The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-12
PERSONAL.


Mrs Anna f. Nash is editor and proprietor
Of the Gurcon Ark Cannon Ball, and this is
the frank motto that stands at the head Of her
paper; Not for love, nor fame, nor favor;
but for CASH
C0ngressma Charles O'Ncil1. the venerable
Father OF the House. who was taken i'll soon
after he had recorded his vote for the silver
repeal bill. is now convaleScent. He had
been threatened with acute pneumonia.
Mr.. John T. Morris, lawyer of Baltimore.
has been a member OF the school beard for
thirtv-three consecutive years. twenty-five Of
which he has been its president There is a
movement now on foot to place a statue Of
Mr.. Morris In niche in front OF the city hal i
''Pecks Bad Boy" that is. George Peck
Jr., the son Of the governor Of Wisconsin.
promises to become as prominent in politics
as his father. Peck. Jr., mas just been ap-
pointed assistant pension agent for the dis
tr!cl which Includes Wisconsin, Mime sofa
and the Dakotas.
Writing to an inquiring friend in St Louis,
United States Senator George c. Vest says
he has no idea OF retiring from public life at
the close OF his present term. and that the re-
port prevalent in Missouri to the opposite eff
feet, must have come from some gentleman
with whom the wish was father to the thought.
While it is true that Bishop Louis de Goes
BRAND, Of The diocese of Burlington, who was
cOnsecrated in 1853. is the Oldest Catholic
bishop in the United States. Bishop John
Williams, q Connecticut, the present pre-
siding bishop Of the Episcopal church in this
country antedates him, having been Conse-
Grated in 1881.
Drs. Dryandes, Stadl and Van Hoeffen. the
three German tra7elers, who went on an ex-
pIoring expedition 20 Greenland a year an
half ago, returned home last month, They
went under the auspices Of the German gov
eminent. aud returned with large collection
of specimens. The results of the exploration
will probably be published.
Toole, the great comedian is an inveterate
practical joker Several years ago he gave
supper TO eighty of his friends but before
h and he wrote note privately to each one
asking him if he would be SO good as to say
grace, as no clergyman would be present
When Toole raped on the table as a signal
for grace. and the eighty men arose to their
feet, the faces OF the company were study
never to be forgotten.
King Khama the firm ally OF the British in
their South African war, Is a Christian. mo
nogamist and teetotaler. Iihama, when
youth, accompanied his father to an OLD
Boer to sell tuSkS. The Boer produced
brandy bottle and piled Khama's father with
the contents until he induced him to give up
valuable quantity of ivory for u paltry horn
Of powder and a bar of lead. From that day
khama resisted the temptation to patronize
the black bottle.
The Womans Literary Club. of Baltimore
on Thursday scattered flowers on the graves
Of Edgar Allan Poe, Sidney Lanier, the poet;
William II. RineharU, the sculptor; Mrs Al
mira Hart Lincoln PHELPS q noted educator:
John p Kennedy. the author; Mrs. Anne
Moncure Seemuller and Mrs. Mary Spear
Herman, novellstS; Junius Brutus Booth .and
others. They also sent star OF chrysanthe.
NUNS to Frederic Nd, to be placed on the
grave of Francis Scott Key there. 1t is the
clubs annual custom to devote one day each
year to decorating the graves Of writer's and
artists.