Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-30
PERSONAL.

EMMA ABBOTT is visiting her relatives
in Chicago.
TENNYsoN's publishers used to guaran-
tee him $4,000 a year, but they can do it
no more.
Mrs. EDWIN LEE is writing a life of
her father. the late Gen. PendletOn, Of
the Confederate army.
GEORGE ELIOT's ''Daniel Deronda' is
said to be pretty accurately represented
in real life by a nephew OF Mr. Seligman,
the banker.
THE Berlin correspondent Of the Lon
don Times denies that Mr.. Sargent, Amer
lean Minister to Germany, is about to re-
sign his position.
SECRETARY CHANDLER arrived at
Eastport. Me, on Saturday night in the
/ TallapOOsa. He gave a public reception
on board the vessel.
EDGAR STRAKOsCH says that William
| ii. Vanderbilt offered Emma Thursby
$4,000 year to sing in st. Bartholomew
Church in New York.
SUSAN b. ANTHONY, noticing that
there are more than 1000 women practic-
ing medicine in England, assumes that
''they kill as large proportion of their
patients and receive as eXOrbitant fees
for so doing as male practitioners"
MRS. ELIZA H. MCCULLoUGH. Mrs.
Laura II. Jennings and Mr.. TrenOr l..
Park have purchased the entire block
bounded by 6lst street, Grand Circle.
Boulevard and Sth avenue, New York,
from Mr.. Charles q. Lincoln, for 1900, 600
NJ. ALExANnRB POURCEL, the eminent
metallurgist, who has contributed so much
toward making Terre NOire one of the
most famous steel-wOrks of Europe, has
resigned and has accepted the charge of
the large Steel-wOrks which are now build
ing at Bilbao, Spain.
NOTWITHSTANDING the raYages of chOl-
era in Egypt the Hon. Geo. :. Bachelor,
the American member Of the International
Tribunal, has remained at the post of duty
in Cairo. He has presided over all sit
tings of the court and received the public
daily at his Office.
THE MIGHTY FAMILY of Smith held its
eighth annual reunion in the grove on the
farm of Peter H., one mile east of Peapack,
Somerset county, \. J., yesterday. All
the relatives and friends Of the family,
which is equivalent to saving all man.
kind, were invited to be present.
LORD GARMoYLE, the future Lord
Cairns, who il 10 marry Miss FOrtescue,
the actress, who appears in "IOlanthe."
has been called the grandson of butler,
He is the grandson of a capdlemaker.
The only son Of butler III the peer3ge is
Lord Annaly, who is about to marry
Gladys, Lady LOnsdale.
JUDGE BLACK ia said to have received
the largest fee ever paid to a lawyer for
success in a suit. He defended the New
Almaden Quicksilver Company OF Cali
fornia in a suit in the United States Su-
preme Court, the opposing counsel being
ReYerdy Johnson, Charles O'Conor and
Judah 7, Benjamin. His fee was said at
the time to have been $250,000.
TIE st. James Gazette gives the follow
ing facts concerning English landowners
in America: "Sir Edward Reed NJ. p,
owns no less than 100000 acres in
America; the Duke Of Sutherland. 400
600; Lord Dunmore, 100000, and Lord
Dunravan, 10000 acres. Messrs. Phillips,
Marshall Il Co. own a farm of 100000
acres; the heirs Of Colonel Murphy, 1,100,-
600 acres; II. DisstOn, 100000 acres, and
the Standard Oil Company l,00000e acres.
1t appears that nine men own a territory
equal to that of New Hampshire. Massa-
chusetIs and Rhode Island combined.
Then there are the great railroad corpora
tons, whose free gifts of land from Con-
gress amount to upward of 200, 000,0 600
acres. Eleven of these corporations have
received 100000, 900 acres, The Northern
Pacific road had grants amounting to A.
DOC, 900 acres, and other grants made
ranged from 1000, 900 acres and upward"
JUDGE BLACK was very absent-minded;
once, when he Was going to Washington,
Mrs. Black said to him, II want you to
promise me that you will put on q clean
Shirt every morning, and | have put six
into your trunk, Please do, and don't let
me see in the Washington papers allu-
siOns to your dirty linen," The Judge
promised, left, and IN week returned.
After speaking to his wife, he went into
his office. where he was soon absorbed in
studying a case. After a while in came
Mrs. Black. "Why, Judge" she said,
''what have you done with all the shirts
you took to Washington ~ 'Done with
the Shirts" exclaimed the Judge, alb
straetedly. ayes, the shirtsi" SAID the
matrOn. "Oh'' replied the Judge, "why,
put on a clean one every morning, as |
promised you ] would" Eyes, Judge, !
but what did you do with those yOn took
off. You have not brought a single one |
backW The truth just then flashed on the !
Judges mind, and an examination dis
closed the fact that the old gentleman mad |
put on a clean shirt every morning over
those which he already wore.
THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA and Mrs. I
are said to be rival bidders for I
the possession of Mr.. Porter Rhodes great /
diamond, which weighs $50 karats, or 4312