Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-11
PERSONAL.

! BONANZA MACKEY and family will
reside in New York the coming winter.
HYACINTH's mission here is to make
money enough to clear his Paris chapel
! from debt.
The divorced Senator Fair, now abroad,
is down for another marriage. The bride
is to be the daughter of Prof. Dare, a Lon
don expert in telegraphy
THE Rev. William Byrne, vicar-general
of the archdiocese of Boston, has retired
from the Presidency of Mount st. Mary's
College, and returned to Boston.
IT is now authorltatively stated that
Congressman POindeXter Dunn, of Ar
kansas, will not vote for Mr.. Randall for
Speaker. He has heretofore been claimed
among his supporters.
Mr.. DE PAW, wealthy citizen of In
diana, agreed to endOw Asbury Univer-
sity with 81, 600. 900 if $l50,000 should he
raised from other sources by August l..
The trustees so far have obtained only
$77,171, and Mr.. De Pauw extends the
time to October 4.
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS b. WARD, of
Indiana, who defeated the late GOdlOYe
5. Orth, is reported to have said that he
is not for Mr.. Randall for Speaker under
any circumstances, as he does not think
he would represent the Democratic SEN
timent of Indiana.
CAPTAIN BoYTON once thought of
going through the Niagara rapids In his
rubber suit; but he numbered several
railroad ties and sent them through.
When they were recovered below the
whirlpool and Boyton saw their scars,
he picked up his rubber suit and left
Niagara.
THE late Prince Gortschakoff always
wore a ring given to him by Queen HOr-
tense in 1919, when she was compelled, at
the instance of the Tuscan Government,
to make rapid retreat from Florence,
and he, acting as Count Feisen tor Marie
AntOinette, mounted the box and drove
her carriage horses.
THE Dutch Government have refused to
grant the 10000 guilders which Baron
Nordenskjold claims as the discOverer of
the Northeast passage. The States Gen
eral offered this award in 1896, but its mo-
tive was to find passage of commercial
value, while NOrdenskjold has merely
found scientific" one.
THE late Prince Batthyany divided his
time equally between his stables and his
study. Few have left behind them finer
collection of rare old books, but most of
them Will come to the memorable hammer.
There are some excellent editions of
Shakespeare, JOnson, Bolingbroke and
Baily's Magazines, well-thumbed, with
dunObdblOno III but i llllCG ONu
handwriting.
GENERAL GRANT does not like to travel
on Sunday if he can help it. The other
day General Porter telegraphed to him i'm
the Catskill Mountains that directors
car was at his disposal for trip to Long
Branch on Sunday. General Grant pO-
litely declined 1t, saying: 81 always tried
not to travel on Sunday when l held office,
and there does not seem to be any reason
able excuse for it now"
CARDINAL NEWMAN, now in his SD
year, has translated play from Terence
and called it 'Pincuna; or, the Cup Bear
err 1t was performed at the College of
EdgbastOn, over which His Eminence pre-
sides, before a remarkable audience, in
Guiding many of the nobility, several of
the Oxford heads of houses and numerous
distinguished literary men. The Cardinal
was called repeatedly before the curtain.
He had eliminated the gross elements of
Terence's comedy, leaving the piece ac-
ceptable to modern audiences.