Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-21
PERSONAL.

THE Norbone MOI {ndspendent announces
the marriage at that place OF joshua BaLt-
lett aged so, and Miss Harriet DOdd, aged 20.
MRS BOWERS, who pretends TO possess
some wonderful powers as pfopheless;
warns the people Of Reno, New, that a great
fire viii destroy that town in April or May
DR.. Lucy NJ HALL the newlyappointed
SUPERINTENDENT of the Massachusetts
W6man's Reformatory Prison, has declined
the position for the reason that she does not
wish to abandon her practice.
THE Japanese Premier Prince Kung, adj
dressed Gen. Grant when he was in Japan, IN
English. so-called. EndeavOring to compA-
ment him by assuring him that he was born
to command he said: Sire, brave Generate,
you vas made to order"
THE English society journals announce that
Mrs. Langtry's engagements in this country
have proved so Unexpectedly satisfactory that
she has abandoned her contemplated trip 10
Australia and will return to England at the
close Of the dramatic season for rev months
rest.
MISS BERTHA VoN HILLERN viii paint for
the American Colonization Society d portrait
OF their first President, Mr.. Justice Bushrod
Washington, of the United States supreme
Court. She has found q portrait probably by
Harding), in West Virginia, which VIII be her
model
OLD BAT DE PRARE, who fought with jack
son at New Orleans. is hale and hearty at
Mansfield. Wis, at the ripe age OF le6 lie
Saws EnaJ 1Of over IlIy years llc ulu uOt 5ANtH
under a roof. He smokes, drinks, sWeafs,
chews tobacco, plays poker, and Tor the last
few years has taken kindly to night-cap.
THE New York Sun shows that the ancestors
of the present great aristOcratlc famiiles OF
New York were haberdashers of cheap sort.
Thus "a Stuyvesant sold handkerchiefs, De
Peyster jeans, a Rhnelander hats Brevoort
pewter spoons, Coelet knitting hSeuIes' 4
Lawrence stockings, Beekman molasses, a
Roosevelt lampblack.
AN actor, who is also somewhat of statis-
tician, has calculated that during his dra-
matte career Barry Sullivan has committed
1900 murders and been killed 5000 times.
Irving has record of $1,000 murders and Of
death by violence 1000 times, While Charles
| Wyndham has in England alone Deen Ill
vorced from $500 wives.
Ex-Gov. WIN. w. HOLDEN, of North Caro-
lima. who was impeached by the Democratic
Legislature in 1870, is leading quiet life IN
Raleigh. He is disqualified from holding any
| State Office, and though the Legislature mas
/ been frequently asked to remove his dlsaDlll :
| ties it has refused to do so. He was elected
| Governor as a Republican by 10000 majority.
| Nearly two years ago he was partially paral-
| wed and his health now is not good.
! A VENERABLE Parliamentary reporter has
retired in London in Mr.. Charles Ross, who,
/ for many years, was the chief OF the London
| Times Parliamentary stan. Mr.. Ross con =
| nectIon with the reporters gallery extends
over nearly sixty years, for nearly forty OF
! which he was the Times chief. During the
| last year or two his physical powers have been
| falling nm, though il has been no uncommon
! thing to see him during the past year giving
directions in the closing hours Of great de-
| hate.