The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-28
PERSONAL.

A SON of Archdeacon Farrar is house sur
geon at st. Bartholomew hospital, London; a
yodng man of &C. with fair hair, a slight mus
tache and aristocratic manners.
RUSSELL SAGE arrived at Bar Harbor last
week with party of friends and chartered a
party is made up as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. Rus
sell Sage, q. H. fainter, Miss fainter, H. NJ
Ruggles and Sumner r. Stone
NINA VAN ZANDT, the proxy wife of August
Spies the anarchist, recently passed through
Denver with her mother. A reporter who saw
her says that she seemed bright and cheerful
and showed no traces of the sorrow that over
whelmed her when spies was executed.
GAIT. JOHN J. BRowN, who died in New Or
leans the other day, was one OF the best known
and most prominent of Mississippi river steam
boat men, and was possessed Of a considerable
fortune. He began his noted career on the
river in 1898 as a cabin boy on the steamer
Washington.
CHARLES PRrNEAU, the aged interpreter at the
Standing Rock agency in Dakota. was an early
Indian trader among the Sioux in the north
west lie had many perilous and exciting adj
ventures, sometimes barely escaping with his
life and once had S1000 900 of property destroyed
in twInkling by the savaGes
IT HAVING been asserted that Mrs. Senator
Sherman is something of a political manager
when her husbands interests are in the scale a
lady, who has had intimate relations with the
family for years, takes occasion to deny all such
wife in the broadcast significance of the term,
and is greatly beloved by all who are admitted
to her friendship.
FoR LONG and faithful service the record OF
Miss Sarah Norcross is probably unparalleled in
this country, This lady went to Lowell from
Pennington, Me, in April, 1898, and obtained
employment in the dressing room Of the Boot
cotton mills. During the fifty Intervening
years she has been constantly employed in the
same room and at the same work, and for forty
five years under the same overseer
A. w. LoNGFELLow. brother Of the late poet,
IL a prominent figure In Portland, Me. He
closely resembles his famous brother. both in
manner and person. He Is nearly 70 years OF
age He is described as a great literary stu
dent, spending large part OF his time in his
study. He cultiqates the tastes Of an antigua
rian, and is a member Of the Maine Historical
society. A. w. Longfelow. Samuel
Longfellow, Mrs Greenleaf of Cambridge and
Mrs Pierce are the only surviving members Of
the famous family.
SPEAKING OF Harriet Hosmer the celebrated
sculptor, who in her childhood lived at Water
town. Mass, an old citizen OF that town, who
knew the family well, says that her mother and
sister had died from consumption, so her father,
who was a physician, determined to give her all
the advantages of an outdoor life. She was
taught TO ride and shoot and climb trees and do
everything that boys do. When she was sent
to school she found II very difficult TO bend
gracefully to rules and regulations, and the con-
sequence was that she was twice expelled. But
bucked down to study. At the age OF 10 she
developed decided talent for sculpture, and
her father fitted up a studio for her; but il was
afterward determined to send her to Rome for
study, and there the high-spirited girl worked
! hard and sooa had pleasant horne Of her own