National Republican., 1877-09-27
PERSONAL.
PETER COOPER IA eiRhty.six,


VIcroR Huoo has new novel under way
MoopY inaugurates his autumn meetings
in Hartford.
REv. HENRY HERsEy, aged cighty.one, has
hung himself At bingham, Mass
MRa. X. II. SroDpARD Is said to write the
best blank verse produced In America.
Lydia MARIA CHILD one Of the original
abolitionists, is in her seventy sixth year.
THOMAS MEAD, murderer, sentenced to be
hanged, has blown his brains out In Ohio.
GES. GARFIELD and George II. Pendlcton
hold Joint discussion at Springfield, Ohio, to-
day.
LITTLE MAC" accepts, and already his
friends raise the cry OF "on To Washington ~
SIR HENRY HALFoRp, Of the British rife
team, intends making an extensive tour in the
JAMES FISK, father of Col. Fisk, is peddling
lightning rods In the northern part Of New liainp
DON PEDRO wore out fve private sccreta-
ries, and loft them behind when he sailed for
home.
THE Emperor of Brazil was due at Rio dc
lanciro Yesterday after an absence of nearly eigh'
teen months.
Ex.VtcE PRESIDENT SCHUYLER CoLrAx is
announced To lecture In Chillicothe, Ohio, on the
evening Of October H.
CALEB CUSHING and some of his ncighbors
in Ncwburyport went fishing. and caught two
thousand mackerel and two hundred cod in twelve
hours.
THE rumor that Col. Thomas A. Scott in
tends to retire from the presidency Of the Texas
Pacific railroad is authoritativcly denied by the
Philadelphia Pres.
GRACE GREENWOOD remarks that tho story
Of her seeking and obtaining n divorce from her
husband lic and desires the gossips to let her
private affairs alone.
URBAN JEAN JOSEPH LEvERRIER whose
death, ct Pa-.s Is announced as having occurred
last sunday. was one Of the great astronomers OF
the nineteenth century.
SINCE lydia Thompson played in Oxygen
the wngs made Jokes about her. One supp, s',l
that she would next appear in a vacuum, tO which
another replies that she has done so already in air
tights.
A SON of tho late John Y. Mason, Of Vir-
gnia. Is serving RS captain in the French army.
In which he gained distinction IL the FransoIr,ls'
sian war receiving from Louis Napoleon the deco
ration of the Legion OF Honor.
JouS p. (YASKEEl ADAMS forty.six years
ago a prominent figure In Boston dramatic circles,
and twenty years later the chum OF T. ]" Dnvcn.
port rcappcnred IN that city on Monday night
after Il twenty years absence IN Australia and the
West.
Miss SARAH BERNuARpT. the distinguished
Paris sculptor, has fearful temper, and when she
gets mad" which she docs easily and often. she
Smashcs tn pieces whatever she II at work upon.
They the position Of small boy Is always vacant
IN her studio.
FIFTEEN years AGO. when HAYES 23d Ohio
regiment was rnt tn pieces ut south Mountain. with
loss of no men, IT, colonel little thought that he
would one day b. welcomed intn Chnttnnnogn by
thnsr he then fought us the delvcrer OF the South.
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GEORGE II. BOvGIrToN has finished his pic
turc of William the TcStv" for the CnrcOrnn Art
Gallery. Of which he writes that every 49," who
has seen II says That Il Is more carried out lhRu
anything he has done mud that all through II Inns
lccn Peasant though a difficult picture To man.
GgC."
TuE Sundnv-srhool Mt Tilton, Ky, passed
n res, luiiuu last spring that AIRY srhnlar attending
the circus should pay five cents In tho trcnsurr
Ruy teacher twenty-five and the superintendent
five Il llarS. nice crisp V put iu tie h0S
last sunday, NJ the superintendent st!ll wears his
summer hat
Mrs. s. ". FAssET-r, the artist. rs still
working iEdirtfiuuSly to cumrlcte her painting Of
the E'rrtmul Commission. She II nj nrcSent IN
lE,tru. Mss. and has made a sketch ri Judge
hhhr ~: and next week will he In New York civ
and make n sketch nf Charles OConur. 60 h,Ih
gentlemen will UCcuny prominent pace In the
painting, which promises to be n true picture
TALEiSG Of the Sultan, an English CORE.
spOudcnt 'hys: Long. long GFn way EcquaiTtri
with little book. whereof the tt.c was The
Brother Horn to Adversely never III ught IN re
| him in tho h,"h: hnt now Whenever ! sc tho
| Sultan hlLul Numid rNie. worn and anxious and
bowed down urtlrr the weight NJ MOurudS ruhc', ]
say 10 myself, Behold the Brother Born to Adycr.
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