National Republican., 1876-12-11
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(. @. S. Landers. Connecticut. is stopping at the
Riggs house.
Hon. Aaron F. Perry, of Cincinnati Ohio, is at
Hon. E. F. Dickinson, Of New York, has rooms
at the National hotel.
Hon. D: ]. Morrel, Johnstown, Pa, has taken
rooms at WilIsrd's hotel.
Hon. Casey Young. Of Memphis, Tenn, is quar-
tered at the Ebbitt house.
Hon. H. d. Money, Of Miss, Is among the ar
rivals at the Ebbitt house.
Hon. William r. Leeds Of PHILADELPHIA, has
arrived at Willard's hotel
George Jones, proprietor of the New York
Tfnies, is 1.-THE Arlington.
Erastus Brooks, editor of the New York Err
press, is stopping at the Arlington.
Gen. E. w. Barber, of Mich, and Col. Ward
II, LaDon, of W. Va, are registered at the Ma
tional hotel.
Hon William S. Stokley and Hon. H. H.
Bingham, Of Philadelphia, are registered at
General de Bielsky and Alexander Plthof, of
the Russian commission, have suite of rooms at
the Riggs house.
Ohio; Hon. John II. Hill, Of Phiiadelphia, are
registered at Willard's hotel.
The following are registered at the Arlington:
MT and IN Mrs 9 David : Mash: New YORK; 30hH Ms
York; T. d. Lincoln, Cincinnati; Geo. s. Terry,
New York; J. s Sharp, Chicago: Mr.. and Mrs.
Dilluyn Parrish and q. O. Hand, Philadelphia.
Elsewhere.
Stokes will commence his lecture tour as Skane-
ateles.
Lydia Maria Child, the authoress, is seventy
i've, and still healthy.
Ex-Secretary Hugh McCulioch has returned to
his home at Fort Wayne, Ind.
The Greeks fell in love with Dom Pedro and
his wife, like all the rest of the world.
James Webster Smith, once the colored cadet
at W est Point, has died Of consumption.
Russian literary people charge Mark Twain
with being Frenchyl We have always had our
The Princess of Wales is an ''expert with the
whip" and tits noticeable fact that Albert Ed
ward is away from home good deal.
The ancient Ben Wades bound to crop out
somewhere. Here he turns up Rs messenger to
carry ohio's electoral vote to Washington.
Commodores Edmund R. Calhoun and Charles
Fl Of ,Ss the SSi e1
Mr.. ]. M. Bailey, more commonly known as
''the Danbury Nevs man" Is soon to deliver q
lecture before the students of Princeton College.
General Sherman Is credited with saying that
hereafter q new course would be pursued with
selves7
Professor Harrington, of the Ann Arbor Uni.
offer Of 900 year to teach in the Imperial pal
ace in China.
The late sickness Of Governor Fairbanks seems
to be the result of hard work and chronic throat
trouble. The doctors insist on his going to q
milder climate.
Beecher says Hayes has carried South Carolina,
flOrlO8 ana LOUISIANA, anu, therefore, ought TO
be President. Now let us hear from Mrs. Tilton.
st. Louis BepubIicGn.
The Rev. DR.. Samuel O. jackson, who has been
acting State librarian in Massachusetts, for the
last Qulrter of century, has resigned, and Oliver
Warner will succeed him.
Bayard Taylor says: "It is q whitening COM
mentary upon our modern costume that no sculp-
tor has dared, or ever will dare, to model statue
wearing stovepipe hat"
A new dramatic critic of the London Times is
distant relative of the proprietor, Mr.. Walter.
He has shown SO much honesty in his work that
the managers have combined against him.
The Rev Thomas P. Hunt, who died last Tues
day at Wilkesbarre, Pa, was the "Father Hunt"
who was formerly we'll known as one Of the
leaders Of the temperance agitation in Pennsyl-
vania.
Colonel Edmund Rice lieutenant 5th infantry,
the inventor Of the trowel bayonet arrived at the
lieutenant colonel Of the famous 18th Massacha.
setts volunteers.
The bell boy Of the hotel where Alexander H.
Stephens staid for q while in Atlanta sold four
hundred pounds of visiting cards which he had
gathered In Mr.. Stephens room. Sothe Atlanta
Constitufior says.
