Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-12
PERSONALS.

PARsoN NEWMAN is said to be booked for
return to the Metropolitan NJ. L. church in
Washington.
=PoPE LEO NIL has authorized Rev. pr.
BERNARD O'Reilly to prepare memoirs Of tho
formers life, and the work isnow i'm course of
preparation.
PROFESSOR JosEPu Tosso aged -, h,formerly
famous violinst and composer and author Of
"1he Arkansaw Traveller" is ON his death.
he'd from heart disease in Cincinnati.
DONALD q. MrrCHrLL, III a recent lecture
in New Haven, advised any person who had
not time To read more than one OF George
Eliots books to select the "Mll ON the
Floss"
MISS AMtLIE REEVES, OF Richmond, Va,
- claimed by the newspapers of that city to
he the new Southern writer who Is the au-
tnor OF the story, "a Brother to Dragons"
recently Observation-Disclosures preliminary
heralding-in the .If'da'ic MURtllp
MARRIOTT BRosIus,the Philadelphia Times
thinks, did as much rs the other members OF
the old ticket stood up and got knock ed
down--and II isn't fair to let him out in the
cold when the vindications are being handed
around. There ought to he no partialitv
shown.
Mr.. HowELLS, in talk ing To- a correspon-
dent, declared that his work never tired
hun. al enjoy 1t thoroughly" he said.
"now good 1t may he leave others to
judge. But whether good or bad il is always
my best effort. don't know how to DO
otherwise"
CHARLES DICKENS once told a company of
German auteurs who were bemnaning their
poor lot as compared with their brethren in
England, that they we're too sentimental and
did not value themselves and their WORK a.
they should. Put a fair price upon it, was
his answer. The publishers will pay 1t, and
II Will be better all around.
FANNY MILLS, the hig-footed girl, was
married to Theodore Griffin, in New York
on Ihursday. Mrs Griffin took several
trunks with her, which contained the various
pairs OF shoes, size No. 2G, that had been
presented to her 10y advertising firms in that
city. -Four pairs OF shoes made a trunkfuI
Her wedding slippers were marvels Of Kid
| and beauty.
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, editor OF the
Tobacco Journal, ON Thursday urged a sub
| committee of the committee OF ways and
means having charge of the subject to strike
| out the clause in Mr. hewitt's Tin fixing at
| 50 cents the duty on tobacco unfit for wrap.
perS, and the clause relating to tobacco run
| ming 100 leaves to the pound (Sumatra wrap
| pers). He would have the duty ON all to-
| bacco suitable tor wrappers fixed at - cents
Tor unstripped and 81 for stripped
BOB BuRDErTE, the humorist, said recent
| ~ to an interviewer. 81 never could keep
| up line of sketches of any sort. They
| make me tired. The only man | know of
| who can do that sort of thing, and do II well
| for so long period, is G. r. Lewis, of the
| Detroit FFtc fTCSS. ear i'll and wear out
| he goes on grinding out that I.imekiln Club
| and the Central Police Court. and | can't see
| but what it is as bright and quaint As It was
| at first. 1t is wonder to me how he does it,
| | cannot do it, and if | try it, | get so dis
| gusted with the subject that | wouldn't
| write it for 500 a column
| GENERAL TERRY, promoted to Hancock :
position, was introduced not long ago some
| where in the Northwest to the cultured wife
OF captain in the 10th United States Infantry.
| al am glad said the lady, "to meet the
| hero OF Fort Fisher General Terry replied
| "Madam, the real hero of Fort Fisher Is the
| commander Of your husbands regiment If
| 1t had not been for him there would have
| been no hero of Fort Fisher to congratulate. -
| The officer referred to by General Terry was
| General G. Pennypacker, who led a brigade
| at Fort Fisher, and who now, at the age of
i3, is living in Philadelphia.
| PRESIDENT JUDGE WILSON, the Repub-
| lican elected last fall In the Democratic
| Clsrion-J eflerson district is charged by the
Clarion JdcksOnldH with having offered in.
dicial favors, in the case of his election as an
| inducement tor Influence and votes with
| haVlng made promises of granting licenses
| to an innkeeper for votes with having ask ed
| citizen, after other inducements had failed
| If money would be an object The paper
| also states that in one district there was an
| offer OF one dollar per head for Wilson votes
| The JdcksOHidH claims to have affidayits
| substantating these charges. II boldly in
| vites arrest and dares Judge Wilson 10 in-
| stitute legal proceedings against it,