Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-07-03
PERSONAL.

CONGRESSMAN EvINs, of South Carolina,
has fatal case of Brights disease, and has
gone to the Waukesha Springs as last resort.
SENATOR CoLoUITT was taken sick IN the
Senate Chamber Saturday, and had to go
home. He found it necessary to partake of a
little alcoholic stimulus incidentally.
Or the younger members of the House of
Representatives, Turner of Georgia and
Findlay of Maryland have made the most
reputation during this session. Georgia VIII
be sure to honor and re-lndorse Turner.
SENATOR Don CAMERON will probably re-
main IN Washington as the Presidents guest
until after the adjournment of Congress. He
is on a short trip to New York, but will re-
turn to the capital some day this week.
ENGLAND's poet lord is so bored by the re-
ceipt Of other peoples MSS. for criticism, that
he has published a card notifying the British
public that IN future he shall burn its illusions
and pocket the accompanying postage stamps.
THE actors colony of cottage owners at Co
hasset, Mass, includes Lawrence Barrett and
the inseparable Stuart Robson and W. IL.
Crane. Boston actors go to Manchester, n.
H.. where Mrs. Agnes Booth Is now managing
her late husbands hotel, and is likely to make
$4,000 this season.
THE picture of Thomas F. Bayard which
the st. Louis Chronicle publishes represents
that gentleman with the smooth, adolescent
cOuntenance of college sophomore after his
first shave. This is not the way Senator Bay
ard looks. The Senator is no daisy in his per-
y o
hundred fellow-citizens he would not be
picked out for either spring chicken or a
rosebud. He is well along In years.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, OF Illinois, Chair
man of the Investigation Committee which
has recently occupied a considerable share Of
public attention, is described as tall and
thin. He has a good Roman head, hand
some, short black and silver beard and a
growing scarcity of black and silver hair on
the top of his head, He has to use glasses, too,
though he is younger than the average man
of thirty. He was forty-eight on Decoration
day"
EX-SURGEON GENERAL WALES, of the navy,
is having some purgatorial experience just
frauds are ascribed indirectly to his weak
ness and inefliciency. Among the sepulchral
Jokes of the season is the published testimony
of Congressman in both parties to his admir-
able qualifications and asking that he be re-
tanned in Office. Wales was consummate
cOurtier and did an immense amount of gra-
tuItous practice in influential quarters; but
he missed his mark at last. OF course, the
Congressman who recommended him did SO
sincerely.
Col. CHARLES GORDON GREENE, the veteran
editor and the founder of the Boston Post, was
80 years old Sunday, and the anniversary was
made the occasion of very pleasant express
sion of the esteem and good will of the Bos-
ton newspaper fraternity. During the day
there was presented to him without any cere-
monies, as it was known that any public de-
mOnstration would be unwelcOme to him, an
elegantly bound portfolio containing words of
congratulation and cheer, signed by all the
leading journalists OF the city, together with
a characteristic poem from the pen Of p. p.
Shillaber Mrs. PartingtOn). These were all
beautifully engrOssed on parchment.