Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-01
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Masonic fame It ig illiam Morgan, of
on ivory. miniature p"inVe"
has a AN income asE Of S tHe Cnese diplomat
he spends on his relation year; WnI WITH
looking, and has mustao ne nF 10 d ooIu-
or so long dropping hairs. VI " UoAen
Hon. WILLIAM S. GROESBl
pared an elaborate speech on Il mus; naS pre- e
the Ohio campaign, and in faV '9 oe ~ ~
| HOadly ticket, which he will d, VI 'He
Cincinnati Thursday evening. vel i"
MRS. ADRIAN S. HEWITT had ma
her, just before Der departure for Eu, IoI
large cameo portrait of her fatherge,
late Peter Cooper. 1t is oval, about te
inches in diameter, and was made by tt
artist ZOeliner.
THE SHRINE of Caravaggio is to be triet
! tor the Earl of Arundel, the 4-year-old sol
and heir of the Duke of Norfolk, who's
! ailments have not been alleviated by
| pilgrimage which his parents recent,
made to LOurdes.
ADAH IsAACs MENKEN lies buried il
| the cemetery of Mont Parnasse, Paris
/ and her grave is surmounted by plail
! granite shaft about eight feet high, on ont
| side of which is inscribed the expressive
| legend, ''ThOu KnOwest"
THE GREAT PAINTING of ''Oliver Crom
well's Visit to John Milton,'' bv th,
| American artist, David Neal. is pro
nOunced by the correspondent of the
Boston Transcript to be decidedly the
most important work. at the Exhibition
of Fine Arts at Munich.
DR.. DANIEL AsBURY, Of North Caro-
lima, is pluming his pinions for public
aerial ascension and sail. The two canvas
wings of his flying machine stretch thirty
feet broad from tip to tip, and all the man.
bird has to do to regulate his flight is to
work pedal like that on a sewing ma.
chine.
GOVERNOR BUTLER, of Massachusetts,
received by express a day or two ago two
small cream-cOlOred owls, each of which
exhibits the peculiar obliquity Of the eve
that marks the face of His EXcellency. The
box was addressed: ''GoVernOr b. f.
Butler, Boston, Mass, from an eX-Confed-
crate of Frederick, Nd"
Mr.. NJ. BLAIR's death leaves but few
old Cabinet officers alive. Among these
are Mr.. A. I'll. III. Stuart, Secretary of the
Navy under President Zachary TAYLOR:
Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War under
President Pierce, and Jeremiah S. Black,
Attorney General during the latter part of
President Buchanan's term.
GENERAL A. G. p. DODGE has lust
given 1900 for the cause of education in
Breathitt county, KY, $4,000 to be used
in building an academy in jackson, the
county seat, and $4,000 in aiding meritO-
rious young men in obtaining an educa-
ton. Other citizens of the town are to
contribute to the building fund.
Mr.. CHARLES A. DANA, of the New
York San, puts ON a white beaver about 2
O'Clock every afternoon and goes to lunch.
He straddles one of the swinging seats at
a counter, and, fitting his hat gently back,
mods Familiarity to the waiter, and orders
a plate of soup. He is as modest as if he
did not have an income of $4,000 a
month.
GENERAL JUBAL EARLY fatty denies
the truth of the story that he picked up
from the field of Manassas a tiny blue
eyed girl baby whose parents had both
been killed in trying to escape from their
house during the progress of the fight,
and that this ''waif of the battle field" is
now the sole support of General Early's
two aged sisters, who cared for her and
brought her up.
MR.. ROBERT GRIFFITHS died on the
10Th of June, in Bayswater, England. His
name is Familiarity connected in England
with the great screw propeller, his first
patent being dated September, 1919. In
1853 he fitted his screw to the royal yacht
Fairy, and the Peninsula and Oriental
Company took up the invention, which
occupied Mr.. Griffiths' attention to nearly
.he time of his death.
A GENTLEMAN residing in Washington
writes to the Star Of that city: ''Regard- !
ng the old lady of refinement and cul- |
.ure' claiming to be the daughter of the |
ate Vice-President William r. King, of |
Alabama, whose arrival at Wheeling on |
her way to Washington is chronicled in the |
Star of last evening, allow me to say, for 1
he benefit of some of our good citizens, that /
he gentleman named, whom | know per-
onally and well, had no daughter, having
ived and died bachelor"