National Republican., 1878-01-25
Personal.

ST. VALENTINES DAY Is approaching.
FRANKLIN possesses female shoemaker.
EN-SECRETARY BRIsTow is in Washington.
STANLEY's African name is THE Little Man
with Much Face"
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance reformer,
has arrived in the city.
JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG, of the Herald, is
travelling with General Grant.
MIR. SoTHERSs next practical joke is to be a
book, which Carlton will publish.
GENERAL WHrrPLE has gone to join Gen
eral Sheridan OH an inspection tour.
WILLIAM A. YATES, of this city, is regis
tered ut the Bingham, Philadelphia.
TnE will of the late Chef-Justice Pearson,
of North Carolina, was written in pencil.
GENERAL VINCENT has left for San Antonio,
Texas, where he has been assigned to duty.
COLONEL ANsoN MILES, whose bravery US an
1ndian-fghter is so well known, is in the city.
WHEN Bertha Won Hillern kicks the bucket,
you can bet the bucket will hy to parts un-
known.
JOHN MoRRIssEY's doctors say he is the
bravest man, physically and morally, they
ever saw.
EX-MAYoR HALL was one of the speakers at
the Sigma Phi Society dinner in New York on
Friday night.
CARDINAL CULLEN, of ireland, has issued Il
pastoral, denouncing oDonovan- Rossa's skir-
mishing flfnd
THE Harvard Freshmen have challenged
| the Cornell Freshmen to row an eight-oar race
| next summer.
LOUIS AuGusTE MoREAux, historical
painter Of the French school, died last month
at Rio JancirO.
GENERAL THOMAS b. VAN BuREN will re
| turn to Japan next month. His daughter will
not return with him.
SAM PERCY, favorite Chicago actor, has
made hit as Henri de Ldgadere in the Duke 5
Motto, in New York.
THE New Orleans Picdyune says that Span.
iards are asked to leave Fmnce when they get
too Don Carlos In their habits.
,''DTD your husband die intcstate?" asked a
lawyer of weeping widow. mo, sir, he died
IN New Jersey" was the reply.
| PRESIDENT ANDERSON, of Rochester Uni.
versity, has so far recovered as to be able to
appear on the streets OF that city.
If Cleopatra really wore nothing but O
necklace for her ordinary costume, why did
she need such prodigouS needle?
A CHILD in Fond du Lac sectarian school
was so severely whipped that it tainted. The
reverend master has been arrested.
AS Irishman informs us that 1880 will be
the year of the famine, because we will then
|
A BoARDING-HoUsE keeper on the fashiona-
BILE Beacon street, Boston, has failed, owing
$4,000 and owning S245 in accounts.
EDWIN ADAMS left his wife two houses al
Long Branch The profits of the benefits fo,
Mr.. Adams amounted to about $4,000.
EARL DUFFERIN listened to Senator Lamar,
denunCiatiOn of tho dollars of our daddies'
from the diplomatic gallery of the Senate.
ON account of a severe cold Ralph Waldo
Emerson has been compelled to postpone hi,
lecture on the "Old South Church." at Bos
ton.
Mr.. HORATIo SEYMOUR intends to speak al
the Dairymcn's Convention which is to bt
held in Utica on the 9th and 7th of Fob
ruary.
CoLyILLE's Folly Troupe is the approprat.
name of new organization which contains
the principal members Of the late Thompson
troupe.
GENERAL BRECR, of the Adjutant- General
Department, will be in charge of the division
lately presided over by General Vincent II
the War Office.
CApTAIN CHARLES MCCLURE has bcel
ordered to duty purchasing and depot com
missary at this point, temporarily, vice ColOne
Long, deceased.
BARONESS BCRDETT- Courts has been electe,
an associate Of the Royal Historical Society
anu ElN'h W t'lC u "uBulHItu
present Of books.
THE autograph Of David Garrick is wort
about Sli that OF Mrs. Sddons brings abou
$50; Rachels, 81 Hamdels, $40; and Ed
mund Keans, Sl5.
OS the 10Th Of December Ristor celebrate
| her birthday in her palace at Rome. Th
children OF frsstcvcre gave her flowers in rt
turn for candies
CARDINAL MCCLOsKEY has transferred to 81
Johns College, at Fordhan, a large plot q
, ground adjoining the college, for the nomina
CUnsi deratiUn Of 81.
I Hos. Luther METCALF of Midway, Mass
, on the 10th inst celebrated his golden wed
ding with his second wife, whom he marie
when thirty years Of age.
I SAMUEL ORvIs, of Champion, Jeiferso
County, who died quite recently, only lacke
, thirteen days Of being 100 years old. lie wa
t II peusiUnCr Of the war Of 1872.
Mr.. SAMUEL NJ. COMsToCK, one of the mos
, prominent men in Ccnterbrook, and prcsiden
} Of the tOmstOck, Cheney g. Co., manufacturer
of ivory goods, died on Sunday.
JUDGE ASA PACKER, Of Mauch Chunk las
Wednesday celebrated his golden wedding
) which was largely attended by friends frOI
} Now York, New jersey and Pennsylvania.
: A CLERGYMAN in Cambridgeport, Mass
asked to have his salary reduced rep "a 90,