Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-14
PERSONAL.

GEN. BUFFERS campaign IS said by the
Boston Journal to have cost him S125,O 900.
GEORGE A. ENSIGN, of Bemis Heights,
y. Y, has marked off the Saratoga battle
ground with tablets.
GEN. HANCOCK is now so far recovered
from his sickness that he is able to sit up
several hours each day.
THE Widow Tom Thumb says she will
not marry again unless some nice little
man comes along and makes her change
her mind.
PERE HYACINTHE delivered a sermon
in French sunday at the Church of the
Holy Cross, at Washington, large con-
gregatiOn being present.
JOSEPH {. HENDRIX, the defeated can
didate for Mayor OF Brooklyn, is said to
have been selected as the editor of a new
Democratic daily to be started in that
city.
GEORGE d. ROBINSON will be the third
Governor of Massachusetts directly de-
scended from DOlOr Davis, who came over
in 1855. John Davis and John d. Long
were the others.
FIELD MARSHAL Won MOLTKE is, next
to the Emperor the most popular man III
Germany. When at royal festivals the
whole court, including the King of Saxony,
rise to greet him.
PROF. L. d. COPE, the eminent geolO-
gist, and member of the United States
National Academy of Science, has reached
Monterey, from an extensive geological
survey in New Mexico and Texas.
SHERMAN and Grant were st. Louis men
before the war: Grant drove in cOrd-wOOd
and Sherman was President of a horse car
line. Sheridan. meanwhile, was engaged
in carting earth dug out OF canal.
Col. JEROME BONAPARTE, who Is now
3 l. rlr,v- A.91
his residence in Washington for the sea-
son. Twenty French servants have re-
| Gently arrived from Paris for the Wash
ingtOn house. which is assessed at 1913, 900.
PATRICK DELANY, whose inventions in
telegraphy are attracting attention, was
| a Western Union messenger boy in Hart
ford a few years ago. This item, now
going the rounds of the press, was evil
IDENTIFY sent out as a bulletin by so. K.r
Sommerville, who expects that all small
| boys Will now want to be messengers for
nothing, and furnish their own car fare
Hartford Times.
COL. ELIJAH STANSBURY, one of the
few survivors of the Old Defenders Asso-
citation, composed Of those who took part
in the battle of North Point in 1912, is re-
ported to be dying at his residence in
Baltimore from general debility and age,
being in his 96th year. At the last annual
celebration Of the ASSOCIATION IN Septem-
Der, when only six members assembled at
the City Hall, Mr.. Stansbury was unable
TO be present. He was Mayor of Balti-
more from 1919 to 1851.
Miss ELLA JENKINS, OF Manchester,
VT, has just started for St. Peter, Mimi,
on a rather unique mission-tO become a
guest at the house of a wealthy farmer,
and, if the surroundings are to her taste,
to finally marry him. Three years ago
one of Elias mill companions married
and went West. Before doing so, how
ever. she promised to hunt up a husband
for Miss jenkins. After looking around
the neighbOrhoOd of st. Peter for an ellgi-
BILE young man, she finally settled on a
widOwer, informed him of her promise to
Miss Jenkins, and persuaded him to write
to the young lady in Manchester. This
he did, and the result is that Miss Jenkins
is now on her way to meet her unknown
lover and to marry him if all turns out
we'll