Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-16
PERSONAL,

GEN. GRANTS throat is healing; he walks
out every day, without cane, to see his
doc or.
CHARLES SUMNER loaned Henry Wilson
500 to carry the latter over his Inauguration
as vice president.
MARK TwAIN's new book, " Huckleberry
Finn" is made up for the most part Of words
of one syllable.
SENATOR GARLAND is a widower and his
devoted old mother keeps house and home
for him in Washington.
GEo. s. boutwell, is aged 81 iron gray
and looks young. He tells II good story and
is a cOnspicuously bad billiard player.
PREsIDEST-ELECT CLEVELAND has writ
ten that ne will be unable to attend the
Americas club ball in Philadelphia tonight.
GEORGE ELIoT's biography has already
brought in to the London publishers the
handsome sum of $4,000, and is still going
ahead.
SENATOR CAMERON will spend several
weeks in Florida for the benefit of his health.
He il an almost constant sufferer from
dyspepsia.
Mrs. LANGTRY's "SchOol for Scandal -
performance is generally noticed favOrably
in England but her Paris made dreases are
| universally condemned.
GEN. LOGAN, in a letter to a political ad-
mrer says :" No, | am writing no book |
have nobody to wheedle and nobody to pun
ish in any such way"
EDWARD GREEN, president OF the Louis
vile * Nashville railroad, met his wife, the
richest woman in America, by sending her
in mistake receipted bill instead of a valen-
tine.
BUNS, the then manager of Drury-Lane
theatre was singularly shrewd and amusing,
buta very ignorant man. When the " Lady
ofLyons was brought out he illustrated his
view of the dramas name by the most pro
fuse assortment Cf lions upon the stage.
+. III. RUSSELL, of Sacramento, brother of
\. W. and J. II. Russell, of this city, lately
cut from Il lemon tree IN his yard a Sicily
Seeding planted seven years ago, branch
on which were a lemon blossom, a bud start
ing, full bud and four lemons varying in
size from that of a small marble TO the full
grown and ripened fruit, representing seven
different stages or crops on the same tree.
SENATOR YULEE, the millionaire from
Florida, is getting ready his 100000 house to
entertain on a lavish scale when the new ad-
ministration comes in He was Hebrew
and changed his name from Levy to Yulee.
His wife did not like the name, so he became
"Mr. Yulee." She is fine looking woman.
and was the daughter of cabinet officer un-
der Democratic regime"
GLADSTONE is being cursed on all sides
in London with vehemence almost unpar-
alleled. The newspapers comment with
fierce condemnation on his enjoyment of
young Justin McCarthy's play 1.-THE Candi-
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death arrived. Every one of the hearty
laughs, with which he received this witty
production, is registered against him as an
addition TO his many other crimes.
BRIGHAM YoUNG's grandson is an assist
ant in the Swain court-martial to Judge
Advocate Asa Bird Gardner. This young
scion of polygamy is an artillery officer sta
toned at Governors Island. lie studied
law and was graduated at Columbia college.
lie is tall and is considered good-looking He
has, of course, but one wife, for though
Mormon he is not a pOlygamisL 4 son of
Brigham loungSAgraduated at West Point,
is an officer in tiIt-' engineer corps, and is,
above the average in brains. He too is mar
ried to one wife only.