Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-05-15
PERSONAL,

TALMAGE defends the polar explorations
of the Herald.
VANDERBILT's wife is about employing
a $1,000 cook.
Mrs. BLAINE has "just enough" cor
diality and not too much dignity.
BEECHER's brother James is about to
build $4,000 tavern at Sans Point,
Ulster county, n. Y.
PRINCESS MARY wore a lavender dress
with pink ribbons at the last royal wed.
ding.
9. T.. WAsHBCRSE, cx-member of Con
gress and ex-governor of Wisconsin, has
died at Eureka Springs, Ark, of paralysis
aud Bright's disease.
LIEUT.. DANENHOwER is TO have the
thanks of Congress and promotion ta
lieutenant commander over the heads 81
24O lieutenants who now rank him.
ALEXANDER Ii. STEPHENS will accept q
nomination for governor OF Georgia by the
Independent Democrats o: that state, and
the Regulars will likely endorse him.
MILLIONAIRE MACKAY is accused Of let.
ting the kind-bearted Old uncle whc
brought him up end his days as paupcl
| in New York county almsEouse.
CAvENDIsH was along with the army Of
the Potomac in 1862, and he was so popu'
lar and familiar that the officers called
him by first name and asked for his to-
bacco.
QUEEN VICTORIA has Il srca. objection
| TO create man peer unless he has
means amply adequate to maintain the
dignity becomngly. Law peers have ac
| cordingly been, except when child!ess,
sparingly created OF late years.
| TREsCOTT has undertaken "a pcriCus
journey into tho Peruvian interior, in
search of Admiral Montero. Part of the
distance he must be carried on mems
! shoulders along narrow trails and dizzy
mountain sides, with precipices and yawn
ing depths beneath.
MIR. HENRY JAMES, jr., has for the pre-
sent abandoned novel. writing for dramatic
| composition. He has rewritten Daisy
| Miller into play which is very highly
! spoken Of by those who have heard it read
and he is now occupied OF a new drama
| which he expects to complete at an early
day.
CONGRESSMAN CRAPO's ancestor was /,
| shipwrecked waif, and the kind hearted
people on whose island he lodged, took
| him into their hearts and brought him up
with their own children, his foster parents
giving him the name Rufus CrapO (Cra'
paud), his red hair and his French origin
suggesting it.
| Mrs. REAM was one of the beauties al
the Garfield tea party held in the capitol
rotunda. She had been Cherokee prin-
cess and married Kansas gentleman
She was tall, exquisitely slender and
graceful, with fine. delicate features, 4
creamy complexion, and eyes and hair
like midnight wore a deep, gold -colored
satin, with sleeves and draperies of black
thread lace, and large cOrsage bouquet
of red roses, and her hair was caught back
in gracefully loose knot.
SENATOR ECKLEY B. COKE, Of Pennsyl
vania, was presented to tho President q
few days ago as proper man to be ap:
pointed ON tho tariff commission, by Con
gresham Curtin and several of his col
leagues, and the president entertained the
suggestion flvorably, having consulted
with Mr.. Randall and others about it
Senator Coke was advised of the presenta
tion Of his name to the president and lt
promptly wrote Curtin, peremptorily de
clining to serve on the commission, on ac
count of pressing business engagements.