National Republican., 1877-07-31
PERSONAL.

Governor Noyes, Minister to France, will
sail to-day for Paris.
The Empress Eugenie has left Spain aud re-
turned to her residence at Chislehurst England.
The London Atheneum announces that wm.
inngman, the publisher, is in critical state of
Ex-King Amadeus, who was thrown from
his carriage and seriously injured. continues i'm.
proving
Colonel Robert G lngersoll has been invited
to contribute prairie eloqucnce 10 the celcbra
| tion of the Saratoga centennial.
Senator Bon. Hill. of Georgia, who has been
staying for some time at the White sulphur Springs
In virginia. has departed for home.
Dom Pedro, having done" Scotland, has
crossed the channel again, and is now puzzlig the
people OF Brussels by his rapid maneuvres.
Commodore J. W. Swift, U. S. N, who has
long been the retired list on account of dsabl-
ity, died at his residence in Geneva, n. " ycster
day morning
After they had unveiled the statue Of King
Alfred the Great at Vantage. England, the other
day the Prince and Princess Of Wales each planted
n tree fronting IT,
| The London tthensum c0ntradicts the report
that Sir William Vernon ilarcourt had undert AIKEN
TO write the life Of his distinguished father-n law
Mr.. J. Lothrop Motley.
Mr.. Clark Mills, the American sculptor, has
taken casts of sixty. four Indian CHIEFS HELD pris
oners At st. Augustine The casts arc intended for
the smithsonian Institute.
The following Washingtonans are in Paris
Mr.. md Mrs. Camman, Miss Kate Camman. Miss
EInily Camman, Dr. L. C. I.oomis, Mrs LOomiS Mrs.
J. l.. Davis, Miss Kate Davis and $. Il. Chase.
New Bedford boat builder, James Beetle,
Is constructing anew wooden dome for the obser.
Natory al Princeton, TO take the place of the iron
dome, which Is found to create confusion OF mag.
nctic currents
Mr. Barnum Is in luck. He is lecturing in
England, and behold the 700 at bordeaux goes
| into bankruptcy and offers for sale an elephant q
dromedary, camel, three panthers, a hyena, a
bear aud five monkeys.
Mr.. James A. Froude, the historian. who was
nominated for rector Of Glasgow University. ha'
imperil the success of Mr.. Gladstone who has been
nominated for a similar position.
General Washington, when he visited Ports
mouth, N, H., sat In All armchair, and drank wine
from an old silver cup at the house of Hapley Yea
ton. Both chair and cup are now In possession OF
his grandson, Samuel Yeaton of Wakefield
Ex-Recorder Rutger h. Miller, of Utica died at
his home In that city last week. His father was
member OF Congress rom the Utica district and hi,
| mother was sister OF Ex-Governor seymour. II
brother. Mr.. Morris Miller is lawyer well known
Ex-Secretary BristOw and Gen. Basil Duke
stood guard together In the recent emergency al
Louisville. One OF the citizens companies wa,
commanded by Gen. T. II. Murray, Of the Union
army, and another by Major. T. A. Richards, who
| served under Lee.
The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, was ad.
yertised To deliver lecture IN Chicago last week
| OH ltimate America, but the labor strike rather
confused his ideas OF what ultimate America
might lie. 20 he prudently postponed his lecture
| until next Fruny.
Mr.. Gladstone's popularity with the com.
mon people Of England appears to be unabated
When passing through Bristol recently, artisans
porter, soldiers and women; as we'll as gentlemen
cheers as the train len the platform.
An irreverent reporter whose chronological
bump OF yeneratlon was not developed to excess
approached Gov. liartrlnft last Friday rs he wa
getting aboard a train In Philadelphia with thi
| nDIuted nupstiOu. "ltOyprnOr whore yoti un
ing" The Governor replied quito polntedly
Il will let you know when get there"
The deaths of two Waterloo officers are an
nOunced In the London papers. Lieut., Col. William
captain with the trenadier Guards at Quatre Bra
and Waterloo died on the lith infant, at an ad
Major Edward Method who was present at Water
loo as lieutenant in the I'D Royal Welsh Fusiiers
Both officers retired from the army more thar
twenty-five years ago
Anne Brewster says, in letter from Rome
to 7hr BpaDn .idr'riser: The pilgrimages hav
ended rnd tits l!st as well they are over Tor the
Ilve neatly killed the Pope; II they had continue,
much longer h. could not have survived TIL
sudden aud unusual hcnt Of the season. added b
the fltiguc Of receiving such crowds OF people
has made the Pope unusually feetie, One day Iii
Holiness had II long III of fainting When he re
vIved his sttrndHnls aud doctors, seeing that h
was plv affected by his situation said encourng
irv words The Pope shook his head and replies
caI"
Dom Pedro is still at il. The other day h
arrived 1T Belfast Ireland, by strJnieI At / u M
and ,InFted for thc Giant Calscway Rode seven
miles IN u 'nrriagC on IenCl.i'g P.'i''Ilu'th, 'm
| railroad tCnn!!Ius. and Il. many hack, Vas ugLlt
u liz. fast NJ , y " and lctI for Dul In wHri" h
nTti"ol IN Sine TT sTPrvr, lie |.u ~ II t"'l i
':,:.cX' morning a,ur,ild he Nc!suI lIilar, Ti.
',.I '.AiI \ ,lnSr' = h'irHl i'lruiuh> nll T,iut
..r .'c,i nud 1T IL The cIr.',s ''ari"'I G,r XII
I o'.ry Ui reaching !tg sta'lpu hc fOuni hat h
MhI 'u, IH::lLtGs 10 spate, AMI nj once lnquIlec
whether theIc was anything he could see In tha
I.Ur aeighbOrinR hospital was pointed oui
| Wnirh he succeeded In doing before the trail