LINDA
iii thamoEn, because she sang the grand
air of Linda at her first trial before the
IHry Of the Vienna conservatory Of music,
and received the first prize in singing.
The will of the late EDWIN w. SroUGH,
ton was offered for probate in the New
York surrogate 5 court yesterday. The
bulk "i his property goes 20 his widow.
There are few minor bequests such as
$1,000 to his coacllman.
LEOPoLE NON RANKE. the German his
torian. who celebrated his eighty seventh
birthday Il few days ago, is still Il strong
and active man. in full vigor of mimi and
body. His third and fourth volumes Of
universal history have just been pub
lishcd
o. AL tie cabinet Ladies Mrs. BREWSTER
has the most popular manner: she has
extreme ability and great dignity. Her
children are al called Brewster, although
their name is really DesLandes, her first
husband being Des Landes, a brother oi
Genera! Beauregard's last wife.
Master JOHN r. REYNOLDS, Of Uopkin-
ton, X. l., won prize of thirty dollars in
the competition for raising the largest
crop Of corn upon one-eighth of an acre
of ground last summer He produced
S95! pounds, or at the rate of 1O3 bushels
of shelied corn upon one acre.
Ex-TIcasurer SPINNER, who is now
eighty years OF age, perfected his famous
autograph when he was a young man,
at harness making in Herkimer,
y. y. lie practiced writing it hour after
hour, and his old partner said Il year Or
Two ago that he had seen az much as two
hundred sheets of foolscap covered with !
he attempts.
The Most Rev. JOHN MCHALE. d. d.,
of Tuam, is dead. He was
born in e791 in the county Mayo, became
lecturer and professor at Maynooth, was
appointed coadiutor bishop of Kilala, and
succeeded to the archbishopric OF Taum on
the death Of DR.. Kelly. He was the old
sst priest in Christendom, and in O'Con-
nell's day took an active part in national
,ffairs, being callod by the LiJelntor the
' Lion of the fold of Judah"
Mrs. Burnett is the literary lion of
She has pretty little house
where she receives Tuesdays and Tuesday
evenings. She has coterie in her own
den upstairs. She looks very
pretty standing in the centre of her cozy,
ow- cciled drawing room, wood fire
blazing on the hearth, and herself in a
pretty pink gown, receiving with natural
race and cordialty that is very captivat.
ng.
The most anomalous social positi n ever
coupled by any woman in Washinton is
irs. MAHONE's. An excellent, kindly,
rovinc;al woman, with her vision limit
d to the people and things Of carly
fe, she is ignored by the Southern and
democratic element. The wisdom OF the !
,lly of Social Ostracism bears hardly on ,
er. No doubt she longs for the times j
iat werr. when they were the ma,nates )
an inla.d :0wn. when the Malone