National Republican., 1873-02-08
Personal,

- MI. story, the sculptor, will huill resi-
dence In Rome.
| Tenn. Is stopping at the owen House.
- General Phil Sheridan arrived In town yes
terday, and Is stopping at the Arlington.
Joe Jefferson appears as Rip Van Wrinkle at
the Wilmington (Del.) opera house tonight.
Governor Parker OF New Jersey, fell on the
Ice at Trenton Wednesday night, and was badly
hurt.
- A New York paper suggests that when
Mr.. Oakes Ames' memory fails him he should
fall back upon hn Alley-bi.
James Henry IIOgg was married to Miss
EllnOr BeAne, In New York, last Sunday. PORK
and beans are In order OF course.
mit Is reported that G. d. Brigham, late OF the
Pittsburg Commercial, Is about to start a new
Republican paper In Philadelphia.
- Dan Rice Il "all right" again and will take
the road early In the spring on his seven hundred
and nfty-second annual farewell tour.
= Marctzeks italian Opera Troupe. with Lucca
anu Kellogg ~ the bright particular stars, has
been drawing good houses In Chicago this week
- Governor Stewards new book, "TraycIs
Around the World" IL meeting with almost un-
paralleled success; 5000 copies will not meet
the present demand. Orders are pouring In from
all quarters OF the world.
- The Allentown Chronicle states that Chas d.
Bnckalew II appointed attorney for the LehIgh
valley hallroal Company, at salary Of 900
year. Buckalew " present serving a. member
OF the Constitutional convention.
Mr.. Booth, In playing Hamlet, has frequently
used In the graveyard scene the skull OF horse
thief named Glover, who was hanged In the
West for stealing horses, and who bequeathed his
skull TO the elder Booth Us n mementO.
1t IL rumored that theatre IL to he built
for Mr. Sothern, at the junction OF broadway
and Twenty-thlrl street. The project originated
II Is said, In the Manhattan Club, and already d
committee OF gentlemen mas been appointed to
attend 10 the details.
A Western paper says: Reports from Topeka
say that POmerOys outlay In "hOtel bills" alone
At that capital, during the Senatorial canvass
averaged 81 300 day, and that the total price he
paid for his own political destruction was not
less than 10000
The aged GuizOt IL absolutely bringing out
another book. The subject Il MONARCHY IInpc-
rialsm and Republlcanlsm." This veteran
statesman and author entered on his eighty-slXth
Two empires ami three republics.
The Arkansans have not all dlsanned. SAYS
the Little Rock Gazette; ~ man dressed In citi-
yesterday. lie had a revolver strapped to his
side. The new law could not touch him, as he
did not take the pains to conceal his weapon"
- In the suit Of Gordon Gordon against jay
Gould, brought to recover certain securities
alleged to have been given to him by Gould, aud
then taken back at the Metropolitan hotel the
complaint was dismissed by default in the su-
prelne Court, special term, ut New York on
Thursday, by Judge Van Brunt.
VIM. Murray, cashier OF j. BlOOdgOOd A Co.
Of New York, who robbed his employers OF fh,ODO
and then absGonded with young woman whom
HlaillNaf was ~IfAlfil bn lutA=
day At Bangor where he had Just arrived from
81. John, n, II. II Il supposed he was en- route
for Montreal, via Portland.
1t Il related Of the late Mr. Butler OF PFOyi-
dence. Rhode Island, that he was 80 Obgtng rs
10 reopen his store one night solely TO supply
little girl with spool Of thread which she
wanted The incident took wind, brought him
large run Of custom, aud he died II millionaire,
after subscribing go, 900 toward founding hos
pltal for the insane.
80 Major Ben. c. Truman, the wcll-knnwn
journalist and Mcrdtrur formerly Of the New
York Times, now Of Los Angeles Cal, who has
been spending some weeks here has written a
story for the next Sunday Herald. ben Is an in-
tereAting ltory-teller and has written some short
tales which are uneNcelled by any, except, per-
haps, those Of Bret lIarte.
Marx Twain delivered an amusing lecture
on the Sandwich Islands In New York on W0dnes-
day night. II was slandeT, he said, 10 say tina