Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-06
PERSONAL.

COL. MosBY was the guest of honor at q
recent Boston military dinner.
GOV. ROBINSON, OF Massachusetts, is an &C
tive member of swell Boston toboggan club.
JESSE GRANT is in San Francisco and
Ulysses is attending to the interest of his
wife's estate in Mexico.
JAMES C. BIDDLE COPE, OF Philadelphia is
an American citizen who has obtained the
title of Marquis" IN Italy.
DAVID DANA, brother of the New York
editor, lives at Lubec. Me-, and works for his
living. Come to think of it, SO does the New
York brother.
CAMILLE PLANTATION declares that as soon
as the powerful Lick glass shall be turned
upon Mars there Will be discovered clear EVIL
dences as to the animal life on that planet.
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, who has been
travelling in the South, says that there is q
growing love Tor literature IN that part of the
country, and that the brightest future seems
to open up before the old Confederate States.
THE oldest sexton in New York city is Mr..
Henry Weld, an Octogenarian. He has been
sexton of st. Paul's chapel, Broadway, over
half q century. He is "a years old, and is now
an Invalid. He retains, however, the honor
and draws the pay attached to the office he
has held so long, the duties being fulfilled by
q deputy.
J. BEAvOR- WEBB. the designer OF the En-
glish cutter Genesta. which was beaten by
conspicuous in the international sailing con-
tests in New York bay, mas been spending a
few days in Washington completing arrange
ments for his marriage to Miss Alice May,
which is soon TO happen in that city. He left
for New York last night.
THERE lives IN Portland. Me-, NJ. Francois
RadouX, who was born in Brittany in 1890.
He was soldier Of Napoleon for wears, was
captured bv the English and given his free
dom for saving AN English officer from drown
ing lie came to this country the year after
the battle of Waterloo. He married for his
second wife Susan Dingley, an aunt of Ma
thanlel Hawthorne. He is in good health and
plays both the piano and violin.
THE Princess Louise has, according to a
Paris correspondent, set all royal rules and
regulations at defiance during her stay at
AlN-les-Bans the past season. Her manners
If report be true, have wholly lacked 'the re-
pose that stamps the CASTE" not only of "Vere
de We're" but even Of a higher station. She
has gone tearing about AK with that very
frisky old lady the Duchess of Manchester;
has smoked cigarettes, and even cigars, in
public; and has danced sundry Highland
dances, with all the appropriate stamps and
shouts, at private parties, TO the immense be-
widerment of such of her mothers subjects
as cnanced TO be present.
WHEN Gen. ManteuTe, in 1906, levied a
contribution OF 25,000,0u0 nDrins $50 600, 0O9l
on Frankfort on the Nam, Baron MAYER
Karl Won Rothschild was indignant, and de-
manded: "Does your eXceleucy realize the
fun meaning of the word millionY Has your
eXcellency ever seen "A million of money!"
The General was nonplussed, as. indeed, he
had never seen such q sum nc once, and to get
out Of the pickle he altogether RENTED the
contributions Frankfort thereafter always
considered Rothschild "a bigger man" than
Manteu1el. Before that Gen. Vogel Won
Falkcnstein made an assessment Of $500, coo
| forms lS2,2s0, 0O0l upon the city, and sent
''two soldiers with a wheelbarrow" TO fetch
| It.. lie was much surprised 20 learn that the
! sum OF money weighed about nfty tons.