Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-06


SYLVIA DUPEE, the "fht boy" Of Webster
Mass, died suddenly on Tuesday. He was
In his 9th year and weighed go pounds
MRS MARY WAGNER, who has died In |
Philadelphia, and left an estate Of f300,000 |
bequeathed some $4,000 to episcopal char |
tiles
MRS. w. Il. SHERIDAN (Louise Daven-
port), In i'll In New York from complica-
tion Of diseases that has resulted In total
blindness.
SENATOR DON CAMERON will stay around
Los angeles Cal, until his health gets bet. II
very long range
Mr.. John CADwALADER has been re-
elected president Of the Young Mems DEM
ocratic association, Of Philadelphia, by vote
Of o. to 80, against Louis q. Massey, brought
| out to beat him.
| D. D., has died Mt Muncy, Pa, offer long
| illness, aged 6l years. lie served I'm the late
1 war as chaplain ON the staff of the late Gen.
James II Steadman.
| CoNKLINa, be II remembered, voted
| against the unconstitutional war measure
that made West Virginia state. Thad.
Stevens led the movement while he boldly
admitted It's utter illegality.
CAssIus M. CLAY, wbite-haired and
vigorous, Is quietly cultivating the 400 or 800
| acres he has kept for himself, with his child
ron all around him on the rest of his farm,
and patiently awaiting his end
| w. w. SCRANTON has won his appeal to
the supreme court, in which he took excep-
tion to the action of the lower court in dis
| charging Aaron A. Chase from custody ur-
der capias issued upon judgment for
Sl,44l.51
BLAINE will re-agitate his scheme to have
| tho federal government assume 40 much OF
virgina's state debt az would have fallen on
West Virginia TO pay bad Its counties moi
; been cut of from the Old Dominion to make
new state. ~
CLEVELAND is very fond Of driving ant
,, | wants the horses sent along In a brisk trot
|, He detests a jog. In starting of for driv'
= he consults his watch, and instructs the drive
. the time he gives. The drive usually occu
pies an hour, rarely ever more, but b.
extracts great deal ofpleasure out
MIR. PHELPS, the new English minister
: was given complimentary dinner by MI
4 Cyrus w. Field, OF New York, last evening
: John Bigelow, William Dorsheimer, Pres
q dent Porter, of Yale college, Professor Cole
n win Smith, John A. Stewart Anthony
ee Drexel, George w. Childs, Percy X Pyn
a Aaron J. Vanderpoel, Il. n. Dickerson, {.
q Baldwin, and the hosts brothers, David Du'
oi ley Field and Rev. DIR. Field.
= y, SAMUEL M. ROOSEVELT, Of New Brighton
VI ~ l.. l., went to Baltimore on Tuesday for Il
~ purpose of being married to Mrs Boylsto
" ~ daughter of the late y. NJ. Shoemaker, AZ
" !. took ride in Druid Hill park with Rev. j.
.. Eccleston. The horse ran away and NJ
- Roosevelt was thrown and, falling on b
10 head, was rendered Unconscious. lie W
~ ~ removed to drug store, where he was
-, -, | stored, after which he was taken to the re
=. dence of Mrs. Boylston, where the marria
-, was solemnized.
sh JUpeE MATTHEW J MCCAFPERTY di
! a | suddenly of heart disease in Boston Tuesd
of | night. The judge was Buffers candidate
to the governor of the state last fall. 7
ire | general made his acquaintance when he "
ad | a poor factory boy in Lowell, paid his W
he | through the college of the Holy Cross,
he | Worcester, helped him 70 be admitted 10
bar, and appointed him Judge rs soon as
was installed as governor of the state. I
| Judge was a delegate-at-large at the Chico
IN Democratic convention last summer. He
are a major during the civil war, and mad
good record. Politically, he had jumped !,
Dor the fences Butler has,