Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-28
Personal.

AUGUST BELMONT has bought a new
/ $500 house.
JOE JEFFERsoN's child, less than ten,
/ calls him Joe"
MoNCURE d. CONWAY is studying the
history of the devil in Salt Lake City.
CAPTAIN c.. f. WRIGHT. editor Of the
! Nicksburg Miss Herdld. has invented
I a cotton harvester.
THEODORE THOMAS in Utah, with a
nice regard tor the locality, put several
wedding marches on each programme.
EX-Gov. LELAND STANFORD's in
! come is about $3.000,00 year. That, we
/ believe. was the income of a. T. Stewart.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCOTE will proba-
! bly,. on account Of his poor health. resign
the leadership of the Conservative party
/ in Parliament.
IT IS reported that the Marquis of
I L0rne is to be called to the House of
/ Lords by one of his fathers minor titles
| shortly after his return from the dOmin-
\ ION.
| LEONARD HUXLEY, the eldest son Of
| Professor Huxley, has taken a first-class
/ in final classics at Oxford, the highest
| honor in classics which that University
/ can bestOw.
PROBABLY the last Queen of the gyp-
sizes has passed away with the death OF
| Esther Faa Blythe, whose demise. July
! l.. at the age of So, is recorded in the
/ Edinburgh newspapers.
SIR JAMES HANNEN. of London, and
Mr.. Charles Russell and Mr.. p. Martin.
members of the British Parliament,
| arrived from England by the Celtic, and
| are at the Hotel Brunswick.
THE COUNT DE PARIS, at one time on
General McCIellan's staff during the war
90. . bo 70 bo I,,c
the Orleans family. He holds in high
esteem the Republicanism of the United
States.
PRINCE BISMARCK passes his time at
FREDERICKSBURG in directing the improve
ments on his farm. He spends five or six
hours day in the open air, and gives or
ders to his wOrkmen as though they We're
Secretaries of State.
GOVERNOR WALLER, OF Connecticut,
has remained at his home in New London
throughout the summer. Once a week
the Executive Clerk takes a bundle of
official papers down TO him. thus saving
a pilgrimage to the capital city.
HENRY IRVING, in time past, was
fercely and widely accused Of white
washing the character of Shylock, and, in
consequence, his recent representation of
it has lost some of its sympathy, and
while it demands cOmmiseration it leaves
points for condemnation.
THE Pau Mall Gazette points out that
during Mrs. Langtry's nine months in the
United States, fOOling around with her
dude Freddy, she cleared about five times
as much as the income of the Prime
Minister of Great Britain, and more than
twice the monthly emOluments Of the
Archbishop Of Canterbury.
GENERAL ROsECRANs is making pro-
gress in the matter of the Jefferson mOnu-
ment, and he may represent the Pacific
slope in the next Democratic Cabinet.
Thomas jefferson ought to have monu-
ment. because he introduced to America
the tomato, which is curing lot of rummy
old politicians Of Bright's disease.
REV. DR.. J. A. LIPPINCOTT, Professor
Of Mathematics in Dickinson College,
PENNSYLVANIA, has accepted the Chancel-
lorship Of the University of Kansas. Dur
ing his residence i'll Carlisle, Professor
LippincOtt has been an active friend of
the well known Indian school at that
place, and he has acquired considerable
preutatiOn as a lecturer and writer.
SENATOR BEN HARRISON, of Indiana
loves the American flag, whose stripes
are the Wristbands of liberty and whose
stars are gum-drOps of our beloved skies.
He wraps it about him as a tOga, he
sleeps In it as a soothing nightgOwn, he
Z
sbroud. Senator Harrison is the john
Hill of Indiana, only John Hill beats him
at the bass-drum; in fact, beats the drum
itself.
$50 ENGROssED was Judge Blacks
mind" SAYS the Philadelphia Record,
"during his life with the many duties
which such a career as his crowded upon
his attention that he paid little attention
to his personal appearance. Unless the
fact were forced upon him that his ward
robe demanded replenishing he would
never notice it. He never ordered a suit
of clothes himself, and disliked to change
an old and comfortable suit for new and
stiff one. His clothes were made by a
Philadelphia tailor, who was compelled
to resort to strategy to capture the Judge
when a measure was to be taken. a
member of the family always looked out
for things, and usually the first intima-
ton the Judge had of new suit would
he when it was sent to him, and further
persuasion had to be employed TO get him
to put it on"