Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-05
PERSONAL.

ROSCOE CONKLING can repeat the whole
of Scott's ''Lady of the Lake."
Ex-SEN AToR T. NJ. NORWOOD, of Sa-
vannah, is at the Grand Hotel, New
York.
Ex-Gov. WILLIAM AIKEN, of South
Carolina, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York.
MRS. HENRY d. MCDANIEL left We'd
nesday for the North and will be gone
about month.
VANDERBILT is said to have $50, 100000
first mortgage bonds of the Harrisburg
and West Virginia Railroad.
B.P. SHILLABER Mrs. Darlington has
in great measure regaine1 his health,
which last spring was seriously impaired.
DARWIN is indicated at last. a
Massachusetts, Republican, in a speech
the other night, said: 81 am kind of
missing link"
NJ. COoUELIN will not write of Gam
betta's public life i'll his forthcoming book,
but will merely portray his friend in his
domestic aspect.
Mr.. FRANCIS A. DREXEL, the wealth
lest citizen of Philadelphia, will, with
his three daughters, sail for Europe De-
tober 6, to be gone one year.
JUDGE HOADLY hasn't the malaria with
him on this trip through Ohio, but the size
of the demonstration at Cleveland on
Monday night shows that he has the peo-
pie with him.
QUEEN VICTORIA is reported to be
bright and happy nowadays and entirely
rid of the "blues." She hasn't succeeded
in getting rid of the Browns, though, even
though old John is dead.
G.. WASHINGTON CHILDs should bring
his vacation to an end. During his alb
sence from the City Of BrOtherly Love and
Base Ball Players, Mr.. DreXel has cap
tured Lord and Lady ROseberry as his
guests.
SOMEBODY is flooding Indiana with the
Life of William S. Holman in pamph-
let form. If Mr.. Holman would only rise
up now and say, 81 object" he would
save Somebody's money from going to
waste.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM had
the misfortune to enter Philadelphia on
the same train with the returning base
ball players, and local paper says he
.sdidn't attract the least bit of attention
alongside of our boys"
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AMEs, of
Massachusetts, who was in the hands of
his friends before his nomination, is now
apparently in the hands of his enemies
and enemies in the camp of his own grand
old party. Their abuse OF him is more
bitter than their abuse of Butler.
Hon. A. f. COCHRAN, formerly of
Georgia. prominent lawyer and eX-
member of the Legislature of that State,
was on September 9Th married to Miss
Sarah A. Marshall, who has long been
one of Healdsburg's most popular and
lovely residents.
THERE is a story told of the late Prof.
Henry Smith that when explaining some
new discovery in the theory of numbers
9Ic In 1nh
mark: And the great beauty of the
thing is that it cannot possibly ever be of
the slightest practical use to anybody"
IRELAND's two Dukes-Ot Leinster and
of ObercOrn-are constantly resident in
the troubled island. Both are highly
esteemed: both have married daughters
of English Dukes; both have had thirteen
children. just as If they were poor, and
both have estates valued at the same
amount.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM has
been doing what some peOple-wlth UNI
complimentary opinions of former Cabinet
officers-cOnsider curious, unprece-
dented. and almost revolutionary thing,
namely, looking up some fresh facts upon
which to base his annual report. He has
motion that it is his duty to know good
deal more about his department than his
subOrdinates tell him.
THE death was recently announced in
England of Mr.. George Remington, the
engineer, who, in 1910, in conjunction
with his father, projected the first metro
pOlitan railway, called the Grand june
ton Railway, which was to run from
Snow Hill, Holborn, by way OF hlngs
Cross to the west of London. His project
for a channel tunnel, published in 1864,
was the commencement of the present
movement in this direction.