The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-04
PERSON AL.

WALT WHITMAN is again confined to his house
| in Camden, and his indispositon is SO great
| that the good gray poet" is unable to write at
all. His physician however says that he is in
no immediate danger.
CAPT. ALBERTUs JAMES, who died in Huel
Mass, recently. was one of the three celebrated
| lifesaving brothers of that name. One of his
most remarkable feats was the rescue of an en-
tire family of SIX, after he had passed his 10th
year.
NJ. CoUQELrN says that he will engage the ser
vices of an English professor as soon as he
reaches Paris, in order that he shall, wiz flu
| ency, re language speak when he returns to
| this country. From the specimen quoted it ap-
pears that he has no time to lose.
Mr. WALTERS, of the London Times intends
| TO pay all the expense of the Times tomfoollry
| as well as the cost and damages which may
| hereafter be incurred out of his private purse
| Ii is estimated that it will amount to nearly
| S2,00D 0l0 Mr. Walters income from the Times
was $500, 900 year.
Mr. BEAUFoY, the Gladstonian who was
| elected to parliament a. Remington the other
day, Is said to be a descendant of that Beaufoy
| who. In 1851, moved the repeal of the test and
corporation acts, aud of whom Erskine Nav
says; From the force of truth and of good
cause his admirable speech put to shame the
arguments with which the first statesman of
the day ventured to oppose him."
| Mrs, ALLEN ARTHUR, whose real name is very
| different, has received much praise from the
| weekly dramatic sheets for her clever comedy
authors natin at the Madison SQUARE theater
Mrs Arthur IL pretty little woman, still very
young, who, having leisure and money at her
command aud being cuildlesS, has devoted her
time OF late to the work of playwright. She
was an invalid for a number of years, aud usei
TO amuSe herself constructing plots and trans
latlhg French and German plays. 1t is the Ren-
eral opinion among dramatic critics that
81 mas bright future in the career she has
chosen.
The southern element, says the New York
Star, Is becoming more and more prominent in
WAL street. met the other day the two bright
and active young southerners WHO compose the
banking firm of Morehead a Ogden. They are
men OF means and ability, and represent whaJ
is most priced in the south, character and line
age. Frank c. Morehead, the senior of the
hrm, IS sol OF the late Gov Morehead of Ken
lucky, aud was the president of the Cotton
Planters Association of Mississippi and com
missioner general of the New Orleans exposi-
ton Mr. Ogden is a member of the family OF
that name long distinguished in the history of
Louisiana.
TIE LATE JOHN BRIGHT was not man whose
reading had been wide. He was unacquainted
with any language but English, and seldom read
TRANSACTIONS OF the Latin and Greek classics He
learned something OF mythology aud ancient
history through his close study OF Millions
poetry but he devoted most Of his time to the
great quest ions Of his own day and let the dead
past bury its dead. He had no special knowl-
edge or science, and was not an enthusiast re-
Rardng art. Bnt while in "A certain sense he
was narrow In his attainments, he was as broad
as humanity in his syInpathies, and what he
lacked in the culture of the schools he made up
in the grandeur Of his manhood,
In the Academy of Sciences at Paris re-
marks were recently made ON NJ. Berthelot's
book on the chemistry of the ancients and the
middle ages The work is sequel TO Der.
thelots "Origines de Alchemie," and "Collec.
tons des Anciens Alche nstes Grecs.N Re
Gently book entitled the History Of the Al.
chemistcal Philosophers" was published in
England. This latter book infused with
10 IN tfug Iat,V,t Vaerg and
ophists notion that the "maguum opus OF
the transmutation of the baser metals into gold
had really been accomplished. 1t is, perhaps
needless to say that NJ. Berthelots lnvestga-
tons give countenance to this notion
Metals, like sound minds stay what they were
originally.