National Republican., 1877-12-22
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THE F. c. Bangs company has disbandod, on
account Of his continued and dangerous illness.
DIsrRrcT-ATToRsEYH II. II. WELLS sr,. Is con-
fined TO his residence by disease of the throat.
MISS BERTHA Won HILLERN, the female
walkist, will appear in Baltimore next week.
MRs. ALBERT HoRNELL committed suicide
at Pownal, Me-, on Saturday, by drowning In
q we'll rr.s .
EX-SENATOR SIMON CAMERON says he told
the boys that the extra session would be q
| hell of a time" ..
ACCORDING to Georgia paper, Gen. Long
street Is about to try to keep hotel in Au-
gusta, that State.
maiden Of forty years or more for breach Of
promise Of marriage.
PRESIDENT HAYES and family and Attor-
ney-General Devens are at tho Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York City. .... .-....
Hon. MONTGOMERY BLAIR has been chosen
president of the State Convention of the Prs-
oners Aid Society that is meeting in Balti-
more, Md.
THE wives of Brigham Young continue TO
visit his grave. As soon as the first snow falls
on the mound tho girls are going to let them
selves slide. -.
MRS. LOUIS J. JENNINGS, who before her
marriage was Miss Madeline Henriques, has
presented her husband with seven daughters
within eight years. ..
MAJOR WILLIAM II. DoDeE Is to be the su-
perintendent of the paper-mill at East Paper
Ill, Mass, where the internal-revenue stamp
paper Is to be made H
GEN. Tom EWING has gone to Ohio. He
hopes to return assured of the scat In the SEN
ate after the 4th of March, 1879, now occupied
by Stanley Matthews.
Miss FANNY DAvENPoRT hes arrived in
New York city from tho West, and recovered
from the effect of the serious fall that she re-
ceiyed on the stage at Detroit, Mich.
SoJoURNER Truth was asked In Michigan
the other day what she thought of Anna Dick
inson. "Well," replied the sibyl, "Anna
started out in the spirit and ended in the
flesh"
AN Edinburgh lady who recently ordered a
blacksmith to put gold shoes on the feet of her
favorite mare was not so illogical. She has
heard that money (which Is gold) makes the
mare 80.
A coLoRED lawyer who had applied for per-
mission to practice before the Maryland Court
Of Appeals has been refused. "No negroes
need apply" seems still to be the order in
Maryland.
Texas JACK and company will give two
Of their inimitable performances at the Opera
House to-day and tonight Morlacchi is
the best dancer in the country. Matinee at
two o'clock.
RossI, the italian actor, gave his recently
married daughter q dowry Of $4,000. The
ceremony was performed at Florence, NJ.
Angelo Modigliana being the groom. Ristori
was one Of the guests
MRs. BAssETT, alias Callahan, ran off with
married man from Newark, N. j., last week,
and when arrested said she was not Mrs. Bas-
sett, because she had another husband living
when she married him.
LADY CARDIGAN, wife of the Earl and gal
liant soldier, who led the charge of the Light
Brigade at Balaklava, recently gave magnif-
cent dinner in London to the survivors, Fifty
remain of the six hundred"
AT the request of-senatos Booth and Sar-
geaut, and the entire Pacific coast delegation,
Maj Ben G, Truman has been appointed the
special agent of the Post-Oiiice Department,
with headquarters In San Francisco. |
DANIEL PRATT, the great American trav-
eler, asked for a pass at railroad office out |
West the other day. "Who are you p roared |
the irritated railroad officer. 81 am Daniel in |
the lions dcn," replied the philosopher.
Mr.. JAMES S. KEY, of Baltimore, q son of |
Philip Barton Key, who will be remembered |
in connection with the Sickles tragedy, has
abandoned the law for the stage, and is to ap-
pear in conjunction with Miss Louise NJ.
Pomeroy on the southern circuit
The memorial to Queen Victoria upon the
distress prevailing in the district of Dean For
est has been signed by ten danes of the For
est, each about eighty years of age /; ten moth
ers, each of whom has ten children; ten
widows of ton collion; ten orphan girls, and
ten ladies' I.
SENATOR JONES, Of Nevada, Is reported by
the Star as authority for estimating the silver
coin and bullion in the country at less than
ten millions. We suppose the Star must have
misquoted the Senator as one hundred mil
lions would be much nearer the correct
amount. ..r.
SENATOR JOHN J. PATTERSON, of South
Carolina, does not recuperate encouragingly.
He spent bad night Thursday and toward
morning experienced chill, followed by ex-
IRENE nervous prostration, which alarmed his
family. Yesterday there was less suffering in
the region Of the heart and more in the. head
accompanied with slight incoherence. Last
night ho was much easier, and Drs. Baxter and |
Stanton felt greatly encouraged to believe that
the crisis had passed.
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