Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-21
PERSONAL.

MRS. AsToR, the wife OF John Jacob Aston,
Of New Ork, is seriously i'll.
HENRY WARD BEECHER intends going to
England this spring to lecture.
A CHICAGO TAILOR's CT rcular is signed "W
ID. Palmer, A. NJ, formerly President Of
Palmer's Academy"
EMORY STORRs, of Illinois, to an interview
err: :" can say with great deal OF certainty
that Blaine is decidedly opposed to Arthur,
and has spoken in the most favorable terms
Of Logan"
OLD Beverly Tucker is now engaged in
writing his "reminiscences, which extend a
long way back, since he was well grown up
when his eccentric uncle, John Randolph, Of
Virginia, died.
JOSEPHINE GALLMEYER, the famous comic
singer, who died in Vienna two weeks ago,
had very few moments of consciousness dur
ing her last illness, but sang with admirable
art in her delirium.
PICCOLoMINI, who was an operate sensa-
tiOn in this city quarter of century ago, Is
now an old woman in very destitute circum-
stance. Her condition is attributed to her
having married an Italian Marquis.
MRS. ANN GREENE PHILLIPS, wife Of the
late Wendell Phillips, has declined to act as
eXecutriX of her husbands will on account OF
i'll health, and has requested the Judge OF
Probate to appoint some one in her stead.
HUGH j. JEwITT is a director IN twenty
railroad companies, Samuel Sloan in twenty
three, Jay Gould in twenty-four, George b.
Roberts in twenty-six, Augustus Schell in
twenty -eight, Sidney Dillon in thIrty-six and
Frederick L. Ames in tifty-twO.
sKING HOWARD" of New Orleans, Million
aire, real head of the Louisiana lottery, politi-
cal manager, and the most powerful man in
the State, began business IN the Crescent City
only few years ago without cent as agent
of the Kentucky Lottery Company.
LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL and Lady
Vaudeville OvershadOwed all their English
competitors as barmaids at the recent inter
national peasant festival, and the fatuOus
dudes who went there were heeced unmerci-
fully, the rule being TO return no change.
In REGARD to a report of his i'll health,
which originated in Boston, Judge TOurgee
says that it IS incorrect, and that he simply
directed his agent to make no more engage
ments for him for the next month, in order
that he might complete book now under
way.
JUDGE JOSEPH L. SYMOSDs. Of the Supreme
Court of Maine, has placed his resignation in
the hands of the GvoernOr, greatly to the sur
prise of his friends. He will resume the prac-
tice of law in Portland, and the inadequate
salary Of the Judgeship may have had some
thing to do with the resignation.
SENIOR GAYARRE, who made a brilliant de-
but as GennarO, in "Lucrezia BOrgla,' IN
Paris on Saturday night, IS now 30 years Old.
He is the son Of a blacksmith OF Spanish Ma
varre. From the village choir he went TO
Italy to study. Not only has he superb
voice, but he. possesses dramatic powers of I'm
common order.
JOSEPHINE JONES YORKE, the opera singer,
being at odds with her manager, Col. Maple
SON and dlsliking the fanciful biography OF
her which he put forth in her native city OF
Cincinnati, has published a card saying that
her father was a wealthy soap and candle
maker there; that she is 81 years old; that she
has always done all she could to help her fam
ily, and that she viii keep her opinion Of the
Colonel 10 herself