The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-04
PERSONAL.

WILLIAM D. HowEILs and family are settled
at Nahant for the summer.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio will take the
stump this fall. Foraker is a man who will take
anything excepting hint.
ExGov. ALGER of Michigan has son wears
OF age. When the news OF Harrison's nomina-
ton reached Detroit the little fellow remarked:
We'll. everybody can't be nominated" You re
pretty young for philosopher" remarked his
defeated father.
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted birthday gift
from Miss Hood, one of her maids of honor in
the shape of painted table the work of the
donor. the design of which is bluebells and
mountain ash, with the Queens monogram and
crown, and the date 1888.
Mrs. OSCAR WILDE is said TO wear the same
best" dress through the season II not the
same dress, it is made on the same plan. being
a white clinging silk. embroidered down the
front in gold and adorned around The neck with
high standing ruff Ia Queen Bess.
EX-SENATOR B. X. BRUCE of Mississippi and
Percy Bysche Shelley Pinchback of Louisiana
are two colored men who took their wives to
the Chicago convention. The two men dress
well, and a correspondent asserts that THAR
wives were the most becomingly attired women
at the Palmer house.
d. b. CULBERsoN, the Texas representa-.
tive, has received from a st. Louis business
man ma the gift OF a tray Of solid silver weighing
1873 ounces and inscribed: "A small token of
reward to an honest lawyer" II is in return
for some important legal advice for which Mr.
Culberson declined TO charge fee.
ALREADY republican newspapers have gone so
far as to suggest cabinets TO Mr. Harrison. The
Detroit ITtbune makes out the following slate:
Secretary of State, James q. Blaine; Secretary
of the Treasury, John Sherman Secretary Of
War, Russell \. Alg r; Secretary of the Navy.
William Walter Phelps: Secretary of the
Interior William B. Allison; Attorney General
Walter Q. Gresham; Postmaster General, John
J. Ingalls,.
REPRESENTATIVES, HOOKER OF Mississippi saws
that he is preparing bill which he will soon
introduce in the house changing the meeting OF
congress from the first Monday in December 10
March I. The bill he proposes will not change
the constitution, but simply provides that the
Fiftyflrst congress should begin its session on
March 4, adjourn June /, and rcassemble on the
first Monday in October This he says, would
do away with the short session
ANENT the recent marriage Of Prince Henry
of Prussia and Princess Irene of Hesse, it Is
stated that family chronicle written by the
late Grand Duchess of Hosse in the style OF old
records Of the kind and extending from the
date OF her wedding till her DEATH is kept in the
palace at Da-mstadt. 1t is adorned with many
pictures painted by the Princess Heralde and
contains, under date Of July H. 1866 the day of
the Princess Irenes birth, a picture in the
center OF which is represented Bellona with a
haring war torch in her hand, with Hessian
soldier on her left, and. In a full blown rose n
newborn child. with white dove over il. and
the name Irene, which means peace written in
gold. At the Princess birth her father the
present Grand Duke, was then on duty with the
HeSSan troops arrayed against Prussia The
young bride Is reported to be the heiress of the
high artistic and other talents of her deeply
lamented mother She is also one of the bold
est horsewomen, and is said 10 be very fond of
the sea and Of her husbands profession as A
sailor-a taste she acquired during her numer-
Gus trips to England TO visit her grandmother,
Queen Victoria