Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-18
PERS ONIL.

Alexander w. ThackerR, q we'll known
member of the Philadelphia bar, is
reported missing
Mrs George G. Boniface, the we'll kno1n
actress, dird In Scituate, Massachusetts,
on Saturday night.
Mrs. Fanny Spragus, widow of Amasa,
and mother of sx Governor William
| Sprague, died at Groton, Conn Sunday,
aged nearly "a years.
| Joseph Holt, Postmaster Gsneral and
afterwsrd Secretary Of War under rresi
dent Buchanan, has written letter In
which he defends the 10y atty of his dead
chief.
Mrs. Anna M. Greene Of Newport, R. L.,
| whose husband was son OF Gen.
Nathaniel Greene OF revolutionary fame,
will celebrate her Tooth birthday on
November Sth.
Charles w. Carrigan, Rsq., at one time
Register OF Wills and subsequently Demo.
cratic candidate for Congress, died at his
bone in Germantown Thursday, in the
57th year of his age. ..5.
The Secretary of the Interior Thursday
accepted the resignation of Edgar A.
Marble, Commissioner of Patents. The
position has been rendered to Hon
Benjamin Butterworth OF Ohio.
While returning 10 Montebsllo, neal
Baltimore, Thursday afternoon, Mrs Gar
rett, wife of President john W. Garrett o
the B. Il o. railroad, was throsn from
her carriage and seriously injured.
Mrs. Langtry and her mother, Mrs. l.,
Breton, arrived at New York Sunday
I Mrs. LIE Breton will accompany her I,
towns where the latter plays for a weel
or so, but not ION those dreadful on,
night tramps,"
A private cablegram, received Tues
day, announced the death at Paisley OF
. the 18th Instant OF Thomas Coats, Sr.
t who was the head OF the mouse who's
: spool cotton Ia known probably through
3 out the civilized world.
, Chm Foo, Nav York's Chinese editor
, has disappeared, and L.s paper, tn
=, Chinese Americln, has suspended publics
ton. pending lIbsl suit ia thought t
have something to do with Chin Foo
: disappearance. Tom Lee, Chinese ex
l deputy sheriff, is also missing.
Monday Anthony Trclope's autohioe
raphy was issued in London. 1, /
. written in CHEEKY vein, and yet ,ive
an unexpectedly sad picture of his earl
struggles: His father was insanely III
', tempered, his clever mother neve
~ believed in him, and both were chron
cally impecunious. lie had no money
was considered very stupid at school, an
was 30 ragged th II he was once stoppe
y in the street by the head master ,
!, Harrow, and reported for his dirty at
pearence. Appointed to small clerLshi
. in the post office, h. hsd to resort to til
y Jaws, and Ouue paid 81 900 tor u loan ,
:, $50. He was 80 years old when he wrot
y his first Dovet. OIly so copies we're sole
, His second book also failed. Afterwar
e he made 1922, 900 yearly for II yesrs.
q "Ths philosopher Mr.. Lawes," Turs,
neil ia quoted as saying, "the husband
George Eliot, always displayed niue
interest in my writings, and had Ii
pleasure Of spending several evenings /
s his company and that OF his gifted wifi
;, On one occasion he took me aside an
asked me confdsptiallv which of h
n Wits works regarded as the creates
n The Mill On the Floss replied, unhe
ita'ingly. Il am greatly disappointed
hear you say that, he exclaimed, Il liza
hoped you would say "Daniel Deronda. ~
y y That could not conscientiously do ",
u my reply, for confess like it least
- any IL IL work of great ability b,
y it ID not the kind which appeals to IN
After "the Mill on the Floss" my choi,
. would be adam Bede'' or "5ilas Ma
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