Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-11
PERSONAL,

JUSTIN MCCARTHY is to be honored in Bos-
ton on Monday evening with public dinner.
GEN ADAM BADEAU is middle-aged man.
short heavy set. of quick movements and
cutting eyes.
MISS ELIZABETH PEABODY, in spite of her
advanced age, is preparing q volume entitled
"A Last Evening with AllstOn."
SECRETARY MANNING's Albany residence
has been rented for the winter to a Mr.. VOL
verton, contractor of Castleton.
SIR RICHARD SUTTON. the English breeder
OF short horned cattle, has lost his valuable
herd Of Jerseys through that fell agency,
pleuro-pneumonia.
IT is now said in social circles that HamiI-
ton Fish suffered a slight stroke of paralysis
during the past summer while at his summer
residence ut Gar9ieon's, on the Hudson. Mr..
Fish is in his 10th year.
WILL CARLETON, of Betsy and Are Out"
fame. is delivering In New York State what
he calls a poem lecture. All OF the lecture ia
in rhyme, some of which is pretty bad and
one OF its chief features is a culogy of John
Howard Payne.
POTTER PALMER, Of Chicago. having learned
that firm of decOrat ors had lost money in
CARRYING out a contract to finish ono of the
rooms In his new house on Lake Michigan,
forwarded his cheek for $1,000 10 the firm
without solicitation on their part He eX-
plained To frend that had he not done 20 he
would feel that he was delrauding the firm.
NJ. DELEssErs, having been reported to be
in failing health. sent Il few days ago a tele-
gram to the General Secretary uf he SueZ
Company. saying: "Invite the author OF the
Bourse canard to follow me on horseback in
my daily rides. He would soon be overcome
with fatigue, and find that to keep up with me
Is more difficult than TO pocket differences
dishonesty obtained on the Bourse."
REV. A. STEWART WALSH and Rev. T. De
witt Talmago. of Brooklyn. have been asso-
Grated in the authorship of a volume entitled
Onpnn HOnGp 'ho
body OF the work was written by DR.. Walsh,
ami Or. Talmage contributes a long and elo-
quent Introduction. The book Is the out
growth of indcfatigable research, and is full
of the evidences OF profound study. The Rev.
DIR. Walsh is one OF the most gifted of tho
great army Of clerical authors.
GEN. GRANT, just before he died, made a
kind of will in which he directed that certain
lcgacies should be paid. Among them he
directed that the sum of $4,000 should be paid
to his physician, DR.. Douglass. in appreciation
OF his untiring personal devotion This legacy
has not been paid. and no explanation of WHY
IL was not paid has ever been demanded Of
the administrator of the Grant estate. DR..
Douglas. his friends say, will never ask for
this legacy and will go without 1t unless il is
voluntarily paid him.
MRS. BURTON N. HARRISON. tho authorizes.
whose husband WAS the private secretary OF
Jefferson Davis, il now at work upon a book
which she says will be her greatest literary
achievement. Mrs. Harrison Ia a small. dainty
wealth Of reddish golden hair. She is not
strong minded. but has a very positive fem
in nc manner. Her figure is still Qirlsh, and
one oan hardly think Of her as the mother Of
youug gentleman OF seventeen already in
Yale, Her homo at ii Lexington avenue,
New York. ia very tastefully decorated in two
colOrs. white and gold.
YoUNG JOHNNY WISE. whom the Virginia
Republicans nominated for Governor says a
New York paper. has been in New YORK re-
Gently, partly on law business and partly to
see some One dogs. Wise is an admlrer OF
dogs, and an authority respecting them
johnny Wisc ia n political msflt. He is n
Democrat through and through, who deludes
himself with tho belief that he Is a Republic
can. some day he will wake up aud discover
his mistake. His sqnare-cut, hrml set Jaw
betokcns courage. He has IT, He has faced
an antagonists pistol several times, and he
has recently had tho moral COURAGE TO decline
a challenge on tho ground that duelIug Is
both wicked and absurd. II Wise should
come to New York TO live, as he has had some
thought OF doing, he would be n Democrat
within year. lie is n stump speaker, who
awakens memories of Jim Nyc in his palmy
days. and Wse's stump methods would take
IN some parts OF New York. When the next
dog show occurs Wise will be there, and
would ~ soon think Of talking politics then as
| an undertaken would OF cummenting ON the
Nssu5t waltz At funeral.