National Republican., 1878-10-28
PERSONAL.
STOKES Is in California.

STOKES Is in California.
JEM MACE Is said to be travelling round the world
JoHS T. HATCH, of Cincinnati, is at the Riggs
House.
D. II. V. SMITH, a prominent Alabama physician,
Is dead.
PERRY THORN, Of London, Eng. is at the Ar
lingtOn.
DIR. J. l. CRANE, of New York, is q guest at the
Rggs House.
THOMAS c. SULLIVAN and wife, U. s. A., are at
the Ebbiu House.
A. f.. MASTER Jr,. of Brooklyn, N Y, is stopping
at the Arlington.
WILLIAM MACKENZIE, of Dublin, Ireland, Is a
guest at the Arlington.
THERE remains $1,000 to be raised for the monu.
mcnt TO General Meade.
NJ. VIcToR HUGO Is as strong as ever and Is at
work upon two new poems.
IION. WILLIAM MCKINLEY, jr., of Canton, Ohio Is
guest at the Ebbitt llOuse.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. C. La MONTAGUE Of New York
are s2journing at the Riggs House
s. G. LAWRENCE, of Newport and NJ. Robinson,
jr., of Philadelphia, arc at WOrmcy's.
AFRICAN Explorer Stanley delivered his first lee.
ture in Great Britain Oh the 10th instant.
DEAS STANLEY visited Saratoga the other day
"and expressed himself as highly delighted"
THE concert he'll has got into journalism. Baby
Mac is the name OF new paper in Kentucky.
GENERAL SHERMAN is 10 attend the coming meet.
ing at indianapolis OF the Army of the Tennessee.
EVERY article Of furniture IN TIM Queens hotel
at Glasgow, Scotland, was made at Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Mr. HEpwoRrH DIXON has been thrown from his
horse, and has had his collar bone severely frac.
tured.
GENERAL BANKS Is so III that he has been com.
PEELED to abandon his part in the Massachusetts,
campaign.
Mas. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, the novelist whose
Vanderbilt.
scrioed 81 900 to the fund for hall for the Virginia
Historical Society.
ISGERsoLL lectures on his epItaph Qvpbert Burns)
aud ex-senator Harris on "The Tower OF London"
at Albany October IS.
MADAME GERsTER, the ,prima donna, who has
been seriously i'll in New York. is recovering. aud
will soon appear In opera.
R. c. KERENs. Of s.. Louis; 4, H. BelQ, Of Gal.
are stopping ut the Riggs House.
MAJOR SAMUEL MCGHEgoR SCOTT, son OF Major
Samuel Scott, of Revolutionary memory, died al
Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, aged eighty.
COMMISSIONER. .GE GENERAL MCCoRNICK expects to
finish his labOrs In connection with the Paris Ex,
position In time to return home by Christmas,
Mr.. JAMES T. FIELDS has been obliged to give
up lecturing for the present, on account OF a
spraincd ankle which confines him to his room.
DIR. d. II. HAZES and bride rcturned to this city
last Saturday from Pennsylvania. During theiI
wedding trip they remained III New York several
days.
Miss RHopA BRouGHToH is writing q new novel
the purpose Of which is said 10 be the holding OF
the "Prc-Raphaelites' and ".Esthetlcs" up L
rdiCule. "a
TWELVE Carmelite nuns among whom Lady
Minna Charlotte Howard eldest surviving sister Gl
the Duke of Norfolk, have established q nuuneTy
at Noting Hill, London.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE, British Chancellor Of
the ENchequer, is about to publish little volume
Of plays for children, written by him originally fol
the amusement Of his own family.
BILLY WALSH, formerly hard character, has In
New York Gospel Mission. lie sings his ex peTence
accompanying his song with banjo.
Miss AIKEN, the niece OF Thomas Carlyle, whC
lady about twenty years old; She has bright eyes
BOT brown hair, and an intelligent expression.
REy. EUGENE AUGUSTUS HOFFMAN. d. D., rector o
81. Marks Church, PhiladelphiG. has been elected
York
MASTER PLArr, U. s. n, commanding United
States Coast Survey schooner Drin, arrived home
yesterday, aiter an absence Of several months. lie
| has been making current observations along tint
| Northern coast
| JomM BRIGMTs daughter has lust been marriet
TO II son Of the late Admiral Curry. The ceremon!
was that used by the Society Of Friends. Tn,
bride being still mourning for her mother wore
dress and bonnet OF gray satin.
CHuM PUT NAN, the Chinese Consul General, VIII,
Is 10 watch ovcI the Interests OF his countIymen II
California and the Territories, is said to be tn
richest foreigner that has ever come 10 the Paclh
c0ast TO live there for any length Of time.
GENERAL JAMES y. WHITNEY, Of Brookline Mass
died suddenly, OF heart disease, OH Thursday even
Ing. lie presided over the recent Faneun Hal
! Democratic Convention, aud had been one of til
most prominent members Of his party in MaSsu
chusetts. Ills age was siXty-sevcn.
Mr.. STURGEON has tremendous energy. II
breaches regularly, manages several charitable IN
slitutions, edits magazine, has college for Bar
list pastors and Is constantly lectuTing and preach
ing Tor charity and kindness sake. lie says tina
he hasn't the leisure TO come to America.
Mn. john b. GOUGH Is very successful with Brit
ish audiences. Tho Echo, In q long criticism upO
his ont9rieal powers, says MT. Coughs sp2eehe
may he described as series Of pictures, now ligh
now sOmOTc, now lurid, weak occasionally in dt
tail but always bold and strong In outline"
GEORGE s. HILLARD, OF Boston, the we'll know
journalist and author, who had paralytlc btrok
flyc years ago, land who, his friends have hope
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