National Republican., 1877-08-29
PERSONAL
BRIGHAM You've is very sick aud not ex

BRIGHAM You've is very sick aud not ex-
pected to live.
PRESIDENT HAYES is having made num-
Der Of medals which he will present 70 each officer
and soldier OF his old command at the Veterans
Reunion In Fremont, Ohio.
SIR HENRY THOMSON, the famous surgeon
and amateur artist, has delightful fashion Of
spending his summer holiday. lie has built
sort Of house boat, chnrmingly furnished, aud in
this, with his clever daughter for a companion, he
Is taking sketching tour on the Thames.
The statue Of Gen. Philip Kcarncy, which
was ordered by the state OF New Jersey mud meant
ofthe-way niche in the sta,e-house at Trenton,
where II was placed when finished. No one seems
TO know or care what IS to become Of It.
GAIT. SIR LAMBToN LORRAINE, the British
at the time Of the capture Of the virginius has re-
ceived an odd present frum divers Nevada miners.
II is solid gold brick with the inscription Cap.
Miners Of Nevada"
SECRETARY EvkRTs Is amused by the news
paper statement that he rules eleven lovely daugh.
ers. He said the other day to acorrespondcnt Tell
your people that don't object To eleven daughters
but do object 10 the summary manner In witch
they have killed OF my Tx sons" The Secretary
has Mnily ofhve daughters and SIX sons.
AMONG the Executives who had arrived at
Philadelphia up to noon yesterday: aud who will
visit the permanent exhibition to-day, are the fol-
lowing: Cows. John y. Hnrtranft, Pa; Jas, Porter
L, Tenn; Geo Anthony, Ksn; Young, Ohio; J; g.
$, G.; stone, Mis-; Axteil. II. H.; Prescott, n IT.;
Bede, n. j., and Cochran, Del.
JAMES DRuMMoSD, Scottish artist, died
recently at Edinburg At the early age Of nineteen
tish Academy and from that time to the present he
has been constant contributor 10 the exhibitions
held In Edinburg. His special DEPARTMENT was
historical painting, In which he gained much dis
inctlon two of his pictures having been purchased
by the late Prince Consort.
AccoRDrNo to Paris paper, a French lady
Of rank has Just died, at the age Of eighty who
had been accustomed for the last thirty years TO
smoke pipe twice day as n penaice. In lsih
she married wealthy sea captain, and obtained
from him a promise 10 abandon smoking, of which
he was extremely fond. He kept his word, but
died shortly after from regret-so It Is alleged.
His widow was so overwhelmed with grief and re-
morse that from that time to the day OF her death
she smoked couple of pipes day, and desired At
her death that her pipe should be buried with her.
NJ. BLANC, the famous Monaco gambler has
had a gorgeous funeral IN Pars-so gorgeous that
II was the talk Of the town. The splendid car,
used for the first time since the death Of the Due
dc Morny, was once more brought out from the
stables attached to the "Pompes Funcbrcs" for the
body OF N. Blanc. He had bequeathed million
francs to the church Of saint Roch and srGtinde
tend and take part in the Mass NJ TIalanZier, the
manager OF the new opera house, remembered the
his hour Of need to enable the opera to be opened
on the specified date and he had consented to al.
low some Of his best artists to sing at the Mass
L. BERTAocISI, the man horse, is billed Ia
| appear at Brussels, on the Plaine des ManGuvres,
where he challenges any pedestrian to run him
twelve and half miles, or any mounted man to n
race Of ok times that distance. He claims to have
run from Valence to Lyons and back, about one
hundred and twenty-five miles, in eleven hours,
and at Paris December 2s 1876 at the Skating Pal
ace, to have made twenty-five Kilometres, say six
teen miles, in an hour and twenty-five minutes.
Al Marseilles he beat horse In race forty times
| the circuit Of the Hippodrome, and at Rome was
| successful In q similar match the course being
| sixty times around the place ofsena.
| ELIzABErH BRAY, Of Leominster, England
| asked Mr.. Watts to have her, but he declined the
offer OF her hand and heart. She therenpon made
| three desperate attempts TO- drown herself A.
they fished her out for the third time, happened
| along the practical Mr.. Wall who, upon being
made acquainted with the facts, said: III you want
you does f." seizing her, he took her to another
part of the stream aud dipped her overhead two oi
4 three times until she was nearly exhausted
Crying hard for mercy, she promised not u repeal
| her foolish conduct, and was then brought out o.
the river thoroughly drenched and thoroughly re
pentant