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

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL will be in New
York shortly, and will pass a few days in So
ciety before continuing his journey to Brazil,
where he will spend a month or two. His wife
will accompany him.
JOHN KEITH ROBERTSON. journalist, and au-
thor Of several successful novels, of Dundee, fell
down a stair leading to his fathers house some
few days ago. and survived the accident only
an hour. He was only %.
LILLIAN. Duchess Of Marlborough, formerly
Widow Hammersley, is getting more and more
into the folds OF the aristocracy. She must now
put on back and recall her tea cards owing
to the death Of the dukes aunt, Lady Alan
Spencer Churchill.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has delighted the hearts of
the opponents of compulsory vaccination in
England by writing a letter TO one of them. in
which he repeats his formerly expressed opinion
that there are under the law as it stands both
hardship and inequality"
GEN. BouLASGER's WIFE denies that she has
ever deserted the conjugal roof and says that
il is her husband, and not herself, who seeks di
vorce. Her religion, she says, forbids divorce,
aud she does not believe in il. But she thinks
the general wants to ape Napoleon in one re-
spect, even if he can never resemble him in any
other, by putting away Josephine to marry
Marie Louise
JOHN w. MACRAY, president of the CONNER
cial Gable Company has been presented by the
employees and officers of the company with a
magnificent piece of plate bearing a silver
globe upon WnCI Il etCheu the hemlSphereS
Joined by golden cable which accurately fol
lows the course Of the Mackay- Bennett cable
between Great Britain, France and the United
States. The globe is divided the equator
and canbe used as receptacle for fruit and
flowers Every person connected with the
cable company, both in this country and Europe,
contributed to the gift
JAMES OWEN O'CoNoR essayed the role of
Richard III. at the Monumental theater, Bali
more. Nd. on Christmas nj yht. lie appsared
the red ii rntg and hNifilV
the audience that the winter Of discomfort had
been made glorious summer. lie was mistaken.
The shower OF apples which overwhelmed him
was more Ike fall tGan summer. aud the noise
OF tin horns which drowned his voice sounded
ike a seigh.ride parry in full blast. The Great
Uncrushed could not Withstand this exhibition
OF southern hospitality and beat a permanent
retreat.
IT was long ago said OF Mr. George W
Childs, the publisher Of the Public Ledger of
Philadelphia. that he was the two Cheeryble
Brothers rolledIntO one, but he probably might
be more accurately described as the Santa Claus
Of the newspaper world. On. this last Christmas
day Mr.. Chiids il is said, distributed among the
editors, reporters, correspondents, clerks, com
positors, pressmen ami other employees OF the
Ledger, nearly $4,000. When 1t is considered
that the salaries and wages paid by Mr.. Childs
are a. large as the largest paid by other Phila-
delphil publishers It will be recognized that all
who are asSociated with him in his work have
good cause TO Be satisfied with their employer
In pecuniary way. 1t is said by them, how
ever that they have even greater cause for
satisfaction with him because of his daily con-
sideratiou for them than because OF his annual
Christmas bounty.
THE oldest hotel clerk in the United States is
Bishop White OF the Everett house, New York
For over fifty years he has been employed in
exactly the same spot, at the corner OF Fourth
avenue and Seventeenth street Before the
Everett house was erected there 8 portion OF
the site was occupied BY a grocery store, and
there Mr.. White began as boy. He had clerked
there several years, when the place had to be
torn down to make room for the hotel This
threw him out OF employment and he had a
prejudice about seeking work in another
locality, so he was hired to help in the con.
struction OF the hotel When the house was
opened. over thirty years ago, he was employed
as a clerk, and has occupied the position ever
since
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