Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-03-20
PERSONAL.

JAMES STEPHENS, Fenan head centre, is
snd TO be destitute and dying In Mons, Bel
GUM.
HENRY JAMES, the novelist, is getting 10
look moro and more like the Prince of Wales,
but no does not try TO.
BIsHoP TUIaa, of the Catholic diocese of
Pittsburg, Is said To have sent his resignation
10 Rome on account of ill-health.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD says: The consti-
tuition and our forefathers said " the United
States are" and whoever says "the United
States is' forgets grammar, patriotism and
history.
BRiNroN COKE, OF Philadelphia, has pre-
sented 10 the Wharton school OF finance and
economy of the University of Pennsylvania,
the use of his private library, embracing 5000
volumes, and exceedingly rich In legal and
economic works.
". NJ. TABER, the librcttist of 'Dcsirec,"
was a clerk III the pension Office and near
his desk on the wainscotting he had an
arrangement of pins each representing a
natural note or semi-tono on which hc used
to practice while he worked.
DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GoRpoN, the
largest owner of rented properties in London,
has issued an order reducing all his rents 10
per cent. The duke is a great Conservative
peer, and was lord president of the council
during the Beaconseld regime.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS, of Baltimore,
called at the executive mansion by appoint
ment on Thursday afternoon in company
with Mr.. X. Il. Merrick, and was by the
| latter presented TO President Cleveland who
received them in the blue room.
| MRS. FRANK LESLIE issues ten periodi.
| Gals from her famous establishment in Park
place, New York, three wceklies, -four
monthlies, three ANNALS, English and Ger.
man. Mr.. b. &. Smith has had charge OF the
manuscript bureau some twenty years and
| he never had an Office cat.
FREDERICK J. KINBALL, who has beer
| president of Tho. Shenandoah Valley railroad
| company since its organ ization, has resigned
| from that position. He has been succeeded
| by Sidney Tyler, member OF the board %
! directors, whose place Mr.. Kimball takes il
| the board The latter will continue presiden
| Of the Norfolk d Western railroad company
GEORGE w. CABLE left school at fourteen
to aid in supporting the family. During hi
| leisure hours In the Confederate service IN
made critical study of the Bible, mathe
matics and grammar. After the war he ac
cepted a position in q mercantile house II
New orleans, studied civil engineering ant
was for time engaged in a state surveying
expedition.
| Miss ELLEN TERRY recently appeared q
| a New York reception accompanied by he
little son, as lovely boy as his mother is
woman, and with manners and bearing a
guaintand courteous as charming His gifte
mother was in long, loose robe Of soft gold
en- brown, with long fur garment about he
and broad, picturesque, Gainsborough-lik
hat, with long, brown feathers around he
neck yellow silk scarf was wound" Nj
Ellen Terry did not show up.
Mr.. RANDALL deprecates the statement
which attribute to his influence the appoint
ment of Malcolm Hay AZ assistant postmas
ter-general. He said 'The appointmer
was personal one by the president NJ
Hay did not apply for the Office, nor did any
body apply in his behalf was asked abol
him and Of course it gave me pleasure to sa
/ a | ~
rather surprised that he should be willing
drop his private affairs TO accept the Utiic
but better man for the place could not !
found"