National Republican., 1877-12-24
PERSONAL.
SENATOR ALLISON is in Chicago.

JOAQUIN MILLER Is visiting Philadelphia.
Mr.. +. @. BANGS, the actor, is recovering.
Bon. ISaERsoLL Is booked for lecture at
Chicago.
FATHER HYAcINrHE is only five feet three
inches high.
THE latest sensation in Dalton, Ga, Is fe-
male blacksmith.
SENATOR McCREERY is said to be fine
classical scholar.
BoSNErs of kid and velvet are considered
the most stylish.
r. A. Burton, of this city, Is sojourning at
Little Rock, Ark.
SECRETARY THOMPSON has gone to Indiana
to spend the holidays.
RUBISsrEIN has been drawing audiences of
5000 persons in Paris.
SENATOR GORDON, Of Georgia, left on Sat-
urday for Atlanta, Ga.
UNDREssED black Swedish gloves aro very
popular for demi-toilet
REV. HENRY WARD BEKcHER lectures in
Elmira, N. Y, tonight.
EYGov. JOHN T. HOFFMAN, of New York,
is visiting Richmond, Va.
GDoRGE s. KNIGHT, the Worrell Sisters and
"Otto" are in Utica, N. Y.
POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY is at the CONT
mental Hotel, Philadelphia.
SENATOR BUrLER's family have arrived In
the city from South Carolina.
MARY ANDERSON has cleared $4,000 by O
few weeks acting in New York.
JUssITiGS MAuaaTnuR is detained In Nav
York by the sickness Of his wife.
Hon. AMOS TowNsEND has returned 10
Cleveland, Ohio. to spend the holidays.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, the English Min
lister, is at the Everett House, New York.
PRINCE CHARLES of Roumania has received
the Iron Cross from the Emperor William.
Hon. MILTON SAYLER, of the First Ohio
district, has gone home to spend the holidays.
Bon INGERsoLL was introduced to o lecture
audience recently as "a rising young atheist" I"
The Emperor of Austria has sat on horse.
back to the painter Palilk for q hunting por
trait.
Sicillienno, lined with sable, cost from $7Ot
to $500.
QUEEN VICTORIA tolerates Catholics VIII,
are to the manner born, but converts are he
aversion.
MEssRs. DAILY AND DION, the knights o
the cue, arc giving billiard exhibitions II
Augusta, Ga.
JAMES S. GORDON, ("Ithuriel,") Of Cincin
natl, Ohio, Is to take position on the Post n
associate editor.
, CONGRESSMAN HEWITT, of New York, /
said to be tho richest man In the House o
Representatives.
REV. DR. J. L. REYNOLDS, for many years
professor in South Carolina College, died a
Greenevlle last Wednesday.
GEN. N. p. CHIPMAN, formerly of this city
but now residing in California, is sojourninl
at the Lick House, San Francisco.
"THE fashionable fur for the neck, this win
ter, is tho fur stole, bordered with lace
Stole from whom Stone Martin or seal2
SENATOR BLAINE, ex-Secretary Robeson an,
Congressman Hale Of Maine, have reached st
! Louis, NO., on their way to the Hot Springs
Ark.
Mr.. JAMES LAMB, the we'll l-known Scent
artist, has gono to Richmond, Va, TO fit up tn
stage with fresh scenery for Mr.. Chanfrau'
! "Kit."
"wHAT shall get my best girl for Christ
mas 7" is now the problem that perplexes tn
young man by day aud depriyes him Of slee
ut night.
TEXAS JACK and Morlacchi play in Rich
mond tonight and Christmas and then devot
. Thursday to Peter and Friday and satur
day to Norfolk.
CHIcAGo's baby show pans out poorly. 81
hundred and seventy-three infants were ad
vertised as on exhibition, but there were les
than 100 cherubs TO be scen.
A BACHELOR show Is now proposed. an
ladies To award the prizes. Fortunes are M
to count. Physique, brains and culture onl
, are to enter into competition.
A CARMELITE monk named James Wynn
, was recently convicted at Brooklyn for swind
ling. He obtained money on the pretense tina
it was for an orphan asylum In Ireland.
MRS. GEN. CUSTER is living in New York o
the small pension derived from her gallau
husbands death and her wages as secretary
, the ladies' art association Of New York
7 Ara recent fashionable wedding in Chicag
the bride was presented with u bouquet
three hundred flowers, each flower of a dihel
ent variety, and tho present of friend
Mr.. THOMAS SPURaEoN, son of the Re'
Charles ii. spurgeon, of the London Tabe
+, nacle, is preaching very successfully In Au
5 tralia, where he has gone to recruit his healtl
COLONEL L. Polk JOHNSON and W. +. Ba
sett of Louisville newspaper, have obtaine