National Republican., 1873-06-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL NOTES,

nN HuulN tNANANNsf "'NN "NiNhl w " HNsa~
tion Of chief magistracy even In the Com
monwcalth Of Massachusetts,.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL NOTES.
BRIGHAN YOUSG Ia teetotaller.
"susASNLu. don't you cry" tNew York Her
ads advice to Miss Anthony.l
PowERs. the sculptor, has been sick for elsh-
teen months. lie has the consumption.
TIE Princess Mathllde Bonaparte has written
a novel called The Lady Of the Rubies."
ANNA DICKINSON, we learn from the Graphic,
will certainly appear on the stage next fall.
Miss SWIFT, Of Troy, has eloped with a negro.
and her friends are very slow to pursue the run
aways.
THE chicago Tribune calls young wslworth
the "yellow-coycred murderer That's "novel"
way OF putting IT,
TuE New YORK Mail wants Secretary Robeson
to secure the services Of Dr.. Hayes for the new
Arctic expedition.
PRINCE ToRLoSIA, the Roman banker. has
offered his villa 10 Father Becsx, General Of the
Jesults, and his followers.
MR. CLOAK Is on trial in Philadelphia for the
murder OF his wife. The Indications are that
the trial will result In his taking on.
| LADY MARY HKRBERr, sister to the Earl Of
Pembroke, has entered the Roman Catholic
Church. she will soon marry a rich Catholic
| gentleman.
Mus. COLONEL CoLRv, Of Naiohez, formerly
Miss Alice KlnEsbury, has made bust OF Gen.
Robert Y. Lee, which was presented &c the r. x.
| Lee Lodge, OF Nlcks6urE, last week.
FoRTY-oSE State prisons ornament our coun-
try, and furnish board and lodging TO q few uu-
/ fortunate gentlemen and ladies who tried 10
collect the living the world owed them.
HENRY PRoBAsoo Is going to erect and give to
Cincinnati colossal art hall, flled with his col
lection Of gems. antiquities, pictures, Sc. lie Is
now absent In Europe perfecting his plans.
THE Miss snyder, on whose account one
Daniels, at Cincinnati, q few days since, muir.
ned, ~ live at No. iss West sixth street, and
with other ladies, take In washing"
THE Pennsylvania Constitutional convention
has disposed Of the question OF representation
In the Legislature by adopting a proposition
dividing the state into any Senatorial district,
and one hundred and nfty-two Representative
districts.
THERE Is, 70 our notion, great deal Of sense
less talk about the recreation taken by Presiden
Grant; great deal Of foolish fault-undIng be
cause he Is not continually At given post, IKE
an once boy.-SVuth Bend Register.
TUE success Of the farmers OF Illinois at tn
ballot-box is a lesson TO all trades and pursuit
how TO proceed when they desire to redress
and ieenest weapon ever welded by a ire
man.-Hdrrisburg (Fd) Journal.
KANSAS seems to have q superabundanoe @
: the stun senators are made OF. Among III
e many candidates mentioned for Caldwells VI
4 | cant seat are Governor Osborne, Judge Lowe,
' 8. KAlloch, James NJ. Harvey, Lieutenant Cove
Il nor Slower, sidney Clarke, and Jas. D. snoddy.
! JOIN FRANKLIN, q farmer OF New York, delll
| aFaf a valuahla nlaWahara inH
/ river on account OF his wifes ncessant scoldinI
i Mr.. Franklin, 1t might be well TO add, was a
d tached to the weight by rope; consequent
Z three s feet % Of sOod @ fope just through eSron IN
g propensity to wag her tongue.
