The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-21
PERSONAL.

LADY SANDHURsT, upon whom the freedom of
the city OF Dublin has been conferred, is said to
De the frst woman upon whom that honor has
been bestowed for 800 years.
WILLIAM WINTER the dramatic critic who has
just returned from England, where he has seen
a great deal of Miss Anderson, says that she is
In splendid health and radiant good spirits
MAXWELL SoMMERvILLE of Philadelphia has
Just purchased a beautiful ANTIQUE cameo of
Jupiter Egiochus, preserved from the first
century. 1t is said TO have cost more than
$4,000
KING LUIS OF PORTUGAL did not in all his
reign sign single order for capital punishment
He had conscientious scruples against inf1icting
the death penalty, and so succeeded in making
1t practically obsolete in his dominions.
BENSON. ''the Jubilee Plunger," is again in a
state of financial collapse. and is contemplating
lecture tour in this country. But Americans
need no instruction on how to spend money
What they like to hear is how to earn it,
GEN CLINTON B. FISK, professional political
prohbitionist, is trying to float a s., 600, 900
southern land enterprise. II is to be hoped that
he will be more successful in this than he has
been with his mining and political schemes
Cor. G. NJ. TERRILL of Omaha has received n
letter from friend in Brussels which brings
this painful information: George H. Pepdie-
ton, ex- United States minister, is lying ia a hotel
here at the point of death from the effects of a
second stroke of paralysis His two daughters
are with him."
Mr. GLADSTONE has an iron library. which is
erected close to the parish church There are
five rooms in it, the principal one being al feet
long and 81 feet wide. Twenty tons weight of
books will be fitted into the cases which are
being made but as it is intended for quiet study.
only a few persons will be allowed to use the
library at one time.
MRS EMMA BECKwITH, the woman candidate
forsMayor of Brooklyn, received fifty votes. and
they cost her SIS. Public sympathy will go out
toward her since she has made this pathetic CON
feSsion: ''It came out of my own private purse
1t was money had saved to buy new theatre
wrap with. Now must go without the wrap
wear the old shiny one"
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, British minister at
Washing ton, spends much of his time in driving
and walking with his four daughters Maud. SybiI
Lillian and Audrey. He is delighted with Wash
ingUon, and considers it one of the pleasantest
cities in the world. Lady Pauncefote is still
suffering from a severe indispostion, which
during her voyage from England to this coun-
try. She will have reception day for her
friends as soon as she has recovered.
CHARLES F. GUNTHER of Chicago, the million
are confectioner has the largest collection of
autographs in the United States. Among the
choicest are poem of Keats, q letter of Edgar
A. Poe, verses by Louise NJ Alcott, Paul II
Hayne, William Gilmore Simms etc Among
his curios are the early edition of Shakespeare
with the reputed autograph of the immortal
bard, the musket carried by Chief ,Justica
fancy at the battle of North Point, in 1914, and
a letter on satin, written by Henry Clay in l842.
MAURICE THOMPSON, who has recently been
made the literary editor Of the Irtiependenf.
has fought his way to literary success by sheer
perseverance. The close of the civil war found
him stranded high and dry in the little town of
Calhoun, Ca Finding there was nothing for
him to do in that remote place he made his way
to the north and settled at Charlottesville Ind
where he studied law, but he did not give ND
his first love. literature. He wrote atories
essays, poems, criticisms, everything, and
having proved that he was a capable writer, he
has been rewarded by good position.