National Republican., 1873-01-09
PERSONAL,

Mayor Pierce, Of Boston, Is a bachelor.
valid.
Mile. Nilsson has resumed her ophelIa at
the Paris opera.
= Brgnoli was recently singing at Nice, but
has gone TO Milan.
= Pauline Lucoa has converted sT5,OOO into
United States registered bonds.
- Isaiah Woodbury., esq, Of New York, Ia In
town, and sojourning at Wlllard's.
= Mrs. Charles Moulton has been compelled by
illness to postpone her engagements.
James N. Motley, esq, president Of the Man.
haitian on Company, is nj the Ebhitt house.
- Miss Fannie Davenport lost all her jewelr,
Ore. '"""'
= Edwin A. Stevens, jr., OF Hoboken, New
Jersey, Is seventeen years old, and worth siO,.
0OO,0OO.
= Rev. Henry Austin, OF Texas, breaches with
his hat on to cover the place where his SCALP
once was.
- Nine. Rosa writes that she Is enjoying her.
sell IN Cairo, and purposes spending Christmas
on top OF one Of the Pyramids,
- During the past ten years OF his married
life, Disraell was three times taken out OF the
bankruptcy court by his rich wife.
= Mayor Hall says he has bought a burial
10y, anu VIII not be many miles from the City
Hail when the resurrection trump sounds.
= The Newark AdreriiseT says that the only
sister Of Edgar A. Poe ls living at Hicks Land.
ing on the James river, Virginia, in utmost pov.
- The King Of Bavaria recently expen ded
t2OOOO In an artificial representation Of an erup-
ton OF MI Vesuylus, and his subjects believe
him crazy,
= Colonel Lewis d. Campbell Is stlIl confined
70 his bed, at his home In Hamilton, Ohio, and Ii
ls doubtful whether he will be able 10 appear N
his seat during the balance Of his term IN Con.
gress.
Among the callers at the White House who
saw the President yesterday was Mr.. John X
Van Wagenen, treasureT-slect OF ChelanVO
county, New YORK, and bis bride, who are stop.
ping at Wlllard's.
- Mrs. Ex-Governor Claim, of Massachusetts
has paid the board Of twelve women since the
Boston Ore. Remembering that Gov. Claim was
sufferer by the nre such charity seems 10 de-
serve special mention.
= Nine. Button, wife of the Russian charge
d'analres, was presented TO the Mikado OF JapaT
iast November at the review In honor Of Alexis
NO woman has been so h0nOred before, The
Empress was then also for the nTst time pre-.
sented TO the foreigners.
= The Duke Of Edinburgh, who Is president ol
the Amateur Orchestral Society, took his seal
Tor the nrst time among the nrst yiolins at the
practice which was held ut the Royal Albert
hall, In London, on Wednesday evening last
when upwards Of one hundred and nifty member.
were present.
eyesight, with the loss OF which he was 30 serl.
0usly threatened In June last, and for which he
suffered most delicate and painful operation al
the hands Of DIR. George Reullng, the eminent
occulist, OF Baltimore. Mr.. Jefferson states thai
he not only experiences now no traces Of his
former disease, but that he can read easily nnt
print with his operated eye, and does not suffer
pain under any light.
= This Is the way the editor OF the BROOKLYN
CHtOH makes "full Tetraotion:" ave are now
under threat OF q suit for libel, asked TO make
AN explicit and absolute retractiOn.' To do this
we must nrst know, Of our own knowledge, thai
our assertions were false. We do not Know ol
our own knowledge that our allegations were
false; we do not know of our own knowledge
that they are true. II Mr.. Whitelaw Reid inter.
prets this explanation as full and explicit ne.
traction we have nothing further TO say. II he
does not, and wants anything more, he musl
give US additional evidence, aud when q cOnvlc-
ton Of the falsity Of our statements has beer
brought To our mlndH, we will most gladly and
promptly assure the public OF that fact"