The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-18
Personal.

President WOODRUFF, of the Mormon church,
is 81 years of age, and bears a strong resem-
blance to Gen. Grant.
AUSTIN STEERS, an inmate of the Soldiers
Home at Cbelsea Mass, has fallen heir to
$3.50 by tie death of q relative in Rhode
Island.
HERBERT WARD. the African traveller. will he
accompanied on his lecture tour by E. J. Glave,
who spent several years among the African
cannibals.
c. W. HALDRooK of Providence reioices in the
possession of a hoilyhock stalk eleven feet high
which is now in full bloom. He claims that this
is the tallest ever grown.
OL1vER JOHNSON, one of the associates of
William Lloyd Garrison in the organization of
the oolition party in this country is slowly
dying at his home in Brooklyn.
JOHN MORLEY has expressed himself with I'M
mistakabe painness on the return of the lib
eral unionsls to the Gladstonian fold. He is
ready to welcome the rank and file. but as to
the leaders, they are ''past praying for"
Gov. MALbE7rE, of South Dakota, estimates
the total revenue Of the state at 100000. and
says retrenchment TO the amount of 100000 is
necessary. This is a large drop of bitter in the
cup of the new state.
JOEL PIKE is to succeed the late John Seaman
IA chief of the New York Central detective sys-
TEN. Mr.. Pike has been in the polio business
for thrty-seven years. He commenced as a
patrolman on the metropolitan force.
JONATHAN HAND, who for fifty years has been
clerk of Cape May county, New Jersey, was
ousted at the late election, solely because the
people thought he had held the Office long
enough and they wanted a new man to handle
the records.
MRS. VAN Corr, the evangelist, thinks that
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is not courteous
Mrs Van Colt cal ed on the novelist and said.
Doubtless YOU have heard of me as an eminent
christian" Mrs. Stowe promptly replied; mo.
l never have" and the interview came to an
end.
ToIsroI receives his guests in the true apos-
tolic fashion acting as their servant and attend
ing TO their wants himself. nor does be stop
repairing the boots of the beggar folks of the
neighborhood while discussing the sterner prob
lens of life with cabinet ministers and car
dinas.
hiss ELIZA JANE EASTER an estimable younv
lady and daughter of Michael Easter Justice
of the peace for Scott district owns a saw and
grist-mill on Camp Creek, W. Va, which she
operates in person, conducting the business
and running the machinery in q manner which
would put to shame many dusty miller" of
the stern9r sex.
THOMAS HART has the southernmost house in
England. His studio, to which connosseurs
and picture fanciers are wont to make pilgrim
ages, is situated under the shadow of the Lizard
Lighthouse, and the southernmost fixture of
the work of human hands on the coast-line of
old England is Mr. Harris boat-house at the
foot of his delightful garden ana grounds
EDMUND CLARENCE SrEDMAN does not look like
a poet. 4 few days ago he was observed on an
elevated train in New York IL was about $3.50
O'Clock a. M, and MIR. Stedman, unable to OBJ
tain a seat, stood near the middle of the car
and read Wall street newspaper. He is a
short, slender man. with a face eminently in
tellectua but showing the effects of hard work
in commercial life aud literature. Mr. Stedman
is a broker. not a banker, as he is often called
He wore no overcoat, and was dressed in a neat
suit of gray with a roundabout coat AS the
weather was cold, it was not surprising to hear
Mr.. Stedman complain to friend that he sui.
fered now aud then from rheumatism.
For A DIsoRDERED LIVER try BEECH
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