The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-15
Personal

BoTH the parents Of Congressman Mckinley
are living at the old home in Canton. o., aged
| 81 and g respectively. The Congressman is the
! DaOy OF the FAMILY, at the age Of 81
ELIZABETH SARGENT. u. D.. daughter Of the
late Aaron A Sargent. congressman, senator,
and minister TO Germany, Is an oculist Of eX-
ceptional skill She resides in California
SPENCER PRATT, Ministerto Persia, now dis
| placed, IS bachelor OF 35 He IS tall and slim
! with regular features end Vandyck beard.
His salary was S3LOJ but his opportunities
! great.
SENATOR HIGGISs Of Delaware says they still
retain in modified form the whipping post and
plllory, because the state is so near three great
cities that it is IN danger of becoming an
| asy ium for criminals.
JAMES H. BLoUNr. JR, son Of Congressman
Blount OF Georgia, who is student Of the law
! department Of Columbia College New York,
| has an article en- THE Farmers Alliance" in
the last number Of the coge paper.
Mas. FLORENCE BALGARSIE was the only for
eign delegate to the women's council She is
about Is, with tall fine figure and smiling face.
Her statement of facts was clear and concise,
and the paper she read attracted much atten-
| ton.
SAYS the Washington Post: "a critical period
in the history Of this country is recalled by the
discovery of the old fashioued French bedstead
on which Abraham Lincoln slept during his en-
ure occupancy of the white house, and on which
ms Dody was aid when brought from Mr. Peter
son mouse, opposite the old Ford theater on
isnth street. after the assassination. Mrs. N.
p. Magruder, of No. 735 Thirteenth street, is
IN possession of the bedstead, and prizes
it very highly. The same bedstead was
used during the administration Of Gen. Grant,
an i portion of that of Mr.. Hayes. II was
stored In the attic of the white house, and in
the early part of President Arthur's term was
purchased by Mr.. Dlagruder, who was en-
ployed at the white house as a carpenter at the
general sale of furniture 1t has been identified
by several of the employees who were at the
whlte house during the periods mentioned, and
particularly by the colored man who made the
osds by Mrs. Lincoln's messenger, and by Pres
dent Lincoln's valet. Mrs. Magruder has also a
han isome marble top table, purchased by her
husband at the same sale, which has been
handed down from one administration to
another and which was always understood to
nave been President Harrison 8 card table"
EDWARD FARRAR, editor Of the Toronto Globe
has been brought into prominence by reason OF
Sir John Macdonalds attack upon him, is a re-
markably versatile writer 1t is said that at
one time, when not regularly connected with
any Journal, he was employed to write series
OF editorials for Catholic and an Orange pa
per without the managers OF either knowing of
his work for the other. simultaneously he was
expounding both sides Of the tariff question in
two other sheets. ''For several weeks" says
the Chicago Netcs, ian interesting and exciting
controversy was kept up between the religious
papers. in which the honOrs were about evenly
divided. An equally exciting controversy was
raging in the columns of the party organs
Public attention was drawn to the able way in
which the arguments for free trade that ap-
peared in the liberal paper to-day were met by
the tory paper the next and vice verso. Orange
ism never had so keen a champion and
the opinions of the Catholic church wore such
modern air that many people rubbed their
eyes and thought they were dreaming as they
perused the columns Of the Catholic paper
Then the secret leaked out and with it went the
employment of Mr. Farrar. There was anger
for awhile, then Laughter, and one fine morning
the obscure journalist woke UP to find himself
the most talked of man in Ontario. Since then
his talents have never rusted for want of en-
plOYmentn