Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-12
PERSONAL.

Mrs. ALVIN ADAMS, wife of the founder
, of Adams Express company, died yester-
day at Boston.
Little Miss NELLIE ARTHUR, daughter
| of the president, gave dinner party at
the White House, on Tuesday afternoon
| to a number of her friends.
The Ohio Senate yesterday adopted a
resolution to place statute of General
GARFIELD in the old House of Represen-
tatives at Washington, d. c.
Hon. A. H. STEPHENS, who is now 20
| years old. has never read a fairy story.
and until tho other day never heard OF
Cinderella.
Colonel LEWIS PORTER, formerly as
sistaut postmaster at Washington, u. c.,
died suddenly Of heart disease in that city
on Tuesday night. His remains will be
sent to Grand Rapids, Mich. for burial.
GEORGE DOLBY, who was Charles Dick
ems business agent during his readings
both in this country and England, is going
to publish volume Of "reminiscences OF
the novelist.
! A lot of letters which VOLTA1HE wrote
the private secretary Of the Empress
Catherine were recently disinterred from
the library of Russian country house,
and will soon be published.
MARCUS MORTON, the new chief justice
OF tho Massachusetts supreme court, is
son Of the man who ran for governor
twelve times and was beaten every time,
but on the thirteenth trial was elected by
one majority,
JAMES F. Wilson, who has jrst been
chosen to the Senate for the full term Oi
six years, to succeed the KirkwGCd term,
is u staunch Blaine man and said to be
the abiest Republican in the state of Iowa.
At present be is a member of the House.
Mr.. JOHN HILL. in recent lecture at
Hackensack, n. V, said that among the
sights he saw in England were the graves
of the grandfathers Of Abraham Lincoln
aud John Wilkes Booth, in the same
graveyard.
The latest novelty is dress album. A
piece of every new dress is carefully cut
and gummed ON one side Of the leaf and
the date attached. Thus the book forms
a complete history Of a lady's costume
from season to season.
Mr.. IRVING, the actor. denies report
! telcgraphed from New York that he mas
arranged to appear in that CITY next au
tumn with Miss Terry at Il new theatre, OF
which Messrs. Booth and Clarke will be
joint owners. Mr.. Irving says he has
made no arrangement to come to America.
cod Sacred Cowbeli" " is the nick.
name by which the good -natured ex Sena-
tor RAMSEY, of Minnesota, is known in the
state. He used to be greatly annoyed by
the ringing of q church bell. and finally
wrote to newspaper on the subject, say
| ing that a city ordinance forbade COWS
which wore bells from running about after
dark, and asking if a church bell was any
thing more than sacred COW bell.
The new postmaster-gencral a day or
two ago relieved of his duties Il 81, 400
clerk, whose occupation for some months
! past. according to his own statement, has
consisted altogether OF cutting out OF the
newspapers complimentary notices Of the
| lately retired postmaster general and past.
ing them in a scrap book. So as to con-
tinuc in this labor Of lovo he had COM
mcnced work on y similar scrap book for
the new chief of the department.. After
glancing over the book Mr.. Howe ordered
| it to be thrown in the fire.
| PETER MANKINs, who died at tie age of
III years near Little Rock, ARK, Il few
days ago. voted for Presidents Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren,.
| Polk, Pierce. and Buchanan. lie also vo-
ted for Mr.. Tildcn, as well as for Candid
ates Cass, Breckenridge, Mcclellan, Sey-
mour, Greeley and Hancock. At the last
presidential election the voting precinct
was three miles fiom his home, but lie
| rode in Il wagon to the polls and voted for
the Hancock and English electors.