The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-17
PERSONAL

Henry G. MARoUASD OF New York has been
asked % become the head Of the art department
Of the Chicago exposition.
A. A. YoUSG has been manager Of the Slater
mills a. JeWett City. Conn.,. for ffty-eight years,
and still counts himself Young.
IL RIDER HAoGARD and Mrs. Haggard are
passengers for New York by the Etruria, which
sailed from Liverpool Saturday.
Miss LOUISE SHEPARD, daughter Of Col. Elliot
F. Shepard OF New YORK, will bs married on
FEB. 70 William J. SchieffelIn.
GES. n. " CURTIS Of Ogdensburg, n. Y, is at
Albany 20 use his influence ia favor OF the bill
for the abolition Of capital punishment.
Miss GERTRUDE RIyEs. who Is now In Rich
mond, says that the reports Of the serious III
ness Of her sister, Mrs. Ame.ie Rives- Cnanler,
in Paris have been greatly exaggerated.
GAISsBoRouGH's PAINTING Of Eliza Ann Lin
ley Mrs. SheridanrAnd her brother. now on ex-
hibition in London, has been sold by the owner,
Lord SscSvlle, TO Alfred d. Rothschhd for
II, 900 guilea
SINS REEVES. who began singing fifty years
ago, and is still at it. stood sponsor for great
great grandson Of Charles Dibdin. the English
actor aod composer. upon the occasion OF re-
cent visit TO Liverpool.
THE New YORK printers will celebrate Frank
Inns birthday on Saturday evening at the Hotel
Brunswick The principal speakers Of the oc-
casiOn will be Carl Schurz. Brander Matthews,
Judge Brady and Paul Dana.
PRESIDENT DIAz began his political career
while an officer in the army ~ heading an in
surrection. He kept on in that line until he
reached the pres dency, but is now the most
conservative politician in Mexico.
Gov. FRAsCIs 7. NICHOLS Of Louisiana, is dis
membered to a remarkable extent. He has
lost leg and an arm and an eye. He lost his
leg at charlottesville, and his arm was carried
away by cannon ball at Winchester.
FREDERICK L. AMEs, at s25OOOOOO. is reck-
oned the richest man in Boston, and his cousin,
ex-Gov. Ames. son of Cakes Ames, is worth
about $40, 900, 000. The founder of their fort
unes was tee grandfather, Oliver Ames WHO
accumulated wealth in the shovel-making bust
ness.
JUDGE FRANK DosTER, possible candidate for
United States senator in Kansas, served in an
Indiana cavalry regiment during the war He
has pale. bsardless face with marked and dis
tinctive features, something like Robespierre's
He believes in no COD, and is strongly inclined
to socialism.
FRAU SOPHIE SALvANIUs, an able German
woman of letters, has issued an appeal to her
countrywomen to reform those national modes
of education which consider girls simply as
future wives and housekeepers. Their present
training, she says, leaves German women with
out individuality and with pitfully low ideals of
life.
WILLIS J. ABBOTT, whose blue Jacket books
are so popular with young readers, is grand
son of John S. c. Abbott, the historian, and is
23 years of age. He has been connected with
the New Orleans Times Democrat, the Kansas
City NetCs, the New York Tribune and other
papers, and is now an editorial writer on the
Chicago Mail
BISHOP NEWMAN is about TO take big swing
around the circle Of the southern and west
ern circuit. He will signalze the celebra-
ton OF the quarter-centennial Methodist jubilee
ia New Ofleans by an Grafton on 1.-The Future
Of the Negro Race" After that he will visit
nine conferences in the west and the southwest.
It was in 1854 that DR.. Newman was first sent to
New Orleans by Bishop Scott at the request of
President Lincoln. TO take charge of the Meth
odist churches In that region.