The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-28
PERSONAL.

Elder Ellis, OF Stanford, Ky, recently
talked right out" in meeting and surprised
his hearers By telling them that he saw in the
audlene people who hsdn paid their gro
Gerry oitls for a. year. their doctors for two
years. or their pew rent for i've.
James A. Vose, appointment clerk in the
post ONCE department at Washington is
Maine man who secured position in the war
department Twenty-Five years ago. He has
never been out of government employ since
ne sun has his commission in the war de-
partment, signed by Charles A Dana, who
Was then Assistant Secretary Of War.
John B. Drake. OF Chicago, gives game
dinner annually The entire west IS ran
sacked for hsh. flesh and fowl 70 make this
ieaSt ne last dinner occurred on Thursday
night. which mpleted Mr.. brakes half
century OF experience in the hotel business.
over 5o0 guests participated, and no less than
seventy -hYe different kinds Of game and hsh
adorned the table.
Editor Byington. Of the Norwalk Conn
Gazette, has been connected with that paper
as compositOr reporter and editor over nifty
one years. The Hon. A. r. Burr has been
connected with the Hartford Times fifty four
years and for twelve years previously was in
I me once OF the Hartford Courant. Gen.
Joseph K. Hawley has seen thirty-six years
newspaper service in Hartford and Charles
Dudley Warner thirty-three years.
William C Roberts Of New York, one Of
the secretaries of the Home Missionary Board
OF the Presbyterian church. is q typical
American boy. His parents were poor In
leiS MS father, mother. one brother and sis
ter we're carried OF by cholera. Six orphan
children we're left. OF which William G. was
the oldest. He raised the family, studied for
the ministry, and in 1889 became moderator OF
the general assembly Of his church
Helen Keller the blind deaf mute, is en-
deavoring to establish a free library in Tus
cumbia Ala, her native town where now
there IS no library of anv kind for popula
ton OF about 1900 perhaps half OF them col
ored people. She herself has written long
letter on the typewriter in advocacy Of the
project 10 friend in Boston. and several
tably-dlspCSed persons in that city have
contributed books for the purpose, and few,
money.
George z. Ford. the man who first began
the manufacture of paper from the waste of
sorghum mills IN Fort Scott. Kas.. is about 40
years of age. He is typical westerner and
in the last twenty years has made and lost
several fortunes. In 1865 he started to Lon
don with the intention Of joining Stanley
expedition to the heart of Africa. He changed
his mind, visited Paris, then returned inside
OF a week to this country. Mr.. Ford is worth
about s75, 600.
John Parks an engineman of the Pittsburg
and Western railway, is to be presented with
gold medal for his GOODNESS and presence of
mind when train, drawn by his locomotive,
rolled over an embankment, near Pittsburg,
on its return from Chicago last month. The
money to buy the medal was contributed by
the grateful passengers, who appreciated his
successful efforts in preventing serious loss
OF life. What is left OF the subscription after
paying for the medal will be given To him.