Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-12-29
PERSONAL.


officer in full uniform TO perform duty at his |
wifc's regular "Wednesday reception.
MILLIONAIRE Elisha GRAY, the telc- |
graph inventor and father Of the "self
adjusting helix" was once milk pcddlcr
in oberlin, Ohio
PAQUET the infdel, who WAS recently
paralyzed while denying the doctrine of
eternal punishment, died in the hospital in
Toronto on Saturday.
WV. CoRcoRAN celebrated his s6th birth
day on Saturday. tie received numerous
presents. Many were from people he had
helped. lie is hale and hearty.
Hos. THOMAS \. UENDRiCKs. vice prcsi-
dcnt-ecct, will deliver the annual address
before the Yale Alumni and graduating classes
at the commencement, on June %, lSS5.
SENATOR JoE HAwLEN and MURAr HAL
rEAp are favorite subjects for the photo
graphcrs. These men have guatceS, and
goatees always look well in photographs.
GENERAL CUsTER's only sister is giving
dramatic readings for livelihood, in the
West, and she is in great demand tor such
service among the different Grand Army
posts
NINE. CLOVIS HuGUEs. who shot down
NORM in the Hotel de Vile, Paris, is offered
attractive inducements by an American
theatrical spcculator 10 come to this country
and play Ludy Macbeth.
Mr.. HENRY IRVING did graceful thing
before leaving Philadelphia While playing
he sent an invitation to the ten old actors in
the Forest Home to attend his performance
and gave each of them $50 as u Christmas
present
GEN. CAMERON remarked, rs he sat at
| dinner in Havana, Cuba, and cablegram
| was handed him announcing the Garfield
cabinet: THAT is "A sort of a Dolly Warden
combination and my son-n-law is among the
| curious posies."
| HELEN HUNT JACKSON, (lI. II. is rusti-
| eating ut Los Angeles, where she is patiently
waiting for the genial California sunshine To
restore to its original health her ankle-bonc,
which was shattered by fall down the full
length OF staircase at her home in Colorado
| Springs.
L. B. SIMPSON, an Oil City broker, about
two months ago, in company with others,
| purchased tract of land in Butler county.
which proved to be good oil territory Mr..
simpsons profit in the transaction was $50.
600, which handsome sum he gave to his wife
| Tor a Chrlstlnas present
Mr.. SPURGEoN has received rs a gift from
Mr.. Passmore (of Passmore Il Alahaster
publishers, London), black-aud-tan colorcd
carriage, upholstered with the most luxuriuu,
cushions and containing various shelves foI
books and parcels, an array of cigar boNe,
and trays, aud a handsome looking glass.
GLADSTONE is mild-looking man, will
baggy trousers. He is a regular prowler. He
never dresses well. People frequently SEE
him in a tumble-down hat and shabby suit
standing in front of the window of bric-a
brac store. He is a close student, dcvout
church-goer and great lover of negro min
strel songs.
CHARLOTTE BRoNTE's husband, Nh
Nichols, is now living at Banagher, Ireland
He is married again, and is a gentleman
farmer, having reiinquished the clergyman
calling. Her father, Rev. p. Bronte, ans
the Rev. W. Morgan married sisters. ant
each performed the marriage ceremony fo
the other there being no convenient clergy
man who could bc employed for both.
HENDRICKS in recent letter says: "Th,
negro is now free and is the equal of tn,
white man in respect to his civil and politica,
rights. He must now make his own contes
for position and power. BY his own con
duct and success he will be judged. 1t vii
be unfortunate for him il he shall RELY upo
political sympathy for position rather tha
upon duties well and intellgently iii,
charged"
SARAH BERNHARpT has scored a triump
in Sardou's new play of Z" Theodore" Sh
, is said to he resplendent in the scene where
arayed in the imperial jewels of the Byzan
tine Caesars and reclining in oriental lassitud
on a magnificent throne of white bear skin,
she gives audience to an aD,bdssade of pre-
lates, whom she deigns TO permit to kiss he
feet. The scene where Bernhardt draws frou
her hair a iewelled dagger and stabs to tn
heart NarceVns the would-be assassin {
JustiRieR, equals in dramatic intensity any
thing she has vet done