The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09
PERSONAL.

CARL ScHURZ has accepted the American
dictatorship of the Hamburg American Steam
ship Company He will not engage in the
active management OF the affairs of the COM
pany in this country.
BELvA LOCKWOOD says that women are i'm.
proving Intellectually Is per cent. faster than
men. Her conclusion is probably based upon
the fact that at the late election there were in
the United States nearly a dozen men foolish
enough to vote for Belva for President
ANOTHER of the Washington diplomats has
fallen into large inheritance. Baron Mumm
Won SchwarZenstein, secretary of the German
legation. through the recent death of his
father, the great champagne manufacturer of
Rheims, has become possessed of 3,000, 600
marks.
AN employee Of Jay Gould recently remarked:
George Gould aud his father love each other
as much as any father and son / ever saw and
the same is the Gaze with the other boys,
who Consequently are always glad TO go home
10 their parents. Gould has impaired to his
sons skill enough to take care of themselves.
One OF his boys is a good telegraph operator,
another is a good stenographer. The old man
can go all over this land and dictate his
dispatches to one boy and the other can send
them by wire
THE wife aud daughters OF Chief Justice
Fuller will not begin their Monday receptions
until the new year Mrs. Blatchford, Mrs.
Harlan and Mrs. Field. assisted by Miss Louise
Condt Smith, were at home to callers infor-
mally one day last week Mrs Miller expected
TO see her friends, but found herself unable to
go down stairs in the afternoon Mrs. Miller is
suffering from the effects Of an accident that
she met with while in New York recently. Jus.
tice Gray spent last week in Virginia Mrs.
Lamar is not yet back to Washington from her
home in Macon, Ga.
CHARLES f. BoLEs is the real name Of the
famous California highwayman generally
known as "Back Bart" At the breaking out
OF the war he was living in Decatur. III. and
joined the One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois
regiment, was made sergeant and served three
years, gaining some distinction for bravery
Returning home in 1885, he disposed of his
farm, locating his wife and three small children
all girls-in the little town OF Oregon, H.
and then started for Montana. From all infor.
nation his domestic relations were peculiarly
happy. His wife is described by her neighbors
as an estirnabe woman, and the children he left
behind him were bright and unusually pretty.
For many years he has been terror Co the
stage companies and travellers in the mountains
of California.
The chief Justice" says a Chicago Tribune
writer, "sits between Justices Miller and Field
To the latter he rarely or never speaks while on
the bench. but he frequently consults with the
former. Between Miller and Fuller there ap-
pears to be a close fellowship, and the Iowa
Justice has been a sort Of mentor and adviser Of
the new chief. When in doubt about anything
or lacking in confidence In his knowledge OF
court etiquette or precedent. IL is 10 Justice
Miller that he invariably turns for counsel
Probably there never was a more alert man
than the chief justice on the bench. Lawyer.
like, he IL fond OF consulting authorities, and
occasionally he writes n long note and sends it
by a page to one or other OF the justices who
sit too far away TO be whispered TO, but he
catches every word that IL uttered by the
lawyers Nothing escapes him. He likes to
smile over his glasses at an attorney and gen
orally II inclined to relax the still dignity Of
the great tribunal"