Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-31
PERSONAL

GRANT is a cremationist he burns his
friends.
BLAINE denies that he is hopeless of
Republican success this year.
f. A GILLETTE, of Iowa, has been
made chairman OF the GrCenback national
committee.
CHAs KINGsLEY's writings have always
been especial favori;es with the royal
family OF England.
MACKAY, the bonanza king, has spent
si25, 900 on an American newspaper 10
Paris to puff himself and his friends.
EDIToR HENRI RoCHEFORT has made a
sensation in Paris by q bitter attack on
Grant for his Prussiau symplthies during
the war Of 1870.
GENERALS BUTLER, HANCOCK AND Ar.
THUR rode in the Decoration day process.
sion in New York, and Judging from the
| popular demonstration Butler was the
greatest favorite and Arthur the least.
PHILIP BOURKE MARsTON poet, novel.
ist and critic, is "a years old. He has been
utterly blind since be WAS 81, when be
lost his mother and betrothed by death.
So is P. NJ. General Fawcett, of England
the political economist.
Miss LILLIAN RUssELL's "Billee Taylor
opera company, which has been exploiting
the continent, is bankrupt at Lausanne
The director has disappeared The artistic,
are without money and the hotel keeper
has seized their luggage.
CHARLES READE's last novel,
PerilOus Secret, will be published in July
Mr.. Reade finished the novel two months
prior to his death. He told his godson
This will be my last novel. Put at the
end The curtain Drops"
QUAY has carried Beaver county by
about 1000 majority for Congress, out Of
a vote of over 4, 000 In Beaver Falls, the
home of his opponent, DR.. Mcpherson,
| there were cast S65 votes, the town being
carried by Mcpherson by large majority.
HENRY IRVING at a London theatrical
! dinner The new friends we made ip
America will doubtless cordially greet us
when we revisit their shores" Ueary
seems to be crookiug the pregnant
hinges OF the knee that thrift may follow
fawnng."
| F. MARION CRAWFORD, the novelist
nephew of Sam Ward, deceased, and
whose last Tho Roman Singer is Just
out, is six feet, two, with broad shoulders,
full brown beard, high forehead, hazel
eyes, easy manners. He started in ltera
ture by falling % start newspaper in
India.
| MERYoN, one OF the most remarkable
of modern etchers, when living, was glad
to sell proofs of his MASTERPIECES for twelve
cents each and live in common garret
Since his death in madhouse essays have
been written on him, collectors have set
their caps at him, and those impressions
which in life he could not sell for even
twelve cents are worth s25.
Miss FRANCESCA ALEXANDER, a Boston
girl known 10 her friends as Fanny and e
literature as Francesca, wro,e "The Story
OF Ida" which Mr.. Ruskin introduced t.
the world, and now the "Roadsde Songs
OF Tuscany" She and her mother have
lived in Italy fora number OF years aud
they are devoted to the peasants, among
whom they spend most Of their time.
BIsHor SIMPSON was once an intimate
! friend of Grant and took the liberty o
calling the generals attention to his sur,
roundings at Long Branch ard in Wash
ington, aud the ungodly character of thu
men. In place of feeling thankful Gran
was very much hurt, and gave him to uu.
derstand that he was capable OF selectiu
his own associates. The bishop says 80
did not wish to associate with Murphy
Babcock aud others Of that class oi Grant,
friends, and left the White House and
have never seen or talked with Genera
| Grant since"