Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-27
PERSONAL.

THE wife of the Lord Mayor of London
! sends to America for her perfumery.
| SENATOR WADE HAMPTON will probably
leave Washington for his home in few days.
GEN. GRANT has lighted two cigars since
| December last, but they were so dlstasteiul
| that he did not smoke enough OF them to pro-
! duce an ash at the end.
SENATOR BAYARD has an apparent liking
for them literary fellers." Two college pro
| fessOrs and poet are among the appoint
ments ascribed TO his influence.
HENRY f. PELLEw, the we'll known philan-
! thropist, is spending the spring with his wife
| in Aiken, 5. T.. The health OF both MIR. ana
| Mrs, Pellew required change of climate.
Mr. PHELPS the newly appointed Minister
| to England, has brother in Washington who
| is clerk in one of the departments. niece,
also, is employed in the War Department.
Born ex-Gov. Porter, of Tennessee, the
newly appointed Assistant Secretary OF state,
and MIR. Atkins, Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs, are ''low tariff Democrats OF the old
school,"
KENTUCKY got another black eye when
Cerro GordO Williams failed TO get the Mexl-
can mission. One of Joe Blackburn's oaths
is said now to resemble Northwestern
cyclone,
GEN. LORD WoLsELEY was stationed in Can
ada until 1870, and, according to his OLD
French teacher there, he left record of many
bruised and battered hearts among the bellies
OF montreal.
LIEUT.. FRED. SCHwATKA recently pre-
sented the American Yacht Club OF New ork
with the national flag which he had planted
ut the nearest point to the magnetic North
Pole yet reached.
THE fine oil portrait of Rufus Choate, pre-
eented by Gen. Butler to the Essex County
tMass.) Bar Association, will be placed IN the
Salem court room, at the right OF the painting
of Chief Justice Shaw.
GEN. PIERCE YoUNG's friends are fearful
that Gen. Jackson's appointment to be Min
lister to Mexico will interfere seriously with
Gen. Young's chances for the mission to Bra
iii, for which he has powerful backing.
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD is the first Indiana
man on record as refusing an office. When
he said, Not for Joe" the Posey county
spring blossoms wilted in tears, ana the tall
sycamores of the Wabash bent their stately
heads in woe,
HARPER PENNINGTON, young American
artist, IS according to the London Truth, at
work uDon portraits of Mrs. CORVALLIS West,
Oscar Wilde ana others. He will probably be
an exhibitor at the Gr0sVen0r Gallery, as
well as at the academy.
CAPT. BEDFORD PIN, of the Royal Navy,
now in New York. called at the T0mbs on
Monday to zee Mrs. Lucille Yseult Dudley:
He says he is much Interested in the fate OF
this unfortunate young woman, ana that sne
has many amiable traits of character"
SECRETARY BAYARD and ex-Gov. Porter
went to the Nashville races together In 1857,
while the former was visiting IN tennessee:
The Governor gallOped into the anectlons OF
the Delaware Senator and secured so firm
place that even Senator Harris opposition
could not shake it.
DEMOCRACY surely is making long strides
forward in England. Mr.. Labouchere DlunGly
declares in his Truth that Prince Albert VIC
tor, the eldest son of the Prince of wales. VIII,
on coming to the throne in his turn, nave 70
reign as the Radicals want him to. 'pdt 4H."
He might have added, ''if that be treason,
make the most Of II"