Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-24
PERSONAL.

POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas owns two
hotels.
JAMES LowTHER, NJ. p, publicly declares
Mr.. Gladstone to be the veritable Antichrst
Of prophecy.
SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER, OF Virginia, who
is champiOning the Irish dynamiters, is OF
pure German extraction.
DIR. CULLIs, OF Boston, will hold a cOnven-
ton Tor the Promotion Of Holiness in Phila-
delphia from April Is to April %.
SECRETARY MANNING will visit Albany next
week TO arrange his affairs preparatory 10
taking up his residence in Washington.
THE contributions to the National offering
TO Prince Bismarck on his SEVENTEEN birthday
anniversary, April next, already amount to
$l75,e00.
Ex-PREsIDExT ARTHUR will sail on July Is
or Europe. He Will make a summer tour,
remaining in England for some weeks before
crossing the channel.
EVERYBODY at Long Branch talks of Lester
Wallack as "John" Wallack, That is his
real name, and his old friends do not recall
him as Lester Wallack.
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS is said to be
an impartial presiding officer in the Senate,
but his voice, unlike Mr.. Edmunds', is thin
and pitched in a high minor key, difficult and
sometimes impossible to be heard, his man
ner is hesitating, and his official speech is not
always concise.
Lord Chief Justice COleridgel requests Mr.
Yates to contradict in the World (LOndon) the
report that she and Mr.. Adams, variously
known as Charles Warren Adame and Frank
Mantell Adams, have been married. The re-
port is false. "When my marriage does take
place." she says, tit will be publicly an
nOunced in the ordinary manner" And that
settles that.
SENATOR SHERMAN's Washington home is
on street and is worth at least s51.OOO He
QFOunn n in
Park, which it faces, was a COW pasture and
ball ground, and his friends laughed at the
idea OF it ever being worth any great amount.
Now one could not buy the vacant ground
there if there were any, for less than $40
square foot, and the best houses OF the capital
are all around 1t.
LORD WOLsELEY has been able to contra
diet the reports as to his eye-trouble; he can
afford ophthalmia less than most men, as,
ever since the Crimea, he has had the sight
of hut one eve. When he was doing duty in
the trenches before Sebastopol shell ex-
ploded in gabion full Of gravel, in moving
which he and two sappers were engaged.
The appers were killed outright. Wolseley got
20 severe peppeTing with the gravel that he
was literally "stuok full OF stones from head
to foot" There was not a square inch OF his
face that bad not a gravel-pelet imbedded
In it: part of his shinbOne was carried away,
and his eycsIRht was in so great danger that
for weeks he was kept In the gloom OF cave
near Balaklava. and so missed being present
at the fall of SebastorOl.
WALT. WHITMAN was asked by reporter
what he thought of accepting consulship il
President Cleveland should offer him one, as
has been reported. 81 hardly know" he re-
pied; ~ think, though, as ] see it now. that
it would have to be something good to tempt
me to accept. The greatest point to me would
be that it would be great compliment. Did
ever tell YOU the caution my doctor gave me
when left Washington lie said that was
Like a rickety old wagon body. II kept in
smooth road l might go right on longer than
the most OF the others, but if l attempted to
20 cross lots or do any kind of cutting mp, /
might go to pieces all at once. Now, live
along all right here in Camden. l am fat and
ROSY and feel pretty well; but 1 don't know
that it would do for me to start of somewhere.
1t might be going cross lots. don't know
what should do"