Captain Adolphus Won Luettwitz lieutenant
Sd calvalry, arrived at the Ebbitt Saturday morn.
ing. Captain Won LuettwitE was the officer who
lost his leg during Colonel Mills fight near the
Black Hills last month.
Mr.. Carlyle said to Prof. Huxley not long ago:
"You Darwinians are spending your lives in try
ing to prove that men are descended from apes;
and It needs more than our civilization to prevent
Mrs. Blue Jeans williams is said to be very
neat housekeeper, down in her little story-and-a-
half house, near yincennes, Ind, but she has a
on the bran new ragcarpet.
Chief Justice Taney was most loyalty devoted
to tobacco. He ate and drank little, but smoked
necessarily. When his physician prescribed
short allowance he would reduce the supply to
thirty or forty cigars day.
When Raymond was playing Colonel Sellers in
Boston last year he was suddenly called home by
the illness Of his wife. Mr.. Murdoch, one of the
victims Of the Brooklyn fire, took his place at
few moments notice and represented the part
with great success.
As Capoul, the popular tenor, was getting into
q carriage In Paris recently, he slipped and mar
rowly escaped q fracture Of his leg. As he was to
appear at once in the new operetta, Paul and
Virginia." the accident sent cold shudder over
the manager Of the theatre.
Previous to the war Gen. Thomas H. Rugsr,
who has become famous in connection with the
South Carolina troubles of the past month, was
an attorney with small practice at Janesville,
Wis. He entered the army as major of the 18th
regiment Of Wisconsin volunteer infantry.
Cardinal Antonelli was not q priest when he
was made cardinal, and, it is believed, never be-
came one. 1t is told of him that, as cardinal, he
used often to serye'the mass of his private chap
lain, at which 1t was his custom to attend every
morning before engaging in his arduous occupa-
tions.
A knowledge of languages isnot required in one
who holds the position Of musical critic on the
milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, who, closing a
notice Of the performance Of quartette opera
company" announced, the other day, that ITO
night LOmber's opera, The Spectre will be
given.
Captain Michael J. Fitzgerald, 9th infantry
arrived at the Ebbitt last Monday from his sta
tion at the Red Cloud Indian agency, in Ne
braska, on sick leave. He was severely wounded
not long since by shot fred by an officer during
target practice, and for q time 1t was feared he
would lose his leg.
Matthew Arnold, one of England's notable
scholars and authors, is aman of striking appear
ance, over six feet in height, broad. .shouldered,
eyes are large and gray in color and his thick
side whiskers and his hair are dark brown. His
physique is more Of the Anglo-Norman than Of
the pure Saxon.
Mr. Henry Chaplin. a wealthy member of Par.
lament, and owner Of the horse Hermit, who won
the Derby in 1867, was Tilted almost at the church
married the Marquis Of Hastings Now MT.
Chaplin, at thirty six, has lust been married to
another Florence, thirteen years younger than
the first, and the eldest daughter Of the Duke of
Sutherland.
Mr.. William W. Story, the American sculptor
and poet, has been placed first among the six
competitors who have been invited to try their
now in his prime-hfty seven years old-is the SON
Of the late Judge Story, and though early in life
me entered me s 1sga. procession ne soon I0u1d 1t
sculpture and poetry, In both of which he has won
renown.
Bayard Taylor, in his speech in Greenwood
Cemetery, spoke Of the face Of the Greeley statue
as being turned toward the city which Greeley so
much loved, 1t is turned in the direction Of Co.
ney Island, city chiefly inhabited by clans.
These bivalves Mr. Greeley hated and once when
dish Of them was brought him for lunch he
arose and calmly remarked: al could kill the
man who put those clans there" There were
occa asions In Mr.. Greeley's life when he was not,
strictly speaking, philosopher.
In 1869 Romualdo Pacheco, now elected to Con-
gress from California by one vote, was elected to
the State Senate by majority of one vote His
seat was contested. He retained 1t by majority
of one in the Senate. In 1871 he was elected
Lieutenant Governor on the Booth ticket. In 1874
Governor Booth was elected to the United States
Senate by majority Of one, and Pacheco became
Governor. He is now elected to Congress by q,
majority of one vote. He evidently looks out for
(the) number l.