Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-05-09
PERSONAL.

PROFESSOR HUXLEY is in feeble health
and has been obliged to cease work.
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS and Sena-
tor German take great delight in base ball.
SENATOR FRYE is reported by the Tribune
as saying: ''Secretary Lamar stole a state, and
he murdered 10, 900 men to doit"
JOHN ID. FISH, the jailed banker, admits
that he was married to Sallie Reber Laing,
the opera singer, who recently died in child
birth, at n secluded place in New Jersey.
REBEccA CASSIDY, colored, has died in
Philadelphia, in the alleged ll5th year OF her
age. She was an escaped slave from the South,
and, like most centenarians active until
within few days of her death.
Hon. WILLIAM STEELE HOLMAN says
the administration is moving sufficiently fast
with relation to the offices, and "that any one
who would have matters hurried thinks
more of personal interests than OF the public
welfare"
QUEEN DowAGER EMMA, of the Sand
wich Islands, died April %. Her death was
sudden. On the day preceding the sad event
she complained of a slight headache, which
continued to trouble her, and the third attack
was fatal
JOSEPH SCHAEFER will play George +.
Slosson within two weeks a match game OF
billiards, either cushion carroms or the a.
inch balk line style, TOR 81, 900 side. Shaefer
has changed his mind about resting from
billiards until the fall.
JOHN w. MAYNARD, "a very
member of the Lycoming county bar and at
one time judge OF the Northampton district,
died at Minnequa Springs, Friday, aged 20.
He was the father in-law of Peter Herdic and
will be buried at Williamsport on Tuesday
next.
father of Samuel and ii. G. Moore, Of this
city, and Francis B. Reeves wholesale gro
GER, of Philadelphia, have been appointed by
Gov. Pattison delegates-at-large to the con-
vention of 1885, to beld at Atlanta, Ga, May
10, 20 and q, for the purpose of viewing the
merce of the country.
A. PSwINEFoRD, of Marquette, Michigan,
has been appointed governor of Alaska.
Mr.. Swineford is an ex-mayor of Marquette,
is editor of the Marquette Mining Journal,
has served as member of the legislature of
his state, and was a candidate for Lieutenant
governor two years ago. He was appointed
state inspector Of mines and mining by
Governor Begole, of Michigan.
Tom SAVERS tomb in Highgate cemetery,
London, is large marble closet, on whose
doors is carved a head of the deceased, and
lying in front of it is marble figure, life-size
of a huge English mastiff, the companion of
the deceased prize-fighter. And no less an
authority than Rev. DIR. Buckley says this
tomb attracts more visitors than those of
George Eliot, Lewes, Karl Marx, Coleridge,
or Faraday-all in the same graveyard.
WILLIAM SCHROEDER, a butter merchant
of New Haven, Conn.,, has been working at
oddtimes upon perpetual motion machine
in a carefully guarded outhouse in his back
yard for the past thirty years. He claims
that il will be ready to revolutionize me-
chanics in a few days and will be in COM
plete operation. 1t will occupy space five
feet in width by twenty in length, and it will
run until its component parts are worn out
He has never shown any trace of insanity,
and has always been regarded as shrewd
business man.
GLADYS, late countess of Lonsdale, now
the bride of Earl de Grey, and England's
famous beauty,is 20 her husband Is % and a
sportsman. She is nearly six feet tall, but
her figure is of such superb proportions and
she bears herself so gracefully that there
is no ungainliness in her stature. Her
brunette complexion is lit up with magnifi-
cent dark eyes her features are of the deli
cate Jewish type, her teeth are perfect, and
she has splendid chevelure of dark auburn
braids always worn low upon her neck. She
is famous horsewoman and has squandered
millions of her own, her husbandsand other
mems money.