Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-28
PERSONAL.

JUDGE FORAKER, whom Hoadly defeated.
has Just made a speech in advocacy of senator
sherman for President.
4 BOUND volume of 10 autograph letters
from Lord Byron tC his mother was recently
bought by the Boston Library for s 1900.
MILTON is SAID to have used vocabulary
falling within 1900 words. while CARLYLE used
as many as that in ''SartOr Resartus' alone.
Mr. Aston. the American Minister to Rome.
intends reslgnlng his post. it is SAID. because
the feeble health Of his parents necessitates
his presence in New York.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gracously been pleased
to add another flOO to the GOO drawn YEARLY
from the civil list pension by Sir Richard
owen, OWN to his eminent services to science.
HENRY JAMES says That the most beautiful
woman he ever saw is the cashier of a Prov
cnce restaurant. She il large, quiet, and has
the dignity Of a Roman Empress. lie also
declares admiration for the washerwomen in
the TrasteYere.
PROF. PEDRO MONTALDO. the instructor in
modern languages at the Naval Academy,
who died on saturday, fed from Spain many
wears ago because Of his practical republican
agitation. At the battle OF Shiloh lie lost u
leg in the Federal service.
THE London society journals announce that
a marriage will take place between the Hon.
Iiopelle TennysOn, the eldest son of the poet,
who is now Baron Tennyson, Of Aldworth,
and Miss Boyle. TennysOn's second son, Hal
lam, was married in London last summer.
SENATOR SHERMAN's wife spends at least
six months in the year at Mansfield, o., where
both she and John were born. She was q
daughter Of the late eX-LIeut.-GOv. Stewart.
of Ohio. a man of wealth. who decidedly OBJ
iected for while to giving his daughter to
John Sherman.
A ST. LOUIS NEWSPAPER says one of Maple
sons tenors IS missing His name is Anton
He was known to be in the city in the begin
ming of the week, but has since disappeared,
,,J - - tbought he is wandering aImlpselv
and hopelessly around the Cahokla bottoms in
search OF a lost voice.
DIR. LANCE. the distinguished divine and
commentator at Bonn. who was reported ia
have met with a mysterious death in the canal
al Ham burg, is enjoying excellent health. de is
still lecturing in the university. and has just
published "A pamphlet on the theology OF DR..
Ritschl, OF GOtungen.
THE Nawab Mir Laik Ali, eldest son of the
late Sir Salar Jung. an Indian Prince, who
has just been appointed by the Nizam TO be his
Dewan, or Prime Minister, is probably the
Youngest occupant of such an office in the
world. being only 20 years of age. He is
youth of gigantic physical frame, pleasing
manners and high intellectual culture.
MATHEW ARNOLD is back in Boston at the
Hotel Vendome. His tour in the Dominion
was not particularly profitable, and person
ally he made himself very unpopular. ON this
side of the Atlantic almost his only social sue
cess has been in Boston, where he IS faVOra-
blv regarded, not a. an author, lecturer, ora
tor, or even essayist, but because he Is thor
Oughly English.
Mr.. CARNEGIE OF Pittsburg, is building a
granite mansion on Cumberland Island, a few
miles north Of Fernandna, Fla. This famous
island once was owned by Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, and it is the burial place OF Light
Horse Harry Lee. Deer roam at VIII through
the vast recesses of its forests Lord Hunt
ingdon said recently that he did not know
of a gentleman's park IN all Great Britain
that was superior TO il in natural beauty.