The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-26
PERSONAL.

| GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS has for twenty EIGHT
| years received salary of S25, 900 year from
| the Harpers. He has been the literary guide
| and adviser of their entire business.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON, son of ''Plon- Plon. -
and younger brother of Prince Victor has re
| ceived his commission as major In the Russian
army, and will go on duty in the Caucasus.
ALPHoNsE DAUDErs novels have won a fort
| une for him, but his plays on the stage have
been failures, and his jealousy of Sardou's sue
| cess is set down by his critics to be intense.
| FLORENCE MARRYAT, the novelist is stol1tish
| thoughtful-looking, and mpetuous-mannered
| She has written in all some forty novels,
| and she believes in ghosts. She once owned a
newspaper and she still owns lapdog, which
| she carries about with her.
GEN ALGER and Corporal Tanner met at the
| Fifth Avenue hotel yesterday. Their meeting
| was accidental. Tanner had long confab with
the commander-in chief of the G.. A. R.. and the
| curiosity of the politicians was aroused to learn
what subjects were discussed.
REV. THOMAS K. BEEcHER, brother of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, is nearly sc years of age.
| He has been pastor of the Congregational
| church at Elmira, N. Y, since he was 80 years
| old. His wife is a woman possessing remarka-
| BILE executive ability. She is granddaughter
| of Noah Webster, the photographer.
REPRESENTATIVE REED, who wants to be
| speaker of the House, is a great humorist. He
| is fond of the theater, likes a good story a
| fine dinner and well-favored cigar. 1t has
| been said that he is indolent, but his reputation
| In this regard arises from his manner, which is
| slow and unimpassioned. But he possesses the
| faculty OF doing great deal of work in quiet
| way.
ROBERT BONNER scouts the idea that Sunol is
| so high strung and nervous that he will not be
| able to drive her in Central park. He saws that
he was told the same thing regarding Dexter,
| and afterward about Maud S. He never ex-
psrienced any difficulty in driving those ami
mails, and has no fear of Sunol. Mr.. Bonner
n ind Of hrd tod l@,-H H..
| Hartman of Lancaster, Pa. He says that if he
| cannot drive Sunol in Central park next year he
| will present her to the turf editor of a New
| York newspaper. The turf editor referred to
| hopes that MIR Bonner is over-sanguine
THE late Lewis c. Cassidy, the famous Phila
| delphia lawyer. always diSliked to take cases
| outside of Pennsylvania. He had reputation
| as wide as the country, and was much sought
after IN criminal cases Usually he declined to
take part in suits outside of the Keystone State
and the only Unknown instance in which he
broke the rule was the Jennie Cramer murder
! case at New Haven, Conn. He left that trial at
the close of the prosecution claiming that the
case should then be submitted to the Jury, and
thus disagreeing with the other counsel His
fee was reported at the time to have been
| $1,000
SENIOR FoNsECA, the new President of Brazil
is thus described by one who has known him
well in South America: He is rather fair and
his eyes are gray. He is now &c or 90 years of
age; his HAIR and beard show a good deal of
gray. He is about 8 feet 10 inches high and
weighs about i65 pounds He is portly and
altogether man of fine physique. He has
well-developed forehead, wears a full beard
and has nose slightly inclined to the aqulline
but not at all prominent. His face is full. but
not fiorid. Though lawyer, he has been a
planter and Shareholder He was at one time
temporarily in charge of an American sCsool
He has two daughters. one of whom is married
to an Englishman and the other to an Ameri-
can. His boys we're educated at an American
school.