Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-14
PERSONAL.

HENRY IRVING, the Saturday ReUielr
says, prOnOunces foot slut"
PRESIDENT ARTHUR expects to join his
family at Block Island September 3.
SENATOR EDMUNDs goes in for a postal
telegraph in the hands of the government.
Mrs. FRANCIS HODGsON BURNETT is
fast recovering her health at Lynn, Mass,
and now rides out.
MRS. HAYES is working a bOok-mark
for President Arthur to reward him for
refusing to travel on Sunday.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRENCH, of the
Treasury Department, daily decides about
fifty points under the new tariff law.
Mr.. TOOLD, the English comedian, has
been travelling with his wife and daughter
in Switzerland, and has much enjoyed his
holiday.
SENATOR PHILETUs SAWYER, of Wis
consin, is a member of the Chicago
knights Templar excursion party now
in Europe.
THE Emperor of Russia has sent 1000
francs to the fund for the statue of Di-
deroti, in the encyclopedias native town
of Langres, France.
IN SPITE of the combined efforts of her
family and medical advisers, the Queen
obstinately declines to 90 abroad for her
helth, and insists on spending the autumn
at BalmOral.
KRIsTOFER JANsON, the Norwegian
poet, novelist, philosopher and preacher,
who is pastor of little Unitarian Church
in Minnesota, lost heavily from the effects
of recent tornado.
CHARLES a. DANA, Of the New York
.Sun. has subscribed $1,000 to a purse
being raised for presentation to Martin
Farquahar Upper, the English proven
bal philosophy poet.
GEN. G. T. BEAUREGARD is summering
beside a Wisconsin lake. He says that
he had as great faith in the New Orleans
ietties IN 1872 as he has now. He was
then endeavOring to make experiments,
but was defeated by the trials of engineers
who had government influence.
GENERAL BEAUREGARD is quoted as
believing that there was ga steady de-
cline of the cOlOred population" The
Chicago Herald is therefore anxious to
know, "What did they decline? To drink,
to vote the Democratic ticket, or to in
vest in the Louisiana lOtteryY"
SENATOR HOAR, of Massachusetts. saws
that Americans will stand more in the
matters of poor serving and high prices
than any other nation, He says that
practically the protectiOnist and the free
trader do not stand very far apart, there
being only a metaphysical distinction,
anu II D6ll5 ntCCSodll W Idloc lnOuGl lOI
the support of the government by impost
duties. He says that every job in the last
tariff bill was wedged in by free trader.
GENERAL EDWARD G. w. BUTLER, who
was friend and companion of General
Jackson, is living a hale and hearty old
age in st. Louis. He has in his possess
sion many autograph letters from General
jackson, whom he regards as the greatest
man who ever lived. 1t is perhaps not
generally known that on the establish
ment of the COnfederacy at Montgomery
General Butler was offered the position of
COmmander-in-Chief of the forces to be
raised by President Davis.
THE FINK brothers are all connected
with railroad interests. There are three
brOthers-Albert, Henry and Rudolph.
They are Germans and engineers, and
their combined salaries exceed those paid
to any family in the United States. These
three brothers get about 100000 year.
Albert Fink has built some of the most
important railroad lines in the South.
Henry Fink is with one of the largest
Southern systems. Randolph Fink is
building the main line of railroad into
Mexico for the Boston men.