The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-17
PERSONAL.


Col. Copy better known as Buffalo Bill
has been raised to the dignity of general of
Nebraska militia. He is now on his ranch, and
is enjoying himself hugely after his arduous
"Wid West" campaign.
CoUNT Won MoLTKE has deposited his will in
the probate court at Berlin. 1t IS thus indorsed,
in a bold hand; The inclosed is my last will.
Ii Is my desire that no seals be put upon my be-
longings. Moltke Field Marshal"
LORD TENNYsoN is very much improved in
health. He is able to go out of doors in fine
weather, and is cheerful in spirit As a striking
evidence of his vgor it is solemly stated that he
is able TO take tea with great regularity.
EMPEROR WILLIAM Of Germany is still carry
ing on his crusade against all things not Tel-
tonic. He has ordered the officers of his army
TO discard pointed English boots and wide
creased trousers. He has also made q change
in the royal crown, which he considered too
high for his style Of beauty.
GEoRGU AUGUSTUS SALA, the English journal
ist, always wears u white waistcoat. He says:
You cant very well murder when you have a
garment you have, in a manner, given hostages
To respectaoility." Perhaps he is afraid of be-
ing mistaken for Jack the Ripper"
EMPEROR FRANCES JOSEPH of Austria has
expressed his annoyance over the report which
has been spread abroad to the effect that he
smokes two-cent cigars. He claims that the
cheapest cigar which he is in the habit of putting
costs him five cents, and that after dinner he
blows himself off TO an eight-center. II is
pleasing to have this matter settled.
THE DUCHESS" is the pseudonym of Mrs
Margaret Hungerford, an Irish lady, now living
in London. Hungerford is the name of her
second husband. The story runs that her first
husband, Mr.. Angles, committed forgery
shortly after their marriage, was convicted and
sent to jail. His wife, thrown upon the world
without any source OF livelihood, turued in
despair TO literature, and produced her first
novel, Phyllis, which proved great success.
Ever since she has maintained herself hand
somely by her pen.
A WRITER in the New York Star says: The
cruel war is over for sure" James Redpath,
the biographer of John Brown and the lifelong
friend OF Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner and
other famous champions of freedom, told me
yesterday that he recently paid visit to Jeffer-
son Davis at his home In Mississippi He was
q guest OF Mr.. Davis for four days and enjoyed
his visit immensely. He describes the old
president OF the confederate states "the
most refined and charming old gentleman
whom he ever met among the public men of
America-as the very opposite OF the character
he Is supposed To be In the North-as refined in
his manners and speech as Ralph Waldo Emer
son, or Longfellow the poet, or Wendell
Phillips who were the most perfect types Of
high breeding and noble nature l ever met in
the North. Mr.. Davis Is over 50 years old now
but is in good health and In full mental vigor
giving every promise Of living TO sfe the TWEEN
tieth century Using the phrase IN its true, and
not It's cant sense, 'continued the old abolition
lat. can cpnscientiously describe Beauvoir
House as an ideal home. Mr.. Davis Is the finest
type OF Southern manhood. and Mrs. ID avis rs
quite al notable pcrsOnage-a grsat woman,
both IN character and intellect