The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-07
PERSONAL.

FIRST LIEUT.. JACOB G. McWHoRTER, United
States marine corps. who died at Chelsea, Mass.
last Saturday was the only son OF Mai. and Mrs.
George Z. McWhorter of Augusta, Ga
The proprietor and manager of the New Or
leans Picag7t,te, one Of the best known news
papers in the south, is woman-Mrs. Nichol-
son. She personally supervises her business.
ZrLULAND will be the scene of Rider Hag
CARDS new story, NADIA, the Lily" His
romance of old Mexico, the fruit of his recent
Journey to the land Of the Montezsmas, may
follow.
l. j. CRAWFORD. republican candidate for
attorney general of Kentucky, is 81 years old
and native of that state He began the study
of law in eX-Congressman ButterwOrth'S office,
and was graduated at tee Cincinnati Law School
In 1882.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will visit the naval exhibi-
ton on July TO- At the conclusion of his
sojourn he will start for a fortnight's cruise
along the Scottish coast. after which his yacht,
the Meteor, will compete for the queens cup in
the royal regatta at Cowes.
CHARLES A. RICE Of Lynn, Mass, arrived
home Monday night from a trip around the
world, consuming eighty-three days. He left
Boston March q, and went by the way OF Liver
pool, the Mediterranean, the SueZ canal. Homo
lulu and Vancouver. his actual travelling time
was Tut seventy-two days
GEN ISAAC BURRELL, who served in the civil
war as a member of tie Forty second Massa'
chusetts regiment, was forced to yield his sword
to the confederates at Galveston, Tex, in 1869.
He has recently received word from a south
erner that the present possessor of the sword
would be glad TO return IL to him again.
You've Mr. HARRISON, the Irish member of
parliament, who came over with the Parnell
delegates is the mildest hammered of men. He
has mazda hosts Of friar de in AnnriOQ hv his
suavity, his intelligence and his modesty. The
American girls pronounce HIM the handsomest
Irlshnnan who has come across the sea in a de-
cade.
PROF. H. B. RICHARDSON of Amherst College
sailed on the Teutonic, July l. for Germany,
where he viii pass the summer in study and in
adding to his collection of photographs illus
traIipg German life and literature. Profs. H.
A Frink and w IS. Cowles sailed Saturday, June
q, on the Umbria, TO travel in France, Italy
and Germany.
ONE of the prettiest women in the Blue Grass
region of Kentucky is Miss Nannette Mcdowell,
the great granddaughter of Henry Clay. She
is slight and graceful woman, with auburn
hair, blue eyes, and perfect oval face a little
pale and serious. She lives with her father
10 the old Clay homestead of Ashland, one of
the most beautiful and romantic places in all
Kentucky.
IT has LONG BEEN a custom of the Bayard
family to bury with dead sprigs of ivy plucked
from the old church in Wilmington. The vine
was originally planted by the ex-secretary's
great grandmother. A spray has been obtain d
TO 70 abroad with the remains of Count Lewen-
haupt, His widow and her brother, Thomas
Bayard Jr., accompanying them TO Stockholm,
where the burial will take place.
Mrs. ELIZABETH SToRRs MEAD. president of
Mount Holyoke College. came from family
distinguished for intellectual attainments. Her
mother was a sister of the father OF DR.. K. s.
Storrs of Brooklyn. Another sister married
Prof. B. 3. Edwards, who once occupied the
chair of Hebrew at the Andover Seminary. Mrs.
Mead and her own sister were teachers in Ando-
yer for years before the former married