National Republican., 1877-12-31

| the Merrimac, IN 1862. ri
THE death Of Mr.. George Taylor, noted
English turfman, Is announced.
ApARry Of Bostonisns were surprised to
find s'some refinement in Chicago. ~ 4
BROOKLYN has more church fairs and scan
dals than any other city In existence.
THEODORE TILToN's long flowing locks
have turned from blonde to an iroa-gray.
The Rev Edward Everett Hale has become
one of the editors Of Murray's Golden Rule.
THE receipts Of John wanamaker's store, In
Philadelphia, on Saturday footed up 5000.
JAMES KEENE the California speculator,
loses $4,000 by Meter q Company's failure.
4 SARAH BERNHARDT, the French actress, II
modelling statue Of Q child playing hute.i
MARY L. BOOTH, daughter of Junius Drutus
Booth, has gone on the stage In Philadelphia.
JuLp ARMAND DUrAURE, head Of the now
French Ministry, is now in his eighticth year.
PRoF. HUXLEY intends visiting the United
States again In q year or two, but not tolectnre.
THREE hundred more boys can now be 40
commodated at Girard College, Philadelphia.
The French Republicansere said to have
conquered MacMahon by laughing him down.
| OvER 1900 persons witnessed "The Exiles"
In single day recently at the Boston Thea
MANAGER GRAu will present the Aimee
troupe at Pernambuco, South America, In May
i next Am us.... ..t... b.. .......,,
| IF there Is any time in the year that young
| girl desires big foot, 1t Is during the holi-
days.
MRS JOHN T. RAyxoND's, health Is i'm.
! proving. She was sufferer from congestion
Of the brain. ...., .... s
JOHN JAY Is not candidate for reelection
to the presidency Of the Union League Club
Of New York.
Miss THuRsBY, Mrs. Flora E. Barry, Mr..
Joseph Mas, and Mr.. Myron W. Whitney are
Il singing In Boston.
! THERE are ninety mine millionaires In Phil
adelphia, the richest Of whom Is Asa Packer,
worth $l2 100000.
LEoNTINE, the dansease took the prize
awarded in q Philadelphia baby show to the
handsomest mother.
COMMODORE MUTT Is reported on the point
Of matrimony with Miss Jennie Quigley, Of
his liliputian company.
Mrs PARrINGToN says that she does 20 en-
joy sitting in the Pixzarro of the Rink watch
ing the play Of the Rollas.
CooINa Is in order before marriage, but the
billing generally comes afterward-for dresses
and bonnets, ETC., you know.
A VERMONT lover got down on his knees be-
fore his sweetheart and read . declaration Of
love he had carefully written.
GEN. BUTLER's son, who graduated from
West Point last summer, has been assigned to
q colored regiment on the Rio Grande.
GEORGE BANCROFT Is working on the new
volumes of his History of the United States" !"
opening the era Of the Federal Government.
The Waterbury american company has sold
out its job printing department, and will here
after devote its whole attention to the news
paper.
The Superior Council of the Fine Arts in
Paris has decided that the Salon in 1873 shall
J open on the 18th of May and close on the 9th
Of July.
Milan, where she visited several schools, and
praises highly the efficiency Of the lady
teachers.
LIEUTESANT ii. t. RAYMOND, of the Ninth
cavalry, has resigned his commission in the
United States army, to take effect on the 1st Of
}, March next. N.
, The Rev. James L. Thompson, of Brooklyn,
N. " formerly editor of the Baptist Recorder
and missionary to the Indians, is dead, aged
seventy-seven.
Miss TANNER, who recently married a
} widower named Hyde with eleven children,
says she has given up Tanning and is now
dressing Hydes.
MISS BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, author of
! "One Summer" is thirty years old, queenly
!, ; in form, with a very beautiful face. She was
never engaged"
, MAYOR SToKLEY, of Philadelphia, denies
that he is part owner of the Sunday Transcript.
/ The proprictors have been satisfied that he
! was not for some time past.
e The old maxim-"Be chaste and you'll be
happy"-is contradicted point blank by a
Black Hills man, who was recently chased ten
miles by party OF redskins.
The maiden effort of number of Congress.
men has been to 60 to the Treasury Depart.
ment, pick out the prettiest girl to be found
: and marry her.-BostOR Post.
Il Mr. CoBDEN's private correspondence, now
a being collected by his daughters Is said I,
i contain many interesting letters written by
IS him at very early period of his life.
e "OH, Lord, give them common sense ~ wa:
: the fervent petition Of the Rev. Morton Dex
ter, In New Bedford. He was praying for tn,
l. members of the Forty-ffth Congress-.
Miss MAY ALcorr is having good success n
s. an artist in London. She painted beautiful
h picture for the Dudley Gallery, and 1t wa
G bought at goodly price the first week.
v The collection of ffty-fiv pictures, formerl,
r the property of il. ID. Ncwcomb, president o
: the Louisville and Great Southern Railroad
'' was sold in Now York on Friday, and realized
y S3i,1i5
II AprLINA PATTI is about to purchase tn,
70 royal villa at Cosotto, In one of the pretty
q fields not far from Turin. She has signed AZ
h agreement at the Scala for 100000 francs fol
N ten nights.
Mr.. G. E. WATKINS, Independent slat,
Il writer, is in the city for short time. He re
ceived quite an ovation from his admirers las
y Saturday night, at his rooms, No. 122 Fiftl
v street southeast.
Il WHILE growing at her husband last sum
a mer, a New York womanywas struck by light
ming and instantly killed. If you wish you
y wife to see this paragraph, cut it out and past
II it on the looking-glass,
Is BY accident, the name of Mr.. Thomas Il
I, Browning, of Dundas, Canada, was left off tn
a assessment roll so that he had no taxes to pay
"a Instead of being thankful and silent, he ha
!, sued the town for $1,000 damages.
WINNIE REAM is busy with Clusters an,
Farraguts statues, the former being only use
q as recreation" at present, when she is ia
y tigued with the more trying work of the Ad
T. mial, which stands ten feet in height.
p In cast gloom over an entire church fai
IN the other night when the minister's so
is walked up to the grab-bag and prize-cak
Ia table, and demanded that the game be es
NO planned to him before he bought his chips.
SIR WALTER ScorT's granddaughter, Mar
10 Monica Maxwell Scott, writes from Abbotti
l. ford to the Bishop of Buffalo, making an aI
&c peal for help from Americans toward tn
st establishment Of a Convent of the Goood SheI
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