Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-16
PERSONAL.

SENATOR HARRISON has been honoEed with
the LII. d degree by Hanover College, at Mad
ison, Ind.
THE petition for the restoration Of Gen.
Baker Pasha has been signed by the Dukes of
Cambridge and Sutherland and by Sir John
BurgOyne,
THE shop where Benedict Arnold sold drugs
before the revolution and his stone house are
still shown to the curious at New Haven,
Conn, and his wife lies buried in the cemetery
there.
Ex-GOv. BUFFERS organ commends the
proposition of the Harvard authorities to
abolish the practice of bestOwing the degree
OF LID. as a reward for popular guberna-
torial majority.
REV. ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER, in a London
letter to the Boston Herald, criticises Mrs.
Gladstone's habits OF dress while attending
church as minutely as if he belonged to her
sex and her bonnet had eclipsed his own.
THE Boston New England Club urges James
G, Blame, Of Maine, to dine, next Saturday,
or on any other day sulting his convenience,
at YOungs, which is not equal, dlnnerwlse, to
Parker's, or to Taft's at Shirley Point, but
VIII do as a medium for the expected speech.
JuDGE GARLAND, of Lynchburg, Va, COM
pleted his 92d year few days ago. Though
blind. his intellect is as clear as bell. and,
altogether, what Hallam wrote Of Ben Jonson
seems to fit him: 1.-THE life was in the leaf,
and his laurel remained verdant amid the
SHOWS of his hOnored head"
EVERY YEAR, on the anniversary of Mer-
eedes' death, Queen Christina, OF Spain, goes
to the Escurial and places wreath OF flowers
upon her predecessors tomb. She was the
first to propose that her daughter should be
named after Mercedes, and she treats the lat
ter's mother, the Duchess OF Montpensler,
with the most tender respect, always giving
to her the place Of honor in the royal carriage.
THE descendants of the Penns now living
who are to share the f67, 900 designated by the
British National Debt Commission in commu-
tation Of the $4,000 annuity, paid that family
since 1870, as indemnity for the property 1T
lost in Pennsylvania by the revolutionary
war, bear the names OF Fell, RaWlns, New
combe. Barrow, Comm, Gasklll, Baker,
Coates. Hall, Read, Alexander, Walker, Gof,
Clayton and Raynter.
HARVEY MAY CoRDUA, the two-year-old
son of Mr.. II. f. Cordua, named after two
heroes of the Mexican war, has received
silver cup from the officers OF the Second
United States Cavalry as the youngest soldier
in the United States Army, by virtue OF Order
No q dated Headquarters United States Sec
ond Cavalry. Fort Custer, NJ. T., issued
January IL, 1888, assigning him to troop A,
few weeks after his birth, at Laredo, Texas,
MRS. FRANK LEsLIR and her husband, the
Marquis de Leuville, are enjOylng life. WISH
ing to attend the Sheepshead Bay races Tues
day they and party Of their guests found, on
arriving at the Battery, that the boat had
left. Most Of THE party were Tor returning
home. "Oh, nonsense; we must see the races
at any cost" said Mrs. Leslie. The steamtug
Hayes was lying at the stone basin. Mrs.
Leslie went 70 the Captain. Il want to hire
your tug" she said. get up steam at once
the Captain. Mrs. Leslie and her friends saw
the races and the Captain of the Hayes de-
clared that il was one of the best paying days
he ever had since he had been boating.