The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-12
PERSONAL.

DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, yielding 70 the personal
solicitation Of friends has at last consented TO
be presented 70 Queen Victoria.
EDWARD V vALENrIxE the Richmond sculp-
tor is now giving the finishing touches 10 his
statue Of the late Gen. Williams c. Wickham-
C. P. HUNTINGDON has given fine tract Of
land TO the city Of Newport News, Va, for
school purposes and proposes also to erect suita-
bic buildings thereon.
THE STATUE of Gen. Suc-e. the Venezuelan,
recently executed by sculptor Turin Of Staten
Island. arrived at Cumana, Venezuela, Aug IS,
and Is 10 be unveiled Oct. IS.
GEN. voS MoLTKE will be presented the house
in which ne was born at Parchin, Mecklenburg,
on the occasion of his nnetieth birthday,
which will be celebrated in 8 few weeks.
The young duchess Of Leinster, who has been
called the prettiest woman in England, is tail
and slender, stately and calm, with perfectly
chisled features. She is an aristOcrat from
crown TO toe.
CONGRESSMAN LEWIS is the nearest living rela
tive Of George Washington, aud is a living i'm
age Of those portraits OF the Father of his
Country which are suppose 10 give the best
likeness of him.
s. r HADEs was a member of the Nebraska
prohibition convention. aud the Fremont Tri-
bune wants to know il the millennium is not at
God, home and native land.
TIE PRIvcE OF WALES is said to be very
good landlord at Sandringham. Although the
prince is not a teetotaler. and does not seek to
make his depenpents such, there is no public
house on the estate. The peasants cottages
are OF model kind, surrounded by pretty
gardens.
MISS MERTENs, who is now an actress at the
Eden Theater, in Paris and one of the most
beautiful women in Europe. was an obscure
vienna girl a few years ago. Then she won
So,OD0 prize in beauty show and became the
rage. She is tall and graceful, rather stout,
and her skin is of dead white hue.
III. FERDINAND DE LzssEPs is passing the sum-
mer with his numerous family at the historic
chateau of La Chesnae, in the department of
the Indre. NJ. Lesseps is passi lnaSely fond of
hunting. and he passes great deal of his time
on horseback, often accompanied by number
of his young children VINO are as intrepid as
their old but vigorous father.
OF THE younger literary women of Boston
Miss Sare Orne Jewett and Miss Maude Howe
Elliott are said to be the most beautiful. Miss
Jewett's gentle, Madonna face seems to take
every year an added charm. She is dark haired
and graceful. and is at her best when, in the
drawing-room of Mrs. James T. Fields. her in
innate friend. she tells you stories of ships and
the ocean. Her father was a sea captain from
Maine, aud the nautical flavor comes out in
| much that she writes, especially in her short
| stories.
NJ DE BRAzzA the French African explorer,
| has achieved great success among the negroes
of the Gaboon region by organizing among them
fairs of the European, and especially the Gallo,
| kind. During the fete of the l4th of July. the
| London Tetegrdph's Paris correspondent says.
the blackamoors and their dusky wives or
| sweethearts danced to the music of a hurdy-
| gurdY, and patronized eagerly tue merry 90
rounds. Shooting galleries were also erected,
| the negroes using their spears instead of rifles