National Republican., 1877-09-07
PERSONAL.

A SPECIAL from Rome yesterday says the
health of he Pope is Improving.
TnE town council Of Dundee, Scotland, yes
tcrtlay voted tn tender eN-pT,sidcnt Grant the
freedom nl the city.
THE BARONESS BURDErT. Courts expresses
her sympathy fnr the tnrbane,i Turk In u practical
way. She has Just given sh1D 10 the Turkish
Of SiO.0U.
SECOND Lieutenant Willard Young Of the
United States Engineer Corps, Is one Of the late
Brigham loungs numerous children. lie has for
some time been stationed At willcus Point. at.
tached 10 Company A. He Is said to have received
SlOp0O0 not long ago As gin from his father. and
now lie comes In with the Others for share OF the
| estate.
IT HAS been suggested that Joint benefits
| upon a day To lie named. he given IN every place
In the country where thcrcis theatrical com pany.
tor the purpose Of raising funds for the erection Of
| monuments to the memories both Of Y. J.. Daven.
| port and Ben DE Bar. This proposition will be In
% PSisaepSis At % iSe SIpar mouss ON fraay
next
WHILE the Emperors of Germany and Aus
tria were visiting at ischl, young lady desincd to
| courage failed her at the last moment, and she
begged M officer In Prussian uniform to perform
Emperor william the present and returned to ex.
press His Majesty's thanks TO the fair donor, who
was rather surprised to see this Prgssian officer
| beside him. On asking who he was. she discovered
that 1t was the Emperor of Austria in Prussian
| uniform.
THE late Mr.. Davenport's fayoritc role was
Ohsio, because as he explained, an audience al.
ways sympathincd with Wh,''o, while It hated Idoo
He played Br"ins IN Julius CGsar" with Mr.. Bar
rett Gtssius 2s2 times. He never weared OF this
role. and once said: II never enjoyed Bn,'us more
nor felt more in the spirit Of Il than the last night
stage To leave the door Of my dressing room open
50 that might hear the noble words Of the play
dd not 60 In g see I'll have seen i @ 50 2lsn.
tired Of" He ascribed nil the success he had won
dramatic taste, aud then trort."
THkD. STEVENS had way Of squelching an
sntagonistic IN debate that wholly irresistible
Once, during the war, Roscoe Conkling, then q
Representative In the House from the rtica dis
trict was making All earnest appeal IN favor of d
hat contractor. WIN had asked congress for rclir
Of some kind and he had Just reached the end oi
one Of his most eloquent sentences, in which he
bad spoken Of the star Of Reihichem, at which
point Mr. Stevens begged permission To interrupt
Nm M ssnsnS ys!y gcsSr saGG.y d $cIS IS wh
thing about the star Of Bethlehem but ,lo kno,
that the fellow stole the hats And that killed Mr.
Conklings blll.
THERE has been very unpleasant tnrf scan
dal at Dcanyille, IN France, where match wa
made bntwcen Mnrcndicu, the property of Conn
Ay@Hrd de r GleTm"n! n, TonnGrss and NJ de Rords
well'known gentleman rider. The Count was IL
have ridden his own horse, but at the last moment
| gave up the mount In Goddard. Mcsti2o, who wa,
heavily backed. won easily, hut tiOdtlards riding
was 81 suspicious that the stewards ordered an IL
| NstlSutiOn ana discovered thht MnlCailru mac
, becn pulled. Goddard was suspended for twC
years and the Count ruled off The course, ant
Pralt the trainer has declined to train any NOR,
OF his horses. Count Aymard dc clcrmoul Ton
ncrre II member Of all the leading clubs OF Paris
the Jockey, Club included, brother Of Prime
Ain de Clcrmont TonnerTc, and cousin Of tn
Marquis de ClermOnt Tonnorre, formerly secOn,
secretary Of the French Legation at Washington
aud now filing the same post In the Embassy Il
Russia.
HOTEL PERSONALS.
: JAS. ALLEN, U. s. A., is registered at the
Ebbitt
:, ISAAC McNAIRY, U. 8. N. Is registe red a
! | the kbbu,
Gov. Ono. T. ANTHONY and wife, Of Kan
| saf, are at the Ebbitt.
Hon. d. W. CoMINGoRE, of Cincinnati
Ohio, Is guest OF the Ebbitt.
!, HOTEL ARRIVALS.
| II ne EL,in.-w. f. Evans, New Orleans; Fred
W. kelsey. Rothesler. N Y; u. A. Bowen, Joseph
a Terre HAnte, Ind Col. J. 4. Maddox, MAJ J.
Berry; Norfolk. Va; W. v; Morrar, u. Il n;
: | Joseph, Gcorgia Geo, l. Strong, Baltimore; Mrs
Hickey and child, n: vi chas, p johnson, =