The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-03
PERSONAL

EDWARD NJ. FIELD, who is 10 the state hospital
for the insane at Buffalo. is said to be improv-
! ing, and whenever pronounced recovered will
be taken to New York for trial
GEORGE w. CABLE is at work on a new novel,
the scenes Of which are laid in the middle south
/ The story will not deal with creoles but with
southerners of Anglo Saxon ancestry.
CAPT. HUGH conner, who died last week in
| Mobile, rendered extremely important service
| as arnorer to the Confederate army, and after
the war went TO making musical instruments,
! CARDINAL MANNING did not leave property
enough to pay his funeral expenses. These
amounted to. 81 100; and to meet them sub
| scrlption was started among his relatives and
| friends.
Gov. BoIEs will deliver an address on July 2,
at the opening Of the Council Bluffs Qa) Chau-
| tauqua, and Congressman Breckenridge Of Ken
lucky has consented to speak at the same place
| July l6
Col THOMAS E. Rose, Of the Seventy-seventh
Pennsylvania volunteers, who is said to have de-
signed the Libby prison tunnel Cby which 6O9
prisoners esceped) is now an officer in the
regular service.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is the only living member of
the Peel administration. No American states
man now living was in activepublic life when
Mr.. Gladstone had already taken prominent
position in affairs.
RIDER HAGGARD. having satisfied his ambitions
as novelist, now devotes part of his time to
the more primitive occupation of farming. He
divides bis time fairly between his books and
the land he cultivates.
FATHER COMFY of Faribault, Mimi, who. with
Archbishop Ireland's approval. devised the now
famous "Faribault plan" of parochial schools.
is universally beloved and respected by every
one in Faribault, irrespective of creed.
A LGNEAL DESCENDANT of the widow Of John
Bunyan lives in Lawrence county, Illinois, it is
stated, and has the original manuscript of the
FllgrlmS Progress in her possession. The
manuscript is said to have been handed down
as an heirloom, generation by generation.
A CAVEATS made by the Boston Globe among
its readers indicates that the most popular men
In Boston just now are Gen. Butler Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Bishop Brooks, Gov. Russell,
Gen. Banks, Gen. p. A. Collins, Edward Everett
HAZE, Gen. Francis e.. Walker, Henry Cabot
Lodge. Robert O. Winthrop and President
Eliot OF Harvard College,
HENRY WARD BEEcHER, his wife says in the
Ladies Home Journal, spoke thickly when
boy on account Of an enlargement of the tonss.
but through the efforts OF one of his teachers
this impeachment was finally overcome. The lad
was drilled daily, sometimes practicing an hour
on one word until his utterance became clear.
But for this discipline he might n ever have been
qualified to enter the ministry.
THE GAEKwAR OF BARoDA is taking only one
of his wives with him to England, the NJ artha-
nee Chimnabi Saheba but the other members
of his family are coming along to drive to dis
traction the unlucky officials whose duty It may
be TO call them by name: Shrimant Sampa-
trao Gaekwar Shrimant Bajoobeai, Aharjbar-
hebedar Rajessei Samorth Prince Fattesingrao
Prince Jeysingrao and Baturao Narayer Kale.