The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-28
Personal.

Young ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the minister's son,
is convalescing after serious illness.
MANToN MARBLE, formerly Of the New York
World, was 81 years old last Saturday.
RICHARD CROKER and family of New York
have gone to Aiken, S. c., for month.
II ALWAYS RETURN from Europe more in love
with my own country than ever" says Senator
Washburn of Minnesota. Europe is nothing
but an armed camp"
president of the Vermont Marble Company and
his son, Col Fletcher d. Proctor, has been
elected to succeed him.
THE BODY of Postmaster Hines of North Alb
ington, Mass, was found in swamp where he
had died while cunning. The exact location was
described by clairvoyant while in trance
IT is RUMoRFp in Vienna that Ferdinand has
been privately betrothed to Princess Louise
d'Orleahs, the only daughter of Duke d'Alencon,
whose mother is the youngest sister of Francis
Joseph. ferdinand is a first cousin of the Duke
d Alencon.
THE SULTAN OF TURKEY is said to be in high
spirits, and is distributing the order of the Med
jidie at a reckless rate When Queen Victoria
feels happy She relieves her soul by giving away
a few India shawls. When the Sultan feels
jolly he quietS his oriental exuberance by deco
rating somebody with the order of Medjidie.
THOMAS NELSON PAGE, the virginian, is hav-
ing boom in London. The demand for his
works is greater than the supply Mr.. Page
spent the summer in England and made many
friends. The English critics speak highly of his
writings, and the British public is inclined to
take him up as a fad-perhaps being tired of
Ibsen.
WILLIAM LEE, who resides near Columbus, is
the oldest union soldier in Indiana He is 90
years of age, and is still hale and hearty. He
was recently granted pension, with 81 500
back pay. He has been in Straitened circum-
stances for several years, but this sum will en-
able him to live in comfort during the remainder
of his days.
j. A. CUTLER of Steamboat Rock, Ia, was in
New Orleans forty years ago with an elder
brother, prospecting. He had occasion TO leave
the city for couple OF days, and when he re-
turned by some means they became separated.
Reading the name of Cutler on the Rhode
Island state ticket, J. A. Cutler has just written
and learned that il is his long lost brother who
is eX-governor of Rhode Island. Neither of the
brothers was aware of the fate of the other
from the time they parted in New Orleans till
now.
ONE of the youngest monarchs in the world
is King Thantai, potentate of AMMAN He is
years of age, very precocious and fully con-
scious of the importance Of his position. He
is solemn and thoughtful, disdains childish
sports and spends all his time in the seclusion
of his palace, studying consulting with aged
counsellors and pouring over books and manu-
scripts. He is learning Chinese and French
and shows remarkable aptitude in the acqusi-
ton of foreign tongues. He is very arbitrary
aud exacting, and his teachers stand in great
awe of him.
THE QUEEN OF ITALY once tried to write @
novel. 1t was enthusiastically praised by the
court ladies when one day she read them few
chapters She was bright enough to wish less
partial test, so she sent it under an assumed
name to leading publisher who politely de-
chned to accept it. The publisher was much
chagrined when the affair came out, and on the
story being Photographed in the London news
papers three English houses telegraphed to the
queen asking for the book but she sensibly
thinks best to abide by the decision given when
no royal name protected the child of her
fancy. N