The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-27
PER 5ONAL.

DR.. WEIR Mitchell. the well-known author.
is summering a. Bar Harbor.
CYRUS W. CADY who died recently in Denver.
introduced the first moving machine into Col
orado.-
MAYOR sAReESr Of New Haven will run for
congress- He Is one Of the largest manufActur-
ers In the state, and is democrat.
ARTHUR T. MAcrDo, consul general of BraziI
at New York. has been transferred TO Lisbon
aud will be succeeded by DR.. Castillo. late con
SUI general at Valparaiso.
TIE THEORY that Lord Stanley will resign
his post as governor general of Canada in a few
days seems to be partially based on the fact
tnat ne Is putting his Office In order.
MARION CRAwFoRD's FATHER, Thomas Craw-
lord the sculptor, was an American who went
20 Italy at the age Of %, and lived in Rome
almost constantly until he died in London,
aged A.
EDWARD n. PLATT, eldest son OF the ex-
senator. is well known in Washington. He is
agent Tor q leading express company and takes
charge OF the government business almost
entirely.
AT BALL given by the governor of Natal on
the queens birthday. his excellency had ali the
de6utantes. about eighteen in number, brought
kissed them ALL
AN OIL PORTRAIT Of Senator Wilson Of Iowa
has just been hung in the new historicals rooms
at the state capitol. 1t was painted by Mrs.
Alma Glasgow White, promising young artist
OF Washington, la
SENATOR Quay has purchased what is known
as the Matthew Stanley farm four miles north
OF Coatesville, Pa The senator passed his boy
hood days upon this farm, being a nephew Of
matthew Stanley, after whom he was named.
mt a. na1 and fkar arfra
was $4,000.
THE new minister TO Russia, Andrew D.
White, has written the leading paper in the
Popular Science Monthly for August. 1t is on
geography, giving the strange mythologiacal
and theological ideas concerning the form OF
the earth that have prevailed IN ancient and
medieval times"
LORD SALISBURY. the British prime minister.
has never once visited the queen at Balmoral
since June, 1880, when he went there after Mr.
tiladstones resignation to kiss her mejesty's
hand on being appointed prime minister. Lord
Beaconsneld had a similar dislike OF Balmoral
which ne visited but once during his tenure Of
office.
I'm AFRAID" says Gen. Lord wolseley, II
cannot lay claim to have q drop OF Irish blood
in my body, and my grandfather was the first of
my belongings who was born in ireland We
are Staffordshire family, and come from
WolseleY, where We have been for at least three
OF Iour centuries before the conquest OF Eng
land. am very fond of Ireland and of the
irish people, among whom was brought up.
have been very little there, however, since
/ was boy"
MOLLY ELLIOTT SEAwELL and Col. Thomas
Wentworth Higginson are carrying on an in.
teresting midsummer controversy on immortal
women. Miss Seawell says there are hardly
any, and Mr. Higginson is indignant. That Eli
Whitney and not bis wife the widow Greene in
vented the cotton gin thatve haven't enough
of Sappho's poems to know whether she was
really great writer or not, that Fanny Men
delssohn's Songs Without Words" are the en-
bodiment of sickly sentimentalitY and that
Uncle Toms Cabin" Is THE most common
place. of books" are some OF Miss Seawell s
propositions.