The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-21
PERSONAL.

| Sol SMITH RUSSELL has been keeping Joseph
Jefferson company at his Buzzard's bay home.
SIR AMBROSE SHEA, governor of the Bahamas
and lady. sailed from New. York the other day
for Scotland.
| MISS RITA, the young American singer. has
! just returned to Berlin from q successful tour
| through Russia.
TIE RUSSIAN COMPOSER Tschaikowsky has
made arrangements to bring full Russian choir
to the United States next season
I GODDARD CLARKE, the juryman who created
a sensation by questioning the Prince Of Wales,
| is Fellow OF the Royal Statistical Society.
GEN. LEW WALLACE is fishing on the banks of
his favorite Kankakee, where the ordinary mos
quito bites harder than three-pound trout.
A GREAT GRANDSON of Eugene Aram is law
yer in Alameda, Cal and has just been ad-
| mtted to practice in the state supreme court.
ARTHUR PoNsoNBY WILMER, principal of the
Abingdon IVA academy. has sailed from New
York to spend his summer vacation at his old
home in England.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER Of Illinois. talked of
somewhat for speaker of the next House, was
in his salad days expelled from college for his
extreme pinkiness.
Mrs. ORR in her new book on Browning states
that the poet cared more for women than for
posthumously, it may be added.
THE AUSTRALIANS like Bernhardt At Mel
bourne, after la Dame aux Camellas," the
seats for which were sold at auction la Bos-
ton, the audience sang the Marseillaise.
Rev. DR.. SCOTT Mrs. Harrisons father
shortly starts for Port Townsend, WASH, accom-
panied by Judge Scott, his son. who lives there.
The old man is 80, but hale and active.
TWELVE OR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO ex-Attorney
General Rufus A. Ayers of Virginia was a page
in the Senate of Virginia. Now, it is said. he is
worth $500, 600, and he has just finished mag
nifcent residence near Big stone Gap.
HENRY WATTERsoN of the Courier-Journal
Will deliver the address before the literary soce-
ties of the University of Virginia on Tuesday,
June go and Congressman Wilson of West Vlr-
ginia will address the alumni on Wednesday,
Julyi.
RoLFE S. MILAR Ct Heidelberg, Germany, who
was in the consular service during Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration. and Is now a student at
the University Of Virginia, is delivering series
of lectures at the request of the faculty, the
first of which was on THE German Working
man."
NATHANIEL TAFT of Middletown. N. Y, for
forty years past a locomotive engineer, and for
thirty five years in the service of the Erie rail
way, has never met with an accident on the
road and has just been retired by the company
to the comparatively light duty of switch en-
gineer at the Port Jervis yard,
BILL NYE is enjoying himself in a country vii
lage of high attitude in North Carolina. He
drives a spanking team of horses, and when he
has spare time he puts it in on the new play he
is writing for Stuart Robson. In letter to
friend William says he can now imagine how
Shakespeare used to feel about the time he was
giving birth to new play.
PRESIDENT PALMER says that it may be neces-
sary to open the worlds fair Sunday, and
adds that though he is not without moral doubts
as to the expediency of doing so, he is afraid
that the other 100 commissioners may not have
similarly strong objections to such Sabbath
dissertation. Mr.. Palmer is clearly afraid that
Chicago piety will not be able to withstand New
England depravity.