The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-21
PERSONAL.

GEN, GEORGE b. MCCLELLAN s OLD HOME, near
Eagle Rock, N. j., has been sold to Albert c.
Squier of Brooklyn for $4,000 The property
consists of big, old-fashioned house built by
Mcclellan before the war, and eleven acres OF
handsome grounds. Mcclellan passed most of
his days there after the war.
GEE. Won SCHwEINITz, the German ambassa-
dor to Russia, who is married to the daughter
of the Hon. John Jay, of New York has just re-
turned TO st. Petersburg, after paying u long
visit to Prince and Princess Bismarck at Fred
erchsruhe 1t is believed that his conferences
with the chancellor are connected with the be-
trothal of the czarowitz to Princess Margaret
of Prussia. 49,
SAYS a Washington correspondent: Gen.
Nathaniel p Banks goes wandering around
the capitol these days like ghost which can't
find its way back. Not that he is thin and
shadowy. He looks as large and as strong as
he did twenty years ago, although "a winters
have made his thick thatch % hair and his
mustache snowy white. But he seems not of
this world-withirawn, distracted. His daugh-
ter, Miss Maud Banks, who figured on the stage
| awhile, il here with him, acting as his private
secretary and taking care of his correspond
ence.h
ANTONIO Francisco LAvAMAGo aged 113 years.
is an inmate of the poorhouse at Santa Barbara,
Cal. He was born at Santa Cruz, Azores
islands, Sept 4, l776. and for nearly three score
years and ten followed the sea for living
Physically he looks like man of IS, aud his
eyesight is remarkable. Like most Sailors he
found any day sitting outside mending his
clothes. He can thread needle as quickly as
young woman. He has never known sick
ness, his appetite is good, and he takes long
walks abont the grounds every day when it
doesn't rain
JUDGE GEORGE e. SENEY of Ohio, who has
come into prominence as a candidate for the
United States Senate to succeed Payne, is serv-
ing his fourth term in congress, and has been a
leading member of the House Judiciary commit
tee Tor four years He was admitted to the bar
at the age of p, and was judge OF the court of
common pleas at %. He was widely recognized
as an able lawyer and public man and thoroughly
grounded in democratic tenets. He is grand
son of the famous Joshua Seney, who was in the
continental congress and who was a representa-.
tive from Maryland in the First and Second CON
crosses under tbs constitution.
HAVE MET a gentleman who has lust returned
from Jersey, where he has been seeing a great
deal OF Gen Bouanger, says the Paris CORE
spo1dent of the New York World, and
who who says that the quarrels between
frequent and that they often come as
near blows as is possible in polite society. The
general is, however, completely in the woman's
hands, aud always gives in in the end. He always
blames her for being the cause of his defeat In
the meantime he has great hopes of returning
and In leasing his house the other day to a Bra
lillian gentleman stipulated that on his return
20 Paris 1t was to be instantly surrendered to
him.
been very much astonished at seeing kits worn
by the Messalla shepherds at the ball given by
the King of the Hellenes. kits are also worn
by the Albanians, and when the Duke of Ham
llton was ia Albania not long Sgo. he habitually
wore his Kilt although he is by no means in the
habit OF wearing il when treading his native
heather. Many tribesmen on the Thibetan Dor
der wear kilt, and among these as among
the wild Lushais on the Assam frontier against
whom O. British expedition is now moving
many trioesmen have not only kits, but bon,
nets. brooches. and tartan plaids Some of
them also have bagpipe, or an empty pouch
very similar to it, with the chanter and the
drones.