Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-12-17
PERSONAL.

CARL SCHURz thinks of going back to Ger
many to give lessons on the piano.
MATTHEW ARNOLD viii devote several days
to sightseeing i'll Washington this week.
MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE is again in
Florida. She will occupy her home place at
Mandarin,
LORD SPENCER has been staying with Lord
Dregheda in Kildare, and sixty extra police
went to take care of him.
JOHN G. SAKE. the poet, is reported to be
growing gradually weaker at his home IN
Brooklyn, and is not expected to live.
THE Earl of Cork was presented to Presi-
dent Arthur recently. The President smiled
and remarked: 81 am very familiar with
relative of yours, Cork Screw"
POSTMASTER GENERAL FAwCETT, Of Eng
land, despite his blindness, is quite an angler
and manages to enjoy an occasional days ny
fishing in some of the trout streams.
LORD EsKDALE, grand son Of the Duke of
Buccleuch, who owns nearly all Dunfrleshlre,
is the Conservative candidate for that coun-
ty. 1t was his father whom Mr.. Gladstone
defeated in Midlothian.
SPIRIT MEDIUM in Chicago says that Joe
Jefferson, Thomas W. Keene and his wife,
Lolita, Clara Louise Kellogg, Maud Nixon and
BARLEY Campbell are all of them pronounced
spiritualists, and that they think OF nothing
for the stage and do nothing on it without
taking counsel of the spirits.
SPEAKING of the prospective candidacy of
George William Curtis for the United States
Senatorship in New YORK, to fill the next va
cancv the st. Louis Globe Democrat naively
remarks that "Mr. Curtis enjoys the distinc-
ton of having been mentioned for more office
and elected to less than any other man Of the
present age"
SIGNOR Foil, the gigantic Irish bassO. who
will be remembered in opera here and who
was known off the stage as Tim Foley. of Tip
perary, has brought an action against Mr..
Bradshaw for assaulting him at a concert in
London few days since, and the trial is eX-
pected to give much amusement. The &C
cused assalant is very diminutive.
Col. ssBoB' INGERsOLL has removed from
the house IN Lafayette Square, Washington,
where he has resided for some years, to the
house No. l3i7 X street, next to Senator Sher
mans, which he has purchased. Here he re-
sides, with his wife and their two daughters,
Miss Eva and Miss Maud, neither one of whom
has seen eighteen summers. 1t is liberty hall
each one of the quartette eating, sleeping
reading, working or walking when desirable
SOME years since, at banquet given in his
honor in Paris by the English there, De Les
seps boosted his English descent, and located
his ancestors somewhere in the northern
counties of Durham or Cumberland. The
other day when he crossed the border this
Napoleon of canals, after the fashion OF his
prototype, who was a free thinker at Paris, a
Mussulman in Egypt, and Catholic at ST.
Helena. proclaimed himself a Scotchman by
race and blood.
REV. WIN. w. DE HALL. in rendering his
resignation of st. Andrews Church, in Wal
den, y. T.. explained as follows: 81 had been
invited to spend the evening at my chOrister's
house, and when the blow was given to the
weaker vessel / laid my hand on the hus-
bands shoulder with the remark, my friend,
you must not strike woman in my pres
ence.' The man then turned and struck me
in the face. When this occurred, forgetting
for the moment that / was a clergyman, and
in the heat OF passion acting only as man. l
force and skill which had learned at col
lege.'