The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-27
PERSONAL.

| LEOPOLD RorHsCHILD, the London banker
has offered an income o. $40 week for life to
| the man who gives information which will lead
10 the arrest and conviction of the Whitechape
| assassin.
| Mrs. WARD. author of Robert Elsmere," is
| short, rather heavy in build, very pale, ard en-
| lowed with brilliant, though small dark eyes
Genealoglcally. as well as by culture and in
| mind. Mrs Ward is first, last and always an
| Arnold.
WILLIAM BLACK. the novelist. is described as
| tightly built, 1.-the of limb, strong ia the arm
| capable OF great physical endurance, below the
medium hight, with short, black hair, thick
| brown mustache, dark hazel eyes, firm
| mouth and square forehead.
| DURING the recent riots in Madrid the little
| King of Spain was unable to take his usual
| daily drives. One day he stamped his little foot
and exclaimed: Tell those naughty students
that command them to go out in the country
when they want to make row."
THERE is in New York no more tireless thea
| ter-goer than Col Bob Ingerson. 1t is said by
one who ought to know that he has seen over
| 100 performances this year. He is more fond
| of comedy and spectacular pieces than of high
| tragedy, and he laughs consumedly at the funny
characters, or scenes. or passages.
THERE are those who claim that the result of
! the recent election proves that a democratic
candidate for President ought to be a bachelor
Buchanan and Tilden we're bachelors, and Mr..
| Cleveland was unmarried when elected to the
presidency He was benedict this time and
| his own conclusions
Mrs. HANNIBAL A. HOPKINS of lansing Mich,
has in her possession the military trappings OF
Ethan Allen and will sell them for 81 800 1t is
| suggested that they ought to be bought by the
state of Vermont and preserved in the state
capitol. Among other articles are the sword
which he carried at Ticonderoga and in many
other engagements, q breastplate and epaulets.
SOME WEIGHT is given to the rumor that Mr.
Cleveland and his wife are going to Europe after
his Presidential term expires by the fact that
Mrs. Cleveland is devoting great deal of time
| to French She spends great many hours
with her teacher and is often seen with
French novel in her hand. She has long been
able to speak and road the language, but now
seems anxious to make her pronunciation per
feet and enlarge her acquaintance with the
literature.
AT the auction sale in Washington of the per-
sonal effects of Lord Sackvile the other day
funny incident occurred. writng-desk was
put up, handsome piece OF carved wood, but
the bidding on 1t was very slow. The auctioneer
did ms best to raise the figure to reasonable
sum. Pretty soon he whispered TO his assistant,
who disappeared. In a moment the rumor,
started in some mysterious way, ran through
the crowd that IL was upon this desk that Lord
Sackville penned his famous letter TO Murchison.
At once large price was offered for the desk,
and bid after bid followed in quick succession,
until the article was finally sold at an exorbitant
figure
JAMES MCMILLAN OF Detroit. who is as good
as elected to the United States senate from
Michigan, has been at the Windsor hotel for
several days, says New York daily. Dlr. Nc
MILAN is about fifty years old has strong, clear
cut features and very agreeable manners. He
will not make much show IN the Senate as
speaker or debater. His talent in that line is
limited Mr.. Mcmillan is estimated to be worth
S15000,O00. Like Gen. Alger, he started in life
poor About the time the war began he
the purchasing agent at Detroit for several
Western railroads. Then he began building
freight cars aud the demand for them Increased
sa fast that McMillan's firm could not make
cars fast enough. Their business grew i'll pro-
portion, and 10 day they employ several thou
sand men and turn out several hundred cars
daily. A little more than year ago Mr.. Nc
MILAN was very much broken up by the sudden
death of his oldest daughter. He resigned from
the craftsmanship of 1.-THE republican state com
inittee of Michigan and seemed to lose all inter
est in politics and business. He has since re-
covered from this shock and was induced to
make the canvass for the senatorship. The re-
publicans have large majority in the legisa-
ture, and as Mr. Mcmillan has no opposition
his election is only matter OF time