Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-17
PERSONAL.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR will probably
cruise along the Atlantic coast this week
in the Dispatch.
Mr.. w. NJ. SINGERLY, Of the Philadel-
phia Record, is building a 100000 coun-
try house at Elkton, Md.
GEN. TooMBs, with returning health,
will resume his law practice and will not
abandon it, as has been announced.
AT THE FUNERAL of Mile. Litta. the
prima donna, among the floral tributes
was a large design, "The Gates Affair.""
from ex-senator David Davis.
JUDGE GEO. HoADLY, the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Ohio, has written
to Alabama that he will keep his engage
ment to deliver an address before the
State Bar Association at Blount Springs,
August /,
GEN. CROOK is said to meet the curious
gaze of staring strangers wherever he
goes in Washington. He is described as
about six feet tall, as weighing about 175
pounds, and his hair, somewhat sandy. as
tinged with gray.
SENATOR JOS. E. BROWN has expressed
himself as in very cordial sympathy with
those who desire to see tirst-rate school
of technology established in Georgia, and
says he thinks it very important to the
future growth and prosperity of the State.
GEN. EDWARD SPARROW, a distin-
guished lawyer and soldier of Carroll
Parish, La, is dead. He was almost
eighty years of age, He was a success
full lawyer at the outbreak Of the war,
and was elected to represent Louisiana in
the Senate of the Confederate States.
GEORGE r. SIMS, the author of Lights
o. London" it is said, sat upon London
doorsteps, scantily clothed, in rain and
snow, went for day without food, cOurted
a polIceman's club, was shut up in sta
ton house and in prison in order to realize
what cold, hunger, arrest and detention
really signitied.
PROFESSOR PAINTER, of Roanoke Col
lege, Virginia, has published an address
recently delivered by him on ''rhe Mod
ern Languages versus the Ancient Lam
guages.' He expresses substantially
the same view as to Greek and Latin as
was contained in the recent address of
Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
Mr.. COMBINES high forehead has be-
come very pale. The lower part of his
face is little Drowned by the sun. His
voice is mellowed somewhat, but its
quality in other respects is the same as
when he first entered the Senate, and his
manner when speaking is not changed. He
seems to have grown less fastidiogs than
he used to be in the matter Of dress.
MoNsIGNoR CAPEL, the Catesby of Dis
raeli's ssLothair," is about to visit Ameri-
ca. He will hardly meet with a very en-
thusiastic reception from his countrymen
here. He is an Irishman, though he palms
himself off as an Englishman. He has
been a coadiutor Of Errington and one of
the pets of 1.-THE English faction in Rome.N
Since he involved the kensington (Lon-
don Roman Catholic College in almost
irredeemable debt he has been a sort of
ecclesiastical tramp on the European
Continent,
THE OLDEST NEWSPAPER woman in the
country is said to be Mrs, Harriet N.
Prewett, who from lS4S to 1862 was editor,
proprietor, news editor, hookkeeper and
mailing clerk Of the Xazoo City Miss
Wig, afterward the Banner. At the
same time she kept her own house and
brought up her three fatherless children.
Finally her health gave way, and for
twenty years she had been a helpless
invalid She, however, continues to ex-
ercise her brain by composing poems and
sketches, and is fond OF talking Of the
ante-bellum days.