Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-26
PERSONAL.

MIR. FAIRCHLD, Assistant Secretary of the
! United States Treasury, is i'll with severe
cold.
Ross TURNER, the well-known water color
| artist, is TO wed Miss Lulu, daughter OF Henry
Bl2ny, of Boston.
A GRADUATE of the University of Michigan,
who is good Greek and Latin scholar, is
doing duty as policeman IN Detroit.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER says that 80 per
cent. OF the inmates of the Elmira Reforma-
tory are sent out reformed and become good
citizens.
DIR. SCHwE1NFURTH has lately visited Die
bel Fatereh. or Mount Clanvianus, in Egypt,
where quarri6s are stlll worked that were
opened in the days of Trajan.
MISS BORDERS, of Findlay, o., being very
tired one evening recently, yawned her jaw
out of joint. When Miss Borders RECEIVERS
she will not go to church any more in the
evening.
MRS. SNowDEN, aged IS; Miss Annie Rich
ardson, aged So; Miss Marie Richardson. aged
90, and Miss Cornelia Richardson, aged 81
years. are four sisters in Anne Arundal
county, Md.
MATTHEW ARNOLD was asked to accept the
Merton Profess0rship Of English literature at
Oxford a post worth f900 year. He de-
clned, however, as he wishes to he free to
| devote himself to his literary occupations.
SENATOR PENDLEToN's nomination to be
Minister to Germany was received in the
Cincinnati Enquirer Office with three grOans
and an order from the chief that no member
of the staff shall hereafter drink beer on pen
atty Of dismissal.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN Posi-, of Pennsylvania,
was Chairman of tie Democratic Congress
sional Committee. He has waited patiently
for recognition, but since Malcolm Hays APP
pointment begins to think he was only utll-
lied as campaign hitching post.
A GOOD STORY is told of Senator Vest. Hav-
ing encountered the difficulties and ascer-
tanned the hOpelessness Of attempting to in
fuence executive appointments, he an
nounced that he no longer had any candidate
but One-Frank James TO be bank examiner.
Miss SADIE FULTON. the bride of Henry H.
Chanfrau, the comedian, is a step-daughter
of Robert Scott, the proprietor of the Central
Hotel, IN Plttsburg. She IS an heiress, her
father having left her $4,000. She is we'll
known in the theatrical profession, and is ac-
cOmplished and quite pretty.
RALPH MEEKER. now in Washington, tells
pickerup of trities there that ex-senator"
Hill has sunk at least $4,000 in newspapers
in Colorado. He now owns the Tribune Re-
publican, and IS a load on his hands. Mr..
Hil's income is estimated to be about $l25,-
600 year from his mining properties"
GEN. BENJAMIN LEFRvRE, of Ohio, who
wants the Agricultural COmmissionership,
has sent home more seeds to his constituents
IN three terms IN Congress than all the other
members combined. If he gets that place his
constituency will be so large there is danger
that he may bankrupt the seed department.
JOHN C.. PILLSBURY, eX-warden of the
New Hampshire State prison, who died on
Wednesday, aged SO, belonged to a most re-
markable family of prison oificials-hs father,
two brothers, two sons and brother in law
having served as wardens Of State prisons.
His father was the first warden of the New
Hampshire prison, and his brother in law,
Walker, was killed by prisoner while war
den of the prison at Charlestown, Mass.
CHARLOTTE COOPER, daughter of j. Feni-
more Cooper, died suddenly at COoperstOWn,
n. Y. on Sunday morning. Miss Cooper, who
was 6S years old, was something of an invalid
all her life. Since the death of her father in
1851 she had lived quietly in Cooperstown
with her two sisters, Mrs. Richard and Miss
Susan FenimOre Cooper, The latter lady was
taken suddenly i'll on last Friday, and il is
thought that Miss Charlotte died from shock
caused by her sisters illness. Miss Susan
Fenimore Cooper, who is 20 years Of age, IS a
charitable lady of considerable literary abili-
ty. She is at the head of the Orphanage of
Our Saviour of COOperstown, and it was
through her faithful efforts that the institu-
ton was established