Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-03-08
PERSONAL.


of mathematics in franklin s. Marshall
college, Lancaster, has accepted the pres
idency of Allentown fomale college.
Rev. DIR. ISAAC Nicholson, rector of St.
Marks church. Philadelphia has been
elected bishop of the Indiana diocese. He
is only 80 years of age.
SIMON CAMERON is "a years old to-day.
He is to be congratulated on good health.
He has clearer head and stronger body
than his son James Donald.
Ex SENATOR DAVID DAVIS, late presid.
ing officer of the Senate, was yesterday
presented with o solid water pitcher and
goblets as a token of respect and esteem
by the clerks in the Office of tho secretary
of the Senate.
ROBERT Fl. HUzzA, 8 feet, @ inches, in
height, and Ida II. Hosmer, feet high,
''midgets," on exhibition in museum in
Brooklyn, were married yesterday upon
the stage of the museum. Huzza was q
widower.
PHIPP's "friends" in Philadelphia have
decided to appeal his case to the judicial
committee of the English privy council
There are power and money behind the
resistance to his return to Philadelphia.
Should he be extradited other hearts
would ache.'
W1GGINs was unable to get to Halifax,
owing to the railways being blOckaded by
snow. He claims that the storm of tho
last two days, which has been very severe
in Canada, is merely an arm of the
great tempest" The snow fall in Canada
has been the heaviest of the winter. In
Montreal the snow is five feet deep in the
streets.
r. A. PACKERS will has been proved.
His separate estate is valued at several
hundred thousand dollars, aud is left half
to his widow and half to Lehigh Univer-
sity. w. A. Stevens, superintendent of
the Pennsylvania and New York railroad /;
Second Assistant Postmaster General e.
mer aud Mrs. Packer are named as exec
utors. His income from his fathers estate
reverts to his brother and sister.
ADMIRAL PORTER, who has been ser
| iously i'll for week, is now believed to be
recovering. Secretary Chandler was able
| to be at the navy department yesterday.
Postmaster General Howe left W Washington
yesterday for ten days visit to Wiscon-
sin. Ex-President Daiz and party arrived
in Austin, Texas, yesterday, and we're re-
ceived by the governor and members Ol
the state Legislature.
NATHANIEL THAYER, well known
capitalist of Boston, died yesterday in that
city, at the age of rs years. He was for
many years a member of the banking
firm of John E. Thayer & Brother, and
was director OF the New York Central,
Michigan Central, Chicago, Burlington 4
Quincy, and Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore railroads. He was a liberal
patron of Harvard college, having erected
Thayer hall, at cost of 800, 900, besides
giving largely in other ways.
ALEX. H. STEPHENS was once stigma
tized by Judge Cone, of Georgia, as a
traitor to the South, and Stephens slashed
his antagonist across the face with cane.
Judge Cone drew knife, and inflicted
eighteen or twenty wounds on his puny
opponent. Finally, forcing him to the
ground and holding him by the hair, Cone
said &: "Apologizs, Or I'll cut your id
throat. " Stephens coolly answered,
"Never cut away Just as the knife
was descending the oombatants were
separated, but Stephens we'll nigh bled to
death.
HENRY SEYBERT, a wealthy eccentric
who died lately in Philadelphia and whose
Washington, Pa, yesterday, left $3.50, 900
in public bequests. Tho residue of the
estate, amounting to over $1,000 900, is
left to the executors in trust to found two
institutions, one for the caro- and educa-
ton of boys, the other for girls. A be-
quest of $50, 600 is made to the university
of Pennsylvania to endow chair of mental
and moral philosophy, with the stipula-
rion fh.t q N imDarfial Investigation sho N
be made of modern spiritualism and other
systems assuming to represent truth.
Another bequest of $50. 900 to the univer-
sity is for the endowment of a ward in the
wing for chronic diseases.