National Republican., 1878-08-01
PERSONAL.
CLARA MoRRIs Is at Saratoga.

MRS. AGNES BOOTH will be member OF the
Union Square company.
TWENTY bishops attended soiree given by
Baroness Burdett Coutts.
JASAuscHEK Is at Kssengcn, recruiting for
another American season.
Mr.. GEORGE KNIGHT, tho Dutch comedian,
has new play In rehearsal.
COLONEL ID. r. LARSED, of New York city,
Is stopping at the Arlington.
GENERAL J. q. BARSuM, U. 8. A., is SO.
journing at the Ebbitt House.
Hon. JOHN N. MoSTRosE, Of Boston, Is
registered at the Ebbitt House.
JULIA WARD HOWE aud her daughter Maud
are dclighting the Florentines.
Hon. JAMES N. TYNER and wife, of Indiana,
are stopping at the Ebbitt House.
Horace GREELEy's son-in.law, Colonel
Nicholas Smith, Is lecturing In Kansas.
Mr.. JOHN s. OwDES, son Of the Lord Mayor
OF London, Is one Of the lions at Saratoga.
SENATOR Dick OaLEsBY, Of Illinois, says
that Mr.. Hayes meant we'll but mistook his
men.
ENGLISH ladies of fashion now have their
coronets or monogranis embroidered on their
shoes.
Mr. J. X. EMMETT Is playing Fritz" at tho
Royal Alexandra Theatre, London, TO good au.
diences.
GENERAL JAMES SHIELDS will be present at
the reunion Of Mexican war veterans la Gales
burg, August ~.
NINE. MoDJfsKA Is at her homo iu Warsaw.
Poland. She will return to New York about
the lst OF September.
CHARLES TYLER, of Benton, n. H., dropped
dead on Saturday last while taking drink of
water at n wayside spring.
TnE Earl of Duferin, vicoroy of Canada,
sails for England on the 25th Of September.
lie Is touring around Just now.
Miss LIZZIE SHELLEY, of Oregon, H., died
Of apoplexy last week, caused by eating two
dishes Of Ice cream while heated.
THE Associated Pioneers Of California In
New York will give General John q. Fremont
u reception on Thursday evening.
SARAH ELIzABETH CArHARISE JANE
BRILLHART, of Roanoke County. Va. agod
fourteen, has taken another name.
BENJAMIN STARK, who was appointed by
Governor Hubbard to represent Connecticut at
the Sweden prison congress- has sailed for Eu-
rope.
TIE King Of Siam has 5000 wives, all liy-
ing under one roof at Bangkok. And there
isn't single divorce court in tho whole king
dom.
SIR THOMAS EcuLIN, the seventh baronet of
that name In ireland, is serving as common
policeman in the Royal Irish Coustabulary In
Dublin.
PRINCE Louis NAroLEoS has succeeded In
his action brought against the Paris Steele for
defamation of his father. The newspaper was
fined 800.
The portrait Of tho late Vicc-Presidcnt
Wilson recently presented to the city of Boston
has boon hung ia Faneuil Hall vt the left Of
the platform.
THE late Thomas Goodc, of Boston. thought
his Nifn'a spirit him nd noI
out Of sccond-story window just US il 1t had
been she in the flesh.
Hon. J. p. RooT, Of Chicago, Is at the Eb-
bitt House. 1t Is said that his eye Is fixed on
tho United States district attorneyship for tho
northern district of Illinois.
THE additional annual grant of $50 600 to
the Duke Of Edinburgh will bring his income
up to sl25,OOO a year, and this Is likely to be
the last grant to tho Queens sons.
Mrs. BELvA A. LOCKWOOD returned to the
| city yesterday from her attendance ut tho
Woman Suffrage Convention at Auburn, aud
a subsequent tour to Masona aud tho Lakes.
CAPTAIN W. X. BRowN and wife, of tho Navy
Department. left last evening for their summer
cottage at Vineyard Haven, Mass, which Is
near the celebrated watering place Oak Bluff.
SARAH BERNHARDT has received an order
for several of tho statues TO bo placed In the
Casino Of Monaco, on the enlargement and
decoration Of which 100000 are TO be expend-
cd.
Mr.. w. II. DoOLITTLE, Assistant Commis-
sioner of Patents, aud Mr.. J. W. Babson, an
pointment clerk of the Patent Office, left last
evening to spend month on the coast of
| Maine.
MrssRs. FRANK J. WARD, Lacoste Roder,
and Walter Drummond left last night on a
"TRIP North. They will visit New York, Long
Branch, and other places Of interest, returning
in about two weeks.
b. GRATz Brown, Of Missouri, will be the
guest of Senator David Davis during has at.
tendance upon tho ceremonies of tho great
temperance mass-meeting which Is To bo held in
Bloomington August 10.
Two ladies created sensation at tho Eton
aud Harrow cricket match at London fort
night ago by walking about in white satin cos
tunes, covered with white lace, the short pet
ticoats revealing intensely black silk stock
ings.
CAPTAIN FRED BURSABY, author of a
Ride to Khiva," Is engaged to DO married to a
young lady of eighteer, a ward of the Irish
Court Of Chancery, an heiress, 1t is said, Of
$4,000 year. The marriage will not take
place Immediately, Us there are some legal mat.
ters to arrange.
THE Canucks can now swim In sea of do.
light. They are to have real live Princess
for first lady In the Dominion. That will
make Canada little heaven. The wonder.
ful condescension Of the Queen in sending over
her daughter TO live upon them will secure
the loyalty of the Canadians for ut least cen.
tury.
d. s. KEEL, editor and proprietor of the Fort
Wayne lnd.D Daily Gdsette, is stopping at the
National. Tho Gdsetie Is a sound Republican
paper. Mr., X. reports the political outlook
as very encouraging in Indiana. There will
be three candidates in the field in his CthC
thirtecnth) district for Congressional honors
and the probabilities are that the Republicans
will carry the day.
NINE. MASTILLA, or the Marchioness Man
tilla de los Rios according to her new title
wife Of the Spanish Ambassador, appeared
wonderfully charming the other morning II,
she sat on hotel piazza at Saratoga, dressed
in a princesse wrapper Of white muslin oyci
white silk. This was ornamented with q
wealth of lace insertion, bows Of satin ribbon
double-iaced black on one side, white on the
other, ttsleeves reaching TO the elbow, supple
mented by ten-buttoned white kid.glOves
coral bracelet on her right arm, coral brooch
and earrings.
Rosa BoNHEUR, whilo going tho round oil
the Paris Exhibition, noticed = fine specimen
Of tho shaggy aud picturesque Highland breed
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