The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-12
PERSONAL.

THE late ex Senator Rollins of Concord. n
H, left an estate estimated at more than $500
900.
EDITOR HoLLANDER who was banished from
Guatemala, lett New York last night for Bal
Harbor to consult with Secretary B.aine.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY Of THE TREASURY
IlCHENoR, VINO was taken suddenly i'll at mis-
office rev days ago, is reported by his physi-
clans to be steadily improving.
EX-CoNGREssMAN WILLIAM L, Scorr has ac-
qulred another large tract of coal lands, and is
SAID to be the largest owner of this species of
property in Western Pennsylvania.
SENATORS DAWES Of Massachusetts, and Stock
bridge of Mic gan, of the committee t. iuvesti-
gate In. Ian affairs in Alaska arrived in Chi
cago Sunday, after travelling five weeks in
Alaska.
THE projectors of the fund for a monument
to John Bright are disconSolate over the small
ness of the returns. Although onty SDOm was
desired and the subscriptions began with rush
less than $4,000 has thus far bsea received.
MAJOR ]. P. FROST. captain of the American
rifle team has written from Paris to Mayor
Grant that the team will sail from England on
the CITY of Clicago AMI will call upon him in
heiVy marching uniform on or about Aug. 10
EDITOR J. u De YOUNG, of the San Francisco
Chronicle, has an eye on the Uaited States S n
ate. His beautiful wife, who is anxious for So
clal honors, keeps bItn of hers on Senator
Hearst 5 chair. She is herself a politician of no
mean ability.
SURROGATE RANSOM of New York, is pro-
nounced the hardest worker at the metropoli.
tan bar. Il would not, said q friend of his We =
terday, do the work which he does or less than
$4,000 year" He takes his first vacation OF
the year to-day, going to the CatskillS for q
fortnight.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, minister to Ger
many, has romantic bump on his head wi
developed. lie recently visited his birthplace
at Dundaff, Pa, and INDUCED in dreamy reterie
on the scene of his nativity. He then drove
across the country and visited EX-Speaker Ga
Iusha A. Grow, at GlenwoO1.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON has d 4clined to de-
liver an address before the summer school at
Deertied Mass, first. because of his he nth, and
second, to use his own words, because II should
come among you as a lion, a part for which
have no aptitude. You would feel bound to
try to like me; false relation dear sir, from
which an intelligent people runs as from the
plague
PROF j. P. MEHAFFEY of Trinity college,
Dublin, the famous Greek scholar and investi-
gator. Is attending the Chautauqua assembly.
He goes among the thousands at that place
VITA MS trousers turned up far enough to ex-
pose several inches of blue worstei stocking.
tie is Stron aati-home ruler and is one of the
first of Irish wits. He talks with a delightful
north of Ireland brogue.
Two MgN, j. Brewster McColum and Henry
w. Williams, who in boyhood were schoolmates
at country district school in Bridgewater town.
sup, Su-QuenanGa county, PENNSYLVANIA, are
now Judges of the supreme court ofPenn >ylvania
They were reared as farmer boys, but leaving
the plow for tn law they both achieved distinc.
on The IN tual friendship formed in youth
still continues. They differ in politics.
ROGERS, the Pan Electric Telephone promoter.
who traded stock in Washington to publ men
IN exchange for influence. now ireatens 10
write book on yam IRE journalism" This
Is one form of dementia which usually makes
It's appearance after man has wrecked him
self by his own folly. If Tweed had lived long
enough he would c-rtainly have written a Iok
denouncing the American press for its unlicensed
bru@lity and corruption.