The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-08-17
PERSONAL.

! Fx-Gov. RICHARD J. OGLEsBY Of Illinois is
said TO resemble Denman Thompson in ap-
pearance.
WHEN freedom from her mountain hight
looks down over Hunters Point. y. Y, she sees
a renovated monument to Joseph Rodman
/ Drake. the author of that famous poem.
! WATKIS JAMES, who is a keeper in Mr.. Carne
gie's Homestead mill. near PittsburE. claims
to have married the mother of Henry ". Stan
ley, and hence to be tee stepfather of the ex-
pllrer.
Col. HENRY INNAS is busy preparing manu-
script for The history of the old Santa Fe trail.
The book will BE- published in March, 1892. and
will be graphic history of the pioneer times of
the great desert.
PRTNCE ALBERT of Thura and Tsxs, in Ger
many, is reputed to be the best-dressed man in
Europe. His wardrobe is really remarkable
for its lavishness and he turns the taxes OF his
realm into trousers, as it were.
ONE of John D. Rockefeer's daughters, while
at Vassar instead of spending her allowance
entirely on herself, saved enough to pay the
tuition and expenses of another young woman
from the country who could not afford such
advantages
Miss THO ALICE RUGGLEs, Boston's woman
sculptor, is only 20 years old. When she was
only II two of her works were accepted by the
Paris salon. She has just submitted model
for the statue of Shakespeare which the city of
Providence is to erect
The Duke of Cleveland, whose title becomes
extinct upon his approaching death, is de.
scended from Sir Henry Vane who was
knlghted at Poictiers in 1856, and numbers
among his ancestors Sir Harry Vane, principal
secretary OF state under Charles l.
"a STRAW VOTE for President in the Pennsylva-
mia legislature, taken by the Philadelphia
RocOrd ragv,ltr Col
land 30, Harrison 10, Pattson IS, Gresham 3.
Hill 5, Lincoln ?, Palmer /, Cameron ., Morrison
!, Alger 2, Campbell 1, Quay l and Sam
Josephs !.
GEORGE FOSTER, formerly of Milford, Pa, and
John Hurd, the millionaire lumber operator of
the Adirondacks, have secured valuable con
tracts for the completion of the railroad be-
tween Bolivia and Brazil which begun
ABOUT ntteen years ago and afterward
abandoned.
ATTORNEY HENRY G. DILLON of the Kaweah
colony says it is a mistake to suppose that the
colonists are cutting down CALIFORNIA; big trees
he says no human agency can cut down a
sequola g1gantea, and no saw mill in this coun-
try could slice one up into boards Dynamite is
the only means of destroying them, and the
debris is then only useful as fire wood.
Col. ToURTELorTE, who was buried at La
Crosse, Wis, few days ago, was the COM
mander at Atlanta, Ga. to whom Sherman
first sent instructions TO bold the fort" Later,
when Gen. Corse took charge and the fort was
attacked, TOurtelotte. as well as Corse, was
wounded. Wisconsin feels that her son deserves
larger share of the credit of that famous Incl
dent.
Mrs. ANNIE MEYER, author Of a recently pub
lished book on the work of women in the United
States, IS beautiful yonng woman of "a. with
fair face from which her dark brown hair is
gracefully rolled back Mrs Meyer is a sister
of Emma Lazarus the Hebrew poetess, and was
the first woman to take an examination at Co
lumbia College. She was also among the enter
prising women to whom Barnard College for
Women owes its existence.
BAYLEss W. HANNA, who died the other day
at Charlottesville, Ind, was probably the most
remarkable talker and story teller the state
ever produced. Two of his neighbors were dis.
cussing him one day, when an old crony said
''Bayless is a great individual" Don't speak
of him in that way" said a famous politician in
a tone of mock reproof. "Bayless is not an in
dividual; he's an institution" Strange to re-
cord. the paralysis that carried him off deprived
the once great talker of the power of speech for
almost year before the end came.