Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-17
PERSONAL.

THos. A. EDISON, the inventor, is spend
ing the winter in Florida with his family.
MISSIONER, who is now p, does not dye,
but wears beard like river gods and
white as snow.
Ex-SPEAKER KEIFER is SAID to be confid-
ing to his intimate friends the news that he
will retire from public life at the close of his
present term.
REPRESENTATIVES, j. RANDOLPH TUCKER, of
Virginia, delivered the address at the annual
commencement OF the medical department of
the University of Maryland in Baltimore
Friday.
GEN. GRANT, in speaking of Gen. Adam
Badeau's history Of his campaigns, mOdestly
says that 1t must be remembered that the
author Is partial toward Gen. Sherman and
gen. Grant.
PRINCE FEaDINAN,Di, Of Bavaria, having
the Tongue and Studies in Comparative
Anatomy" has received from the University
of Munich the title of Doctor of Medicine.
THE University of Edinburgh, Scotland. has
invited DR.. Samuel ID. Gross, Emeritus Pro-
fessor of Surgery in jefferson College, Phila-
delphia, to accept the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws at the tercentenary of its
foundation on April Il.
IT Is SAID now that Joaquin Miller, who was
supposed to be snugly settled in that much
talked-Of log cabin of his on the outskirts OF
Washington, IS anxious to serve his country
abroad As Consul. In other words,
"Wakeen" is ready and willing to walk out.
AS spring advances and ice disappears Lord
LansdOwne tells English visitors who come to
see him at Ottawa that he is "some" on the
skates and that he has beaten numerous ma
tive Canadians in races on the ice. But none
of these races are recorded or even remem-
bered.
JUDGE KELLEY, the ''father Of the House."
he is the pet of both parties. The Judge has
a son and daughter. Last spring the two
children made a pedestrian tour Of Europe.
The Young lady is an enthusiastic student Of
political economy.
DAVID f. WHITMER, still living in Missouri
at the age of so, was one of the three wit
nesses who in 1880 published a certificate de-
claring that they saw an angel come down
with the golden book which Joseph Smith pre-
tended to interpret. But when the witnesses
were older and wiser they abjured MOrmonism
and declared their former testimony false.
MISS PHGBE w. COUzINs, famous as a fe-
male lawyer in st. Louis, is the leading advo-
cate IN advancing the claim of Miss Anna Ella
Carroll, whose alleged suggestions that the
Tennessee river and not the Mississippi was
the key of the war in the Southwest, led to
the adoption of the Tennessee campaign plan
in the civil war. She wants money for it now.
A LETTER from Senator Don Cameron to
one of the official reporters of the Senate,
dated Florence, February 81, says that his
health Is steadily improving; that he is so
well he feels ashamed of not being at work.
lie ana VIE intended going from Florence to
Spain, and after doing that country they
would return to Paris and prepare for their
home trip,
KING CETYwAYO is SAID to have died sud-
denly of fatty degeneration of the heart. But
a London physician now sends to the Medical
Times a sphymOgraphic tracing of Cetywayo's
pulse, taken in 1882, in which the healthy
state of the arterial system is very distinctly
visible, while he states that the heart sounds
were absolutely normal So the doctor sus-
poets foul play
GEN. SHERMAN has delighted Col. B. w.
FrObel, of Atlanta, Georgia, by writing him
that he thinks his plan to supply the city with
water from the Upper Chattahoochee by a
canal is a feasible one, although confesslng
that he ought not to profess more interest in
the matter than any other gentleman. ''Your
estimate of two and half Millions" adds
the General, "seems reasonable, and there is
plenty of money in the world if the city can
give proper security"
ALL our Presidents have not been rich men
by any means. Gen. Grants 100000 makes
him the richest eN-President since Buchanan.
Mr. Hayes has perhaps 100000. Neither
johnson nor Lincoln had over $4,000; Pierce
went in the White House poor, but had about
$4,000 going out; Fillmore and Taylor were
in Independent circumstances, but never rich;
Tyler was a bankrupt when he was Presi-
dent, married a fortune afterward, and lost
all in the war; Polk was worth $I50,O00; An
drew jackson had nothing but his ''IIermit-
age" Adams was rich; Monroe died in debt
Jefferson had nothing to leave behind him:
and Washington was very well off. Van
Buren,. who died worth 100000, was the rich
est President we have had.