The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-12
PERSONAL.

MISS REBEccA MATTE MITCHELL, daughter of
Donald G. -Mitchell-''IS Marvel"-was married
at New Haven last week to Walter Tilman Hart
of New York.
The COURT OF Pope LEO is said to comprise
l,l60 persons, nearly 500 of whom bear the title
of chamberlain. He has twenty private secre-
tarleS in his employ.
QUEEN VICTORIA has commissioned w a
Bunce, the weknown American painter. Ia
paint her picture. She met him while on her
recent visit to Biarritz
HENRY Z. ROCHESTER,, who died in Rochester
N. " last week, was q son of the man for
whom that city was named. He filled many
offices OF public trust, including that of mayor.
Mrs. CHRISTINE LATHRoP, niece of Senator
Leland Stanford of California. and divorced
wife of Thomas B. Cunning, became violently
insane in Ltchfeld, Mass and has been taken
to private asylum there
MISS GLYNN of the English stage, who was
noted for her imparSonation of Cleopatra and
other heroic characters is dead at the age of
g., Miss Glynn was in private life Mrs. E. w
Dallas she visited America in 1870 and gave
dramatic readings.
MRS JtIIA WARD HOWE had the courage to
begin Greek when she was 4S years Old, com
paratively late in life, and now reads Herodo-
tus, Xenophol, Plato, Eschylus AMI Aristoph.
anes. She early acquired a knowledge of
French and Italian, and at l6 years began to
study German.
HE EMPEROR OF IHlNA Is seldom disturbed
his sleep. Pekin paper announces that strict
Survei lance is kept by the gendarmerie around
the palace TO prevent the imperial repoSe being
broken by firing of crackers, street cries or
WraDglinS voices, the blowing of horns or noisy
marriage or funeral PROFESSIONS"
DURING his sojourn at the cars winter pal
ace the Shah of Persia occupied rooms magnifi-
Gently furnished. Decorations of red silk
enormous vases of malachite and doors made
Of tortoise shell, pleased his oriental taste.
Fifteen carriages and forty horses were placed
at his disposal. He is travelling with retinue
OF fifty-flve persons
WILLIAM RoANE RUFF 7, who died at Valley
Farm Chesterfield county, Virginia, q few DAYS
ago, was a great grandson of Thomas jefferson
He was educated at the Virginia Military Insti-
tute, and left that school to serve in the con-
federats army he was for many years rector
Of the board OF visitors of the University of
Virginia. of which institution his great-grand-
father was the founder.
TIE GOWN worn by Miss Grace, daughter OF
the ex-mayor of New York, at the queens
drawing room the other day was of white satin,
over which fell a crepe skirt with deep hem
embroidered in silk. The body of Sicilienne was
trimmed with crepe and had epaulette sleeves
OF the same The flowers were jasmine and
were placed in double wreaths around the body.
Around the edge of the basque was girdle of
the same flowers, the ends of which fell to the
feet. 4 train of Sicilenne lined with satin was
trimmed with ruches of crepe.
THE Shah of Persia will reach Buckingham
palace from Brussels on July 1. He will cross
ths channel on one of the royal English yachts
He will be met at Charing Gross by the Prince
of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge and other big
gnus. During his stay in Great Britain he will
visit Birmingham, Liverpool Manchester, Glas-
gov, Edinburgh Newcastle and York. He will
be entertained at Ivercauld by Sir Algernon
Borthwick some time in July, and will examine
Scottish life and scenery under the direction of
his host and Sir Drummond Wolff.
CARLOS MoSTEzUMA, a full-blooded Apache,
whose Indian name was Was, ISAIAH, was cap
tured as lad by Pimas in 1870 and two years
later was sold by them to photographer, who
took Montezuma TO Chicago aud adoDted him.
Since that time he has lived in the Lake City
and continuously attended schools and colleges
until last month, when he graduated from a
medical college and the degree of bachelor Of
science was conferred on him. He is now q
practicing physician On centennial day he
delivered the grafton in one of the leading
educational institutions in Chicago.