The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-16
PERSONAL.

SANDERS Bruce and his son, Leslie Bruce, own
and edit T1uJ, Field and Farm. The elder
Bruce is a tall, broad-ShoIGdered Kentuckian,
who weighs more than 225 pounds He went to
New York about twenty years ago, and he has
made a fortune.
DENNIS KEARNEY is in Washington. He said
to a friend: Il am here to look after Chinese
legislation. The Chinese must go, and they
must quit coming. ! am doing what can for
Senator Mitchell's bill, which will keep all of
them out forever
GEORGE W RosTRE. known as the cowboy
evangelist is said by an Arkansas newspaper
to be worth 100000, which yields HIM an in
come Of SEQ day. His fortune made in
cattle ami 10y lucky Investments in real estate.
He is just 10 years old. and in his youth wa,
reputed to be one Of the most lawleSS of the
desperadoes of the plains
JUST after the close of the war Lot Flannerv
the Washington sculptor, made a plaster bust
of Gen. John A. Logan. 1t was the only bust
ever made of the soldier, and was correct and
artistic likeness. Mr.. Flanncry is now repro
ducing this bust in marble, and the result of his
work will be presented TO Mrs. Logan by a
friend. The bust resembles Gen. Logan as he
was in later life excepting that the moustache
is larger than that which he wore for some
years before his death.
AUSTIN CoRBIN. President eff the Reading rail
road. was in PHILADELPHIA Tuesday His ap-
petite has not been disturbed by the strike He
dined at fashionable restaurant in the Quaker
City and ate heartily of every course from the
oyster to the cheese and coffee He also drank
pint of champagne with his repasf. Vice
President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania rail
road, sat opposite him at the table and ate more
sparingly. Mr.. ThOmson's dinner consisted of
SOUP a small piece Of roast meat and glass of
sherry.
Il HAVE. says NJ Alexander Dumas, "often
been asked why don't write my memoirs |
don't write my memoirs because man cannot
write his own memoirs without writing those OF
others, or without hiding from his own life that
which the reader ought most to know. Those
Of whom I should have TO write would rather
that were silent. and have no desire TO write
about myself. The aurelS of Jean Jacques and
of Casanova do not prevent me from sleeping
soundly at night on the contrary. II is, how
ever, permitted TO draw episodes from ones
personal souvenirs which time has formed into
whole, TO which nothing more is to be joined
which form one more lesson on the absurdities
of human life, and which can no longer hurt or
do injustice to anybody"
GRANT, says Washington correspondent. had
a long list Of Cabinet officers, and quite a mum
Der of them yet live, move and have their being
Hamilton Fish leads retired life at New ork
The dark, intellectual face Of George S. Bout
well may be seen in any crowd of public men at
Washington, and he is practicing law at the
capital. Gen. sherman, who acted for a time
as Secretary Of War, leads happy life in New
York and Gen. Belknap moves about the no
tells of Washington, one of the handsomeSt and
youngest of our oldyoung men. Two of Grants
Secretaries of the Interior are alive and both
are IN ONO. jacob ID. Cox practices law in Gin
cinnati, while Columbus Delano, with his peck
cts well lined from the sale of thousands Of
heeces of wool, lives on a farm in the vicinity
of Mount Vernon One of Grants Postmaster
Generals, John A. J. Creswell is as handsome
as Belknap, and fully as bright He has shelles
laid up, and his business brain works as active
ly as TO investment and speculation as il
did as to the politics of country postmasters.
Judge Tyner, another of Grants Postmaster
Generals, is now Washington lawyer and his
tall, fine figure. and his face so rosy that it
seems to have stepped forth from portrait OF
Rubens, shines out in the courtrooms and at the
receptions. Tyner is wellto-do but not wealthy
and he is one of the most genial and well-in-
formed men amongst the exCabnet officers
Alpn 40 laII, one o. 1Iahe attorney Gener-
natl. and as for "Landauet" Williams. | am
not certain as to bis existence, but il is my i'm.
preston that he is still in Oregon.