National Republican., 1876-12-07
PERSONAL.

John e. Earle, Of New Haven, is at the Arling-
ton.
John Roach, the ship-builder. is at the Arllng-
ton.
Hon. ]. F. Hartranft, of Pa, has taken rooms
at Willard's.
Hon. ]. B. sener, Va, is registered at the Ma.
tional hotel.
Col. Eddy and family will remain for the winter
at the Arlington. q
Hon. ]. B. Clarke, Of Brookvilie, KY, is quar-
tered at willard's hotel.
Judge E. W. Stoughton, Of New York, Is So
journing at the Arlington.
Mr.. ]. Mariscal, Mexican Minister, has taken
rooms at Wormley' IS hotel sBrr
Hon. O. II. Sumach, ofN. Y, is in town, and Is
stopping at Willard's hotel
Mrs. Gen. T. S. Rosser, MINI, has a suite of
rooms at the National hotel. -s5F
Set Low, of A. A. Low & Co., and party have
apartments at the Arlington.
Gen. Chester A. Arthur, collector Of New York,
is registered at the Arlington. .--. -. p.
L. p. Morton, the New York banker, has o
suite of rooms at the Arlington. Il
Gen. George W. Cass and Col Drake De Kay,
of New York, are at the Arlington.
W. E. simmonds and F.w. Cheney, of Hart
ford. have arrived at the Arlington.
BA Lynde and wife and d. E. Marshall and
wife, of Buffalo, are ut the Arlington. .,...,
Col. J. L. Merriman and Col. A. H. Wilder, st.
Paul, are stopping at the National hotel.
Us. Rutan, A. B. Burgee, G. B. Burgee and
NJ. S. Quay, of Pa, are at WiIlards hotel.
Hon. Julian Hartridge, of Savannah, Ga, Is
| soJourning in the city, and is stopping at VII
| lard's hotel.
Frederick Billings, Franklin Allen, Bristow
| Richardson and r. d. Benedict, of N. Y, are at
| the Arlington. "..
Dr. c. G. Cox who has been seriously Ill with
an attack of rheumatic gout, is recovering, and
was cut yesterday in his carriage.
Mrs. Wilcox, the daughter Of Andrew Jackson
Donelson, translated the recent postal treaty be-
tween the United States and Italy.
Benz NJ. Osgood, Berlin, Germany; WIN. A.
Pile, Caracas, Venezuela, and J. Q. A. Fiegler,
U. S. n, are stopping at the Ebbitt house.
MI Drew, the Democratic candidate for Gov.
ernor in Florida, is 9 Massachusetts man, whs
moved to Florida about twenty years ago. -
R.T. Baker, KY; Edward P. Thsyer, Boston;
| H. P. Dwight and wife, Toronto, and r. N. Pc
tersop, N. Y, are registered at the Riggs house.
Sam Sing is about locating eighty-ave Chinese
| In Chicago. If they are able to fnd employment
one hundred and fifty additional laborers will
| follow. .. ~ 0-r-.lJ
Mrs. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Hawthorne's
fair.haired daughter, has written some poems for
| the Independent, which are commended by the
/ critics.
The Rev. DR.. Prime still sits in the old leather
| covered chair into which he dropped when he
went into the New York Observer oface, thirty
/ years ago. -.
H. Clark, of San Francisco R. NJ Laimbur and
wife, S. h. Wales and 1. W. Wheeler, of N. Y,
and T. W. Hall, Baltimore, are stopping at
| wormley's. . --.r. -. g-.---5 ~ -
Mr.. Charles Lewis, NJ. p, has brought an &C.
tion against Mr.. Edmund Yates, the editor Of the
London World, for libel, and the trial will soon
take place. ...I s...- ....-..-. -...,rg-
Prof Swing, in the Alliance, advocates only
one sermon day, and believes 1t Is only kind
Of religious habit that keeps alive the evening
preaching. g.. 'H.F
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is delivering .
course Of lectures on Representative Modern
Fiction" before the College Of Liberal Arts VI
Boston University. 49,.
