National Republican., 1878-09-10
Personal.


GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON is seventy.two
years old.
FASHIONABLE English female aristocrats
drink gin.
WILLIAM @. FEE, of Rarus City, Pa, is at
tho Imperial.
DIR. G. L. MOORE of New Jersey, is at the
Ebbitt House.
CHARLES W. TRACY and wife, U. s. n, arc at
the Ebbitt House.
s. X. DAVIS, ESQ.,, of Baltimore Is stopping at
the Ebb!tt House.
Hos. J. W. COLLINS of Chicago Is registered
at the Ebbitt House.
THE Friscoites will introduce General Key
to their Golden Gate.
JOHN A. MuLLrGAS, of Philadelphia, Is stop
ping at the Imperial.
COMMODORE BRYsoS, U. s. NJ is anchored
at the Ebbitt House.
W. +. FORSYTH, ESQ, Of Ottawa, Canada, is
stopping at tho National.
Hon. L. A. HAYT aud Judge A. o. Adds are
stopping at the Ebbitt House.
SENATOR DARSuM has left Washington for
the East in search Of mules"
Mr.. s. S. Ely, lcsding member of the New
York bar, Is guest at the st. James.
d. +. TAYLOR says that Mormonism was
never so strong as since Brigham's death.
name at picnic on his farm in Peapack, n.
j. last week.
COLONEL J. r. PoPHAM, of Richmond, Va.
is in the city for few days, and has quarters
at the National.
LIEUTENANT PERRY GARsr. U. s. n, and
Charles VI. Carrow, U. $. A., are sqjOurniug at
the Ebbtt House.
SENATOR HERMAN and James W. Hustled
have been engaged to deliver the addresses at
tho Lowville fair
EDWARD CRANE, Of New Jersey, recently
took the tlrst prize in the College of Avan-
CHS, in Normandy, France.
MYRA CLARK GAINES Is in rather feeble
health, and perhaps no more young men had
better venture into tho law business
DAVID DAVIS declined to accompany the
Presidential junkcting party to St. Paul. lie
was afraid of being taken for side show.
ANOTHER good man gone wrong. Mr..
Wolcott for four years an editor Of tho Spring.
field Republican, will join the ministry.-Boston
Post.
GENERAL PHIL SHERIDAN and family have
just left Mackinaw, where they have been
rusticatiug with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Grant and
Others.
JAMES HALE, John Belden, A. NJ. Franklin,
and Mrs. Dudley Field, of New York, and l..
NJ. Hoier, of Boston, are guests at the Arling-
ton Hotel.
BARNEY MORAN, soldier in the British
army. who recently died, at q great age, in a
poor-h confessed that he was Robert En-
mett's executioner.
Mr.. MuRAT HALsTEAD, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is the happy father of a round
dozen Of children. His youngest heir was born
iSfew weeks since In Paris.
| JUnN SCULL, editor Of the Somerset pa }
NeUs, went fishing. tied his line about his
waist, hooked q thirty-two pound fsh, was
jcrkcd into the,water aud was drowned.
LOUIS KLorz, of Washington, an operator
employed by the Western Union Telegraph
Company at Mobile, has gone to Memphis and
taken charge OF the telegraph Office there.
THE fattcst woman in Vermont, Mrs. Albert
Smith, died recently. Her weight was 100
pounds, aud the coffin In which she was buried
was as wide as an ordinary express wagon.
Thus sayeth the prose poet of the Boston
Post Bow down your head, ye naughty clam
yo oyster, say your prayer; the mouth that
has an Il has come you're OH the bill Of fare.
SOMEBODY having remarked that there are
seventy seven muscles in the human head, tho
Belfast (Me.) Journal remarks that some pCo.
pie have sevsnty.six of these muscles in their
chns.
OF the several newspaper men who have
fallen victims OF the fever, Que is Major Nat
Burbanks, the humorst of tho New Orleans
Southern press.
PRESIDENT HAYES manifested his sympathy
the other day for the afflicted Southern cities
by gift Of 500 for the relief fund now being
raised under the auspices ofthe st. Paul Cham.
Der of Commerce
Mr.. WILLIAM b. REED after six weeks
absence in Europe, returned home yesterday
much impr owed in health and greatly pleased
with his trip. His many friends gave him a
most cordial welcome home.
| CARDINAL MANNING says that Moham-
medans and Hindoos are water.drinkers and
that their only way of intoxication Is from
opium. Intoxcltion by distilled spirits,
says the Cardinal, Is peculiarly Christian
vice.
| A GAME of baseball will be played at Now
ington Park, Baltimore Ton n day not yet
sclected!, between mines Of Washington and
Baltimore lawyers. The proceeds will 90
toward the yellow fever sufferers in the
South.
Mr.. W. NJ. LEEDS, chief clerk of the Indian
Bureau, has returned from q two weeks trip
to New Hampshire, whittier he went to recruit
his health, which had been impaired by assid /.
uous attention to the duties of his position.
His health is much improved
GEORGE II. HILL and wife, of Philadelphia ;
J. c. Constant, of New York W. q. Lamb, of
Maine j. w. Thompson, city; III. c. Ellis of
New York {. r. Nutter, of New York; L. d.
Warren, of Philadelphia; Z. Parker, of Con.
necticut, and 4. W. Jones, of Orkney Springs,
are at the Riggs House.
COLONEL FlTZpArRICK, the regular" Wash.
ingtUu correspondent OF the New York Herald,
has returned to his post OF duty, after a
months sGjOurn at Cuney Island and other
Northern watering places, looking hearty and
ruddy. The malaria has departed from him
fact which inspires n hope that it may also
be absent from his dispatches.
SEYMOUR WILCOX TULLoCK, c. L. of the
graduating class of lS77, RENSSELAER, Polytech-
mic Institute, Troy, n. Y, and formerly stu.
dent in the Emerson Institute, Of this city, has
resigned his position us assistant in civil engi.
ncerng in the University of Wisconsin, aud
has been admitted as a student in Racine Col
lego-a church acknowledgements to en-.
teriug the ministry OF the Protestant Episco-
pal church. He is a son of Hon. Thomas l..
Tullock, Jf Washington.
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