The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-25
PERSONAL.

EXILE ZoLA cleared $4,000 from mana"
ELBRrDsE 7. GERRY has joined labor organi-
cation.
SENATOR CHANDLER Of New Hampshire is said
to be chronic invalid.
TALES or THE PACIFIC SLOPE" is the title OF
Bret Harte's new book.
Miss ELIZABETH GATES, millionaire, is the
richest unmarried woman in Buffalo
GEORGE l. sENEy is about to sellhi collection
OF pictures, which he values at 100000.
RTII will come to America in November,
1891, for a concert tour under Abbey's manage
ment.
ROBERT BUcHASAS is about to issue a new
poem called THE Outcast: Rhyme for the
Time
RICHARD ". THOMPSON. ex-Secretary of the
Navy, has been in politics since 1894. He is 50
years Oil
A GRANDSON Of Morse. inventor of the tele-
graph is a clerk in the electrical department of
the patent Office.
SIR EDWARD GUINNESS, the big Dublin brewer,
is TO be raised to the peerage, mostly because
OF his celebrated ale.
GEN. BUTLER once supported himself by max
ing chairs for 30 cents a day. His annual in
come now Is said TO be $4,000.
TIE QUEEN OF RoUMASIA is TO visit Balmoral
on Queen Victoria's invitation. Carmen
sylvia" is progressive and enterprising queen.
WEBB HAYES of Cleveland, O.. son of ex
President Hayes, has secured a controlling in
terest in the Fidelity Carbon Company of st.
Louis.
BISMARCK is not good conversationist. and
is worse orator While making public ad-
dress he sways himself backward and forward
and twrls his thumbs.
The EMPRESS FREDERICK. to whom the En-
glish taxpayers have contributed $4,000 year
for the past thirty-fve years, has at present an
income of $4,000 year
CHIEF SECRETARY BALFoUR gives no regular
sittings to Alma Tadems, who is painting his
portrait. The artist has to catch the minister
In odd moments in his Office.
"a LATHE Book OF WESTERN VERSE;" and
"a Little Book of Profitable Tales, D" are the
titles of two volumes which Eugene Field, the
chicago humorist. has written.
CARDINAL LAvIGER1E of Paris, who has taken
great interest in the slave trade which is still
carried on in Africa, has offered a premium of
5000 for the best romance treating of this dia-
bolical traffic
Rev. OBED ELDRIDGE, for six years pastor Of
church at Marlborough, Mass, has resigned
his charge in consequence of one to the effect
that his habits OF smoking cigars and attending
horse troJs were unoFthodox.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the famous Red Cross
nurse. lives quietly in Washington stunning no
toriety. She has an income of $4,000 year
from an estate she inherited. but she spends
only $4,000 of this sum, devoting the rest to
charity.
S. S. KARR of Almond, N. Y, claims that he
was the last union prisoner to leave Anderson
Vile prison. He secured the flag that had so
long foated over that prison, and has it still in
his possession-probablyo one OF the most inter
esting relics of the civil war
IsMArL PAsHA, the ex-khedive of Egypt, who
presented Cleopatra's needle to the city of
New York, Is practically prisoner at his resi-
dence on the BosphorJs. He is in bad health
and recently made arrangements to go to Carts
bad 20 take the waters, but was prevented from
doing so by the Turkish government.
JOHN GILMER SPEED publishes a card to de-
fend George D. Prentice from recently pub
lished remark that the latter appeared often on
the ield of honor" MIR. Speed says Mr.
Prentice had on more than one occasion to
defend himself from attacks made upon him
on the streets, but he never was the aggressor
in such fights.