Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-20
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# Ex-senator RAMSEY has been made
chairman of the Utah commission.
Mrs. L1NcoLN's estate is 900. every
dollar being in United States bonds. ,,,,
Rev. Dr.. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE has
heard 6purgeOn preach, and says he
shouldn't care to hear him second time.
JOHN NJ. FRANCIS, of the Troy Times,
our new minister to Portugal, sailed from
New York yesterday for his post. 8"
,,p GENERAL BARRIos, president of Guate.
mala, arrived in Washington yesterday
morning. He will be formally received by
President Arthur to-day. .''''
II GENERAL HAwLEY is to be permitted to
receive decorations from Holland,
Japan and Spain for his services in con
nection with the Philadelphia exposition.
JUDGE SEVERANCE, of Mankato, Minn.,
recently returned his law library as being
worth 81, 900 but tho council said that it
was worth no more than s40O. aud taxed
the judge accordingly. ....
Ex. Judge JOHN w. RYoN and Jas. B.
Reilly will contest with Judge Pershing
for the Democratic nomination for pfesi-
dent judge in Schuylkill county. Fifty
five Of the eighty members of the bar,
without regard to party, have signed Z
paper indorsing Judge Pershing for <e-
election. "." ..o ~. ...I
Ex-GOvERNOR TON YOUNG, colleague Of
Representative ButterwOrth, OF Cincinnati,
Ohio, having returned from the prize
fight in Now York and resumed his seat
In the House, quorum was yesterday OBJ
tanned and a Democrat tumbled out to
make room for the colored cOrruptiOnist,
Smalls, of South Carolina. .'..
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has some 'tsweet
things in socks" Stockings are reported
as being his weakness, and correspond
eut writes that he has them embroidered
with silk in lilies and sunfiowers, Rayons
de soleil, Claire de lune, F6n du lac, etc.,
all dreamy, suggestive, aud full of poetry
of color. His Marseilles vests are like
Mont Blanc's virgin SHOWS, his handker-
chiefs are of the "woyen wind' of the
down eastern looms. Also, he is mem.
ber of the Squibnocket club of Boston.
That settles it.
PATTI, having been invited by Queen
Victoria to come and sing in the palace, on
driving up to the usual place, was some
what rudely repulsed, and her servant be-
ing unable to discover the enterance to
which they were directed, she was obliged to
enter through the kitchen door, aud had
to pass through number of underground
passages, to her extreme indignation. In.
deed, she vowed she would not sing.
However, profuse and abject apologies
Gained her wrath for the time, but she
declared that nothing will induce her to
attend at the palace again.
CHAUNCEY F. BLACK, according to the
Memphis Appeal, sit as unflinching q
Jeffersonian Democrat as his father, and
SO far as abilities 60 is = chip of tho old
block, and worthy of his father. AS q
lawyer and publicist, he stands among the
foremost in his state, and as journalist,
the profession which he prefers and to
which he has given many Of the best years
of his life, he has no superior. He is noted
among the writer's for the press for terse-
ness and yigor of statement, and the clear.
ness and force with which he makes plain
to the plainest what he has to say on pub
lie affairs. With all this he is modest and
unassuming, and at his beautiful home is
prince of prodigality as the dispenser OF
generous hospitality, in which he is
warmly seconded by his vile and chill.
drep."