Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-06
PERSONAL.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES is in New York.

| EX-PRESIDENT HAYES is in New York.
TENNYsoN's newest work consists of sin
| gle long dramatic poem, the subject being
| Beckett.
| ISABELLA STUART, Countess d'Albanie, who
/ boasts to have the blood of the Pretender in
| her veins, is mother abbess of an English con-
| vent at Braila, in Roumania.
| JUSTICE CHARLES E. FENNER, of the Lou
| isiana Supreme Court, has accepted the chair
| of civil law left vacant at the Tulane Univer-
by city the choice of Prof. Eustis to the United
| States Senate.
| JOHN II. SToDDER worked hard as a cutter in
| a tailor's shop in Boston during a long life
only to fall heir the other day, soon after the
| completion of his 18th year, to the snug little
| fortune of $4,000.
HENRY B. HARRISON, Republican candidate
| for Governor of Connecticut, was the author
| and chief advocate of the bill for the defense
| Of liberty, which passed the Connecticut
| Legislature In 1854.
| CANDIDATE BUTLER carries around with
| him in his campaign a lightning calculator
| Said the calculator at Rochester, "Ben has,
| up to the present Rochester visit, Travelled g.,
00O miles and delivered sixty mine speeches."
JEFFERSON DAVIS nephew having died re-
Gently, none of his name of his family now
survive except himself. He has been married
| twice, but has no male descendant who bears
| his name, his only son having died little
while ago.
MARK TWAIN is the richest humOrist in
| America. Besides his own large earnings and
| savings he married a lady worth several hun
| unique residence in America at Hartford,
Conn.
Mrs. A. HOLMES, of Newark, n. j., named
the male representative of recently arrived
twins Benjamin Franklin Butler, and upon
notification of the event the great representa-
tive Of labor generously sent Mrs. Holmes his
autograph.
BONNER has agreed that Maud S. shall trot
as fast as her elastic hOOfs can carry her at
Hartford on Oct. 10. Both Jay-Eye-S See and
Phallas are at Cleveland, and Mr.. Case ex-
poets better work from the former before the
month shall have passed.
IRA d. SANKEY sang ''Ninety and Nine"
before an immense audience in Brooklyn on
Sunday, and explained that the song was
written by Miss Cleffany at MelrOse, Scot
land, and published by local paper. Mr..
Sankey met with it by accident.
John DOE, the man who was found prowl-
ing around Mrs. Garfeld's home in Cleve-
land, has been adjudged insane and is now in
whole week, and food had to be forced down
his throat with a stomach pump.
THE Duchess de Persigny, a rich French
widow. is a descendant of the famous Marshal
Ney. Her extrayagant tastes leu he ss 10 spend
$4,000 during a trip to Japan, and $25O,OO0 for
a villa at Cannes. Her son has caused the
courts to take legal possession OF her prop
erty for fear of being LETT pennies orphan.
GEN. II. V. BoYNTON, for 20 years past the
Washington correspondent of the CINCINNATI
Gazette and Commercial Gdsette, has recently,
according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, de-
clared himself to be unalterably opposed TO
the election of James q. Blaine as President,
because he believes him to be a dishonest man.
KARL GERHARDT, young sculptor OF
American birth, who has lately returned from
five years study in Paris, where two OF ms
works, ideal figures III marble, were exhibited
with honor in this years Salon. has just nm
ished a portrait bust Of Samuel L. Clemens,
which has been cast in bronze in Philadel-
phia.
MISS KATE FIELD has Just become possessed
of a copy of the first edition of the Book of
Mormon" published in 1880, at Palmyra. n.
Y. This edition is extremely rare. The
title page is suggestive. Thereon Joseph
Smith is announced as "authOr and pro-
prietOr' of the very book which is supposed
to be the Word of God. Later editions con-
tain no such revelation. Miss Field VIII use
this edition in her lecture on ''The Mormon
Monster"
WHEN President Arthur was in Kingston,
the guest Of Gen. Sharpe, he was appealed to
by a widow to order the discharge of her son
from the regular army, and, being asked II
such applications were often received. laugh
ingly replied yes; that il took about half the
time of the Secretary of War to get men into
the army, and half of his the Presidents)
time to get them out again. The widows APP
plication was successful, investigation show
ing good reasons for compliance with her re-
quest.
THE latest piece of interesting gossip comes
from New Jersey to the effect that President
Arthur contemplates matrimony, and tnat
the fortunate young woman is Miss Tillie, the
eldest daughter of Secretary Frellnghuysen.
This will make Mr.. Arthur the Dr0tner-ln-
law of the new American Minister to Berlin,
who, we believe, has spoken Tor the sister OF