Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-10-18

sumner Is very sick In Paris.
-DOre has gone back TO Paris from London
In Improved health
Mrs. ScOttSldhons Is so III that she has
Cancelled engagements to lecture.
- Admiral Polo, tho spanish Minister, has
taken house No. 1873 II street, for his residence
MT. A. j. Falls, chief clerk Department Of
Justice, has gone TO New York, and will be alb
sent several days.
Mrs JET. Davis IL so aTlstocratlc that many
Of her old rebel nelghbors Indignantly refuse to
associate with her.
Secretary Fish will return this morning
from New York, where no has been Tor several
| days past.
Aimee, the Sprightly opora boune artist,
does Broadway III hoss silk jacket and 800.
| 600 earrings.
Sir Charles Dixie says that $500 900 Is spent
annually 10 keeping up the royal vaults aud in
jean Jacques Onenbach's Income from his
comp lsltlOns in 1871 amounted to the handsome
sum'o Of $1,000 francs.
- Gonnolssours pronounce tho Empress Of
Austria the most beautiful woman In Europe.
Rank Is great beAutiher."
When Mr. Seward returned from his last
long tour he told his tellOW-tOHnsmen that he
must keep employed, for him "rest was rust"
-Ex:GovsrnOr Marcus L. Ward, Of New Jer.
seY, and Congressman George A. Halsey, from
the Sixth district OF that State, are In the city
Victor Hugo's new novel will DO entitled
The Last Of the Infamous" and will describe
the last months Of the rule Of Napoleon III.
= Secretary Delano autographed yesterday
that his voice was falling, and he did not believe
he would be able to mlhll tho appointments
made to speak In New York.
= Wieniawskl, tho vlOlInist, who came over
with Rubinsteln, says the women of this coun.
try are not very pretty, but they seem to be very
appTeciatiye or music"
"A writer In the Springfield Republican saws
Of George Eliot, tho novelist: "She Is a feminine
Bacon OF the present aye, and many of her
nUlOTlgma n VDDd n naNnni n
- Miss VlOletta ColvIlle was presented with
cOfonet Of gold aud gems, valued at u, 5OO on
Italy.
Judge j. j. Martin, Sixth auditor, left last
night Tor Alabama, where no will take the
stump for Grant and Wilson, remaining until
after tho Presidential election.
The friends Of tho late WIN. Prescott smith
are ~ hold a meeting 10 Baltimore to make ar.
rangements Tor the erection Of q suitable mOnu.
ment to his memory.
- report comes from Europe that Baron
Won khaden, the husband OF MADAM Lucca,
has become 50 dissOluto that she will probably
obtain divorce from him.
- Alexander and u. l. Stuart, Of New York,
the sugar rehneTs, began life In selling candy
AZ penny stick, and arc nov looking toward
Its sunset with ti,OOO,OOO 10 % OOO, 900 each.
- DR.. J. q, Holland has DO on for some tlmo
at work on novel, now nearly ready for tho
press. II Is II story OF American life, autobiU.
graphical In form, under tho title OF Arthur
- Ella Wesnor, singer In the Theatre
OOmique, Of Now York, broke her engagement
aEd sailed OIL to Paris with Josephine Mansfield,
leaving tho manager 10 put somebody In her
place.
=. Tho late Chief Justice fancy was an In.
yeteTate smoker from youth up To the very
close Of bis life. While On his sick bed he found
his greatest relief from pain In smoking. Ito
died almost with the cigar In bis mouth
Stokes, the taker-OH Of Fisk, and Foster
the car.kOOk murderer, occupy cells upon the
same floor, ant within twenty feet OF each
other, at the TOmbs In New York, A CORE.
sp1ndent writes: 1.-TWO men now stricken 10
years, and both crushed by misfortune, now
visit the prison several timesa week. Each has
a son imprisoned for murder. One Of these men
Is the iatneT Of Foster the other is the tAthor OF
Stokes. What n spectacle 10 SEQ tie old men
meeting In the corridor, each 10 search Of a
blood stained child"
Tho New York critics DO not go into unquaI.
lied rapture over or about Lucca, though all
Oi them admit that she Is II success. Her superb
acting, and hor personal chaTm7, amply com.
pensAte for whatever disappointment may DO
ielt In regard 10 her yOcNllsm People Fay her
method and her manner resemble those Of PlcCO.
lOmlni, and though she may not create tho Il.
ruro that Nilsson did, there would seem to hs no
doubt but that her popularity Is assured Asa
whole, however nothing Is TisEei In asserting
that "LAtricalne" has been better presented BY
other artists 10 times gone by.