National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-11-16
PERSONAL.

Hon. Ralph @. johnson, ex-mayor of Belfast,
Maine, died on Saturday, aged eighty four.
Mr.. John B. Fry, clerk to the Senate Commit
tee on the District Of Columbia, has returned
from New York, fully restored to health.
Sam Bard has been heard from. He still runs
the post ONCE, and intends to 'contiuneF'' 90 TO
d. Notwithstanding the result Of the Georgia cleo
tons.
The Prince Imperial Intends, It is said, 'srun-
ming" for . commission in the English Royal Ar
tillery, being evidently ambitious Of ''eOnfrma-
ton" Of fire.
Miss Katie Field made her debut upon the dra-
matte stage At Booths theatre last night as
Peg Wellington in "Masks and Faces" and was
we'll received.
Hammatt Billings, the Well-knoWn artist and
architect, died at the residence Of his brother in
New York, on Saturday evening. He was one Of
the best known Of HIS profession in the country.
The young men who LEFT here a week ago to
hunt the wild fox in North Carolina are still at
Greensboro waiting for the 'distinguished hunt
ers" who started out for their benefit to return
with the animal.
Chief Justice Waite Is said BY writer to look
the 'Uhief Justice Of the present, being totally
different IRON the ideal judge OF the past, who was
marked by white and scanty locks and "a bald
and glistening dome Of thought"
Its reported from Florence that Mr.. Joaquin
Miller the poet Of the Sierras, has eloped with an
Italian married woman, the mother Of several
children. The affair is said to have produced q
great eOmmotiOn in the society Of that free living
city.
John L. Hall, the burlOsque actor, who played
with the Lydia Thompson troupe here three or
four seasons ago, has been given farewell dinner
at Liverpool prior to his departure for London,
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James theatre.
Right Reverend Bishop George David Cum
nins,of the Reformed Episcopal Chureh, preached
last evening in the First Reformed Episcopal
church Of New York on ''The failure Of the gen.
eral convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church to meet the responsibility Of the crisis.
Mr.. Cole SIMPSON, Of. the seeretary's ONCE,
United States Senate, recently returned from his
home in Illinois, reports the Democrats OF that
State as most happily surprised By the result Of
the late election there. They had no idea Of
kicking up such a row, and apologetieally say
they "didn't go to do IT,"
Mr.. Charles A. Wetmore, who for two sessions
has been the Washington agent for the Pacific
Press Associations, will soon return to this city
TO resume his duties in the same capacity the
coming winter. The California press indicates
full eondenee IN the success Of the present efforts
Of Mr.. Wetmore to organize civilized eommu-
nifty among the Mission Indians in that State.
The Washington correspondent Of the Cnein-
natl Gasetfe telegTsphs that paper the private
reasons given among the Legations for the recall
Of the Portuguese Minister are, that be wrote to
his Government, complaining that hls salary was
not SUFFICIENT 10 allow him to live properly here,
and that he was obliged 70 leave his family in
New York, while heTesided in Washington The
response came promptly BY cable, informing him
that his successor had been appointed.