National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-02-18

August Belmont aud family are In Nice.
- Hon. George II. PendletOn and family aIe
| In Paris.
Ex-senator DoollttIe Is giving religious lec-
lures In Chicago.
Daniel Pratt SAYS OAEes Ames gave him
dollar once, and he does not propose 10 deny II.
- LeXlJyA Akekigs IA the way they spell the
name OF the Japanese COMMISSIONER " the VI
emma Exhibition.
- Stokes would like to sleep q llttls, but .
Herald reporter, bent on interviewing hin. won't
let him have a mOmentS repose.
- Carlyle Ia reported 10 have said OF Swim
burne, the poet, II think he Is like man sitting
neck deep In u sewer, and adding 10 L."
The ex-Queen Isabella Of Spain met her
husband for the frst time In several years al the
late funeral OF the Duke de San Ricardo, In
Paris.
"A ST.. Paul wife, who had lived win her hus-
hand for sixteen years, recently discovered that
she had no "afiiniiy" for him, and elopcd with
| a mere boy.
The Massachusetts, Legislative sanrage
Committee will this week give hearing 70 all
are expecting great rush.
| The Supreme Court Of California has made
an important decison concerning the responsl-
| hilIty for loss caused by q raised check" Ac-
cordng to their decision the loss fell the bank
which paid the check.
- superintendent II. A. Blood, OF the Boston,
Clinton and Fltchburg railroad, has been invited
TO take the general management of tho New
York and Buffalo railroad corporation, at salary
OF t26, 600 per annum.
A girl named Helen RcksTt, residing at
BrOwntOwn, Pa, aged twenty-thIeS, and weigh
ing 45O pounds, though reduced nifty pounds by
illness, commenced 10 develop her adIpOse after
an iniantlle attack Of erysipelas.
M. Thlersps having q dlr,culty with an Eng
lshman named BOwea, who got possession Oi
his manuscripts, &c., during the communist in-
surrectiOn. BOwles sent the documents to Eng.
land, where he now has them waiting for N.
Theirs to purchase them at an enormous price.
- The bishop Of the Catholic diocese OF IT,
Paul, Minnesota, IL much exercised by q sta artlna
development OF matrimonial prOcliylties among
his priests, one OF whom not long ago married
his housekeeper, and another OF whom wants u
marry his sisters Hibernlan "help.'
Robert Rmmet, the Oldest sca Of Thomas
Adds Rmmet, the Irish patriot, who iied In Kew
York In 1891, and nephew OF the celebrated Rob
ert Emmet, died at his home In New ltOchelle
New York, on SATURDAY, 10 the eighty.nrst yea
member OF the New York bar.
- President smith, OF the New York polio,
board, says there Ia no foundation for the TumOr
anOat that the genial Captain Thorne Is TO super
sede Mr.. KelsO a. superintendent. IL IL ex
planned that the amazingly rapid promotion o
that gentleman was merely done 10 retain Cap
tain ThOrne in the police force. ] / the oplnl |
OF the board, the street cleaning bureau viii b.
much more efficient with an oniceT OF that fore
at lts head.
- The following named wallis have beel
thrown ashore by the centenaTlan tide: Mrs. TO
ger, residing In the town Of Athens, Me-, Is 10
years old; knlts stockings without spectacles
John Boyd, louisville, Ky, colored, i62i chew
and smokes; third set Of teeth coming; two
: cords OF wood before dinner. Sarah Flanders
iO5 Macon, Ga; hale and hearty; engaged TO b'
married TO Luke COZOns, lOl, OF the same pace
temperance and ant-tObaccO. James Tyler
Chicago, lO5, lately whipped his son, George ,ry
ler aged 50, for lmpudeice; 1ned o.. Mary Wal
tiers, EmTa, n. Y, lOI; takes In washing; NJ
, speCtacles; Bible twice lay; smokes pipe
| strictly temperance.
A young man In Minnesota has met with
the following mlshaps lie stepped on board !
= train which, as he had every reason TO believe
, would take him TO JOnesylllo swiftly enough u
enable him to keep an engagement he had made
, to marry a young woman. The train was de
) layed the lady got huiiy, and, since the bride
groom did not appear, Instantly married another
man who suddenly remembered that he had
6 loved her fOndly. The ardent nrst lover was &C
p anxious to reach JOnesyille that, he acted nery
Ously, was taken IN charge by detectives as one
implicated In q great robbery which had lusl
. been committed 10 Chicago, and was liberated
at last only to IND that blight and mildew had
gathered all over his hOllest affections, and thai
7 the world was indeed cold and desolate and M
! sympathetic.