Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-14
PERSONAL.

CHARLES READE wrote generally in bare
unfurnished room.
NINE. MARIE ROzE, the prima donna, is suf
fering from low intermittent fever in Lon
don.
Mr.. BLAINE is to be given a banquet in
Faneuil Hall by four Of the Boston clubs, early
in September.
Gov. CLEVELAND has no real estate, and is
estimated to be worth in personal property
about $1,000.
MRS. LOGAN, the wife of the, Republican
Vice Presidential candidate, has been i'll, but
is improving.
JAMES WATTS workshop, at Heathfeld
Hall, Is preserved just as he last went out OF
it-even to the leather apron thrown across
the wise.
CAPT. TRAYNOR, who lett New Haven,
Conn, Monday for Bristol, England, in row.
boat. was spoken in the sound Wednesday,
still heading for Bristol and pulling thirty SIX
strokes minute.
THE Marquese de Charette, famous in Paris
for her beauty, grace, wit, horsemanship. and
fine, long hair, was Miss Antolnette FOLK;
niece of the late Leonidas Polk, Bishop and
General, of Louisiana.
HENRY WARD BEECHER closed up Plymouth
Church yesterday, and will go at once to his
country retreat at Peeksklll, to stay until Sep
tembers He has more than intimated that he
will then go to work to make good the prom
Use he made sometime since, to do what he
could to defeat Mr.. Blaine. This, he says, he
contemplates in the light of quite as much
religious as political duty. and whatever
other men may say or do he does not mean to
shrink from 1t.
Mr.. RANDALL is a great whist player, but
confines his playing to his family. He is able,
when he leaves his committee room and enters
his home, to forget or lay aside his work, SO
that it does not bother him. Ex-senator Nc
Donald is like HIM in this particular. The
ex-senator may argue knotty case in court
throughout the dav, and 1t may appear as II
it were going against him. But at night time
he gives no sign at all of having been engaged
during the day.
GOV. WALLER of Connecticut, who is not
only a self made man and the author of job
of which he is proud, was one OF the most
striking figures in the convention. From
boOtblack to the bar and the GubernatOrlal
chair of the old Nutmeg state, he stands as
the first citizen Of Competent in force OF
character as well as position. of something
over medium size, he has a large head, a firm
chin and q general facial contour which
marks the self-reliant, aggressive man. He
speaks with confidence and speaks well.
LoNGFELLOw's good-nature and courtesy
never failed. Everyone was sure OF well
come from him. whether autograph hunter
or unlnvited visitor, though often people went
beyond the bounds of good breeding. Espec-
ally was this the case when lady sent him
200 blank cards, with request that he would
ill them out. each one with line aud his au-
tograph attached, in order that she might
"present them as gifts to the guests at
party she was to give, and to which she did
not even ask the poet to come. Even to this
demand he wrote that he regretted that he
not had time to comply with the request"
THE wife of Mr.. Hendricks was at one time
a prominent Methodist at Indianapolis. Her
husband told her he would join the Episcopal
Church if she would go with him. Mrs. Hen
bricks consented. He afterwards was a
prominent contributor to@be erection of what
is now known as st. PauPs Cathedral at In
dianapolis. That was during the war. The
rector selected for the church when completed
was a NIrginian and a Confederate. He went
to Indianapolis, but was so pronounced in his
Southern opinions that he was given twelve
hours to leave the city. He left, and went to
Baltimore. There he was again requested to
leave the church at which he preached. He
then returned to Virginia. .