The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-17
PERSONAL.

A NEW POST OFFICE in West Virginia has been
named after Attorney General Garland.
Mrs. J. DONALD CAMERON, wife of the Penn.
sylvania Senator, has made the best visiting
time on record in ngtOn-fOrty-eigh calls
in an afternoon.
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY is going to England in
June to copyright his forthcoming book on the
famous cipher He wants to save his Bacon in
Great Britain. as it We're.
Ex-Gov SMITH, of Kansas, belongs 10 so many
secret societies that his nights are largely spent
IN " atching with sick brethren and his DAYS in
marching in funeral professions.
LAST Monday night one roof sheltered in
Washington Josef Hoffman,, Mrs LangtI-v,
Joseph Chamberlain, the COrean Legation, Sir
Charles and Lady Upper and Zelie de Lussan.
YAM PHoN LEE, the Chinese graduate of Yale
who recently married a wealthy young lady of
New Haven. Conn, divides his time between
playing chess and lecturing on China in towns
of the Nutmeg State.
Ox jan l. 1887, President Grevy of France.
received : 00J OILERS. On the first day Of the
present year fourteen persons visited ex Presi-
dent Grevy. That little prefix Eek is terribly
potent in this selfish world
Miss MARY ANDERSON has passed her hun.
dredth night with "A Winters Tale" at the
Lyceum Theatre, London, and now expects to
run it through the season. Her popularity in
London promises 20 be perennial
f. F. JACKSON. the new Governor of Mary.
land. intends TO make himself and family cCm
Portable at Annapolis. He has taken with him
to that place his family carriage, two white
horses, an Alderney cow. three Maltese cats
with blue ribbons around their necks, large
dog and a number Of live turkeys chickens and
ducks.
Ir is not generally known that the popular
novelist Rider Haggard is the brother of the
Secretary of the British Legation in this coun.
try, whose marriage at Washington in 1875 to
Mrs. Carrie Carroll, a lady considerably older
than himself caused much talk at the time
The marriage was not happy one, and a di-
vorce--the second one in the wife's case-was
the result
SLNAroR GEORGE F. HoAR is tough subject
for an interviewer to tackle. He was in New
York the other day, and n reporter ABRUPTLY
asked his opinion of the prospects of the Repub-
lean party. Who are you that Won have n
right to speak to me without first having been
introduced" demanded the Senator haughtilv.
as he stamped his foot on the tiled floor. "A
reporter, en- Have nothing to say. sir. Don't
ask me any more questions, sir" and with this
the Senator disappeared up stairs.
MISS HELEN BARRY. who comes to America
next season with new plays and a strong COM
pany of English actors. appears TO be meeting
with great success in the old country. She has
Just had a complete ovation in the island of
Jersey, and her general tour is spoken of as the
one particular financial success of the year in
Great Britain. One of her new PLAYS will he
tried shortly at the London Haymarket Theatre
where if it proves satisfactory, it may be put on
for a run before being brought over TO what
Englishmen usually speak Of as THE States. 4"
THE late Beresford Hope, who during his life
was rather ntolerant Tory politician and a
bigoted adherent of the Church of England
and who was moreover, the proprietor Of the
most venomous weekly paper published in
England, the Saturday RcUietC, sort of liter.
AIRY vinegar cruet, left will the first paragraph
which runs as follows: Il bequeath my soul to
Almighty God, humbly trusting for pardon
through the merits of our blessed Lord. dying
member of his holy Catholic church In the
communion of the English branch thereof. and
humbly trusting that ere long the woeful dissen.
sions Of the universal church may be healed. y