Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-24
PERSONAL.

Ten EYcK WHITE, the humorist of the
Chicago Tribune, has not written line of
fun since the death of his wife, the accom-
plished Fannie Drisccli.
EX-GovERNOR BISHOP was in Columbus
the other day selling cigars and teas by
sample and taking severa! sexcellent
orders.
PATTI sailed foc Earope yesterday. She
will return next season and sing under
Colonel Map!eson's management for S. 900
a night.
Count julius VoN HoHENTHAL, who
tried to obtain $500 on false draft in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, was committed
on Saturday for trial in default of $1,000
| bail.
CAPTAIN BUsHRoD 3. TAYLOR, Z. S. n.
died in Washington on Saturday night.
He was at the time of his death comman-
der Of the receiving ship Franklin, and
was about to be retired at his own request.
10. HOWARD is authority for the story
that Gen. Sherman, with his sixty-three
years, was'struca"a year Or two ago. ga
common, dirty ballet girl can make Sher.
man play the fool any day.
COUNT VAN HEssE WARTEG, the hus.
band Of Minnie Hauk, the prima donna,
and an eminent scholar and traveller, is
now in this country under commission
from the German government.
Mr.. BLAINE expects 70 leave Washing
ton for his hor,c at Augusta, Me-, about
June /. There lie will continue work upon
his book, from the notes he is now busily
engaged in taking.
EDWARD Mock, who died at Youngs
town, Ohio, on Friday last, was born in
) England in 1902. came to the United States
in 1881, and first introduced hero the
method CT working iron By boiling.
Hon. ROBERT KLOTz, who represented
the Eleventh district OF Pennsylvania il
the last Congress, has published at his
own expense speech relating to the in
vestigation of the Washington gas-light
company, made by House committee last
winter and suppressed by Keifer.
W. w. SCRANTON, has obtained verdict
for 81 AL so against A. a. Chase, editor OF
the Scranton Daily Times, for libel. The
: libelous article was published on the
occasion Of a campaign in August, 1878,
on the subject of division of Luzsrne
county. 1t charged Mr.. Scranton with
murder. growing out of his participation
, in the Scranton riots.
= THOMAS BRENNAN, ex secretary of the
Irish national Land League, was given a
g reception 4: the house of James Redpath,
in New York, last night. Among those
present were NJ. D. Gallagher, J. J
g O'Shau ghnessy, William Eagan, Miles
O'Brien, Colonel Frederick Conkling, Rev
Father Mcmillan. ami, it IS reported
O'DOnOvan Rosa.
( Dos PIATT is said to be a convert to
spi-itua:isnl, made snch by receiving al 6
= seanca direct answers from his dead wife
to 4 lot. or inquiries which hs had months
< before, whcu experimenting by himself
a written on te hest tho power of communi
g catiuy VII, her, and which he had locked
), up and forgotten uatii the medium gave
y him 10 rhostly answers which fitted ex
actly.
DIR. JAMES MITCHEEI son of Rev. DR.
Mitchell, of this city, was one of the sue
cessfui candidates in the competitive ex
aminations for tho position Of residen,
f physician in tho Philadelphia (Blockly,
. hospital. The doctor entered upon these
examinations before he knew of his sue
cess in getting into the Presbyterian hos
l pital. lie will, after 81 reasonable vaca
tioa, enter upon the work at BlOckley ana
!, continue therein until the 1st of February
E, when he will report for duty as resident
- physician 2nl surgeon at thc ireSoyterlar
hospital.
10. PULITZER, Of the St. Louis Dispatch
y is only 80 and is the principal owner of q
t paper that clears over 4 thousand dollars 9
week. Pulitzer came to this country a
green lad when he was fifteen. He was al
r first 4 stniser on 4 Mississippi river steam
boat. Once when he was ponniless in
st. Louis during the great cholera yea,
he obtained the job of digging the graves
and burying the dead cholera patients. II
t was difficult to obtain men with courage
, enough for such q dreadful task. Pulitzer
worked ali through that terrible season
. and the cholera passed him by. He did
not fear it and so he escaped. Then, again.
by another strange tnrn he wore the livery
Q of a coachman, and drove the carriage OF
, a man who still lives in St. Louis.