The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-15
PERSONAL.

Mrs. HENRY CLEws has gone to Newport.
where her beautiful place, "The Rocks" is one
of the show" cottages among the wonderful
collection of so-called cottages"
Mr.. AND Mas. GROVER CLEVELAND have given
up their apartments at the Victoria hotel and
have taken possession of their beautiful new
house in Madison avenue, near Sixty eighth
street.
ALFRED GILMAN, son and heir of the late w.
w. Gilman, New York millionaire, has just
been indicted by grand jury for selling cleo
margarine as butter, at the instance of the New
York State Dairy Commission.
LIEUT.. ScHwATKA has discovered, in Southern
California, cliff and cave jewellers as wild as anv
of the Mexican tribes which Cortez encountered.
He estimates their number at from 5000 to
1900. They are sun worshpers Their skin
is blackish red, more like a negros than an
Indians.
WHETHER or not Mr.. and Mrs w K Wander
bit will spend the summer in America is as yet
an unanswered question: but that there is some
probability of their return may be gathered
from the fact that they have rented the hand
soue Newport residence OF Mr.. Peleg Hail. on
Bellevue avenue.
NINE. De ORI4N, young Russian princess,
died in Philadelphia last week, and at her re-
quest her aptire wardrobe was packed in large
Trunks and sent to Johnstown. There were rich
silk stockings French-heeled slippers, silk un-
derwear, silk satin and plush costumes and
fine weTnap's wear of all sorts.
MISS AmELIAB. EDWARDS. LID. the distin.
guisbed scientist and author writes from Lon
don to say that her hope of visiting America
has given way to hope of visiting Americans
Accordingly she will be with us in the autumn
with purse large enough to hold all the dol,
lars we can spare. She will lecture on several
subjects in one language.
MRS. o. A. FLANNER of indianapolis has do
mated to Marietta (O) College an herbarlum of
by her husband and herself during the last
forty-five years. the collection having been
made in the Ohio valley, in Missouri Georgia
Michigan and the Upper Mississippi region, and
enlarged by exchanges with botansts in all
lands
CAPT. RIGIo. who recently died at Grand Isle
La, is said to have been the last survivor of La
fitte's famous band of pirates. He was the oldest
inhabitant of the island, having lived there from
the time the band was dispersed In his early
days he participated in most OF Lafitte raids
but when the band was broken up took to Guilt
waiting oranges and other fruits, and made q
snug little fortune
MISS Rosa EvANGELINE ANGEL. the young
Cincinnati poetess, has received compliment
AIRY letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes in
which he says: The great difficulty a young
writer in verse has TO meet is the fact that the
writing in rhyme has become common accom-
plishment, and verse that would have made a
reputation in my young days attracts little at
tention in these times, and brings small returns
in either fame or profit"
JUICE RUcKER of Colorado is again talking
about Senator 10 Blackburn. He said to a New
York reporter: 4 Blackburn, who was drunk
when he made MS attack upon me- afterward
coutradicted himself so palpably that he became
my best witness | have lett him to the ridicule
of the public" rs it true that you challenged
HIM to ightg' 81 tried my best to put him in
such position that he would be compelled to
challenge me. But he never did"
Kinglake, the historian. author of 1.-THE His
tory OF the Invasion of the Crimea, is seriously
i'll, and his age precludes his recovery King
lake, when a young man, was g sutton for the
hand of a Mrs. Howard, a rich London widow
The widow preferred to receive the attentions
OF Louis Napoleon Bonaparte afterward EN-
peror of France, and Kinglake never forgave
the wicked Frenchman. His history of the
Crimean war was made the vehicle of much of
his animositY.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the well-known
novelist, who is at present in Honolulu, Sand
wich Islands, will start on another voyage to
the South seas about the middle of the present
month. The trading schooner Equator will
visit Honolulu about June 10, and will sail with
Mr.. Stevenson direct TO the Marshall Islands in
the South Pacific. He will be accompanied by
his wife. step-son and Joseph Strong an artist
He will be absent about a year, and expects to
gather material for a new novel