Savannah morning news., 1885-01-02
PERSONAL.

PASSED ASSISTANT PAYMASTER ARTHUR
PETERSON has been ordered to duty at the
navy yard, Pensacola, Fla, until Dec. 81, 1885,
RUSSELL S. GLOVER, who, with his wife, was
burned to death at Racine, Wis, on Sunday,
had the reputation OF being GOOD tenor. lie
had been singing professionally in comic
opera since 1878. Mrs. Glover vas not on the
stage.
Hon. SAMUEL j. TILDEN ls now at Grey
stone and drives out daily. He declined to see
New York interviewer Monday, but his
private secretary was positive III the state
ment that Mr.. Tilden has no idea of attend
ing the Inauguration Of Mr. Cleveland.
GEN. r. s. WILLIAMS, who died in New Or
leans few days ago, was brother OF United
States Senator Williams, the "Cerro Gordo"
of Kentucky. The former once commanded
an army of Cuban 6libusters, and he escaped
deaeh at Nicaragua by timely flight from
cell.
Mr.. TENNYsOS is getting box after box of
Christmas bon bons from the critics. The
kindest of them declares that about the only
good thing in the new drama, Beckett" is
the line:
'Men ar6AIOd's trees and women are Gou's
flowers"
JOHN MCAvOY, who was Abraham Lincoln's
coachman, went to Ireland after his masters
death, and landed in New ork Tuesday on
his way to his brothers farm in Kentucky.
lie expected to find money waiting for him,
but none was there. Arrangements were
made to send him on.
THE late President Peck, of the Terre
Haute and indianapolis Railroad, used to
walk twice a year the entire distance be-
tween indianapolis and Terre Haute, carry
ing on his arm peck bucket, in which he put
any pieces of iron he saw lying near the track.
When his bucket became Weighty he would
dump the contents near the track for the
section men to gather.
CAPT. CHARLES WELLER, who died recently
at Kinpston-or-T Thames England was long
supposed to be the person from whom Dickens
derived the patrOnymIc of Sam Weller. Capt.
Weller and Dickens were intimate friends,
but their acquaintanceshlp did not begin
until after publication Of the "Pickwick
Papers," and was probably induced by the
Captains ownership OF name so illustrious.
LAST Monday was Mr.. Gladstone's 18th
birthday, and the occasion was celebrated
with great fcstivity at HaWarden. Birthday
greetings reached the great leader from all
parts ofsthe kingdom. The Prince OF wales
sent cordial congratulations. Many Liberal
bodies took advantage of the day to present
1.-The grand old man" with addresses express
sivc of continued confidence and profound
admiration. The newspapers, without dis
tinctiOn OF party, devoted leading articles TO
eulogy of the statesman.
SARAH BERNHARDT never had the fur of her
seal skin jacket rubbed the wrong way so
numerically as at the critical hands of Ivan
Turguenef. In that famous Russian novel
lists correspondence, recently published at
st. Petersburg, there was found the follow
ing: whenever l think of Sarah Bern
hardt | am reminded nvoluntarly OF the
toad. Why did God give to both these crea-
lures an adorable and poetcal voice5" In
another letter he calls her an ''ugly mOuther
and posturer," "a cold grimacer-pourrie de
chic-whom nature has provided with an
adorable voice while refusing her all other
gifts by some incomprehensible caprice"