Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-07
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
GEN. BoYNToN rebuts Speaker Keifer's
denial of his misconduct.
COLONEL DAVID COLEMAN, one of the
most prominent lawyers of North Carolina,
died yesterday, in Asheville, aged GO.
HENRY WINKLEY has added $40, 900 to
his previous gifts to Andover theological
seminary, making $50, 900 IN all.
DAVID N. SELLEa, a blind man, has
started manufacturing enterprise in
Newburg, N. Y, in which only blind per-
sons will be employed.
LAWRENCE BARRET has bought lot of
ground on Connecticut avenue, Washing
ton, near the British minister s, and having
frontage of 90 feet, and it is said will
build house for his own use on part of
it.
| 10 EMMETT mourns the death of Peggy
| Williams, the bright and natural child
actress, to whom he has so often sung the
Fritz lullabies. She was very pretty, with
round face. brown ringlets, and laughing
eyes, and her ways were very winning.
KAISER W1LHELM's present to his son
and daughter. in law on the occasion of
their silver wedding was a magnificent tea
service. 1t was made in England, but the
emperor ordered three supplementary
pieces to be made in Berlin, and these
alone cost $4,000.
GEN. PHIL. SHERIDAN completed his
fifty second year yesterday, and, as the
Chicago Journal says, wears his years like
his honors, easily and we'll. The Loyal
Legion invited about 100 gentlemen to
meet him at dinner in his honor in Chi
cago last evening.
Ex Gov. DowNEy, of California, il
recovering slowly from the injuries he
received by the accident on the Southern
Pacific railroad. HIS physician says the
broken ribs are knitting successfully, and
there is every reason to believe that with
care he will soon be able to leave his
house.
| FREDERICK LUNGER, who died a.
Davenport, Iowa, last Wednesday,, aget
seventy-five years, is said to have beer
the senior railroad locomotive engineer il
, the United States. His first experie net
in that calling was in 1885. on the Albion
an engine built by George Stephenson 'ant
run on the old State road from Philadel
) phia to Columbia.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, of Boston, il
was reported could not find at an Italian
bathing place a suit large enough to Fl
, him. The facts are, according to the
World, that Mr.. Brooks wanted to take a
> dip in the Gulf of Spezia and that th'
coast guard ordered him off for fear th'
tidal.wave sure to be caused by his i'm
mersion might abolish Tuscany.
WILLIAM RuFF1N Cox, NJ. c., of Nortl
, Carolina, excites the admiration of th'
Sun as "a Southern Democrat who ha
!, creeks and trout streams in his district ant
yet votes against the river and harbor bill
7 on principle a uew member of the Hous'
, who has the courage to stand up and man
fully oppose petty abuse that many o
the older reformers are glad enough tt
blink clear headed man who can tall
solid sense in plain English
VIM. W. WATTS, who died recently nea
, Mechauicsburg, Cumberland county, whe1
, young man, had studied both law ant
medicine, and was member of the bar o
Erie county. For many years he resided
at Pine Grove furnace, which place h'
owned and managed with great enterprise
and success. At one time he was mem
Der of the state Legislature. For abou
3 tho past Is years he has lived at his beau
! tiful homestead Nantille," near Mechan
! isburg, where he entertained his friend
with boundless hospitality.