The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-11
PERSON AL.

Mrs NACKAY talks of buying residence in
| the Scottish highlands. Mr.. 1Iackay gives her
| carte blanche in nearly everything she desires
THE most costly private collections of pictures
| in the West is said to be that of Mr.. Nickerson
| President Of the First National Bank of Chicago
EMILIO CASTELAR,, the Spanish Cicero, has oc-
cupled the same house IN Madrid for the past
| fifteen years His sister lives with him and he
lavishes every attention and luxury upon her.
Miss LOUISA NJ. ALCoTT does most of her writ
ing in Boston There she takes Il room where
she can be perfectly retired and quiet, and with
Il bottle of Ink by her side and a lap tablet on
her knee, she writes until her task is done.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is strenuously opposed
to the sale of liquor anywhere near q railway
station IF | had my way said he, recently
Il would prohibit by law the sale of intoxicants
within an eighth of mile of railway station, "
JAMES WHTooMB RILEY began his career as
sign painter, and for time Travelled through
Indiana with patent medicine man He looks
more like comic actor than n poet and he
adds many of the qualities of the former to
those of the latter.
a HANDSOME BRONZE BUST of Sidney Lanier,
the poet, has been presented TO Johus Hopkins
University. 1t was modelled during the last
days of Mr.. Lanier's life by Ephraim Keyser
and afterward cast in bronze at Rome Ii is the
gift of Charles Lanier, of New York, a kinsnlan
of the poet.
- TENNYsoN feels keenly the stings of adverse
criticism He once said; Il am like a traveller
in a lonely desert, when suddenly there appears
on the horizon figure which shoots au arrow
that reaches me, enters the flesh and rankles
there, and, although the wound is small, It's
smart cannot forget
Bishop WILLIAMS of Connecticut, the Oldest
member of the American House of Bishops of
the Protestant Episcopal church, is a student of
contemporary politics and an authority on
affairs in Central Europe. He is, perhaps. the
finest cOnversationalist in the country and has
at command a vast number of good stories
For the first time in England woman has
been buried with military honors. Last week
Mrs. Fox, wife of the Quartermaster of the Con-
naught Rangers, was borne to her grave on a
gun carriage, the coffin being covered with the
union jack, and all the usual military forms
being observed. She died from wounds received
six years ago in the Transvaal war, in which she
was made prisoner.
Ex-Gov JAMES w. THRocKMoRToN, of Texas.
is North on private business, aud will take a
look at his old camping grounds in Washington
before he returns to the Lone Star state. He is
one OF the statesmen who at one time held a
prominent place in public attention but who in
these later days have found that younger and
newer men were needed to solve the live issues
that are coming to the front. Unlike most men
OF ms age the Texas Ex-Governor recognized the
fact that his political career had ended, for at
the last Congressional election he declined posi-
lively to serve the people Of his district any
longer and retired TO private life.
Bill" Gregory, the greatest outlaw Indiana
berry at Terre ilaute but is now free again as
there was not sufficient evidence TO convict him
Gregory has had n remarkable career For
fifteen years be has been the leader IN hundreds
of burglaries in the Hoosier state, but has
served only one short term in prison. Twenty
three of bis accomplices are now serving terms
IN various prisons throughout the country
There Is hardly a crime known to man which
Gregory has not committed. He has been a
persevering train robber, a sneak thief, a house
breaker a kldnaper and various other things
equally as bad.
j. Manchester Haynes, member Of the National
Republican Committee from Maine was at the
Firth Avenue Hotel New York recently Mr.
Haynes said that he had been travelling In the
south for the past six weeks. His business took
him south every winter. IL was remarkable the
progress made in the South commercially
Business enterprises Of all kinds were startling
zap IN every direction, He thought great
many southern Democrats would Join the Re
publican party on the tariff issue II the bloody.
shirt waivers IN the North would 20 out Of bust
ness for spell. The opposition 10 Mr. Lamars
continuation. 10 Mr.. Haynes judgment was
unfortunate, as n only served 10 keep alive sec
tional anini0sities. Mr. Haynes said that Mr.
Blame would get large share Of tho Republi.
can delegates from the South and be- Thought
the ''i1umed Knight" would b. the strongest
man Tor the aeDublicaps 70 nominate.