The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-12

EDMOND s. CONNER, the father of the Ameri.
can stage, Wi, be 80 years old next Monday
He lives at Wortendyke, Be gen county, New
Jersey
DEACON" S; V. WHITE says that nothing
could induce him to return to congress He
likes Wal street better than making laws at
Washington
W. c. GRAsLEY. an educator in the public
schools of Adelaide, South Australia, is ia 81.
us for the purpose of investigating the school
system Of tba: city.
EDITOR DAVID NJ. STONE, of the New York
Jouradi of : onlnlerce has been ele ted an hon
orary pre- 'ident of the tia ian Chamber of Com
merce in that city.
GEN GRENFELL, the British commander in
the war ainst the slave traders on the Nile. is
A years old and a man of handsome presence
an literary tastes. He is to be made knight
of the Bath.
JUDGE GRESHAM ex-Secretary Bristow and
others left Chicago Monday for hunting trim
through the north vet. They will probably 20
as far as Portland, Ore.
JUDGE e R HoAR, of Massachusetts,, Presi-
dent Grants attorney general, celebrated on
Tuesd y the 5Oth niversaIy of his admission
to the bar and the 40th anniversary OF his first
taking seat on the bench.
EMILY PAXTON of Pike county. Missouri. has
perinlsSi n fro n the governor of that state to
wear a mans dress anywhere in dissouri out
side of cities of 10000 inhabitants" Sle works
K
ing horses TO harness. OF these she herself
owns three and has charge of thirteen.
LADY MCCARTNEY, wife of Sir Halliday Macart-
ney, secretary of the Chinese embassy in Lon
don, was recently fined S25 for il-treating her
female servants She was in e habit of tear
ing out handfulS of their hair whenever they
displeased her ladyship.
PRINCE HENRY of Prussia, the Kaiser's
brot. err is the idol of the German naval service.
He is e 'UnSer Heinrich" of the navy just as
his Imperial father @ TO be the ''Unser Fritz
81 the army, and countless stories told {
illustrate his g cd maui e, his devotion to his
profession and his physical proweSs.
THE HEIRS of w. W. Corcoran have lust
de .ded valuable lot in WaShin ton to the
Baptist Home Society. This same piece of land
had been given to the society by Mr. Corcoran
coupled with the condition that they suould
build home upon it, This they are unable to
do, aud the pro Jerty would have revert d to
MIR. Corcoran's heirs but FIR their generous act
THE RECENT MARRIAGE of Viscount Dunlo of
England the heir of re Earl of Clancarty, to
turned out disaStrously. The viscount has gone
to the Autip0des and his wife still appears
nightly at thu Empire theaJer. London 1t is
S lid the earl's father will attempt to have the
MARI age annulled on the ground that his son
was not of age. Miss Billion was old enough to
contract illegal marriage The ceremony per
form will bar her from instituting a suit for
breach of promise Of marriage, even if the
marriage is pronounced void.
ROBERT z. LEE was a strict observer of the
Sabbath when not ga yed in his campaigns -
said Gen. l.. l.. Lamax, president of tue Vir-
ginia Agricultural Jllege at B.acksourg and
late co umander OF division of confederate
cavalry. II remember w Il one occasion wnen
Fitzhugh Lee and myself who at that time
were both cadets at West Point, we're in Wash
ington. 1t was a sunday m rnlng, and as the
day promised to be duh one, we drove over to
Arlington to spend the time with Gusts Lee
We found the family at morning prayers and
We Joined in the services. When ey wer
co cluded. zen. Lee, with grim smile, walked
into ais library, selected religion book n
eaca OF his idren, Custis included, and set
them all to reading. The jolly time at 'Fitz'
and mySel expected to have with Gusts was
indefinitely postponed. We xcdsed ourselves
as soon as C lmmon decency would permit. re-
turned to Washington, and resolved that when
we visited Arlington again it would not be on
Sunday"