The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-20
PERSONAL.

J. @. sHASKLIN. NJ. J. Niblack, Claude
Matthews and Mortimer Nye are candidates for
the democratic nomination for governor OF In
diana.
TIE Lyceum theater, London, has its grand
old man" in the person Of Henry Howe, who is
50 years of age. He has been playing in
Henry VIII
IT Is RuMoREp in W heeling that Bishop John
j. Kahn Of the Catholic diocese OF West Vlr-
ginia, will be appointed coadjutor to Bishop
Joyce Of Buffalo, n. Y.
Lon A. KIaBALI, just appointed commissioner
from New South Wales to the worlds fair, is
native of Randall, Vt, and a brother Of Col
r j. Kimball Of that town,
TIE only woman who owns and conducts
printing Office in Boston is Florence Grant. who
is the publisher of WomGn's VOice, which is
edited, managed and printed by women.
SENATOR GoRNAN, when asked by a reporter
recently why he had gone to New York,
answered with his usual air OF executive
secrecy, that be had gone for about two
days.
Now IT is asserted that the Marquis of Queens
berry was never present at a prize-h After
awhile, says the Philadelphia Ledger, some one
will attempt to prove that John L. Sullivan is
not an actor.
The STATEMENT that Henry George had made
preparations to provide comfortable home in
Philadelphia for Mrs. George Hudschins, widow
of the spiritualist who left his fortune for the
distribution Of Georges books, appears to be
without foundation.
julius ORNsrIEN, the manager of the Imper-
ial Tobacco Corporation in Persia, has sent to
q New York firm a large order for American
agricultural implements. He proposes to in
troduce plows, harrOws. and other machinery to
take the place of the very poor implements in
use now in that country.
ONE of Tennysons admirers recently sent him
some verses containing an allusion to the poet s
"wintry hair" In acknowledging the compli-
ment his lordship said: "f by 'wintry hair
you allude to tree whose leaves are hait gone
you are right; but if you mean white you are
wrong, for l never had gray hair on my head. "
MISS CLEMENTINE DE WERE, whose marriage
to NJ, Sapio took place in New York on Thurs
day, is probably the best paid choir singer in
this country. She gets tTom DR.. Paxton
West Presbyterian cnurch) $500 a year for
eight months service on Sundays alone, and
sac is allowed an additional vacation of five
weeks for her concert tour. Occasionally she
sings at Sunday night concerts after the serv-
ice in Dr.. Paxton church.
Ex-CoUNcILMAN ROBERT THOMAS of German
town, Pa, is old enough to remember tho re-
ception to Lafayette in Germantown in 1924 OF
story sometimes circulated that there were
two receptions, one for the plain people and
another for society leaders, Mr. Thomas says:
mo, that isn't true, and I'll tell you why My
two uncieS were out In the field at work, and
when they heard the music they threw down
their scythes and passed through the hall at the
Chew house with the rest of the throuR who
had come TO do honor to the marquis. They
were in their shirt sleeves and one of them had
his horn for sharpening his scythe stuck in his
belt. Lafayette grasped them both heartily by
the hand and assured them that he was glad to
see them.