Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-20
PERSONAL.

CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG was a passenger
by the Germanic, which arrived on Saturday
from Europe.
MATTHEW ARNoLD's daughter is quite
belle in New York, where she will reside after
her marriage. She is tall and stately.
Col. EBENEzER sPRoAT sIBLEY, who died
lately in Detroit. was the last survivor of the
siege OF Detroit by the British in 1912.
Mr.. GossE has discovered an unpublished
poem by Gray of some length, which he Will
print in the forthcoming edition of Gray's
works.
DIR. VILLIERs STANFORD is engaged in set
ting to music an elegiac ode prepared by Walt
Whitman for the festival at Norwich, Eng
land, to be held in October.
Mrs. VAN COLT, the revivalst, has been en-
gagged in her special work for nineteen years.
She is now in her saith year, and says that she
is the spiritual mother of 10000 souls.
THE French Government has granted $1,000
a year to the family of the late X-Emir ADD
el-Kader. There are six widows to share the
income, and some twenty-six children.
GEN. ROBERT f. LEES eldest son, Gen. W.
H. F. Lee, a splendid looking man, who has
evidently led an outdoor life, and looks like
an English country barOnet, is at the Hygeia,
Old Point Comfort.
TIE Prince of Wales two eldest daughters,
aged respectively II and l6, are to come Out'
next season like other rOsebuds, and every
managing mamma in the nobility who has a
her at the same time.
Miss T. F. BEEcHY, youngest daughter of
Admiral Beechy, of the British navy, who,
for taking an active part in chess affairs, has
been styled the "British Queen OF Chess" has
married Mr.. L. b. Rowland, the leading Irish
problem composer and solver.
WM. II. KILsINGBURY thinks that his dead
brother, the Lieutenant. has been treated
wrongfully by the newspapers, especially by
the press of Rochester. So on saturday he
tried to slap news gatherer on that hardened
spot where the beard sprouts, and afterWard
attempted to whip an editor or so.
MISS JULIA JACKSON and Mrs. StonewaT
Jackson, the only child and the widow of the
Southern chieftaln, are at Old Point Comfort.
Miss jackson is a falr-haired, blue-eyed girl,
with fragile form and delicate features. She
shoots, rides horseback in gray Confederate
uniform. trimmed with the ''Old COnfed."
buttons, plays tennis, and withal is a modest
little lady with low voice.
Mr.. PARNELL, until within a few days, has
nos been present Tor long time with his party
in the House, and the usual query has gone
round, Where is her He has been severally
placed as at BiarritZ, taking the waters;
boulevarding it in Paris, sick ia a London
suburb, flirting at Nice, or looking after his
affairs at AvOndae. Evidently the Irish pO-
tentate knows the value of secrecy and the
mischief which comes of making himself COM
mon and familiar.
JAMES L. KEENE has been at Saratoga for a
short visit, and, although he has lost nearly all
Of his fortune, is as popular as ever. 1t is a
general sentiment that there is a good deal of
the cat in his nature; that he has the nine
lives, and, besides, always manages to fall on
his feet. He does not look cast down In the
least by his recent losses, and, indeed, has
more the look of a man with whom the world
ways well. He lives in Newport the most of
his time, but last winter had rooms in West
Tenth street. New York.