National Republican., 1878-01-07
Personal.
PROF. Tiers cold snap fingers.

the city.
HIcxox & sPEER, bankers, of San Francisco
have suspended.
PRoF. suMSfR, of Yale, is to lecture in Chi.
cago on coin as currency.
MADAM JASAUscHEK will appear this
week in Richmond, Va.
GOVERNOR CoNNoR, of Maine, encourages the
opponents Of capital punishment.
1T seems that Stedman, the poet, loses
5000 by the defalcation of Bonner.
Mr.. WILLIAM J. CLARK, ,jr., has been elected
president Of the Philadelphia Sketch Club
CONNECTICUT is now looking after her
fraudulent insurance company presidents.
BoREL, French Minister Of War, has dis.
missed Major Labordere for insubordination.
HOLMES GORDON Is attempting the feat ut
scn Jose of walking 100 miles without rest.
GOVERNOR RICE estimates the number of
tramps in the State Of Massachusetts at 1000.
Mr.. JAMES LEWIS has been engaged at the
Park Theatre for the remainder Of the season.
In these days it is money makes the man
and worth the woman. Worth is Paris man
milliner.
The deer presented by the King Of wurtem.
berg to the Geological Society Of Cincinnati
has arrived.
Ex-Governor LEE of Wyoming, spoke at
women's suffrage meeting in New York
few days ago.
DR.. HENRY T. HELNBoLp don't think that
he Is insane, and wants the court TO free him
from tho asylum.
THERE are ten men to one woman in South
ern California Female servants there re.
ceive SO per month.
Mr.. ARTHUR CECIL and Hermann Vein,
two Of London's actors, are soon TO appear in a
play written by Kate Field.
THEY are going to dramatize the Tweed
revelations. An opera has been composed
about him-"William, Tell"
A cocKNEY, speaking of the death of an
octogenarian, remarked that he was born at
Hayti and died at heighty-two.
JESUS CASTRO, herder was caught by his
rope while lassoing steer in Huntington VAL
ley, Nevada, and choked to death,
ST. LOUIS lawyer named Frank ]. Bow.
man, is on trial for malpractice. The charge
is preferred by the bar association.
TIE London Lancet notes the gradual heal.
ing in that country Of the long time differ
ences between allopaths and homeopathic.
DIsTRIcr-ArroRSEY CATLrN, Of Brooklyn,
is still seriously Ill, and his ply ysicians still re-
fuse to permit him to receive any visitors
COLONEL JUDsoN Med Buntline) has pre-.
sented full set of officers regalia to Wash.
ington Camp, No POS, p. o. s. of A., Gcttys.
burg.
JOHN G. WILLIAMS, an Englishman, q pas
senger on the steamship Republic, of the
White Star Line, died suddenly on pier No. 81,
North River.
Guard, after an illness lasting only four days,
is announced. Mrs. Guard was thirty seven
years Of age.
MRS. MARY MARSHALL ARCHER, o highly
estimable lady, and granddaughter of the late
Chief Justice Marshall, died in Richmond,
Va, last week
The Emperor of Germany has approved In
substance the propositions submitted by Prince
Bismarck respecting the new commercial and
financial policy.
Miss JULIA GAYLORD continues to sing with
great success in the English provinces. She is
one OF the most promising American prima
doHnas now abroad.
JUST keeping 1t lighted for another boy, =
is the latest Juvenile invention when q mother
suddenly comes upon her little boy with q
| cigar In his mouth.
The Baroness Moubbreton Norvins, widow
of the historian of Napoleon l., died recently
In Paris at the age Of seventy seven. She was
a distinguished painter.
LONG JOHN WENTWORTH, of Chicago, man
of great worldly experience, saws no pank Is
s:..a .::..a vna, has saJy..a,as 70 Co with religion,
politics, or real estate.
The Woonsocket Patriot says that the French
residents Of that town have a pleasant little
custom on New Years morning Of kissing
every pretty girl they meet
l. GEohGR X. CHAPMAN. of Yergennes, clerk
Of the Vermont House Of Representatives and
States attorney for Addison County, died on
the +th instant of typhoid fever.
GEORGE ARMsTRoNG, a promising young
lawyer of Rochester, N. Y, has decamped
leaving many debts unsettled. May be he
will be strong enough to stay away.
MRS LAURENT's attorneys In New York
are preparing to prosecute her divorce case
She intiinates that when she gets through
with her Henri ho won't feel his oats quite &c
much as hitherto.
MINISTER JOHN WELSH, during q recent
visit to Italy, bought number OF pictures yep
resenting the buildings in and scenery around
the ancient city of Pompeii and has giver
them to Philadelphia.
: The death, 10 India, of the Rev. William
Tracy, ID. D., for forty years missionary o
the American Board in that country, Is an
nOunced. He was native Of Norwich, Conn
His age was seventy-two.
SAMUEL p BAILEY, of Washington, N. IL.
! is nearly nincty-eight years old and still abl
to attend to the affairs of life as well as man,
younger man. He has lived on the SAM
farm for seventy-tive years.
The recovery Of Miss Lllio Davenport
who has been seriously i'll at the residence o
Mr.. ID. French, No.l43l Chestnut stree, Phia
for some weeks past has been pronounced al
most certain by her attending physician.
Mrs. r. b, HAYES and Mrs. G. w. McCrarI
r have received resolutions of thanks from tn
, Sons of Jonadab" for declining to offer thei
=, guests intoxicating beverages on New Year
Day, and for otherwise discountenancing thei
use.
He gave his youngest son a box of tools and
a quart bottle of mucilagc. And now he thinks
is his turn to treat himself. lie is treating him
self to II new carpet, parlOr table, severa
rolls Of wall paper, and yard section of rat
tan.-Puck.
, Hon. GEORGE X. Ca. POLL, of Camden,
Y, dropped dead of heart disease January 3.
and on the 9TH his brother, Kiron Carol
when about to embark Oh the train at Rom,
S N. Y, to attend the funeral also dropped dea
4 in like manner. Their father died from III
# same disease some years since.
, CAPTAIN W. II. THoMPsoN aud Mr.. A.
:, Hadley, chief officer Of tho steamship England
II of tho National Line, have been presented wit
i the medals of the Me Tcantilo Marine Servit
c Association Of Liverpool, in recognition
= their gallautry in rescuing the shipwreckc
4 crew of the barge Kivasina, OF Swansea, on til
l 18th ut.
THE bewitchRS, accomplished and divinel
beautiful young lady, whose name was M
g mentioned in the society columns Of any pO
= tiOn of the Sunday press, is utterly discOns,
" late, and is going to have her mamma give hI
la IN which aha will nnsi IiVely nAuInct