The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-25
PERSONAL.

PRINCE FERDINAND of Bulgaria has been re-
ported engaged to three different women in as
many weeks
HENRY CLEws is about TO write another book
on Wall street affairs, in which he will venture
number of prophecies as to coming financial
events.
PRINCE BISMARCK. in consequence of recent
illness, has lost the few hairs that were on the
top of his skull which is now as smooth as a
billiard ball.
SENATOR WoLcorr of Colorado has taken a
fine house at Washington, and ladies with mar
riageable daughters are displaying much inter
est in his arrangements.
GEN WAGER SwAYNE addressed the Young
Mems Christians Association of New York
Sunday afternoon, on why Believe the Cos
psi" He holds that every man can believe it if
he will, even Col. Ingersoll.
EX-EMPREss FREDERICK and her sister, Prin-
cess Alice, German papers assert, regularly re-
ported to their mother, Queen Victoria the
secrets of Germanys diplomatic and military
operations during 1870.
PRIvY COUNCILLOR GEFFcKEN, of whom so
much was written a year ago owing to his part
in the publication of diary of Emperor Fred
erick, has purchased house in Munich, where
he intends to make his future home. He is at
present engaged in a literary work.
PRoF b. G. NoRTHuP recently lectured in
Waterbury, Conn, on the cultivation of the
memory and found it duly recorded in a news
paper notice as a talk on Conservatism of the
the professors memory on this particular
lecture.
Mrs. CRocKER, the widow of Charles Crocker.
who died in San Francisco last Sunday, leaves a
fortune estimated at $10.000.00O. She was 60
years of age. Her husband died less than a
year ago. Her fortune will be divided among
the children, Charles F., George and William H.
Croker. and Mrs. @. B. Alexander, who resides
in New York At the time of her death Mrs
Crocker lived in a house on California street
San Francisco which her late husband built at
a cost of S2,OO0,000.
JOHN W. MACKAY is in England, spending
few weeks with his wife and family. He will
remain at his London house until after the
holidays, returning to New York toward the
end of January. Mrs Mackay will give a num-
Der of entertainments in London during her
husbands stay there. The action which Mrs
Mackay has brought against the Manchester
Erumi liner for libel is progressing rapidly and
the defendants have shown every desire to set
tie the matter on some basis out of court Mrs
Mackay however, seems determined to push
the matter to an issue. The Examiner printed A
story some time ago that Mrs. Mackay was a
poor widow with two children, and was en-
ployed as a washerwoman by Nevada miners
when Mr.. Mackay fell in love with her and mar
ried her implying thereby that Mrs. Mscksy
was not O gentlewoman by birth or education
of position. Mrs. Mackay is obviously prose-
cutting this matter to the bitter end, says the
New York World, so a. finally to squelch the
false and malicious stories which have been nut
in circulation concerning her early life There
Is perhaps, no dishonor in washing clothes or
keeping q boarding house for miners, but Mrs
Mackay never did either OF thess things, and it
is lust as well that these facts should be eetab-
Iished. She is the daughter OF Mai Hunger
ford, who was a prominent officer in the Next
can war, and, fortunately for her never knew
even before her acquaintance with Mr.. Mackay
the poverty which is commonly attributed to