National Republican., 1877-12-03
PERSONAL.

ROSE EyTINGE will receive as Queen of
Egypt all the week In New York.
SENATOR BLAINE will not reach Washing
ton before this evening or tomorrow MORN
ing.
MRS HELEN P. JENKINS makes the point
that the Word of God never granted men tho
ballot.
DIR. E. b. RANKIN Of Chicago son of Rev.
J. +. Rankin, Of this city, is in Washington on
a short visit.
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS has arrived at
Bucharest, en- route to the Russian general
headquarters.
THE Goethe Club of New York will give
reception to the poets Longfellow and Whittier
in February.
A NEW York dramatist is writing play to
be called "rhe Savings Bank" We predict
for 1t tremendous run.
Mr.. BRIT HARTE has left Washington. sever
ing his reported literary engagement here, and
is now living at Sea Clif.
ENSIGN LUcIEN YOUNG, late of the ILL., l-fated
Huron, has been payinga visit to Prof. W. W.
Fay, Of the Naval Academy.
JULES FERRY, the French Republican lead
| er, is said to be threatened with insanity from
| the excessive use of hair-dye.
GAIL HAMILTON is devoting her time to as
tronoEy, and the planets nre rapidly receding
from the eartn 10 placeS OF safety
THE population Of Chicago is largely made
un of assignees and receivers. Yet little is rs.
signed and nothing recevcd.-Chicdgo Tribune.
HENRY NORFOLK white man only twenty
six years Of age, is to be hanged in Annapolis
| on the 21st of December for the murder Of his
wife.
| Mr.. ALLAN DESNIsoN, q senior at Prince
| ton College and son Of Commissioner Denni-
son, of the District, is on a short visit ut his
home in this city.
Two MILLION years ago a bird twelve feet
high was promenading along the bank Of the
Connecticut river, and Prof Hitchcock has just
discovered its tracks.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes Vice President
Wheeler and Judge Clifford, of the Supreme
Court, were all in attendanceat the Metropoli-
tan NJ. L. Church yesterday.
The Democrats of the Senate do not take SO
| kindly to third parties as thev did, when the
name of the third party is William A. Wheeler
indianapolis Journal (Rep)
| Mr.. VIcE-PREsIDEST WHEELER has got his
reward already. An enthusiastic and over
whelmingly influential paper in New Jersey
has nominated him for the Presidency.
PROF. JAMES RIPPARD, one of the editor,
| and prOprietors Of the american Sentinel, West.
minister, Nd, died in that place on Saturday
last of paralysis. Prof. RiSpard was born In
| Belfast, ireland, in 1921.
NATHANIEL GREEN, postmaster Of Boston
from 1920 to lS4l died Thursday, aged eighty
years. He was an active journalist in New
Hampshire in early life, and was one Of the
founders of the Boston Statesman.
Mr.. JOHN /. THOMAS, JR, was here last Sat
urday and filed his bond and received his com
mission ~ collector Of the port OF Baltimore
The commission Of Mr.. William Cochran a
naval officer Of Baltimore has also been issued
GEN LoSasTREEr's residence at Gainesvill,
took fire last Tuesday night and came yer,
near being destroyed. The fire originated IL
the dining room, and, in his efforts to put 0u
the fire, Gen. Longstreet received some sever
injuries,
THE Burlington Hapkeye seems to thnl
that while Mr. Hayes is 80 recklessly givinl
Offices 10 Democrats for the purpose of concil
iaton he ought to appoint Mr.. Tilden to th,
Presidency. This would reconcile things over
whelmingly.
DIR. BROWN, tho resident manager of tn
New York Hospital for the Insane, Is hope
lessly insane himself. He was for twenty
years In constant relations with insane per
sons, and it is believed the effect was to destro,
his own reason.
Mr.. HENRY WATTERsoN: "The colore,
race is Gods shadow upon the dial of American
progress, whose cabalistic figures the wises
are not able to read. only know, and thereil
am happy, that slavery Is gone with the ba
and baggage of an obsolete past"
THE sparkling impromptu musicale at tn
Executive Mansion, In honor Of the visit O
Miss Emma Thursby and a few friends, las
Wednesday evening, was arranged by the ad
vice and under the direction ol iHrof. Widdows
, who was present by special invitation.
A CESAR IN CHAINS" is the latest sensation
in sensational Denver. IL is q lunatic In tn
asylum there who Is said to be one Cnsar Con
safes, a Venetian nobieman, and one Of the ex
lied revolutonists. He came to this c0untr
as an opera singer and finds fame at last in th
Colorado newspapers.
Mr.. DENNIS +. DEALY Of the Erening Chron
} Gle, Philadelphia, the new proprietor Of tn
| Evening Herald and Sunday Press, states in HI
prospectus that in few days he hopes to hav
tho Chronicle Herald enlarged aud otherwis
improved. He adds that 1t will be his inter
ton to present to the people Of Philadelphia
first class, live, independent afternoon pape
7 for two cents