Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-17
PERSONAL.

, Col. JOHN r. FELLOWS, assistant dis.
trict attorney of New York, and promi-
nent Tilden man, has got into trouble by
taking $500 retainer to get pardon for
convict.
TABOR, the cphemeral senator of night
shirt renown, buried his father-in.law in
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to day, in $500
casket, and a burial robc of rich satin en-
broidered with needlework.
REFoRMERs QUAY, Lane, Dave Martin,
Harry Hunter, John Mccullough, Ahern,
Bumm, Tittermary and Souder, cbarac-
terize the Philadelphia delegation elect to
the next Republican state convention.
JOHN BACH MCMAsTER, the new histor.
ian, who is an instructor at Princeton, is
small in stature aud his head is very large
in comparison with his body. He is an
indefatigable worker.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, Boston's favor
ite Episcopalian minister, writing home
from the Himalayas, says he has seen
nothing as high as these mountains since
he last visited a certain ultra ritualistic
church in Boston.
| Rev. E. T. JEFFERs, president of the
new Wilmington college, Lawrence county
has been elected professor of theology, to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
Rev. E. r. Bower, D. D., at Lincoln
university, Chester county.
REV. DIR. ROBBINS. pastor of the Broad
and Oxford street Presbyterian church
Philadelphia, has been asked by hi:
church to withdraw his resignation ano
accept at their hands vacation of tifteer
months and remain as pastor.
JOHN SHERMAN and L. 8. Harris, O
Ohio, and George B. Roberts, of Philadel-
phia, were yesterday elected directors o.
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
railroad. The gross earnings of the roat
in 1882 were reported at Sl0,S94, 900; the
expenses at s6,273, 1856.
JOE Dion, the veteran billiard player
to the period of whose first public gam'
the mind of man scarcely runneth back
has met with an iuglorious defeat at New
York with Tom Wallace, tho younges
of the cushion carom experts. DIN bea
the Frenchman, Vignaux, the other da!
and was high on his laurels, but thi
youthful knight of the cue sent him to tn
back ground with very meagre score.
JOHN A. CocKERILL, who has been edito
of the Post. Dispatch, of st. Louis has beel
chosen to edit the New York World. Th
greatest effort of Mr.. CockerilPs life ii
St. Louis was the carrying of a persona
controversy to such extremes that b.
thought it necessary to shoot his man
> Such innovations in New York journalism
} would compel tho Times to notice tn
, change on the editorial staff of it's esteeme'
contemporary.
SAMUEL B. McLENEoAN, Of Beloit, Wis.
, who stood second in a class of thirty tw
examined before the board of chief en-
gineers appointed by Secretary Folger, t
examine candidates for promotion ant
commission in the U. s. revenue marin
service, has been ordered to hold himsel
, in readiness for orders, and will receive hi
; commission forthwith. He recently held
position on the U. S. steamer johnson
stationed at Milwaukee, and will now joil
the government ship Corwin, at San Fran
cisco, with which he will 90 to Alask
. and the Arctic seas for a two years cruise
, Mr.. McLenegan is the second son of Henr
II. McLenegan and Sarah F. Reigart
, formerly of this city, who removed t
Wisconsin years ago. He paid visit t
his relatives in this citv last March,