The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-20
PERSONAL.

MISS HAMPTON will receive to-day from 2:SO to
at the Metropolitan Hotel, Washington.
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted a pure white
collie from breeders at Standardization.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND has made arrange
mentS for the publication of his Tales of
England in book form.
Mr. AND MRs LEWIS, said to be Americans
have been travelling for three months through
Europe on tricycle., and say their joint ex-
penses are only So 25 a day, sightseeing ex.
penSeS Included.
FIGHT or ten United States Senators were
booked Tor seats at the anniversary dinner of
the Glover Club in Philadelphia yesterday.
Among them were Senators Hawley, Palmer
Cameron and Butler.
DIR. s. WEIR MITCHELL, the neurologist who is
also novelist. recently refused $500 offered him
for an article on learning that il was intended 10
float magazine devoted to the advertisement
of proprietary medicine
TIrSRY IRv1yG has followed Wilson Barrett
with dissertation on the Baconiau theory of
Shakespearau authorship. and satricllly Sug-
gestS that Bacon prefgured lgnatius Donnelly
in continuing his clyptogrlm.
HENRY FIELDING DICKENS, son Of the late
Charles Dickens, the novelist, is a lawyer who
has high reputation for wit and eloquence in
the London courts. lie is clever in cr0SS-exam-
nations and epgrammatic in his oratory.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN is said to be much taken
with the charms of Miss Winslow OF Boston.
belle OF Washington. Mr.. Chamberlain does not
believe in the ''thFee-mile limit" theory SO far
as American beauties are concerned.
NIRs LErIrIA BovEE who died last week at
Lake City, Mimi, having claimed that in her
youth she was a sweetheart of James Buchanan
and the truth of her statement having been
questioned. several of her neighborS now come
forward and testify that they have seen letters
written to her by Buchanan, ana that the story
is true.
Mrs PARAx STEVENS. who owns the Victoria
Hotel in New York. was in her girhood waiter
girl in Lowell restaurant while her husband
began life as stable boy. She is now worth
S6OOO, 900, and her hotel is headquarters for the
Engl sh aristOcracy in this country but for all
that her EFFORTS TO break into society in New
York have been merclcssly snubbed.
DANIEL DovGHERrY, he Philadelphia attorney
who has gone 10 New York u contound Judges
and mix up the minds Of juiieS. has become
pretty well known in the courts already He
bears 80 striking resemblance to the popular
pictures Of Gladstone that he Is easily and in
stantly recognized in any gathering He is a
striking looking man, aside from this resenl-
hlance, having the manner OF one vino knows
and feels superiority Of intellect and talent LIN
his contact with others Mr.. Dougherty is full of
the olltine courtesy that is rare in this
busting day and age, but so grateful when dis
covered. He is engaged counsel for the de.
Tense in eX-Aldernan Clearys "boodla" case
and Is likely to be heard in others of those cases
SENATOR JOHN P. jonas, Of Nevada, has been
in New York for several days. and people who
have dropped in at the Hoffman during the
evening have been apt to see more or less Of the
Pacific coast millionaire. Like most Of the
Western capitalists. Senator Jones doesn't look
like rich man That is 70 say. there is nothing
10 his appearance or manner OF speech to ind-
cate that he is anything more than an ordinary
well fixed citizen. He wears grayish overcoat
the collar Of which is generally turned up AT tho
back, and his bead is covered by soft felt hat
pulled down over his eyes. Both hands are
usually rammed into, the Senator's trousers
poiut with pride, as showing that Jones is IN
like other icn men, who usually have their
hands in the pockets of their ueighbors The
Nevada capita list is short and round and he
beams with good humor from the tip Of his
long, gray chin-whisker TO every flash of his
keen, dark eyes He is a smart business man
and he is here in New York TO look after some
Of his large interests in the railroad and mining
line.