National Republican., 1877-10-12
PERSONAL.
MILES ahead of Howard,

MILES ahead Of Howard,
Hon. LSyf MASH, of York, Pa, Is at Will
iurd'a
SENATOR CoNKLING Is expected here this
morning
JOSEPH DORSEY, Of Barnums hotel, was in
town yesterday.
GEN. MILES should give Gen. Howard an in
PRODUCTION TO Chief Joseph.
Rev. HENRY NJ. SToRRs arrived from Glas-
gov Wednesday in the steamer Devonia.
GEN. MOVES is making q good deal Of him
self at Parisian banquet-Chirn10 Times.
EDWARD GRANVILLE ELIOT, third Earl Of
81 Germans is dead. He was seventy mine years
ofage.
REV. Z. WILLIAMS, Of Railway, n. J., will be
church here.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has returned to WASH
ngton, and was on duty at the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday.
president Of the Memorial Dining Hall Association
at Harvard college.
BAILEY writes his Jokes in the Danbury
cemetery. That's what gives them their funny-real
faror.-Bost0n Post
Hon. A. II. BUcKNER, of Mo-: Hon. J. W.
Stone, Of Mich, and Hon. J. D. Atkins, OF Tenn,
are at the Metropolitan.
KING GELELE, of Dahomey, is about to send
an embassy tn England to see with what sort OF
nation he has Just made treaty.
NO GOVERNMENT clcrk went nome 10 Iowa
to vote, but Iowa went Republican. This ought to
be an example for Ohio-next time.
REPRESENTATIVES, d. W. AIKEN, of s. c.;
| David Rea Of No; A. II. Hamilton, Of Ind and A.
W. Cutler Of n. j., are at the National.
CAPT. JOHN NJ HICKEY, of Columbia, Tenn,
is In the city. He Is prominent contestant for
| the position OF Doorkecpcr OF the House.
Mr.. DALRYMPLE, the great Minnesota
farmer, Cultivates 800 acres Of land. lie raises
nothing but wheat, His profits this year will be
THE woman hating military critic of the
| Cincinnati Times accounts for the Turkish successes
by saying that IA Turk who has half a dozen wives
ought to know how To fight"
VICE PREsrDEST WHEELER left Malone on
| Wednesday Tor New York. where he will remain n
| day or two before proceeding to Washington. lie
| Is expected here on saturday.
HESRY r. WILSON, of Kentucky, has ar
rived in the city, and will press his claims can.
| ddatC for DoOrkceper Of the llouse IL Mr. Adams
should fail to receive the Clerkship.
GAIT. WN. ToBIS, Of San Antonio, Texas, is
at the Ebbitt The Captain i an applicant for the
United States marshalship of Western Texas, and is
one Of the most popular men in the State.
CHIEF ENGINEER r. l.. HARRIS has been
placed in charge Of cngincerS stores at the Wash
lugtDn navy yard. He with his wife aud children,
have taken up their headquarters at the Imperial
hotel
Mr.. RICHARD LAMBERT, Washington CORE.
spondpnt Of the San Francisco Ersniig Post has
arrived at the Imperial from California, In fine
health anu Splrlk, 10 engage III the CONGRESSIONAL
campaign.
THEIRS and MacMahon were decorated In
80 by King leopold OF Belgium. ut the same time
Theirs for services rendered the occasion Of tn,
taking Of Anvcrs, and MacMahon for brilliant con
duct during the siege.
THE U,ondonl Academy In announcing Mr.
Bayard TRylors forthcoming work on German
Literature. says: We have no one In England a
all comparable to Mr. Taylor IN German, and espe
cialy Schiller aud Guthe, literature"
MosEs =. HANDY, the associate editor Of tn
Philadelphia Times, Is here, doing the specials 70
that journal. Mr. Handy Is one Of the shnln
lights In the young journalism OF this country
Many Of the best.written articles that appear Il
the columns of the Times are from his pen an
brains. II Il to be regretted that he Is mt to rC
main with Ms all the winter, rs he soon returns
his editorial duties In Philadelphia
GEN BUTLER, writing from Boston, Octohc
r o. in reference to q telegram stating that he ha
been III Of malaral fever contracted at Barnum
hotel Baltimore, says. in letter from 10 the pr,
prictor: Caring nothing about the matter for IN!
n self yet do not think II just to the hotel that
h shoutd not give the facts. stopped three days
your hotel. never was better IN my life, or treRe
better than was there, and have been very we
= ever since. ! never had malarinl disease In IN
e life, and have not got one now.