National Republican., 1877-10-06
Personal.
REV. DR.. NEWMAN is in New York.

REV. DIR. NEWMAN is in New York
THE Turks have given the Gar n Russian |
bath.
ELLSWORTH can't hurrah for the man who
shot him.
WILLIAM LoSGMAN, the publisher, left
personal estate of about 81 200 900 To his heirs.
LAST Sunday Chicago minister was so bold
rs to preach sermon on honesty in business.
THE general impression that one receives
from reading his letters, is that Stanley discovered
Africa.
WHENEVER you feel that the land iB suffer
ing for rain, either get up family picnic or go and
camp ont.
THE Boston Transcript says silver dollar is
MORE antique lining for a porte-monnac than n
greenback.
MRS. BARNuMi twenty seven years younger
than Phincas, but she does not make so much show
In the world.
WHAT Chicago needs is line Of rapid tran
sit to Canads Some of It's bank presidents ought u
devise plan.
SENATOR SPENCER will be on hand at the
extra session of Congress. His honeymoon with q
May Nuuez over.
KEEIY shows his motor to another scientific
man. who assures the public 1t will be great SUE
coSs II II succeeds.
DIR. HALL says that raw potatoes are good to
cure drunkenness The Murphy movement Is at
hast accounted for
Hon. JoHN A. J. CREswELL desires it to be
announced that he does not propose To abandon
law for journalism.
CAREFUL observers declare that the custom
Of carrying al extra cigar in the vest pocket has
gone out of fashion.
Mr.. GEORGE W. ELLIOTT, lCte of the Roch-
csier Democrat and ChrORiris; has become member
of the staff Of the Graphic.
He was wit-proof and fun-proof, but at a
feeble Jest would sometimes roar like a lion inflated
with lAngilic gas Rcade.
AT Houston, Texas, a white man was fined
81 ant costs for saying to passing muatto girl
that he would like To kiss her.
SEVEN religious wceklics have suspended
since the burning of Prang's cromo establishment
last wcek.-Richm0ad Enquirer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER lcctured in Detroit
on Hard Timcs" admission ~: but ns the tines
were hard there was small audience
JUDGE CLIFFORD, of the Supreme Court
bench has arrived in the city and taken rooms at
his old quarters, the National Hotel.
PATTI will not come to this country next
winter, as reported. She will sing at Milan and
Vienna, and will return tn London next NAV.
HENRY WATTERsoN, of the Courier Journal,
will lecture this winter on "rhe whlmsicnlit!es,
Comicalilcs, aud Realities Of Southern Life"
WILLIAM Page, Americas greatest portrait
PAINTER. Is very ILL., His recovery will be anxiOusly
hoped for, The canvass would miss him sadly,
Mr.. JOHN BRoUGuAM's room at an Albany
hotel was entered the other night by thieves and
his watch chain and diamond locket were stolen
SENATOR MORRILL, says the Bartholdi fouu-
tain in Washington Is worth the 81 900 the Govern.
ment paid for It, even If 1t be painted iron instead
OF bronze.
A Sioux warrior once told Custer that he
could 'calp him In twenty seconds by the watch,
but tho General excused himself by saying that his
watch was out of order.
ARCHDEACoN DENIsoN has discovered a
drink which completely puts beer and cider into
the shade. II consists OF oatmeal and water,
favored with little acid.
REV. WALLACE DUSCAN, of Wotford college,
South Carolina has been elected president of Kan.
a"lph Macon college, In place Of his brother, Rev.
DIR. James A. Duncan, recently deceased.
SOME day an editor will loOEe few dollars
by a bank bursting and then yOul hear ncwspa.
per howl at the loose manner In which such insti-
tutiOns are COnducted-NOrrisOtpH Herald.
We overheard u gentleman say, this morn
ing. that he hoped that model husband" about
which his wife talks so much Ind been burned up
with the other models in the Patent Office.
Mr.. GEORGE w. CIIILDs, of Philadelphia,
the owner of many rare autographs and literary
curtOscs has come into pGsscSsG n, by purchase,
Of the manuscript OF Harriet Mnrtinchu's Retro
spect Of Western Travel, published in 1898"
Boston editor has retired from tho pro-
fcssnn, Among the Items" Of his lHbors were
wedding, His dict during a long aud labOrious
career was pork and beans
J. W. DEFORREsT, the novelist, Is n digni-
fed, dark and handsome man, OF middle age, well
bred, not cgotItic, and although Of retiring M.
ture, Is genial companion 10 those who know him
we'll
Col. THOMAS II. HERNDoN, Of Mobile, Ala,
Is stopping at tie Imperial hotel. Col HcrndOn Ia
, JFominent lawyer and popular gentleman In
Alabama He visits the city on professional bust
ness.
The house In Paris leased by Gen. Noyes is
owned by the eK. Empress Eugenie II Is on the
Champs Elysees, and was built In 1854 Il Is very