Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-02-23
PERSONAL.

EIcToR HUGo is warm opponent of
vivisectiOn.
PAYNE, Blaine aud Bayne are becoming
painfully conspicuous of late in the pOlit.
cal world.
Nor. CAPEL intends to visit Denver
early in the spring for the good of his
health"
Hos. W. P. ScuELL, who removed to
West Chester some years ago, has sold his
house there.
REV. DR. DoBBrSs' controversy with
Rev. II. A. Cleveland has now got into
the Reading newspapers.
NJ. FRANCOIS BOSHEUR died suddenly
Friday morning in railway carriage in
Paris. He was brother of Rosa Bon.
hcur, the famous painter.
GEN. ROBERT E. LEES statue was
unveiled in New Orleans Friday afternoon.
The services were greatly interfered with
by drenching rain storm.
LORENz WIEpMANN, who was Herod in
the " Passion Play" at Oberammergau,
died recently at Munich hospital at the
ago OF 90 years. He was a tanner by
trade.
OWEN ROYCE, past grand chancellor,
grand lecturer aud supreme representative
of the Knights OF Pythias of Mississippi,
died suddenly at Mayersville in that state
on Thursday.
Ex ATTORNEY GEN. PALMER who was
recently making temperance speeches
seems to be mixing his drinks as he is now
called to lecture on "a Good Time" and
everybody knows what that means in
Wilkesbarre.
OLIVER EDEs, tho originator of ma
chine riyet making in this country, aud
for many years prominent in zinc manu-
featuring and mining in Massachusetts,,
Virginia and Tennessee, died in Plymouth,
Mass, on Thursday.
REV. d. w. GERHARD, pastor of the
Reformed congregation of New Holland,
has received unanimous call from the
Jefferson charge, in York county, consist
| ing Of three congregations. Rev. q. has
not yet decided whether to accept or not.
REV. PROF. f. 7. JEFFERs, of Lincoln
university, has been called to the pastor
ate of the Oxford Presbyterian church !;
Rev. Dr. Robinson, pastor OF the Market
| Square Presbyterian church, Harrisburg,
has accepted the professorship in the
Western theological seminary In Alle-
gheny, recently offered him.
SIR ]. d. ASHLEY, who is known in the
United States as the hacker of Rowell,
the foe of The Plunger, aud the hospitable
host to many Americans, has been making
a very amusing speech to his constituents I.
Referring to Mr.. Gladstones recent speech
on jam versus butter, he said
| Listen to the grand old man;
| II ne gets plenty OF lam
| lie don't care damn.
| REvs, ANDREW LoNaACRE, William ii.
Elliott, George W. mclaughlin, Thomas
IS Nicely, Thomas G. Murphy, D. d., and
William Mcdowell are the names on one
slate for delegates from the Philadelphia
NJ. L. conference to the next general con-
ference. Another ticket in tho field con.
sists of Revs. J. S. J. Mcconnell, William
J. Paxson, Joseph Welch, George w. Mac.
Laughlin, William Swindells and T. b.
Neely.
john AUSTIN STEVENS, of New York;
ex editor OF the Magazine Of American
History, has organized society in that
city which no calls the "Gridiron Club. I"
IL meets once week in q restaurant and
partakes of plain and inexpensive dinner.
The object is to keep alive an interest in
the history and traditions of New
York city. IL has adopted for It's arms
those the city of New York had In the
seventeenth century, a mill, two flour
barrels and two beavers, printed in
orange.