National Republican., 1877-08-17
PERSONAL.

uicu OF strong conee.
MARIO, who could charm with tenor note
the souls In Purgatory" Is director of museum In
Rome
VICTOR Huao kept diary at the time OF
the coup fodt and his work upon this subject,
diary.
GEN. WIN. A. PILE is stopping at the Ebbtt
house. Gen. Pile was formerly a member of Con
grss from Missouri, and subsequently United States
Minister 10 Venezuela.
The story that Father Herkcr has resigned
the citizenship Of the Chta'ic World Is not true He
II still editor of that magazine, well as superior
OF the Paulist Community.
GUsrAvE DoRE is modelling q colossal vase,
adorned with one hundred and iifty figures, for the
great exhibition OF next year. He has lately been
engaged In illustrating AriOstc.
REV. ASA DODGE SMITH, ex-prcsident OF
Dartmouth College, died at Hanover, N II, yester
day morning, aged seventy three years. The fune-
raj will take place next Sunday.
WooDwoRTH's cottage, near which "thc old
oaken bucket swung Is carefully preserved by
descendant of the poet The bucket was sold long
ago, but the clear, cold well remains.
Hon. GEo. DIXON, o former citizen of Mem
phs, an cx-judgc of the common law and chan
Gerry court Of that city and for many years lead
Ing member OF the bar OF West Tennessee, has
recently taken up his permanent residence In wash
ngton, with vlew Of enargng the field FOR the
practice Of his profession.
ALPHoSsE DAUDEr, who wrote that power
fil novel "sidonie' selected real person, Is re;
II was a NJ Francois H., a Frenchman, who made
and squandered fortune Of ssOoJ.0O IN the ser,
vice OF the Khedive. He generous and jovial
person. who spent his money as fast as he made II,
aud died at last In penury.
Mr. CHAUNcEy RosE, the business man who
built the Terrc Hautc and indianapolis railroad
active interest III other Western roads, died al
Terre llautc on Monday. He leaves fortune OF
sicoo0oo, and has already bestowed in public
charities more than s2,0MGO. lie was cighty'three
years old, and the last OF his family.
SIMON CAMERON thinks the Pennsylvania
Republicans will follow the example Of the party
In Maine, and say nothing about the President. As
for the result OF the election he thinks II will depend
altogether on Ohio. II Ohio goes Democratic in
October he THINKS Pennsylvania will follow suit n
November. And the venerable man doesn't talk
as if he would be bit sorry W see both States
| carried by the enemy.
Mr.. CoSRLISG was so deeply affected by
| the "reminiscences of his birth place spot at
| Albany that he said that nothing but the lnexor.
able conduct of the railroad train in tearing him
away prevented him from speaking about the
southern policy and"modern civil service reform" +"
hold to himself sufficiently to speak for half nm
hour or more and say nothing on either subject.
Mr.. wATTERsoN, while highly compliment
ing Dr. J. @. Holland as "a man Of excellent tai
| ents, Of no ordinary attainments, and OF admira'
BILE culture" takes exceptions to that writer's
nom de plane, Timothy Titcomb" 1T has al,
Ways suggested @ 70 & our mind says The playful playful
in homespun and spectacles with strongly de-
yeloped symptoms Of dropsy and rheumatism in
the back"
THERE were serious apprehensions at ont
time, says the Indianapolis Journal, that Senator
Morton would not get home alive. His LEFT arm i
paralyzed but only temporarily, In the opinion o
his physicians, who think also that few days res
will restore him, Continued paralysis Of his arm
would render him helpless, as his walking has de
pended upon the great strength Of his arms witt
which he supported himself upon canes. On
members of his family are permitted to see him
l., ,n,r rf uor,,,r 1. ,,a nal D.
! Miss Hopkins, fiiteen years his Junior, a Cam
bridge lady, whose singing and amateur acting h
saw last winter and approved The bare idea thre'
all Cambridge into an anxious hutter early In tn
: summer and curious women called on Miss H0T
, kinsOn and congratulated her She denied IN
angelic meddler wrote to President Eliot about
e He was of on yachting excursion, but as soon
the letter reached him he hastened back to Can
quickly rs might be, aud had the engagement Al
: ipunced publicly and gave the city something
= talk about for six weeks.
n CONCERNING Madame Eliza Patterson Boni
parte, II is said that though her love Of study r
mains, her fast increasing blindness deprives h,
| Of this resource. She has written piquant diar
but her great work Is reported TO be Dialogues
the Dead" the scene being laid In Hndes, whci
\ her father and King Jerome rehearse her stor
s Her wit is still incsive her talk interesting, h,
a memory OF the events of the country maryelou
She Is a very practical woman Ond has u large iU
l. tune. Her mothcrn.law, Madame Mere, she d
l. describes thus "She was not tall features like h
a, great son. hne, mOurnlul eyes, manner tOuchli
y and majestic. Pauline was empty headed solls
and vain, cared only for luxury but In every Iii
O exquisite as Cauovas statue represents her, lie
9 tense wGs not really handsomc-irTcgtilar fentur,
d" a wide mouth, exposing the gums and dcfccti'
F. teeth, blemish In her mother, whose iaptle
II figure, kindly nature, and caressing manner 81
"a also inherited. She was lovely NJ the harp al
sang her own TOmdnces In II sweet voice"
JOHN A. JoyCE, of whisky fraud fame, 7
Gently released from the Missouri penitcntinry,
rived In Chicago last Wednesday, and is describ
NJ by correspondent as follows: "llc Is heshy, b
~ has careworn look. lie regards himself as u
u justly treated but says that II he was guilty Of ai
sins they were those of the times when men we
expected to run primaries and the Government
N the same time. He has no brilliant opinion
>, Brstow Babcock and Mckee, and declines to =
n, anything against Grant, whom he regards only ~
W great soldier He says that when the cOnsplra
NJ began there was a feeling throughout the count
that the Government had been robbed Of lar
amounts of revenue. Then those who thout;
. their personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and political a
~, blti0n could be advanced thereby concluded tn
III could make large amount of capital In crushi
he out the frauds existing against the revenue. II
the investigation and prosecution been entirely
n, the interest OF truth and law great good would hg
VI resulted As to his future prospects, he IL goi
IL into literary work and will soon issue o volume
poems. He shuns politics for the future, and OF
asks show TO make a living for his wife and cl
es dren lie goes to GeorgetOWn, and hopes that
=. Supreme and Circuit Courts will sustain Krekt
AZ decision. He says he will he ready TO answer
C. call of the Government at any time, but hopes
ty the best"