Dom Pedro astonished the great people Of 90
penhagen by riding on the tops of omnibuses, and
going about on foot among the people, Just ~ Il
| he were not o mob" ..-
Senator Burnside now wears q skull-cap while
in his place in the Senate, to protect his venera
BILE bald head from tho drafts Of air which occa
sionally draw through the chamber. ruas5
Brignoli is forty-six, with q mature voice tha,
retains all its youthful sweetness, though tenn.
pered and mellowed with the experience of mid
die age and embellishments of refined artistic
taste.
The number Of French marshals Is limited "a
| six in peace and twelve In war Only four gene
| raIs are now noIaIng tnat nign rank-Baraguaj
d'Hilliers, Oanrobert, MacMahon, the President
| Of the Republic, and Le Boun. r.r r......
Mr.. George Fairman, postmaster at Philadel
phia, whose term of ONCE expires on the 10th in.
slant, and for whose place a lively night fs being
made by the Pennsylvania politicians, arrived
here last evening, and Is staying at wiIlard's
| Hotel.
Stonewall Jackson's daughter Julia Is now q
pretty girl Of sixteen, with large eyes, a good
| head, and an expression full of sweetness and
character. She is said to be exceedingly gentle,
modest and thoughtful. She is living with her
mother in Charlotte, N. @. -a-I.sfr .
The Empress Augusta OF Germany is one Of the
most simply dressed of women, except on occa.
| sions Of ceremony. Her bills are said to be less
in amount than those of the wives of many of the
Berlin merchants. She not unfrequently is seen
| driving out in a calico dress.
Hon. Mr.. Fly and family, of Maine; Hon. Mr.
Blasted and family, of Maine; Hon. Martin 1.
Townsend, ofNew York; Hon. G. H. Joyce and
family, Of Vermont and Hon. A. Cameron, of
| Wisconsin, are stopping at Mrs. r. A. Rhines',
/ $40 Twelfth street northwest.
| The King Of the Belgians has offered q eup
valued at 100 900 francs to that corporation or
private association which shall bring about such
| an alteration in the construction Of dwelling
/ houses as will effect in given time and at the
lowest cost the greatest reduction of the death
i rate. % '-
| Senator-elcct John T. Morgan, who will sue
/ 70 of A Iah a ohout
fifty years Of age, and a lawyer and orator of
| high rank. He was an elector on the Brecken-
ridge ticket in 1859, and served with distinction
in the Confederate service, rising to the rank Of
major general.
Charles Fenno Hoffman, q noted litterateur of
| the old KRicker6ocker Magdzins days, recently
reported dead is still living at the age Of seventy,
in the State Lunatic asylum at Harrisburg, and
his insanity is less violent than for many years.
1t is now twenty-six years since his retirement
| from the world.
The rumor of Adelina PATHS separation from
| her husband, the Marquis de CauI, is pronounced
| improbable. In the first place she is Catholic.
and could not get divorce If she wanted one, and
/ in the second place she is much attached to the
Marquis, who is now travelling with the Diva in
the French provinces. .
Count Branicky has, during recent years, made
| valuable contributions to the Warsaw Geological
| Museum from America, Africa and Eastern ST.
/ IBERIA, which render the museum extremely rich
in the department Of higher animals. 1t contains
5l4 species of mammalians, s,2lo Of birds and 400
| Of reptiles and amphibians.
Signor del Vale has skated out Of the country
to land where young ladies don't sue rich
widowers for breach Of promise for picking them
| up when they fall down on the ice and engage
them to teach nothing in particular at 600 q
| month. American girls have altogether too keen
/ an eye to business to suit him. a
Mrs. A. ]. Duniway, the editor OF the Eep
Northirest of Portland, Oregon, is soon to return
/ to the Pacific coast to take charge Of the paper
/ again. She has been East for several weeks, at
| tending the Centennial and reading the proof Of
/ her new poems, David" and "Anna atson"
She will fill several lecturing engagements on
| her way home.
| Baron Alfonso de Rothschild owns Voltaire's
| snufbox, cane and waistcoat. Princess Czarto-
| ryska has the ring Queen Elizabeth gave Essex,
and an English gentleman possesses that found
| on Scipio Africanus' finger. Sardou, the drama
tist, has just purchased the door Of the house in
which CorneilIe lived and died, and which has