Miss RYE has been given, rent free for tN
e years, the house In Great Coram street, Londol
ID In which the mysterious murder was done se
e eral months ago. she will use It as a house
N reception for destitute children. The chAri
u cominissioners, who own tho building, ha,
Il strangely been forced 10 aid Miss Ryes beney
n lent labors by the popular belief that the hou
= Is haunted.
q soxk years ago an American gentleman q
Esda spsat ikPaaSIRpEt aasSbRftSsnt S,a n'n;G made
ID way, with an Interpreter, to the shop OF deal
a stranger. The dealer was asked TO show on
II such books on this special subject as were We
es rare. A large number were selected and Ia
I'd before the customer, who looking them owe
n found that he had every one. The dealer W
mt amazed at this announcement, and said IA
IN you from Cincinnati, in American" Yes" q
o. your name CarsonT' "fes." Cincinnati Coz
to mercidi.
w THE New York Posi says the late Horace
he Clark was undoubtedly 4 victim Of oyerwor
In having for years borne q responsible and actl
NJ part In many corporations. At the time OF
Die death he was president Of the Lake shore a
es Michigan Southern Railroad Company and TIM
Pacific Railroad Company. lie was director
81 many companies, among which we recall /
oi New York Central and Hudson, New YORK a
Of Harlem, New York, New Haven aud HaTtfOi
mo- Toledo, Wabash and Western, Erie and Pit
"s burg, Dunklrk, Warren and Plttsburg Weste
raj Union Telegraph Company and Union Tn
II Company, besides several banks and insurAn
- companies.
~ LOUIS NAroLEASs private estate amounts
'a q, 100000. Nobody at all familiar with his {
'ut portnnities for making money ever credited
an yarns about his property. Whenever he want
e s9Sn an sSnss he housed himself
all he was III. The Paris Bourse respordcd at on
ng IKE nne chord TO the touch OF 4 mast
ne, bought In the spring OF 1881 an Americ
Is apecuator made over two hundred thOusa
led francs ssn on an Intlmatlon Of the Rmperor,a
Ill Tor Louis Napoleon " die very poor.
IN ONE OF the links that bound US to the hIsto
Ith days Of our wars with Great Britain was seyei
he yesterday at the grave OF General Horatio Ga
"a Stevens. Born In lTTs, he was named after ~
"s hero OF Saratoga" who long wore lanrels n
raj belonged OF right TO Arnold, but lost them VIII
of he consPred TO secure washington's place.
the war OF 1919 Major Stevens Commanded /
fort at Castle Garden. One cannot but smile
oh BILE little round tower Of brick that has sin
ch been vocal with the strains OF Jenny Lind 81
,cr tag and Mario, and Is now resonant with !
-. would shAtter It's walls In less time than
Tor story could be told.-N y. Graphic.
'n- 'JosH BILLINGS" the speller, used to live
Is Poughkeepsie before he came TO New York, q
est a Poushkeepsie paper tells his fortune In u
ia. wise An ESSAY on the Mule" was the small
raj has since accumulated in cash above ali III !
is penses, and now has at interest, 81 900. lie
10 desk with the New York Weekly. another
~ Carleton's publishing house, and he writes
,ut home: The Weekly pays him 800 every Sat
of day. lie received by agreement two cents co
- for every copy sold OF his nrst almanac, on /
DO, sole condition that he dedicated 10 to Street
To- smith. This netted him q 900, and another 9
-, tod at one cent gave him ti 800. lie has a n
gu lecture, and Is also writing new book to app,
an summer in the kdirondscks. ''N'"
or the IiS members OF the Yale graduate
hc class this year, 50 belong to New York and 81
~ Connecticut. The average age OF the seniors
VI %, the Oldest being 70 and the youngest 49, 7
icy average weight Is lis pounds, one potent sen
lty supporting 209, The cOmpilers add that
IVY might be Considered good-looking, 80 as able
lat pass In q crowd without being taken for gorill
TO and 81 as positively ugly 70 are members
SPnS smoke md Sns eSsw oSISESnsss ~ EsrS sMssi
IT, and IS others "cussn occasionally under pro,
IN. cation; II are otherwise immora;" O2 cal
m- pete he stats.icS q mmoraty, o. of ~ SI, cT
are Republicans and II Democrats. Free tra
numbers 6s adNpcates and 10 remain true to /
nj sion, is Sasineis Is The ministry, On SmedlsSs S
teaching, . journalism, . banking, Q civil en-
'er neerlng, art and mining.