The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-14
PERSONAL.

THE rumor that Chau lcey NJ. Depew is about
10 resign the presidency of the Van
derolt roads to enter politics is laughed at by
ms friends Tley assert that he refused both
the secretaryShip of the treasury and the mis-.
sion to En- gland, and will accept nothing unless
it is the presidency.
MARY MOORE, Charles Wyndham's leading
lady, who has faced a thousand audiences in
London, MOSCOW, Paris and Berlin, confesses to
more tlni!lty at the prospect Of playing in this
countr than she ever felt before. Her favori e
characters are Lady Amaranth in Wild Oats "
and ADA InSot in -. avid GarricA."
JONATHAN BOURNE who died in New Bedford
on Wednesday in his 20 year was til first
employer who undertook to share with his
operatives the profits of his business He tried
the plan at the Bourne Cotton Mills at Tiyerton
r. /. At one time he had larger interest in
the whale fishery than any other person in the
world. He also held several state offices and
left very large fortune.
DEBORAH PowERs. the senior partner in the
hank OF y. Powers & Sons, LansngOurr. n. Y
is the oldest banker in the country This ven
cradle but active woman is ninety-nlne wears
OLD. She Is IN full pos session of her faculties
and her business ShrewdnesS is as remarNahIe
as it was generation back. sac established
and maintains The Deborah Powers Home for
Old La hes in Lansingburs. She bas been en-
gaGei IN The banking business over a tIOzeo
years Mrs. Powers is a native of New Ha,nn
shire. ami seemed to have gained some of the
strength an vigor of the granite hills amid
which she was born.
SAYS Washington CORES pondent: "Fx-At-
torney General Garland is the oniv member Of
the cabinet Of @ last administration vino re-
maiued here in Washington. He b ught him
self comfortable house on Rhode Island av4
nue., and when all the other members of the
cabinet left aShington for other fields of nse
fitness Mr.. Garland announced his intention of
staying here, knowing that it would not be- lon,
before he could make some profitabl. connpc-
ton. He has succeeded III an eminent degree
for he has just been appOints1 attorney for the
Northern Pacific railroad at a salary OF SOS 0lO
year lie will remain here and take CHARGE
of the interests of the road"
THERE are sometimes, says the London Times
amusing episodes at the presidents visit to the
Paris exposition. He is generally follow ed
without his knowledge by newspaper men. Woo
get money from the exhibitors bv Or missing to
speak of his visit. Some of the exhibitors have
themselves to thank for being thus heeced. Inn
one day Mr. EdiSon's agent turned the tables
After VI. Carnot had heard some passages Of
music by photograph, the apparatus rep lated
the following MESA ge: "A quarter of an hour
ago man styling himself reporter for the
- came and said that as the president of
the republic was about TO visit us. he was ready
for 800 francs to give us a long puff; whereas If
We did not give him the money he should NOT
meltion the visit. We replied that the 1hono-
graph was a sci nti1ic, not an industrial affair
and did not require putting; but we wish to in
form the president of the republic by the phono-
graph of the traffic that it is attempted to make
of his kind visits NJ Carnot was ,nuch
amused at this exposure, especially as the news
paper named was bitterly anti-republican.