Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-15
PERSONAL,

place.
PERSONAL.
3. F. JAMESON, of Philadelphia, gave 4
sourkrout supper the other night to
distinguished company.
SENATOR MITCHELL had 4 touch Of
diphtheria some OF his children are re
covering from it aud others are seriously
i'll with scarlet fever.
JOHN WELLEs HALLENsEACH, OF VIII
kesbarre, last week presented $JO,OOO to
| Lafayette college for the endowment OF
| the presidents chair. lie made Il similar
gift to the college few years ago.
MADAME NILSSON, who is in perfect
| health and voice, is having great success
in New Orleans. She has thus far given
| twenty-iOur concerts Oi her American en-
gagement iot fifty concerts aud the gross
receipts have been $l19,9S2.
JouN HUGGARD, president of the phila-
delphia board OF guardians of the poor and
right Jolly good fellow on Tuesday, at
Augustins gave 4 dinner to Mr.. George
| Calder jr., Of Lancaster. Among those
present were General Snowden, Major
Il. G.. Moore, Mr.. w. +. Read, Mr.. John
l.. Bailey and Mr.. Edward f. Hoffman.
| CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE went slcighing
| the other day in livery team which cost
s. per hour. He drove down the avenue
| like streak of lightning behind q pair of
spanking bays that did not take the snow
| from anybody. The chief justice looked
like a German Santa Claus. with his rosy
old face pecring over the furs in which lie
was wrapt.
GEN. GRANT having frequently ackuowl-
| ~. ,f, ,b,:J ,Tp nj,
| from tho Mexican minister, Romero, fears
are expressed that il the new Amclican
Mexican treaty, which these wort!iies ;,re
Matching out, provision will be made for
the free entry of Mexican tobacco into
CONF mpetition with our home growth. There
is no telling what Grant may do under the
influence of good cigar.
Gov. Ben BUTLER stopped the Boston
Post (Dam.) from coming to the executive
depa, tmcnt soon after it pronounced
against his presidential candidacy. If he
did SO because he thought the state Ough5
not to pay for new wsl,apers for its governor
he deserves the applause ior public
economy which the Post acco.ds him. Ii
he crt it Off because it criticised him ie
has at least earned ths reputation which
he 50 much f..ars-that OF being fool.
| GENERAL BEAVER has been i'll and about
PhiladcIp'.a :0I some days, stopping with
Mrs. Beaver at the Continental. His goiugs
and cgmiDgs &C quiet and unnuticed, III
marked contrast ith the raving days OF
last November, and the Press rucCully
notes that ;!:o cne-legged veteran rode
from the hcaiinT station, at Ninth and
, Green streets, il Il crowded hols car
standing ali t!ju W., nn one 20 poor to sy
: him even the r1vc.naGg Vi off firing him Il
| Seat.
UNCLE JOHN RAYMOND, who died in
Scranton u few days ago, aged IS, i'll 1928
built the first mi" OF I.tiirOAi track that
was ever laid i'll America t0r actual com
meIcal business. Thi> was Gu tho Della
, ware & Hudson canal cOmpany's rcaC
between uoDJsdalc aud the cc.l mines Il;
CarbonGal1. Ga this mile Of track, on the
2Sth of August: 1899, the first locomotive
ever run "a America WAS tested. Il was
run b.; IIoratio Allen, who is now livin"
at East Ocanse at the age Of nearly Sc
years.
BILL Nyn, Tho Laramie Boomerang man
is going ~ make q trip to New York III :
few weeks, and the Eastern people vii
be afforded al opportunity of seeing wha
:, manner OF man the famed humplist o
the plars is They will find him tall
wel.-shapcd fellow. about 3S gears Of age
with regular features, q closa-croppeC
brown beard. sharp byowa eyes, a fine
/ forehead, and a bald head With 4 firing.
r OF brown hair. IIo dresses simply and il
3 good taste. It is only occasionally tila
his humor crops cut in conversation, ant
his manners are otherwise mild. !ie ap
prociates a good story, q wellma,ie cock
f tail, . mild cigar and plug tobacco.
t Ole BULL, an irreverent metrol loljtar
book critic, announces was virtually
self taught, and like other self taugh
men. he mi&took many things for genuine
novelties because tEey happened TO b
new to him ; Overrated his Own powers
2 because he had succeeded without: aid i,
] overcoming difficulties which, under prop
er instruction would have been I'D diff
% culties at all acquired the self conc;it On
S gendcred by the absence of higI
Il standard of excellence and bec?Eat
injected with chariatanisir. 1t wa
because ne wuud initiate So vividiI
f the quacking Of a duck, OF the croaking o.
a frog, would TcluoirlcG 50 amuslngly tnt
sQucaking touss Of judy and tin
ho irse tones of the policeman in th'
s " Carnival of Venice" Or would aStount
/ the grouudIngs by ila:ing on fou
, strings at once. that Ole Bull was able t,
draw crowds where revejcnt and self
: elfacing execution Of one Of Beethoven
+ sonatas would lave appealed only to
c small and select assembiage."
c
, Thc Per;is OF C"as ting.
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