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

NISIsTER EsAS Is now taking q vacation At
CoroneL
THE late John B. Coughs books viii be sold
at auction in Boston on March p.
Cot OLcoTT has resigned his position as
president general OF the Theosophcal Society
on account ofoid age and impaired health.
THE new United States district judge for
Western Pennsylvania. Joseph Buf1nton. took
the oath Of O1lcs in Pittsburg last Saturday.
ExGov. WILLIAM GAsToy OF Massachusetts,
fell downstairs last Friday and injured his side
and one arm so as to be incapacitated for bust
ness.
G. P. A, Healy. the American artist. and his
wife and daughters have arrived in New York
from Paris. Mr. Healy will shortly go to his
home in Chicago.
Grief JUSTICE CoMBGYs OF Delaware is
dangerously i'll at his residence in Dover and
his recovery is considered improbable. He is
AFFLICTED with dropsy.
IN his recent wedding In London Lord Aling-
ton laid unnecessary stress upon the difference
between his own and his BRIDES ages by having
Two OF his granddaughter serve as brides
maids.
Mas. TAYLOR of Little Washington. Pa, Is
known as the oil queen because she has accu-
mulsted a fortune Of So 100000 by personal in
yestments in the Richie county, West Virginial
fields.
ALFRED LYTToN, nephew by marriage Of Mr..
Gladstone. is engaged to marry Miss Balfour.
sister OF Arthur Balfour. father of the Irish
local government bill. She is q niece TO the
Marquis OF Salisbury.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES has a much smaller
head than his father; and London paper sug-
gests the probability of the crown being reduced
In size when tt is passed along to the son Of the
present heir-apparent.
The law library of the late Associate Justice
Joseph P. Bradley of the United States supreme
court, consisting of about 5000 volumes, Is
shortly to be acquired by the Prudential Insur-
ance Company of Newark, n. J.
The text book from which the Emperor of
China is learning his first lessons in English
is first reader" published by an American
house and copiously illustrated with colored
pictures II was sent over with some others.
MRS. STURGEON is not strong enough to travel
TO England, and will remain at Mentone for one
or two weeks. She has received manv kilograms
from all parts of the world expressing condo
lence, among them a message from the Prince
and Princess of Wales
COL THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGIEsoN lectured
the other evening on the advantages Of the
literary profession, which be held to be not so
much financial as intellectual. and he expressed
doubt whether any author in this country aver
aged SlO,OOO year for ten years.
SIR JAMES BACON, since the death of dmira
Sir Prove Wallis, is, at the age of "a. the old
est of the titled classes in England. The oldest
baronet is Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, who is
80, and Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, the
eldest Knight Of the Bath, is also 81.
Rev. DR.. PAXTON says that Jay Gould told
him that after many years elaboration he had
become convinced that the Presbyterian church
was the best and trueSt religious organization
in the country, and that its work OF church ex-
tension was the most hopeful for humanity,
DR.. DAWSON BURNS, the English physician
who annually promulgetes a letter on drink
consumption in Great Britain, says the yearly
expenditures per head of that population, count
ing children, is 20 shillings aud that figures
show a growth in the drink habit, but at
slower rate than formerly
ONE Of the last of the British survivors Of the
war of 1912 was Commander Ramsey, who died
recently at Redhill, England. He was present
at the destruction of Barney's hotilla on the
River Patuxent, in the Regulus. Of which ship
his father was captain. Commander Ramsey
was employed in the coast guard service for
more than thirty years