Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-09-07
PERSONAL,

CAPTAIN RoBERT +. LEE, son OF the
general, is Democratic candidate for a
scat IN the Virginia Legislature.
WHITTIER will print a new poem " The
| Log Of the Steam Yacht Atalauta," in the
next Manhattan"
HENRY TODD a well known politician
! Of Delaware in tbs past, died in Dover on
Wednesday night. Ho was 81 years of
age.
JOSE GURGEL u AMARAL VALESrE,
! provisional charge d'aflilres OF Brazil in
Washington, was presented yesterday to
the acting secretary OF state.
DIR. THOMAS l.. BUCKINGHAM professor
OF chemistry in the Pennsylvania college
Of dental surgery, Philadelphia, died on
Tuesday.
BAyARD TAyLOR's daughter has, until
recently, been supporting herself as a
govcrness in New York She and her
mother declined 4 purse of $50, 900, raised
| by New York ladies on learning that Bay.
| ard died poor
LORD CoLERrpGE left Portland yester
day morning for Boston. He was
accompanied by a committee of the Cum
berland bar as far rs Portsmouth. where
he was met By q committee Of the Suffolk
bar from Boston and by Governor Buffers
staff.
En- GOyERSOG STANFORD, Of California,
recently bought II 900 acres adjoining his
big vineyard at Nina, in that state. This
gives him one great rancho of over %, 900
| acres about quarter of which is planted
| with vines. Tho governor intends tn plant
It with all the best wine producing and
Iaisin grapes.
THOMAS HUGHEs known to fame as
Tom Brown has reached America on
| his way % his Rugby colony in Tennessee.
| He is accompanied by several Englishmen,
who will return with him to the old coun.
| try in O1tobsr Mr.. Hughcs is D county
judge now, having been chosen 20 that po-
sttiOn about year ago.
JOHN JACoB AsTJR is said to have
decided his estate, worth about $65, 900 900
TO his Ouly son, w. w. Astor, the United
States minister ut Rome. The father re.
serves an annuity of 100000 for himself.
The As'Or idea is practically to entail the
family property aud to keep the estate
intact from generation to generation, after
the custom in England.
WILLIAM PARRY left his homo in Mont
gomery county, near Philadelphia, many
years ago to grow up with the West. He
did grow and gOt 10 bo he most promi-
Ient business man in Wayne county, Ind.
The other day Mr.. Parry, the Quaker
pyC5:dent (of railways). and his wife
celebrated the tirtieth anniversary of their
marriage and the obscTvances was regard.
od as red letter event at Parry's station.
whore they live.
WALTER DAvrE, brown and brawny
from life in tho Scotch Highlands, reached
New York yesterday. He was dressed iu
the regulation Highland costume and when
he appeared in the Battery park he at.
tTacted good deal Of attention. With a
piece of chalk he drew two lines thirteen
feet apart upon the asphalt pavement of
ono of the pathways. Toeing one of tho
liacs he cleared the other one at a single
jump. :" don't feel very well or could
do better than that" he said, as he
walked away. The jumping ScOtchman
intends to become citizen Of America.
MONsrGNOR CAPEL, in his lecture on the
True Dignity of Woman" in Phladel-
phia last evening said: woman, TO reach
the height OF her true dignity, need not
DO beautiful nor as well educated as her
brother. She need not vote nor enter
many Of the occupations for which mon by
their physical superiority are better
adapted. But sho shall be good and holy,
tender and careful. She shall make home
cheerful and happy, and become not the
supplement, but the complement of mans
life losing the many irritations TO which
his rough0r intercourse with tho world
subject him"