The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-13
PERSONAL.

Ex-Gov RuFrIN. of South Carolina, was the
man who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter.
and not Justice Haynesw as was recently
stated.
SENATOR Quay, of Pennsy lvauia, says: "Idona
pretend to like the Washington climate. In t
single day they have every kind of weather that
you could expect from July to January"
JAY GOULD left Rome few days before the
Pope'S jubilee, and will not go back till March
whereupon the New York Telegram cruelty re-
marks that this will give his holiness time to
secrete the valuables recently presented to him. -
THERE are nine surviving ex-Governors of
Massachusetts, namely: George 3. Boutwell,,
Henry j. Gardner Nathaniel p Banks, William
Clahin, William CASTOR, Alexander H. Rice. Ben
iamin F. Butler, John d. Long and George d.
Robinson,
MARCvs D. BoRvcK, private Secretary of Gov.
Waterman, of California has resigned his DO
sition Secretary Of the State Central Com
mtttee of the American party. and announces
that he will hereafter stay in the Republican
party lines
FGFTY.sIx YEARS AGO last Friday night William
Lloyd Garrison and eleven others organized in
Boston the New England Anti-Slavery Society
Of the twelve men who signed the constitution
ton Of the society that night, Oliver Johnson
alone survives.
FERDINAND OF BULGARIA. was recently snubbed
by Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. In
Scn4iag New Year greeting to the Emperor
the former signed himself Ferdinand Prince
of Bulgaria" The Emper sent his reply TO
Prince Ferdinand of SAKE Coburg."
EDIroR HALsrEAD POLITICALLY declares that the
soul of the Boston Herald goes forth TO Grover
Cleveland. even as James Russell Lowell and
George William Curtis lift up their angelic
pnons to fan from the royal purple of his face
the bushes that their praises raise
THE contest over a seat in the Maryland Leg
Slat,Ire between Delegate Scaggs and Col Sass
Ger is growing warm Scaggs is in Washington
SaSscer Sasscer says Scaggs should be UNI
seated because his name is not euphonious But
then there are prettier names in the world than
Sasscer, though Scaggs may not be one of
them.
ONE of the handsomest of the women re form.
ers who are known all over the country is Mrs
Lille Devereux Blake. She has a strong re-
fined, patrician face, and talks to an audience
with the greatest ease. Her entire time is given
to the work of equal suffrage. She is now
President of the New York City Woman Suf-
frage League. which holds meetings on the even
ings of the first Thursday OF every month at No
Lexington avenue, where the suffrage gospel
is forcibly eXpounded. Mrs Blake has been a
public lecturer many years, and never seems to
grow any older. She tells her age without pre-
vaTication or shadow OF equivocation In fact,
she says she always found it the better plan
since If a woman in public life does not tell her
age ever SO many people put her down as ever
so much older than she really is. Mrs Blake
and her daughter live in a coy flat at No. 149
East Fortyfourth street, New York and receive
every Friday evening.
, GEN. WILLIAM j. SEwELr- of New Jersey, is
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York How
many people who meet the tall solderly look
ing. gentlemanly eX Senator know that little
more than thirty years ago he was the driver of
a mule team on the Morris canal? lie mad lust
landed here from Ireland, and he was glad
enough to get anything to do that would give
him food and shelter II is a long way from the
hank of the Norris canal to a seat in the United
States Senate, but Gen. Sewel Travelled over the
intervening space, aud was in the Senate for
six years. He stayed long enough on the canal
boat to acquire a taste for the water, and he
finally shipped in a merchant vessel as an ord.
nary sailor and voyaged around for several
years He dropped off a lake vessel in Chicago
one day and stopped his wandering life He
saved u little money stevedorng and when the
war commenced he was IN comfortable circum-
stances. He went back to New Jersey where
be had lived, and entered the army and came
out at the end of the fight as Major General
He got into politics and the employ Of the Penn
sylvania railroad at the same time, and was ten
years in the State Legislature before he was
sent to the Senate.