Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-09-24
PERSONAL.

STURGEON is well enough to sit in
chair while preaching.
DE LEssEPs expects to visit the 18th
mus Of Panama in January.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is willing to open
the New Orleans Cotton Exposition.
II is said that Gov. Ben F. Butler in
tends to speak at the Massachusetts Demo
cratic state Convention next week.
Ex-Governor HENDRICKS is so afraid
Of saying anything wrong that II he were
in Greeuland he would order ice cream.
Mr.. GEORGE d. ROBINSON. Republi-
can candidate for Governor ST Massachu-
sets. sings bass in a Chicopee sunday
school.
JUDGE FORAKER is likely to lose many
votes IN OHIO because at a country dinner
he cut his corn from the cob instead Of
eating it like flute.
THE statement that Bismarck is the
strongest statesman in the world is con-
firned by paragraph which says that be
mixes onions with his beer
''SIXTY millions of francs, and he did
not reign" exclaimed Henri ROchefort
on hearing Of the estate bequeathed by
the late Count de ChambOrd.
THE Emperor Of Brazil has given Prof.
Lacerda $4,000 for his discovery of per-
manganate of potassium, hypOdermically
injected, as an antidOte for the bite Of the
cobra.
BISHOP, whom Ben Butler defeated in
the race for Governor last year, has just
been fined $15 for keeping a dog without a
license. Ben should be magnanimOus
enough to remit the fine.
HENRY NILLARD's pet musical instru-
ment is the viOlOnceilO. His neXt-dOOr
neighbor should thank his lucky stars
that the great spike-driyer's aesthetic
fancy did not light on an accordion or a
brass band.
JUSTICE GRAY. Of the United states Su-
preme Court, has ridden over 300 miles on
horseback on consecutive days this sum-
mer without fatigue. AS the Judge
weighs 300 pounds, his horse has not come
out so well.
MIR. ROBINSON and Mr.. Charles Fran
/ els Adams, Jr.. were both graduated from
Harvard in 1856. 1--WE little thought when
we graduated that l would do this thing
for yOu,' said Mr.. Adams to Mr.. Robin
son, when he moved his nomination by
reclamation on Wednesday.
EX-SENATOR JEROME B. CHAFFEE says
that twenty-three years ago, when he en-
tered Denver, he invited his tired fellow
| passengers of the stage coach to take
| drink. and laid down a $50 gold piece.
| concerning which the barkeeper said,
"All rightw That transaction made him
a temperance man.
/ THE wife from whom Major Nickerson
/ obtained in the spring a fraudulent di-
vorce in Philadelphia is expected in
/ Washington soon to Join her mother, Mrs.
| Kenney, who is now there. Mrs. Nicker-
/ son will bring suit for her dover rights
| in the house her husband settled on her
! successor, for whom he abandoned her.
MRS. TABOR is described by a Denver
woman as IA tlabby blonde, about the
medium height, whose form may have
| been Yoluptnous once, but is now only
| fat; heavy eyes which are half brazen,
| half appealing; general air OF weight
/ and malaprOp0ism, and a hopeless sug-
gestion Of trying to fit into unaccustOmed
| iespectability, with little chance of sue
/ cess"
AMONG the trophies that Jem Mace has
| is the belt that Heenan and Sayers fought
/ for twenty-three years ago, and that Mace
/ subsequently won from Heenan. Another
is of solid silver, six inches wide, with
Mace and other figures in relief, which he
won in 1880, as champion middle-weIght
Of England One is Of solid gold. present
ed by Australian friends to the champion
of the world.
The Hon. PIERRE SEVER Witt died
day or two ago at New Orleans, at the
age Of % years. He was active in public
| life for many years. and was member of
the Secession Convention Of 1861. He was
an uncle Of the late Gov. Louis y. Wilt.
and held at the time Of his death the
Office of Public Administrator Of New
| Orleans parish. Before the war Mr..
! Witt was a leader of the Democracy of
the Creole section and Mr.. Slidell's most
faithful and efficient lieutenant.
JUDGE X ELLEY will sail from Liver
| pool for home on October 10. He writes to
| a friend as follows: "The platform Of no
convention, nor the dictaton of any
wOuld-be leaders, will prevent me from
/ promoting, by every means in my power,
| the abolition of the internal tax system,
the demoralizing effects of which are even
more apparent in England than in the
United States. My motto for the cam
paign will be, The internal tax system
/ must co."