Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-20
PERSONAL.

MRS. HoRATIo SEYMOUR. of Utica, is
in New York, visiting her niece, Mrs.
Pratt.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has left Wash
ington for New York, where he will re-
main several days.
SEYMOUR. the still unslaughtered Con-
sui at Canton. used to edit the Lacrosse
Republican, and was Postmaster of the
place.
OSCAR WILDE is amusing the British
provincial towns with his impressions
of America impressions in very soft
putty.
MILLIONAIRE FLOOD, of California, is
going to ship brown stone all the way
from New York for his new San Francisco
palace.
Mr.. JOHN RUSSELL Young, United
States Minister to China, speaks Chinese
readily. He has been studying the lam
guage assiduOusly.
Mrs. a. T. STUART is 50 years old, but
a correspondent who has seen her fire.
quently this fall says she is ''as merry as
a cricket and as gay as a butterfly"
Nor one-third of the lawyers Of San
Francisco" says a real estate collector Of
that city, "are able to pay their office
rent" The whole number Of law yers is
so.
THE San Francisco cal says that a
number of old Californians who have
come East have soon after been struck
down with severe illness, the ozone in the
air being different.
JOAQUIN MILLER has bought lot at
the head of Sixteenth street, Washington,
on the hill, and will erect in the shade of
some mighty oaks a genuine log cabin,
with all modern improvements"
MnN-crrN- a mn 10 in T-fioa
the guest of Senator Herman. He adj
dressed the children of the public schools
in that city Wednesday and impressed up
on them the Importance of improving
their educational advantages.
Mr.. GLADSTONE does not always read
the lessons on Sundays in Hawarden
Church. of which Rev. Stephen Gladstone
is rector. He only does so when his as
sistance is needed, and strangers coming
from distance are often disappointed.
AMONG the names of the favOrite cats
at the big Boston cat exposition are:
''TommasO SalYini, flames \. Garfield"
Pedro" Levi" DIR Tom" ben But
ler'' and "LucIus Tarquinius Priscus.'
PRESIDENT PORTER and Professor
Richards will represent Yale in the
Springfield Convention of members of the
college faculties to discuss college athlet-
les. Professor Richards was an athlete
in college days himself, and no radical
moves may be expected.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT requests Ed
mund Yates to state under his special au-
thOrlty that the only instructions given to
the critic of the New York Herald in re-
gard TO Oscar Wilde's play were ''to deal
fairly with it and make a good natured
pen and ink picture of scenes in the
house."
PROF. J. LAWRENCE SMITH, the sayant
who was recently buried at st. Louis, by
his will forbade any of his friends to act
as pall-bearers, because two citizens had
died from strains received while bearing
a coffin. Six men from a marble-yard at
tended the funeral in their blOuses and
bore the coffin.
Baltimore, soon retires from the stage to
the delights of dOmesticity. She is to
marry a gentleman well known in New
York society. who paid heWy forfeit as
the price of her release from her engage
ment with Grau. She is to be succeeded
in the company by Mile. Tanquet.
THE Due de MOrny diverted a part of
the insults of the Paris pOpulace from
King Alfonso by persOnatlng the Spanish
sovereign. Seated in a splendid carriage,
he drove along the esplanade of the In
valides, exposed to shouts of "DOwn with
the Uhlan." while the King himself, on
the way from the Spanish Embassy to the
Elysee. took different route.