The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-27
PERs0s'L 4.


The late Gen. Crook was known among the
Indians as the whiting medicine man"
REv. T. DEWITT TALxAsE lectured at Fred
erick, Md. Thursday night to an audience Of
| 1000 persons.
HENRY IRVING will be the guest Of Augustin
DAILY this summer bis visit to this country
being for recreation only.
CYRUS SMALL, superintendent Of the Boston
police. has Just entered upon the fortieth year
| OF his SERVES in that department.
Four HUNDRED AND sEvESTYTwo STUDENTS
are enrolled upon the catalogue Of the Univer-
i sity OF Virginia for the session OF l690'91.
THERE is probably no better imitator on the
American stage than Harry Gilfon travelling
with Hoyts a Trip TO Chinatown" Company.
Mss. POTTER PALMER. president Of the world s
fair lady managers, who sailed for Europe with
her husband last week, is one OF Chicago s
handsomest women
BARoN HIRscA is an Austrian by birth, but is
best known in France. The foundation of his
fortune was laid as railway contractor with
the Turkish government
WILLIAM F. .FLoRENcR has been elected
director of the Players Club of New York, to
MI the vacancy on the board occasioned by the
death OF Lawrence Barrett. f,.e-f-
COL A. K. MCCLURE, editor of the PhiladeI-
phia Times, will deliver the annual Grafton be-
fore the literary societies Of Roanoke college at
the commencement il Jc:s. $3.50
Gov. TILLMAS of South Carolina says it would
be ''idiocy as well as suicide for the Southern
people to follow such leadership as had charge
OF the recent convention at Cincinnati.
CoSsREsshAs-EL ELECT TON L. Johnson, of the
Clevelands o., district. and his brother ALDER
l. obnson, were passengers for Europe by the
City OF New York, which sailed on Monday.
Hon. W. c. P. BREcxINR1DdE of Kentucky ha
accepted an invitation to deliver the annual ad-
dress before the Virginia State Bar Association
July - at the Greenbrer White Sulphur
springs. gniygo
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS have been made by
the vitican for the coming celebration in honor
of Pope Gregory the Great. Leo XIII. has
offered three prizes for the best essays upon
Gregory's career.
WHEN the Scotch Irish congress opened in
Louisville, KY, the other day there were on the
four supreme court judges fifteen distinguished
dIVines and no end Of great bankers and mer-
chants.
EDWARD MCPHERSON has filed his final &C.
count as the executor of Thaddeus Stevens
showing the present market value of the securi-
tles belonging to the estate to be S54, 496. One
unsettled claim is that of Mrs. Stevens who
alleges that she is the wife of relative and en-
titled to part of the property.
THOMAS WATERMAN Woop, who succeeds
Daniel Huntington as president Of the National
Academy of Design held the vice presidency
for eleven years. and was nine years president
OF the American Water Color Society. He is 68
years Of age. resides in New York and makes a
specially of american genre, chiefly scenes of
village and country life.
WILBUR w. SMITH, Connecticut veteran.
now postmaster of Seymour in that state has
inst recovered the sword that he lost at Chan
cellorsville in 1858, where he was captured He
was lieutenant in the Twentieth Connecticut
regiment and was sent to Libby prison. Now,
after the lapse of twenty eight years. his sword
has been returned to him through the kindness
of T. NJ. Casery of Warrenton, N. c., who ac-
cidentally discovered it in possession of one of
the officers of the Warrenton guards