Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-05
PERSONAL.

PRINCESS LOUISE will leave Bermuda on
the 10th inst, and arrive at Ottawa a
week later.
| SENATOR CAMERON continues to improve
in health, but by his physicians orders he
will sail for Europe on May 10, with his
entire family.
| PROF. THEO. B. VOss has been elected
president of the Southwestern normal
school in California, Washington county,
to fill the vacancy caused by the retire
ment of Rev. George P. Beard.
EX-SENATOR TABOR will build and own
one of the largest hotels in the world at
Denver. 1t will cost over a million and
will be presided over by the thirty day
senator himself.
| Ex-senator THURMAN fell on the
steps of his house at Columbus, Ohio, on
Tuesday evening, and broke his left arm.
It is believed there will be serious re-
suit.
| Hon. HAMILTON FISH, Wilson G.. Hunt,
Chief Justice Charles p. DAILY, John T..
Agnew, Gen. Alexander s. Webb, Post
master PiersoD, Jackson s. Schultz, w.
II. Appleton, A. A. Low, Cyrus w. Field,
John E. Parsons and H N. Shieffelin will
be Peter Cooper's pail bearers.
PROFESSOR HENRY's statue, to be erected
in the grounds of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition in Washington, will be unveiled on
the. 10Th instant. Tho PRESIDENT of the
United States will be invited to preside.
Chief Justice Waite will unveil the statue,
President Noah Porter will make an ad- :
dress, and Rev. DIR. Hodge will offer
prayer.
| BARNUM, HUTCHINSON, BAILEY AND
ELLIOT. OF Barnum's circus, arrested in
New York for alleged cruelty to the
Elliott children in allowing them to per-
form on the unicycle and bicycle, were
tried yesterday in the quarter sessions
court. A number of physicians testified
that tho performance was beneficial in
stead Of injurious to the children, aud the
accused were discharged.
| REV. DIR. DAVID H. WHEELER has been
elected president of Allegheny college,
Meadville, after a campaign of remarkable
warmth by tho friends of other candidates.
The board of control is composed of four
delegates each from West Virginia, East.
ern Ohio, Pittsburgh and Erie conferences
of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
thoir action was really compromise in
the interest of harmony in the college.
DIR. Wheeler, president-elect, is a graduate
of Cornell college, Iowa he has been a
professor in several Methodist institutions
and late editor of the Methodist.
SALMI MORSE, of Passion Play notoriety,
has got crushed again in his pertinaciOus
attempts to produce the drama, and is
threatened with augmented wOrriment.
The chorus girls. who have been rehears.
ing for him for five months, complain
that with the exception of a few dollars
on Christmas they have received no salary
whatever. The girls declare their inten-
tion Of leaving, if something of pecu-
mary nature is not very soon advanced, as
they are inclined to believe that although
they tread tho streets of Jerusalem and
| dance in the courts of David they find it
uncomfortably difficult to subsist on un-
fulfilled promises.
Rev. w. H. H. MURRAY, of "Adiron-
dacks literature fame, was IA years ago
the popular pastor of the Park street
church, in Boston. His subsequent career
as preacher, stock breeder, blackboard
wagon builder, publisher and farmer is
not yet forgotten. For some time past he
has been in San Antonio, Texas, where he
wasted the capital of others in various un.
successful schemes. His debts, amounting
to over $12 900, pressed heavily upon him,
] and last Saturday he quietly decamped,
having first packed his household goods
and shipped them southwark by rail. He
was accompanied in his flight by his former
amenuensis and present alleged mistress, a
young woman from Amesbury, Mass.