The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-15
PERSONAL

GLADSTONE is distinctly unpopular with the
Prince Of Wales since his onslaught at gam
bling In high places,
DIR. j. @. CHM, who died in Lexington re-
Gently, was the oldest physician in Kentucky,
having been born in 1871.
Mas. LELAND STANFORD has donated prop
erty valued at 500 900 to the benefit of the
Society for the Relief Of Orphan and Destitute
Children Of Albany, n. Y.
WILLIAM HAYWARD, the Oldest jockey on the
turf, now has a stable OF his own at Eatontown,
n. J., and is worth 100000 The horses he
rode won more than 100000 in stakes and
purses.
A GRANDSON of Thomas Hart Benton, Mis-
souri's great senator, lives in Eeosho, Mo. He
is smart young lawyer and is ambitious TO be-
come member Of the court of appeals Of the
st. Louis district
ENoCH PRATT, the Baltimore millionaire, was
SO years old Saturday, and does not know what
Il is to be sick. Mr.. Pratt went to Baltimore
from Massachusetts sixty years ago with a
capital of $50 in his pocket.
GEN. TRoOHU was recently reported very i'll.
But there was no truth in the story, aud he was
described as remarking upon opening his morn
ing paper after hearing Of the rumor. Now
let me see II am dead today"
DEACON S. v. WHITE laughs at the story
Duke Of Marlborough TO buy American wheat
and stock. BE says this is the first he has heard
OF it. In Wall street the story is ridiculed.
The ELECTION OF Rev. Isaac l.. Nicholson Of
Philadelphia as bishop of the Episcopal diocese
OF Milwaukee has been officially confirmed by
the house of bishops He will probably be CON
secrated at st. Marks, his old parish church in
Philadelphia.
MISS IDA HEWITT, daughter of Col Hewitt of
West Virginia. is the only woman railroad en-
gineer in the United. The road on which she
operates is the Cairo and Kanawha Valley rail
road-a marrow gauge line connecting with the
Baltimore and Ohio
L. S. THURsToN, who is travelling about the
country, Is said TO be the greatest man in
Hawaii to-day and the lea Ter of the best Gle
nent IN the native political parties. He was
member of the executive committee of the sue
cessful revolution gainst the king in 1887.
BARRETT BROWNING, son of Robert and Eliza
beth Browning, lives in palace in Venice and
is painter as well as a sculptor. His home is
filled with the furniture and books which his
illustrious father and mother used and on the
walls hang their portraits taken at different
periods in their lives.
THERE is only one man now living in Edln-
burgh who knew Sir Walter Scott, This is James
Stille the bookseller. who began his appren-
ticeship with John Ballantyne & Co. in the year
after Waterloo. He is full of "reminiscences of
Sir Walter, who was to him both the greatest
and the best Of men.
SAMUEL K1TsoE. the Boston sculptor, has a
partiality for religious Subjects his first marble
being g Rebecca at the Well" and his second
Isaac" He has recently completed portrait
bust of Judge Charles Devens, President Hayes
Attorney General and is ow at work on a bust
OF John Boyle O'Reilly.
Mrs. BURTON HARRISON is writing new novel,
to be included in a London series called The
Victoria Library for Gentlewomen" Queen
Victoria has ordered two copies of each volume
of the series for the royal library. The English
photographers say that the seri will be writ
ten and illustrated exclusively by gentlewomen."
News was received at New Orleans Saturday
OF the death in Launiere, France, of the Rev
Louis Chase, until recently chancellor of the
| archdiocese of Louisiana. The Rev. Father
| Chase was born in Angus France, in 1870. He
| came to this country in 1853. He was pastor of
| the Catholic church at Baton Rogue and New
| Iberia. After his removal to New Orleans he
was pastor of the Churches of st, Mary and ST.
| Maurice. editor OF the Propd0dteLr Catalogue.
| and chancellor of the diocese He resigned
| short time ago to return to France for his
| health