Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-20
PERSONAL.

JOAQUIN MILLER now promises to go tC
Mexico to make his home.
Miss VAN ZANDT IS to try her fortune again
in Pari-, appearing in "Lakme."
MRS. MARY HALLOCK FoOTE is at Boise
| City, preparing the manuscript and illustra
lions for new Western novel.
d. GARDINER TYLER, a son of ex-President
/ Tyler, is an applicant for the office OF United
States District Attorney for the eastern dis
trlct Of Virginia.
1T is learned that Mr.. Manning, brother OF
the Secretary of the Treasury, is not an APP
plicant for the Office of Collector at Buffalo, as
reported, or for any other office.
ABOUT o'clock Tuesday morning an un-
founded report was IN circulation in New
York to the effect that Gen. Grants mala-
dy had had a fatal termination. and all the
New York journals were held back to see
what truth there was in it. Happily it was
baseless.
SESATOR WADE HAMPTON attributes his
ailin- condition to two cause.-the imperfect
sewerage of his Otel and the fact of his hav .
ing to sit as hours during the closing hours of
the last Congress without an OpTortunity TO
remove his artificial leg. This irritated his
old wound and made him feve ism.
OLD DANIEL TUCKER, colored, the most ' O.
table chsract on Cninc "ague Is AID Va,
q ed last weeK. He aihtd tohave ha many
HAIR Tea It'll tscapes by a Id and flood. He
ais elm: to be the man that 9TH song was
wri about" and maintained that he had
drunk enough whisky to float any YES ell that
ever traded over ChineOteague bav.
A LARGE and Observation-Disclosures gentle
man, with long flowing white hair, walked
into the barber shop at Wizards Washington
Hotel Tuesday and loosely asked "Do you
in the affirmative and shown to a seat 1t
was the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who had
lust come from a visit to the President and
the Secretary of the Treasury, and seemed in
a very happy mood.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas is one Of nine
sons, but four of whom are now living. His
father, Judge Villas was man Of consider
able wealth. Nine boys IN succession naturally
inside him wish for a girl. Much to his
delight the tenth and youngest child was a
daughter. who is now beautiful girl of 49,
but sadly out of health for a year past. She
is described as a blonde with dark blue eyes,
and the perfect complexion having peach
blossom freshness. Col. Villas has a daughter
who is IL and not yet formally out in society.
GEN. PACHECO, Minister of Public Works
Mexico, was compelled to have one Of his legs
amputated in 1861. The operation was badly
performed, and, as he suffered constantly
from its effects, it was deemed imperative
that he should undergo another amputati0n.
This was successfully performed Tuesday.
Three inches more of the leg We're cut of, the
operation lasting an hour and half. PresI-
dent Diaz and several personal friends OF the
patient were present. The doctors say Gen.
PachecO will be able to resume his ministerial
duties within a month.
OF VICTOR HUGO a writer in Paris thus
chats: sit is gratifying to know that Hugos
constitution Is still robust; he takes his tub
every morning, that which along with its
youthfulness enables him to dispense with
top-coats. He writes no more; there is no
more fruit ON the old tree. He rides no more
on the tops of omnibuses; he confines himself
to tram-cars. He has the teeth OF wolf and
the stomach of lion.' He has rs many hairs
on his head as when he was one and twenty,
only they are white. On welcoming lady
he always kisses the tips of her fingers, and at
the table gives all places OF honor to his
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