Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-01
PERSONAL.

THE health of Mrs. Stanley Matthews is
said to be growing worse.
HUBERT HERKOMER is a landscape gardener
as well as painter, etcher and wood carver.
THE statue of Admiral Dupont has been
placed on its pedestal. 1t will be inspected
by the Secretaries of War and Navy before
unwilling.
JUSTICE WOODS, of the United States SUI
preme Court, is an enthusiastic book cOllec-
tor. his taste running toward fine editions of
historical works.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has been granted an
audience by the Emperor of Germany. As
Mr.. Stanley has been in the show business he
knows how to appreciate an audience.
MAJ. Ben: PERLEY POoRE has a volume of
500 pages in press, entitled sixty Years at
the Capital" 1t is to be published by
Philadelphia subscription book house.
MRS MARX HOPKINS has about completed
her plans for the elaborate stone residence she
intends to build in Great Barring ton, Mass.
The cost is variOusly estimated from S50O,OOO
to 81, 100000.
PRIVATE LETTERS from Athens received
in Washington say that Mr.. Eugene Schuyler,
the American Minister. recently while taking
a walk in the envrOns of the Greek capital.
lost his way and fell into pit filled with slaked
lime. from which he was not extricated until
painfully burned.
VICTORIEN SARDOU'S mansion, "Nerduron."
was once the home Of Mile. Blondin, one OF
y -
nished in the styleOf those days. In corner
of the salon is an ld-fashlOned harp, on which
Mile. BlOndin used to play. and by 1t stands
sedan chair wherein the "rOi sOlel' was IN
the habit of sitting. In the ante room is
richly gIldcd sleigh, and by the door are four
steel culverincs uf the eighteenth century,
which SardOu bravely loaded and fired with
his own hands in honor of his parents golden
wedding, a little more than two years ago.
LORD SALISBURY deserves his success; for
during his recent campaign in Scotland he
appeared on railway platform and addressed
a crowd, clad, from his waistband upward,
in full evening DIRE s., and below in full High
land costume. True, this remarkable att re.
such as even Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed in, was the result of tit of absent
mindedness, but that fact little mitigated the
horrors of the situation. Nor did the mind of
Cecil hear much comfort in the strident
whisper of his valet behind him, My lord!
you've forgotten these u'-brandishing a pair
of trousers meanwhile. No, after that ordeal
he deserves the sOlace OF success.
ISRAEL HART, Jew, has Just been chosen
Mayor of Leicester, England. The principal
general interest of the fact lies in the circum-
stance that about the year 1890 Simon de
MOntfort, Earl of Leicester, granted charter
TO the borough for the total exclusion of the
Jews from Leicester, and they took refuge
near the Jewry wall-a portion of which is
still preserved. The charterrecited: LET it
be universally known that Simon de Mont
fort, for the health of my soul and the souls
of my ancestors and successors, have granted
and by this my present charter confirmed, for
me and my heirs IN perpetuity, to my burgess
es of Leicester and their heirs, that no jew
or JeWess in my time or in the time of my
heirs. to the end Of the world, shall within
the liberty Of the town OF Leicester Inhabit
remain, or obtain any residence" The end
of the world Is not yet; bat Leicester-the
Leicester of De Montfort-enjOyst the admins
tration of its first Jewish Mayor.