The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-19
PERSONAL.

Mr.. GLADSTONE receives no letters from Eng
land during his Italian visit
THE reported robbery of Raphael's Entomb-
ment rom :. Petro. in Perueia. so crcum-
stautiallv SCI forth, turns out TO be a stupid
hoax. 80 such picture ever existed in Perugia.
Coz. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGIvsoN will
shortly is ne ms first volume OF poems which
will doubtless include the authors famous
TRANSACTIONS from Petrarch, which the London
Academy pronounced the best ever made
Mrs. SARAH ALTHsA HILL-SuARoS-TERR is
still game. She has brought SUIT AGAINST Mar
shall Franks of san Francisco for $4,000 dam.
ages for the death Of her child, which was born
dead while she was in the marshal's custody.
Mas. r. II. EDXoNDs and w II. Edmonds Of
the Manufacturers Record at Baltimore have
bought out the interest," IF j. W. Bgsby in that
euterpriSug and prosperous publication. r.
II. EdmOnds continues in its editorial charge
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the English Journal
ist, makes an annual income OF $4,000 from his
newspaper work. lie has 81 600 year. proba-
bly, for lie, from the London Telegraph for ed
torial matter and besides this, writes essays
for a score OF London periodicals.
TH1 TABLET unveiled in the Connecticut state
house tins week in memory OF John Fitch bears
this ms riUuJu. This ablet, erected by the
state OF Connecticut, commemorate the genius
pa ence ami perseverance, o. john Fitch, q
native OF the town Of Windsor, the first to apply
steam successfully to the propulsion OF vessels
through water IL also bears the dates of l7s7-
1855.
JuDCE Cooley, the bead Of tae interstate
commerce commission, IS lI-te nan with a
sQue4ky voice He is self educated, bat has
been a great reader all his lie. H. has q bean
t.ul home in Ann Arbor. Mich, whIch Is a cen
ter for the professors OF the university there
Tue judge is a Tremendous student, and Is a vic
tim occasionally OF insomnia. Az such times be
viii often work all night over his books. lie is
said to have begun lite as a cobol-r.
II is STRANGE how m luck will follow a man
through lie. The late Capt. Brand Of the Ham
burg steamship Company is 60 d example.
la 1875 h1 tooa command OF toe steamer Herder,
aGd ou her iirst trip under his command she
SuAk IN her thlrd trip she ran ASHORE during
a foy, on the banks OF Newfoundland. and was
lost Happily no lives were sacrificed Capt.
Brand was transferred e. the Leasing On ths
first trip iu mis- new vessel thu captain while
lAbOriuy uuoer a spell Of INSANITY cut mis- throat
fiom ear to ear and died before help could
reach him.
HuSp8Eos Of people daily pass a little stone
house within stones throw Of the ferry at
Astoria. L. J., but very few know its history,
IL was erected by tue original John Jacob Aston
1870 years ago. and It's walls are IN as good con.
dition to-day as when the stones we're first laid
II was here that the founder OF the colossal
Astor estate resided when he trade! with
the Indians for furs. He owned most Of the
land now overed by the suburb named after
assumed the taxes he allowed to take az many
acres As they could manage. Some OF Astoras
best families were thus founded.
Use Angostura Bittors, the world re-
pnyvuaA South q