The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-29
Personal.

JAMES REpPATH, the distinguished litterateur
ana lecturer, is at present guest of Jefferson
Davis at Beauvoir, and is supposed to be assist
ing Mr.. Davis in some literary work.
GEN. CASEY, chief of the United States en-
glneers, says the congressional library building
is being pushed rapidly, but that some DELAY
has been caused by failure to get materials
fast enough.
Mr.. STEAD of the Pail hdH Gazette is going
20 Rome to investigate and write up the condi-
tlon and prospects of the Dapacy. He Is armed
with note from Cardinal Manning, INTRODUCING
him to the pope
On RECENT OCCASION, George Bancroft. The
historian, told bevy of young girls that !; ,e
secret OF long life lay in never losing ones tenn
per III you will never get angry" said the
historian you will live to be 80.
THE TRIAL of j. Frank COLON of Minneapolis.
for forgery, will prove one of the most famous
In the annals OF Minnesota. His victims are de-
Tending him so as TO prove there we're no for
geries, and that their paper is good.
AUSTIN CoRBIN returned from Europe Sunday
In the steamer Umbria. He was met at
Quarantine by the tug Monitor of the Reading
railroad and taken to Hunters Point, where a
special train on the Long Island railroad carried
him to Babylon.
SAMUEL WLKEsoN, originally a stafr writer
on the New York Tribune but for the last
twenty-one years secretary of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company, has been granted an
indefinite leave of absence at salary of s., 600
year. He is now in the I'D year of his age.
MGR. FRANCIS SAToLLI, titular archbishop of
Lepanto and president of the Academy of
Noble Ecclesastics, is the full name and titles
of the papal delegate who has been designated
to represent the holy see at the Inauguration of
the Catholic university at Washington and the
celebration of the centenary of the establish
ment of the Catholic hierarchy in this country
On his arrival in New York he will be met down
the bay by delegation of prominent Catholics
and escorted to Washington. The archbishop.
for nine years, held the chair of dogmatic the
ology at the Urban college of the propaganda
lin Rome.
THE agricultural bureau is a powerful ipstitu-
ton. Says Washington correspondents: Sec
rotary Rusk is quietly laughing over the pre-
dicament of two gentlemen who called upon
him It Gently. There was quite a company Of
ladies in the party To the first gentleman he
introduced seven of the ladies' as his wife The
second was even more embarrassed than the
first In one hand he held his hat, and in the
other his umbrella. He had a cigar in his
mouth, and as both hands were occupied he did
not know what to do with it. Finally ne reached
up and placed the lighted cigar behind his ear
The secretary asked him IL he was O book
keeper, and he said he was" Rusk is a very
funny fellow.
AMONG the distinguished people who were at
the Stratford yesterday was Mrs. w. P. Hamp-
ton, the wife OF the son Of Senator Wade Hamp-
ton OF South Carolina. Mrs. Hampton is max
lng pleasure trip in company with Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Warren OF Nashville. Mrs Warren
and Mrs. Hampton are sisters. They are very
handsome young women, and have not before
made 50 complete a journey Of the northern
cities as that in which they ara now engaged
Near them at dinner sat Mrs. Luce, the wlfe OF
Rear AID niral j. y. Luce Of the navy, and
George A Richmond and his three daughters
Mrs Iice aud the Richmond family mad lust
arrived from Newport Mr.. Richmond, who Is
the owner Of one Of the finest cottages at the
swell summer resort, Is on invalid. and Is on hls
way south