National Republican., 1877-12-20
PERSONlI.

A RUM-cRowD-Toper-g graphical engineers.
JusTtcE HARLAN will spend Christmas in
Louisville, Ky.
THE American Minister at Honolulu has to
split his own wood.
THE Kellogg Carey combination are concert
izing in Boston, Mass.
SENATOR PATTERSON was out riding on the
Avenue yesterday afternoon.
NANKIN blue-and-white china brings as
high prices as Satsuma ware.
JOHN McALLIsTER JR., the well-known op-
tician, of Philadelphia, is dead.
The Lingard Troupe are at Little Rock,
Ark, playing Pink Dominoes."
An excursion party from Lynchburg, Va,
will visit this city on Christmas Day. -
A DAUGHTER of John W. Forney is writing
fashion articles for tho Philadelphia Press
Mr. JOHN McCuLLouGH, the eminent ira
gedian, will appear In Buffalo, N. Y, next week.
CHICAGO has q baby show where 1000 in
fants are on exhibition. Squally times in that
city.
DR.. SAM HOUSTON, son of the General, Is
publishing paper called the Longview (Texas)
Lantern.
SENATOR CoNRLINa left the city yesterday,
and will not return until the begin ming of the
new year.
SENATOR CAMERON left yesterday for his
Pennsylvania home, where he will spend the
holidays.
Miss LOUISE PoNERoY, as Rosalind, has
taken' tho theatre-going public Of Richmond,
Va, by storm.
GEN. LESLIE CooNBs' dau ghter. Mrs Mitch
ell, has just boen given, it Is said, Govern
ment clerkship
A FIGHT between o white man and colored
barber at Muscle Shoals, Ala, resulted in q
conflict of races.
SENATORS EDMuNDs and Thurman, repre-
sensins the antipod9s of partisan politics, are
warm personal friends.
IT is remarked by journal Of Chicago
couple, Two souls with "A single thought-how
to get rid Of each other"
ASSISTANT Secretary Of the Treasury,
John B. Hawley, will make his homo this sea-
son Mt Mrs. Rines, $40 Twelfth street.
THE people Of Cumberland, Nd, have de-
cded by vote to bid the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company to introduce their road into that
town.
THE monument to bc erected over ex-Prcsi-
dent Andrew JOhnsons grave has arrived in
Norfolk, Va, and will DO forwarded to Green
vile, Tenn.
" Bayard Taylor were appointed Minister
TO Germany the country would gain an admir-
able representative and journalism would lose
u brilliant pen.
NEWBORN infants hi China arc taxed ton
cents but In that country mothers are not
compelled to pay tribute to soothing-syrup
manufacturers.
FANNY kEMBLE, once a bewltching beauty,
is now sixty-tlve years old, and weighs nearly
200 pounds. She reads now only for the amuse-
ment of her friends
A ST. LOUIS woman, bent upon destruction,
killed her infant and then cut her own throat.
The experiment was a success with the child,
but failure on herself
A SON of Judge Bocage, of Little Rock, Ark,
was struck on the forehead with % base ball
last summer. A few days ago portion of his
skull came out and ho died.
T. p. STEWART has been arrested in Dora
willie, Ga, aftor having married and deserted
three young women Of respectable families
He pretended to be rich and pious.
DR. ScHLIEMAsS has brought the whole of
his Hissarlik collection to London, and Is lt
present engaged in arranging it for exhibition
in the South Kensington Museum.
A YOUNG man sent sixty cents to firm In
Michigan who advertised recipe to prevent
bad dreams. He received slip of paper on
which was written, Don't go to sleep"
A CHICAGO man who went to Europe to
writa up the Russo Turkish war, and was dis
charged after his first cable telegram is now
eating quail for wager in London beer gar
den.
MISS LyDIK THOMPSON thinks the drama
dead in New York, aud that the publics shows
lack Of interest in the play In this city and
Baltimore. So she goes back to England. A
good riddance.
A YOUNG MORMON announces TO his fellow
Latter-Day Saints, through the columns of tho
Dcseret NetUs, that he lis going East this winter
and will obtain for such OF the Saints as en-
ploy him their genoalogics.
Mn. MOODY will labor in Hartford In jan
nary, try to convert Springfield in February,
work in Boston for two weeks, aud In New
Haven fer Tho same length of time In March,
and thon rest cor the summer.
Mr.. FRANCIS p. KNIGHT, an old resident of
China, has collected $4,000 to support for
three years two Chinese instructors AZ Harvard
College, to aid young men In preparing them
selves to accept positions in China.
A PRECIOUS lot Of mothers are those out In
Nebraska. sixteen babies were hud He'd to-
gether on q bed at dance that took place
lately In blackberry precinct, and not ono Of
them was over thirteen months old.
EDWIN BOOTH is to mako his re-entrance on
the New York stage on the 7th Of January, at
Booths Theatre. He will be his own mana.
ger, and hopes 10 use the splendid scenery pre-.
pared by him during bis ownership.
sALvISI played In "Othelio" at the Italian
Opem- House In Paris, December ., for the hrsi
time since his ds6ut thsre twenty years ago
There were many English, Americans, and
Italians present, rs well aA French dramatic