Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-31
PERSONAL.

THE Empress of Austria wants to visit this
| country. having always longed for a ride on
| the pralrlSs.
| ASA GRTGGs. of Nashville Mimi. though
| so years OF age. IS called u ''newsboy," be-
| cause he sells papers.
HENRY GEORGE is Speaking on ''Moses."
! Somebody asks what Moses is running for?
He is probably running to get away
| JoHX BRIGHT. young gentlemen with nom
| classical ae&ds VIII he pleased to know, con-
| siders the dead languages on par with
| novels.
| SENATOR SHERMAN says that though he was
never pos er plGysr. ne knows the game well
| enough to understand that no player can hold
| three pairs.
HUGH MCCAsLIN. of DonaldsonvIlle, Ill. is
| % wears old. and has the whooping cough for
the second time. 1t has been ninety-one
| years since the first attack.
SENATOR VAN WICK, OF Nebraska, has
| baby daughter year or two old that was
| born On New ears day and goes By the name
OF Happy New Year Van WYck.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY will leave London in a
few days ior Lauzibar He is said to have
de lined an Offer OF $685. 90 10 return to
America and resume his lecturing tour, of
course.
Miss ANNIE WH1rEEY's statue of Lief
Ericsson is to be . aced at the main entrance
of the new Back Bay Park. Boston. 1t is
pronounced by competent critics one of the
DtSt ilcCCb VI lQcal hOfh ever maze IN this
country.
Cor. FREDERICK GRANT has a small aqua
relle painting in gilt frame. 1t represents
a group OF Indians and shows evidences Of
artistic ski and training. ''II is one of a
series pai"t ted by my father" said Col. Grant
to repcrscr
AwAFFLE MAN in Peoria. III celebrated
the anniversary OF his release from the An
GERS nyilie Confederate prison by baking
corn cakes like those on which the prisoners
were feds and distributing them among the
veterans OF that city.
kENNEY SHERMAN, in trying to escape from
| the Waupaca lWis.) jail, stuck fast when
about haf through barred window, and
was unable to get out further or get back. He
was discovered and a blacksmith had to be
| sent for to cut the bars with cold chisel be-
fore he could be eStricated.
Gen. SIMON CAMERON drove from his Done
gal farm to Harrisburg and entertained
many friends at his mansion, spending his
eighty eighth Christmas IN cheerful CONVEX
salion aud in he distribution of goodies" to
hundreds of persons. The chief deli ghts of his
truly .green old age"
MISS ANNA BALLARD. the only female mem
Der Of the New YorK Journalistic Club, writes
from Colombo, Ceylop that the Salvation
Army has attacked the island, but that the
soldiers are regarded there with little favor.
The natives haven't the least idea what they
are up to, and ibink that their peculiar antics
aud gongs-on are only amusing illustrations
OF the peculiarities OF the English people.
MAJ. c. II. BRACKET. q sporting man of
Nicksburg, had recently streak of good luck.
He intended TO ship his string of horses to
New Orleans, but was unable to get them on
board the steamboat J. NJ. White, which was
burned, and on a train which was wrecked.
He finally got them away, aud Il few days
after hts stables, where they had been Kept,
were burned down, with all their contents.
A FRENCH ADVOCATE named Olivet who
defended the Fauyc murtercrs, has had 10
apologize to the reporters for language made
use OF in the trial. He charged them with
eXaggerations. with q view OF speculations
for their papers and popularity for them
selves. The journalists informed HIM by two
delegates that IL he did not make a public
written rctraction he would have to fight.
He preferred the former alternative.
MISS MARY T. FOSTER. OF Pittsield. Me-,
has a smart horse. The school teacher of the
district school boards with Mis- Foster, who
has the horse harnesscd at noon and night.
and tells him to 20 and get the teacher.
Thereupon the old fellow starts at gentle
trot for the schoolhouse, half a mile blatant.
Arriving there, he makes the turn, and head
ing toward home, patiently awaits the clos
ing OF the school. He also carries the teacher
to school, and returns home alone.
IT Is. after all, quite dtting that the injunc-
ton "Honor the King" should be missing in
the Ross Bible, when Mr.. Ross leaders at
Ottawa are stumpng the country in defense