The San Francisco call., 1896-02-11
PERSONAL.

The Rev. w. J. Martin of Modesto is in town.
| Dr.. O. L. Barton of Herman, Mimi, is in the
City.
H. L. Haynes of Lewiston, Idaho, is at the
Palace.
| J. A. Deming, q general merchant of Gazelle,
is at the Grand.
Colonel w. R. Ray of Louisville, KY, is
among recent arrivals.
David Lubin, the wealthy Sacramento mer-
| chant, is at the Grand.
Caleb Dorsey, the extensive landowner of
| Oakdale. is at the Grand.
H. A. McCraney, a deputy clerk of the
| Supreme Court, is in town.
James z. Ivory a mining man of Shelby, is
| stopping at the Cosmopolitan.
| E. H. Dyer, one of the owners in the sugar
works at Alvarado; is in town.
Charles Armstrong, a fruit-raiser of Los
Angeles, is staying at the Cosmo opolitan
James F. Farrahan of Yreka ex-Distrlct At
torney of Siskiyou County, arrived here yester-
| day.
C. B. Hull, representing the Fourth Estate,
McClure's Magazine, the Review of Reviews
and the Chap Book, is visiting this City.
N. D. McCaulay, F. II. Price and George r.
Jackson, all business men of Victoria, B. c..
arrived here yesterday, and are at the Occi-
dental.
Charles II. Graham and Peter C. Weber.
graduates from the Chicago University, who
are on tour of California, are guests at the
| Cosmopolitan.
| Governor James Fl. Budd is announced to ar
rive here to-day. He was expected yesterday,
and beyy OF politicians were lying in wait for
him, but when the night train arrived without
him they dispersed to recuperate for another
| onslaught.
| Thomas Hill, the artist of the Yosemite has
| left this City for few weeks, stay at Coronado
| Beach. The artist spent the holidays at Port
land but the weather did not quite agree with
him on the upper coast, and he took cold and
IN consequence has gone south to recnperate.
A. H. Hall of st. Paul, an extensive dealer in
California dried fruits, who has branch offices
| in Minneapolis, Duluth, Sioux City, Omaha
and st. Joe, and who has been here two winters
previously, is at the Occidental. He is accom-
panied by his wife and will visit different por-
tions of the State.
William FL. Devlin, an attorney, of Sacra.
mento, who recently came near being made
one OF the Superior Judges there, is at the
Lick. He is a brother OF ex-Prison Commits.
sioner Devlin, and is native Of the capital city,
where he has been practicing law ever since
his admission to the bar.
/ J. H. Lowe, the pioneer, of Knights Landing.
who has lived for nearly thirty years in Cali
| fornia, returned here yesterday after years
| absence in Caldwell parish and New Orleans,
! La. Mr.. Lowe owned some land there and
went back to sell it, finally accomplishing it,.
He says there has been an extraordinary yield
OF corn, and big rice, sweet potato, cane and
| peanut crop in Louisiana this year. The cot
| ton crop is little light.
| James P. Booth of the staff OF the Daily Re.
| port, who has been i'll for about three weeks
I past with gastric fever, is recovering SLOWLY
| On Sunday he was feeling rather badly, and
| for day previous he was also in a restless
condition, owing to the taking OF cold. Yes
terday. however, it was reported that he was
much better. Mr.. Booth returned from a visit
to New Orleans and Atlanta just prior to going
10 the Lane Hospital. He was then unwen.
Pom K. Sob, the Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States
from Korea, who arrived here last Friday, left
| for Washington last evening. He was accom-
panied by his secretary, Bong Sung PAX
Minister Sob was several times sentenced to
death in Korea, only escaping in the narrowest
way, was finally exiled and after ten years was
recalled, made Minister of Justice, and is now
| Minister to Washington. He said last night
that the strangeness of his experiences i'm
| pressed itself so much on himself at times
| that he could scarcely believe them true
The Rev. Thomas Spurgeon, son of the late
DR.. Charles Spurgeon, whose pulpit he now
occupies in London and whose place is accord
| ing to a telegram yesterday, jeopardized bv
| Rev. DR.. Pierson, who wants to succeed him,
was in San Francisco little over year ago.
He had then just come from New Zealand,
where for some time he had pastorate. When
I intervie W ed at the Occidental he was ehary OF
saying he was going home to take the Spur
geon pulpit, though when pinned down to it
he admitted it. He said, however, he might
return to New Zealand. Judging from the
! fight which Pierson is said to be making
] against him the remark was at the least
| diplomatic.
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