Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-09
PERSONAL.

GEN. AND MRS. GRANT intend to spend
the first week of 1884 in Washington.
GOVERNOR PROCTOR KNOTT used 10
make funny caricatures OF the members
in Congress.
CONGRESSMAN WADsWORTH, of New
York, is rapidly recovering from his re-
cent injuries.
The Baroness Burdett-COutts thinks of
doing America. She will probably bring
her own money along.
SENATOR'S VEST and Wade Hampton
are considered the champion piscatOrial
romanceTs of Washington.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR and several of
his Cabinet will make visit to Old Point
Comfort during the coming season
WILLIAM Y. BUTTEs, the cowboy poet,
is 30 years old, wholly without education,
and spends all his time on the plains.
Hon. A. A. SARGENT, Minister to Ger
many, has an article in the Overland
N0nthlu entitled ''The Mute Councillor"
MATTHEW ARNOLD will deliver his
lecture on Literature and Science be-
fore the students of Princeton College,
November y.
MRS. NETTIE GURNEE went to Denver
several years ago with riches, silks, dia-
monds and $40, 900 cash. She is now So
cial wreck. Opium.
JOHN BRIGHT denounces female suff-
rage, but his daughter, Mrs. Bright Clark,
has nevertheless taken to the lecture plat
form in favor of it.
THE wife of Congressman LOwery, of
Indiana, tried to cure felOn on her finger
with carbOlic acid. AmputatiOn is
thought to be necessary.
GEN. ROGER PRYOR, while waiting the
opportunity to defend his Irish client, is
sightseeing in London and is frequent
visitor at the law courts.
EX-CoNGREssMAN ALEXANDER MITCH
ELL. the Railway KING" of Wisconsin,
is talked of for Secretary of the Treasury
under Democratic President.
DION BOUCICAULT IS a great tea drink
er. His daughters say that when writing
he keeps a kettle boiling on a spirit lamp
beside him and constantly brews his
fayOrite beverage.
Mr.. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, accord
ing to one of the London society papers,
has rented "A villa at Nice for the coming
season, where, the same paper states, he
will ''sumptuOusly entertain"
DIR. G. H. +. PETERS, of Litchfield OBJ
servatory. Clinton, y. Y, is in Europe,
and will attend the meeting Of the Ger
man Astronomical Society at Vienna. He
is expected to return in December.
HON. CHARLES GA1ARRE, the ulStln-
guished Louisiana historian, has been
prevailed upon by his friends to run
before the Democratic Convention of
Louisiana as a candidate for Secretary of
State.
CHIEF TOMBSTONE. of the Canadian
Mohawks. lives in a costly mansion on a
bank of the Grand river. His estate is
called s'ChiefswoOd." His wife is an Eng
lishwomau Of refinement, and his daugh-
tiers have been educated abroad. The
chief does not draw government rations.
EX-SENATOR TABOR was assailed on
the streets OF Denver, Col, some time
ago. and ever since has carried revolver
about his person. One night last week
the pistol accidentally dropped from his
pocket and went off. Fortunately, how
ever. no one was hurt, but the bullet went
whiZzing Just in front of lady on the
other side of the street.
CAPTAIN WADDELL, the commander of
the Confederate steamer Shenandoah dur
ing the war, has been charged with being
a misanthrope, hating the navy in parti-
cular and the whole world in general, but
a correspondent of the army and Nary
Journal denies the three statements. ''NO
one,v he says, sis cheerier in cOnversa-
ton. freer Of hatred, or a warmer friend
than the commander of the Shenandoah"