National Republican., 1877-12-27
PERSONAL.
BurLEn has fred his FIRST brick.

BUTLER has fired his first brick.
JOHN T. RAYMOND makes $500 night.
Ex-MINIsrER wAsHBURNs Is hard money
man.
THE Empress of Russia is good seam
stress.
SENATORS marry od. That Is, old Senators
marry.
HAMMOND, the revivalist, is at Parkers-
burg, Va.
Flowers arc punched for tho throat, waist,
and pocket.
PHILIP yErr, the celebrated German fresco
painter, Is dead.
JOHN BRoUGnAM will dine with Mrs. Wal
lack on Now Years Day.
ELI PERKINS lecture at McKeesport on FRI
day night was a success.
A. N. RonERrs, of this city, is registered at
the Hotel Emery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr.. FRANK T. LOVING has become editor
and proprietor of the Nelson Examiner.
Ex-senator CHANDLER will build q fine
business cdifco In Detroit next spring.
ROBERT F. PARRoTT inventor of the Parrott
gun, died at Cold Spring, N. Y, on Tuesday.
THE health Of Elihu Burritt Is SO much i'm
proved that ho is able to sit up part of each
day.
LORD BUTE Is going to erect, at cost of
100000, u magnificent hall for Glasgow Uni
veuity.
SENATOR KELLOGG, Of Louisiana, Is In st.
Louis, Mo-, but expected to leave to-. day for
New Orleans.
BRIGSoLI refuses to give music lessons. Be-
sides being singer, he is an exceptionally
good pianist.
AMOS RopoERs, of Mcintosh, Is the only
colored representative in tho next Georgia
House Of Representative.
PIscHBAcK Is editing a country weekly In
Louisiana. What does he care for SO little a
thing as q Senatorship now2
GEN. JAMES s. NBGLEY Is working ener-
getically for the success of the Lake Erie Mar
row Gauge Railroad IN Allegheny.
HORACE b. DURANT and b. +. Hasson, form
erly of the Washington 0bscrper, will edit the
Enterprise, now paper ut Claysville.
CHARLES Scorr CosISE. awarded the four
year-old prize at the baby show In New York,
died of scarlet fcver on Friday night.
On Christmas Eve Lieut.. Gov. Latta, of
Pennsylvania, and Miss Rosa McClolland were
married at Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
DIR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES will read a
poem at the centennial anniversary celebra-
tion Of Phillips Academy, Andover, next June.
Miss MARY BREcKINRIDGE a daughter of
the late Gen. John C. Breckenridge, was mar
ried last week, in New York, to Mr.. Anson
Maltby.
ON January 90 Col. Robert q. Ingersoll will,
at Chickering Hail. New York, deliver a new
lecture on Thomas Paine-that being Paine's
birthday.
Miss CELIA GAUL, from Baltimore, played
in n concert at Augsburg, and notwithstanding
her youth, Is considered one Of the first plan.
lists Of the day.,
Miss JEFFERSON, a lineal descendant of the
I'D x.,in 10 h.., a.a.A
ance on tho stage at Woods Theatre, Brook
lyn, December %.
SENATOR BoorH, Of California, has been
visiting his parents at Terre Haute, Ind. He
hopes to travel through some portions of the
South before returning to Washington.
GEORGE W. EuBASKs and Mrs. Sallie Cole
man were In such hurry, in Lexington, KY,
that they were married in the buggy In which
they had driven to a clergyman's gate.
MRS. YEAGER, widow of seventy-three
years, last weak walked from Perry Township,
Pennsylvania, to Reading aud back, q distance
of thirty-four miles, within twenty -four hours.
The Duke of Norfolk was married In q
frock coat, and the important question,
whether frock coat or q dress coat is the
proper thing for wedding ceremony, is thus
fixed. y
LIONEL J. NOAH, ESQ.,, q well-known lawyer
of Columbia. s. c., and the youngest son OF
the late NJ. M. Noah, founder Of the New York
Sunday Times aud Messenger, is spending some
time In the city.
CHARLES +. THoRSE, JR., Fanny Morant
Ida Vernon, and Maud Harrison have met
with such success in California that the en-.
gagement there has been renewed for four ad,
ditional weeks.
WILLIAM LAYSAN, of Maryland, who has
been appointed by Doorkeeper Polk chief en-,
gineer of tho House Of Representatives, was
formerly master of machinery for the Western
Maryland Railroad.
SALvINI, tho celebrated Italian tragediar
gave series Of six performances at the Pari
Italian Opera from Dec. Sd to Dec, 14th. II,
played Othello, Hamlet, and other roles IL
which he is famous.
Rev. FATHER JAMES FTTToN, who was born
educated, and entered tho ministry In Boston
having been ordained by the first Catholi,
bishop in America, completed his fiftieth yea
as priest last Monday.
! The Herald r. l. man finds singular coin
cidence In the fact that Whittier compose
while he whittcs sticks and Chicago banker
! discomposo the minds of their depositors b,
! cutting sticks. Coyine im.
SUTTON, the we'll l.known ball player, wa
! converted to religion at q revival In Phila
=, delphia not long ago. He made few remark
. at meeting. saying; II have made tho frs
base, and, by the help Of the Lord, will MAX
homo run"
AMONG the candidates for the seat Of Hon
George Il. Dennis, of Maryland, whose tern
expires In 1879, are Hon. Montgomery Blaii
/, ex-Goy. Philip Francis Thomas, ,ex -Gpy. Jane
Black, Hon. Robert N. McLane and Senate
} Dennis brother,
, Mr.. Isaac ROWE, the steward at the Rigg
House, while visiting PhilsSslphia Christina