The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-17
PERSONAL.

ALBERT. the champion walker, received in all
S5.3t7 70 for his great feat. Now the question is
Did he break his constitution when he broke the
record!
WORTH, the man-milliner of Paris considers
Mrs. Potter S face the most beautiful he ever
saw. He should have seen it when he sent in
his bill for furnishing her dramatic ability
Not line of Gen Sheridans book on the
civil war has yet been written The book will
be started on its way to the publisher in the
spring, and tue General hopes TO have it ready
for the public by October.
A. j. SMELL. the millionaire murdered bv
burglars at his home in Chicago last week
tramped into Cincinnati. O., sometime in the
forties, penniless and discouraged He became
agent for a clock mandatory and peddled
time pieces in a wagon through Indiana He
finally went to Chicago and made a large for
tune.
Mrs Tracy, the handsome widow whose stage
name was Agnes Ethel is making what is known
as "a sphsrge" in Buffalo On. " society She
entertans lnagnificently. and is very popular
with the younger members of the fashionable
community. At 4 luncheon which she recently
gave to debutantes the floral decorations were
the finest ever sen III Buffalo
JONI q. WHITTIER VERSE to be placed upon
the Milton window presented to st Margaret's
church. Westminster, by George W. ChiIds runs
as follows:
The New World honors him whose lofty plea
For Engands freedom made her own more
sure:
Whose song, immortal as its theme, shall be
Their common freehold while both worlds
endure.
CONGRESSMAN JEHU BAKER, who succeeded
William r. Morrison. has made great discoy-
cry He has found the remains of two old forts
in his district, on the banks of the Mississippi
river. Mr.. Baker says that l61 years ago some
bold, good man slew a crowd of Indians in that
locality. With patriotic Solicitude Mr.. Baker
now urges the government TO eXpend $500 600 i'm
the purchase Of these old forts, and at the same
time appropriate $50, 900 tor a monument to the
bold good man who killed the Indians. Mr.
Baker is himself a bold, good man, and hates to
see the country afflicted by Treasury surplus.
THE most sensational preacher of the decade
and perhaps of the half century, says New
YORK paper. has been at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
for several days without posing or in any way
striving to attract public attention Plain Sam
Jones ne is. ON the register we'll as to all the
world, in spite OF the good old Georgia middle
name and modest appearance which bellies
his daring language Sam was born in 40, the
year of the Argonauts, and his discoveries have
made almost as much noise in the world as
theirs He has probably discovered more sin
and wickedness in society than anybody that
ever lived. Yet with all that, he is "a tall, quiet
looking man, with good dark eye and reddish
mustache that turns down over the corners of
his mouth and gives him slightly mournful
expression His collar is cOnspicuously neat
but his cuffs recede from his wrists, the bare
eXpanse OF which he uses with great force in
his oratorica flights. Sam is said TO mediate
an assault on the wicked city of Hoboken.
ONE OF the men who have made large fortunes
by the development of the big iron fields of Ala
bana, says the New York Tribune. isCol. Enoch
EnSley, who is now a guest at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He is a man Of magnificent proportions
His six feet OF height carry a large chest, square
shoulders and ma ssive head. He wears nous
tache and an mp rial, which give him Napo-
leonc air. lie has been Napoleon in the coal
ana IRON business in has state. IL was his idea
upon which Birmingham, Ala, was founded
The place has come Ia he a marvel. Col Ems
ley was for several years nj the head Of the Ten
nesSee Coal and Iron Company. He resigned 10
10 abroad on account OF his wiie's sickness
AMI spent long time in Italy in the
uunyailing effort 10 restore her health.
She died last fall after their return TO this
country Cob Eusley's words IN speaking Of
the region in which he is Interested seem wildly
enthusiastic, bat his manner 81 speaking Is that
Of elaboration a. il he weighed every word
carefully Ne said a night or two ago Since
Adam and I've were presented with the Garden
~ Fdeu there has never been anywhere on
The earth 80 rapid aud substantial Improvement
~ a section Oi country a. that which has aiken
place with ~. II N only when you ns.e u that
lon realize what d H. our iron plants have the
latest improvements. and with cur other al
YantaRes enable ~ ~ make iron eneaFssf than
any other country Ia the World. We have had
enc laueHf ~ Tie eNperlenee ~ all che iron
mAstefs - me world, aud Nc ha*s thken 3D.
vantage u ~