The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-19
PERSONAL

CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE in Doughty street,
London. is advertised to let.
MISS BLAINE is going out very little in the gay
London season, now at its hight.
COUNT D'ABRAz, the French consul at New
York, has a neat little salary of 81 900 year.
PRoF. CHARLES D. McIvER has been elected
president of the Girls Normal college, at
Greensboro, n. G.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD had the unprecedented
honor of q memorial service in Westminster
Abbey, ordered last week by the Queen.
SENATOR EUsTIs of Louisiana has taken pos
session of the house at Manchester by -the-Sea,
near Boston. which he has leased for the sum-
mer. r,o,s.
Ex-UN1rEp, STATES SENATOR, BRADBURY of
Augusta, Me- is &c. still hale, hearty and
happy, and remembers Webster and Calhoun
wildly. -.s-e.
President GILLIAN. OF Johns Hopkins Uni
versty, is said to be leading candidate for the
presidency of the California State University,
at Berkeley. u
HEINRIcH ScHMII1EsKI. the greatest million
aire Of Hamburg has decidedto leave his i'm
mense fortune TO build az asylum for unmar-
ried women
AMEIIE RivEs CHANLER has finished a new
novel, which at least one New York publisher
is unwilling to publish, because It goes farther
than THE Quick and the Dead"
The PRIscEss OF WALES created a sensation
at the opera in London last Friday evening,
when the house was thronged by the fashion Of
London, by inviting Mrs. Author Wilson to sit
In her box. This royal favor, rarely accorded
any but intimate friends, completely rehabili-
tates the baccarat hostess.
GEN. JUBAL EARLY is the only one In the south,
as far as any one knows who Loyalty clings to
the lost cause, whose outward appearances in
dictate that he does not know the war ended
years ago. Early has long white hair and whis-
kers wears q regular confederate gray SUIT and
light colored broad brimmed felt hat.
LORD LANsDowNE will soon retire from the
post of Viceroy OF India, although there is no
official sanction of the move as yet. 1t has been
an open secret that ever since his appointment
in 1885 he has found that the climate does not
agree with his health. The two most probable
successors to the otfice-worth, by the way,
some f400, 00) year-are said 10 be Lord Lorne
and Lord Stanley of Preston.
THE fair, plump wife of the son Of Robert
Browning is an American woman She has no
children, and spends much time in entertaining
her friends in her beautiful home in London.
The pair are shortly TO take UP their residence
in Venice, in an old palace whittier nearly 100
huge cases of furniture are being shipped. Mr..
Browning divides his time between painting
and nursing govt. to which he is martyr.
CANTI-BEY, powerful Massowah chief, hav-
ing been convicted of high treason and finally
sent to Italy, was obliged to leave his harem
behind. Gen. Baldissera, governor of the col
ony, according to the Roman papers, converted
the harem, consisting of seven young women,
into seven lottery prizes, which were won by his
officers. But this lottery was unfortunate, and
all the ladies ran away from their new sultans.
A. C.HoBBs, the superintendent Of the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company Of Bridgeport,
Conn, is so years of age, and forty years ago
revolutionized lock manufacturing by showing
that the most expensive locks then in use could
be picked in an hour or two. His success in
this line for wagers won for him the appelation
of the Yankee Lock Picker" In 1851 he went
to the worlds fair in London, where he picked
a Bramah lock. a duplicate of the one on the
Bank of England vault, for purse of $1,000.